The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-29

The law leaves masters 20 do, in this respect,
as they please. Many Of theni-far more than
the free States are willing to belsve-nsysr abuse
this power. Honor, Gods blessings, and mans
good will, be upon ali such But Often-every
week-eVery day in the week---the hottest ties
are sundered-mother 10 torn from child, wife
borne away from husband, father severed from
all. Suppose, again, tale should be borne to
us Of some portion of the people of Great Britain
thus acting, how the quick words Of honest in
dignston would burn as they flew from our lips
against so mOnstrOus wrong! Not paper,
not man who reads one, that would not curse
the iniquity and the doersof il Yet here, from
use, and that strange blindness TO what 10 COM
mon among us, this injustice is constantly done,
and not a church, not christian body, says to
people OF legislature "Iet it cease! In chris
tian land, this must not continue We must
purify it Of the stain, or cease 10 be-"
In 1886, the Pressyterisn Synod Of kentucky
declared
brothers and sisters, parents and children.
husbands and wives are torn under, and per-
mitted TO see each other no more. These acts
are daily occurring in the mids. Of us. There
is not a neighborhood where these hssrt-rending
scenes are not displayed. Them is not village
or road which does not behold the sad procession
Of manaced outcasts, whose chsins and mourn
fu countenances tell that they are sxiled by
force from all that their hearts held dear"
Again the question arises, can this iniquity be
stayed Can the Churches and Christians Of
Kentucky prevent it Not RAN can doubt
on this point Not one single being doubt or
deny their power TO arrest it! II they were
united, If Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, and
ell other sect,, were to say openly and with de-
eision, a law must be passed taking away from
masters the right to separate fandliss," the leg
islsture would do il at once.
Now AJAX, man of God, pious professor let your
own conscience answer, what effs:t such conduct
must have upon those who make no confession
Of sin, who do not repent, and who judge Of re-
ligion by your conduct What iniquity might
not this example Justify! Whatiahdslity breed !.
What brazen and defiant irreligiOn create It
was the thought of this, that mace the first wri-
ter, quoted above, excsim, 'that he voice Of the
bondman's blood cries out against u.s."
There are many slave owners who look upon
us as fAnstisal, and who are disposed to call rs
hard names, and denounee Us as narrow and all
that. There are we know, too, many profess
sors of religion, nay some who minister in holy
places, who affect to despise us, and pour out
upon our heads hot words of obloouy and ssorn.
Neither would we harm. Both would We bless
II We could. Yet eheerfally would we bear
greater svil-quietly and meekly suffer harshar
and harder fate,-if by any action Of ours, If by
word or deed we could persuade masters in self
justification, the Church in behalf Of Christi
anity, firmly and manfully to declare, that the
marriage rite should be legally sOlernnized among
our colored people, and the SHAMELESS Of no mar
ket place ever ring again with the cry which
proclaims that " mothers and sisters, parents and
children, husband and wife, were torn with
bleeding hearts, forcibly asunder -