Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-06

one among that band of robbers who is
good man.. He may have become a robbie.
i1rotuntariiy. The laws of that company O
bandittl may have compelled him to become
one of them. The implements of robbrr,
may have descended to hun; all his property
may be vested in bludgoons, daggers, swords,
l~assos, and other instruments for wavlnyiny
and catching the unsuspecting traveller. Be.
sides, while he remains there a member Of
the community. he owns a share of all the
plumber slowed away beneath the stone ribs
OF the cave Of Aduilatn. If he leaves his
patermi inheritance and goes up to Mt. Eph-
RAIN, he would become poor and be Obliged
to Tell tees and raise wheat as the Ephraim-
ties do. So if he goes up to Zebulon, he
must leave all his plumber and try the perils
OF the sea. We pught not to say, therefore,
that unless he make the r~esolute sacrifice and
renounce his property in the goods Of Adul-
lam, he IS therefore not an l~sraelita indeed
a good man and citizen, and should be treat
ed as an ouiclst from all the distinctions anil
privileges OF Jewish society," How can /.
again. asks Levi, take the lamb for sacrifice
from the hand of one of these organic thieves;
why, the very lamb he brings ma will be
stolen i; was n1fsrl by other hands than
his, and then he took it from a poor droycr
bringing NJ the increase of his f5ck 10 sell
at Jerusalem, II purchase 4 copy of the Law
of Moses for himself aai his fimilv to read.
Now that poor MN that was robbed will be
there looking on when his own eve lamb is
to be offered ; thlt bloody wretch will brinr
it That ! saw skulking in the bushes close by
the wounded man, his warm dagger drippinr
with blooi-and shlil | not expose him be.
fore all Israel ! Doth not the Lord hate r0j.
berry for burnt Offering? Hath not Justice a
sweeter SAVIOR to hin than the fat OF lambs 7
Is 1t not more precious in his sight than riy-
ers Of oil = Yes, yes, Levi, that is all
true, but this scheme of organic sins is as
old as our nation. There was good old
Father Jacob and his mother combined to-
gether, and by Il system of lying, which sys-
tenn by the way is very wicked, they con-
trived TO cheat Esau out Of his birthrirht.
God never ~reproved them for it, and of course
lying Is not a sin per Sc it does not always
imply personal guilt; and so far as we know.
jacob had communion with God all this time.
And then the same shrewd old patriarch Ak
Ell the rods willingly before the eyes of the
herds, and paid Llbin in lit.la of histown
coin, and made up for taking an extra dlugh-
ter Oh his hands by relieving him Of a Large
portion of his tocKs and herds. God never
reproyed jacob, so far as we know taking
a mans cattle, therefore, by fraud is not sin
in itself it depends upon circumstances
Now, brother, if these A~dullami.es come up
to the Passover, think we will kill their
lamb and pronounce them clean, nolwith-
Standing they come covered with the spells
of robbery. Besides, if we refuse, they have
soma Of the Priests of the first uAk among
No sooner does one 20 and Join
hmm, tf,, t1ar nab, III, 81, I-,, ,,I ,,,-,.
heavy bfeast-pldte of gold they enlarge his
phylacte:ies, make his ephol of the finest
linen, and require but little labor of him, and
Of the easiest kind. As these robbers
carry on the work of plumber, they OCCASION
ally meet with a stubborn resistance on the
part Of The robbed and spoiled. They hate
to take life when they can avoid it. They
want their victims to 90 home and roma laden
again with the fruits of their own industry.
They stopped the mule of a sturdy I|sraelite
one day, a son Of lssachar; took from the
back CT the mule, the bag of figs and the
bottles OF wine which he was carrying up to
Jerusalem to market. Not satisfied with
this, they insisted that the owner should take
them on his shoulder and carry them up the
rugged path of the mountain to the mansion
of the plundarers. Issachar sturdily refused
this indignity. The priest WIS sent for to
add the sanction of religion to the law of vio-
lence.' well, he found nothing said Lee
vi, 'in our slcred books to justify such
wrong and wickedness as that Indeed he
did, answers Aaron, quote chapter and verse
to the poor ignorant but honest son of the
handmade.
'These men in the cave said the priest,
ARE the descendants of Patriarch Benjamin,
II L--. ftla- Ta-al ..l
min shall raven as a wolf; in the morning he
shall devour the prey, and at night he shall
divide the spoil There, that shows YOU
that the sons of Benjamin were clearly made
to live without work, that thoy were to be
supported by robbery. Now you see, you
are one of those whom he was to strip and
spoil, and as far as it is the will of God YOU
must submit and bear it patiently Just hear
father Jacob again, when he spelks of your
tribe, 8 Is aachlr is a strong ass COUGHING down
between two burdens one burden is TO raise
his food, the other to carry it up the moan.
tain'-don't you see how plain it is? Again
Jacob says of him, : He bowed his shoulder
to bear and became a servant under tribute.
Can any thing be palmer than that this whole
system is right, sanctioned by our most sa,
cred or%acles, and by the example of the pa
triarchs themselves 3
WELL slys Levi, do as you please, Bro
Aaron, but | am determined never to slay an
other lamb for sacrifice for one of these rob
bers, aud the next bleeding victim | see Of
the road, | intend to stop and help him up
and do what can to heal his wounds, i
there is never another lamb to bleed on Noun
MoriaA,'
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