The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-12-02
An Address

KrbLIsHrR.
Tie p.rsv,rtRI,Ns OF kESrrokf f'h THE
+ % ~ r. An EMANcfPArioN or THEIR
~ lSsrsI'i %. -, Committee Of tho Synod Of ny.
tConclHdsdD
a.. ere told, again, that the apostles
we a. masters and Christian ser
gave v E,sc,ions for the regulation OF their
wants u', onn6nct True; and these dIrec-
nlu'ua. ;lI he valuable while the world lasts;
aOn' T VIZ, we doubt not, will the relation
10 - . y ser. and servant exist, But how 10
Of nlI H..,on, license the holding OF slaves!
soen I'M. u,, which the apostles use IN giving
tne ''' nrscsp,s are the same Terms which
. .bsr would have used. had there been no
1sy " MON the earth. Many Of the mas
a''' ar ,b,t day we're indeed Shareholders
''l, y ..nv If The servants were slaves; but
a 1I mo" hot circumstance have prevented
~ s0j in,OiTed ambassadors from teaching The
1 1,; =, ,rb;cb deyolve upon masters and ser
uO,'r IN every age, and under every form
'S',. - If 50, then the fact that rulers
y -, ,ime were generally yrants. and the
- y,s,sls, should have prevented them
~ Isy;ng down the duties OF rulers and
I'm In the precePts OF holy viii, nel'
iSsI poliucal tyranny nor domestic slavery
~. ,,In,snanced. Nay. il masters CON-
nl;s5 with Inc apostolic injunction TO theni'
P.'I1 ace 70 tbeir servants as they were di-
I.,,.S % do. "laat which is Just and equal,
,Ssr. would be an end Of all that is prop
erly called slavery.
The divine right Of kings TO tyrannISe
over their subjects, and the unlawinlness OF
..,;s,snce 10 their authority on the part OF
,bs DsoDle were formerly maintained by
~ r.rT same kind Of scriptural arguments
winch are now advanced in support oil sla-
rsT The arguments drawn from the BIZ
he IN favor Of despotiSm are, indeed, much
more plausible than those in favor oil sla'
ysr. We desPise the former-how then
should We regard tue IalleI
/, has been sometimes said. that the
NEW Testament does not condemn slave
holding in express terms" And the Prac'
6cs mas been advocated, because it has not
bseD thus denounced. If this assertion were
,me and If the Bible only virtually de
poupcei il, il would be sin. No man
can righteously continue a practice which
God disapproyes Of, no matter in what torn
the disapprOval is expressed. But the as
@rion Is no, true. The New TEsTAMESI
poEs CONDEMN sLAyEHoLDISG, AS PRAc
Used AMONG Us, IN THE MOST ExPLIcr
TERMS, FURNISHED BY THE LANGUAGE l.
WHICH The INSPIRED PESMEN WROTE. L
q pnysuidu, aftuI q minute ozenH,oe.son
should tell patient that his every limb and
organ vas diseased-if he should enumerat'
the various parts Of his bodily system, tn
arms, the legs, the head, the stomach, IN
bowels, &C., and should say Of each one o
these parts distinctly that it vas unsound
could the man depart and say, "After all,
am not diseased; for the physician has no
said in express terms that my body is un
sound, Thus has God condemned slavery
He has specified the parts which comPos
il, and denounced them one by one, in mos
ample and une1uivocal terms. In the En-
glish language We have the term seruani
which We apply indiscriminately both to thos
held in voluntary subsection to another, an
10 those whose Subsection is Involuntary
We have also the term SlaUe, which is ap
Pllcsble exclusively to those held in invo
untsy subsection. The Greek languag
had word corresponding exactly in sign
hcahOn with our word servant; but it ha
none that answered precisely to our teri
slaves How then was an apostle, writin
n Greek, to condemn our slavery! Coul
be done in the way in which some seen
to think that it must be done, before the
will be convinced Of its sinfulnessi Ho'
can We expect to find in Scripture til
words slavery is sinful" when the La
guagt IN which il was written contained n
term which expressed the meaning Of OF
word slavery! Would the advocates
slavery wish Us to show that the apostl
declared IT to be unchristian 10 hold sc
wants! (dOulO) This would have been d
hounclng, as criminal, practices far diffe
sni from slaveholding. But inspiratio
Anght the holy penmen the only CORE
and efhcaclous method Of conveying the
condemnation Of this unchristian SYSTEM
They pronounce Of each one OF those seyt
a ihngs which constitute slavery, that il
siilul; thus clearly and forever denounci
ne system, wherever it might appear, al
whatever name it might assume. liza Wi,
aould take up each part Of our federal CO
SiIuton separately, and condemn it artit
by article, who would have the folly to
'ert that, after all, he had not expires.
condemned the Constitution Who woV
say that this thorough and entire disapp
"a! oil every part Of the instrument Of CT
'00eIaaon must pass for nothing. and is
proof OF the writer's hostility to it, becal
ne has never said in exactly so many wor
= dlsappToye OF the Constitution Of
United Statesi" We see that he CO
condemn it most explicitly and thorough
SIi10ui ever mentioning it by name.
Further, human language is so fuctuati
nsi words often, in the lapse Of time, cha
@elr meaning. The word tyrant EXPIRE.
now very different idea from that whic
once conveyed. So the term Constitut
o. The United States, at some future per
nom the alterations introduced into our :
sln9ent, may indicate something far di
sn' from that which it now indicates.
uue wisdom, then, when we wish to per
use our condemnation Of system or il
"uon, to express our sentiments Of the
Gus things that constitute the system o.
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