The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-08-25


ed that the word "seUant," found in Scrir
ture, or the fact Of slavery. does not estat
lsh the point. If %. then, not only sls
very but POlygamy and monarchy, can b
established.
II we look into the history of servants
in Scripture, we shall find that the Origin
of servitude Is not TO be traced to divine au
thority but to the poverty, imbecility, anc
despolism Of human nature. Persons be
came servants" in two ways. /. B,
debt. ?. By captivity in par. The cred
itor could sell the debtor, or his sons anc
daughters for debt. This was an early
custom, and then law of nations. Wher
the law was given on Mount Sinai, VIZ
fnd from the fourth and tenth commands
that the children of Israel were in possession
of servants; though it was only about fifty
days since they had been miraculously de-
ivsTed from bondage in Egypt.
A person reading the twentieth chapter
Of Exodus, in which the moral lac is given,
and the case of Abraham, who had servants
"bOrn in his house and bought with money"
and also, the Judgment Of God on Canaan.
where in the two former cases, slavery is
recognised and not expressly prohibited
and in the latter is inflicted as punishment.
for sin, may find sliment for diseased i'm.
aginahon; or something to allay the pertur-
bstions Of conscience.
Well, though We are done at present
with the tSentieth chapter of Exodus, the
sacred code is not finished. Let US turn
over the sacred page and look at the very
next chapter. What do We find in that
chsPteri The startling judgment or law
Of Emancipation. Look at it good. Is
there any perpetual slavery there? Ali
what an lnterdict 10 the doctrine of ser
wants
he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go
oct free for nothing.
3. And II became in by himself, he shall 90
Out BY himself: il he were married, then his
wife shall 60 out with him.
III his master have given him a wife, and
shs have borne him sons and dau ghters, the wife
and her children shall be her masters, and he
shall 60 out BY himself
). And the servant shall plainly say:
love my master, my wife, and my children:
vii not 20 out free:
O. Then his master shall bring him unto the
judges; and be shall bring him unto the door,
or lnto the dOOr-pOsi; and HI. master shall bore
hh ear through with an awl; and he shall serve
him forever
J. And q man sell his daughter TO be maid
servant, she shall net 20 out a. the men-servsnts
do.
:. IL she please not her master who hath be-
trothed her 10 himself, then shall he let her be
redeemsd. To sell her unto q strange nation,
he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt de-
seltful.y with her.
son, he shall deal with her after the manner Of
daughters.
10. III he take him another wife, her food,
her simsnt, and her daty Of marriage, shall he
lot diminish.
IL. And II he do not these three unto her,
ale shall &C out free without mOney."-EKo-
dus XII IL-xi
Proslsyery men contend that their aTgu-
mens are founded on Scripture. The
above quotation affords them no encourage
men. for perpetun slavery; nay. more, it
seems 70 be an indirect edmonton against
it Notwithstanding the seeming connivance.
II not, why this remedy of Emancipation?
Here is splendid parallel. 1t speaks a
volume. Here is q monument Of wise leg
islstion. Emancipstionists do not ask as
much as is here required.
In the second verse above: 'If thou buy
Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve,
and in the seventh he shall 20 out free for
nothing Slavery among the Jews was
very different from our African Slavery
Take it in its various specifications it was
veryidissimilsT. But to the text: "If thou
buy q Hebrew servant" Parents in pow
sry sold their children for debt. But i'll
We revert 70 the history of Africa's wrongs,
we see that many were kidnapped, stolen,
bound in chains, carried across the Atlantic
ocean. and sold to the highest bidder. The
hsbFew servant was only bound to serve six
years. Ia the seventh he went out Free
What becomes Of perpetual involuntary
slavery! Ii is blotted from the sacred
rolls.
In the fourth verse Of the above: "If a
servant have wife and children, he may
60 Out free; but the wife and her children
snail be retained by the master. Take this
law and the law Of Jubilee, the implica.
ION is, that the wife and children were
only 70 serve during the masters life, or at
lsrlhest, until the regular fftieth year, or
the year Of Jubilee.
M FrosAvery men propose no remedy
InsIr conduct imports perpetual slavery
ihsy even frown on discussion. They
call It agitation Then we republicans
must be talked to 10 aristocratic style
blood Of the Anglo-Saxons must we, our
si.es, be slaves' If Luther, Malancthon,
Gongle, Calvin, and Knox, had obeyed the
oenests oil Rome, the American Republic
never would have been founded. Judicious
oseusslon never does harm. When people
aik against discussion, il looks too much
IKE the Quaker who, when hard pressed,
Unclaimed. %, Argument! argument the
Lord rebuke theeP
ine next specification is embraced in
me NTH and sixth verses above. Slavery
was not forced in perpetuity, nor yet liber-
y. when the mind was so imbecile as to
,sect It. In that case, the servsnt was "a.
zen before Judges, and his master bored
ma ear through with an awl, at the door.
Pos', as brand Of disgrace for not accent.
us .aas liberty which the Lord had prof.
:. nat, lgnominious as was this infection.
q only referred to the seventh year law;
a when the trumpeu Of Jubilee sounded
nnkr IL