Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-02-04

and irreligious.
II. But that there were bond servants as
well as hircd servants amongst Patriarchs,
Jews, and Christians, sanctioned and appro-
we'd by the Supreme Lawgiver of the Uni
verse, ] as firmly bsIieye as | believe the
Christian religion. a mere sample of my
reasons for SO believing, will be found in the
following passages in the Bible =
need not more than state the fact that A.
brahain, the father Of the faithful, and the
friend Of God, had at one time three hundred
and eighteen male SERVANTS, born in his own
house, fit TO bear arms ) and that in the d.
vine ordnance concerning circumcision, the
statute legaIi1es the buying and the rearing
of bond-servants The Divine statute or
dams" lie that is born in thy, house, and
he that Is bought with thy money, must
needs be clrcumcised, and my covenant shall
be in thy flesh an everlasting Covenant
Gen. xvii. -, L.. Hagar also, by whom he
had ishmael, a son and a servant, was an e.
Egyptian slave. So she is called by Moses
and by Paul. Coast out the bond-woman
and her son, for the son Of this bond-woman
shall not be heir with my son-even with l.
saac' the son Of The free woman" Gen. xxi.
10; Gal. iv. 80.
In the second place, as respects the Jews.
In the Jewish law there are three statutes
concerning byHdmen. OF these the first is
One allowing the buying of a Hebrew ser
want by his brother Hebrew for the term of
sin years. Exodus xxi. 90. This statute
allows the master, when be gives to a single
man, thus purchased, a wife, TO hold her chill
dren, with herself, as his own property, even
contrary to, or without the will of the moth
er, the children, OF the father; simply, too,
because they were born Of a woman who was
: his property. Az the end Of six years, the
father was free, according to contract; but,
by the express law of God. his wife and
children Were his masters property and, by
the same law, the father could ENJOY their
) society only by having his ear bored in proof
OF his becoming his masters property all his
life: and this, too, is the first law that God
> enacts after the tenth commandment, which
expressly says Thou shalt not covet" thy
nelghboTs property, amongst which are spe-
= cIiled his man-seryant, his Iuaid.servant, his
II OK. and his ass.
The second Jewish statute concerns hea-
= then bondmen. God gave the Jews license
: 10 buy bnndmen from the heather. The law
reads-"Both thy bondmen and thy bond
u" women, which thou shalt have, shall be of
A. the heather that are round about thee. OF
- them shalt thou buy bondmen and bond
= maids" They shall be your possession
Il properly; and you shall take them as
an inheritance for yonr chihlren after you, to
inherit them for Il possession. They shall
be your bondmen JOrerer." Levilicus XIV.
4I-IG.
The third statute respects poor brethren
tina; sell themselves to pay their debts. These
were again TO be set free at the iubilees-,ill
then they We're to serve, not with the rigor
OF Jonauen. but as TIRED servants. Lev. XIV.
1918. Thus enactS The law.
Now, as to the Christian institution -
=, When the Christian churches of Rome, CO.
u ninth, Aphesus, &c" were founded, slavery
IT abounded III them, and in all the Roman EN-
pre-. No one can deny this. What did the
II Apostles enact oil This subject? Did they
o lnhibit or regulate itl Their statutes are
: "Art lhon called being a servant Cor slave)
d care not for it. But if thou mayest be made
free, use it rather for he that is called in
y the Lord, being a servant, (slavel is the
Lords freed man likewise he that is called
p being free, is Christ's servant Cor %slaye.) /
l. Cor. VII. -. ave are all baptized into one
Il body"-the church-"whrther we be Jews
J. or tienllles-whether we be bond or free''-
IS slaves or lreemen. l Cor. xii. -. To the
y same effect, Gal. iii. %. See also I Tim.
= VI. L.. "l'et as many servants as are un-
der the y0ke count their own masters worthy
" al Oit lUtN lUdl nave OeHe-
ring masters, let them not despise them be.
cause they are brethren, but rather do them
= service, because they are faithful and below
ed, and pariakcys Of he bcngft''-of their la
y hor. See also Titus ii. 9; Eph. vii. SIS
d Philemon 10th verse.
Now, sir, from this exhibit, and from much
c more 10 the same effect, it appears to me as
evident as The law of ten commandments
that God, for certain reasons, allowed, in Ger.
tain cases. the relation of master and slave,
y amongst Patrlarchs, Jews, and Christians, at
the same time enjolning the golden rule of
Glowing our neighborS as ourselves, or Of do.
ing to others as we would that others should
do TO us :" a law, by the way, seldom inter
preted correctly by some anti-slavery men,
We must logically or dramatically inter.
pref it-"Arc you a master? treat your ser.
70 want, In all things, as you would have hin
re TO treat you, were you his servant and he
l. your master. Are you a servant treat you
so master, In all things as you would have hin
IS to treat You, were you his master and he you
be servant" This law must always be inter
Id preted and applied mutaiiS mutqnais, or b,
the parties changing places.
Now, sir, with these Divine documents
v before my eyes | could as soon become a So
%cidlist, a Free-thinker, or "A Sceptic. as to say
or think that it is immoral and unehristian tC
" shold a bondservant in any case whatever, oil
Oh 10 allow that a Christian man cannot have
~ property in man. | therefore, dare not, with
q my Bible in my hand, join in the anti-slave-
H. ry crusade against the relation of master and
ed slave in all cases whatever, or prescribe from
RI the Lords table a Christian minister, be-
cd cause he holds property IN man.
hv We draw a well-defned difference between
ne slavery in a statute book, by law established
e in certain American States, and as practised
in these communities. No Christian mas
ter is obliged by the statute-book to sell a
,or wife from her husband, or a parent from an
Of infant child, or to bring up his servants IN
er. innnrarra If Chrisr OF his 1~elirinn.