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slavery sinful In Itself, and Nes-Feiiew-
ship Of those hoidiag Slaves, the daty 81
.he sshrIstiau Church.-No. 4.

.h,p Of those hoiding Slaves, the dsty
the ChrIstiaa Chsreh.-Ne. q.
To some Of our readers the first props
sition may seem self-evldent, and SET a
gument not necessary; for if liberty is RICH
slavery is wrong. But when We remembt
that throughout the South, the people d
not seen 10 realise It's truth, and when W
remember that very many OF the clerg
maintain that il is right and sanctioned b,
the Bible, and that ninety nine hundredth
of the christian ministry in our land, CLAIM
that il Is al least tolerated by the Bible
and that on the floor OF that convention
which met in our own State last spring Il
devise plans for the abolition of slavery, i
was there claimed by many of the most in
huentlal minds, that slavery Is not sinful il
itself-the reader will see that argument i,
necessary. II these ministers and othe
leading minds, do IOt know better, they
need to be convinced. If they do know
better, acting as they do, they should BE-
nailed 10 the wall; and brief argument:
should be put into the hands OF the people,
by which they could do it.
Again, in all moral reforms, il is essen
TALLY necessary that we get hold of that
gesIes, of all leyeTs-conscience. This
ELECTED, the cause will move on sumount
ing all difficulties. Ii then we can show
thai slavery is sinful, and endangering the
souls interests of those practising it, and
those wInking al 1t, We may expect that the
people will at speedily and efficiently: for
"al that a man hath will he give for his
life
And II is fact happily confirming the
foregoing, that the large mass Of the men
in our STATE, Row struggling for the free
dom OF The slave, are almost all moral and
religious men. Conscience is Of The bot.
tom Of the move, and conscience We need
more fully to enlist.
Also, as the Christian Church in our
land has q controlling influence in model
ing Tie public sentiment and laws of the
land, either for good or evil, it is all impor.
tant that her action should be right on this
subject. And as she is designed to be the
salt of lhe land, to purify il from its vices,
1t IS high time that she was up and doing
SLAVERY SINFUL.
Slavery is not mere bond-service; as that
Of an apprentice or bound child 10 guar.
dian, until Of adult age. Nor is it, as Pa
ley defines, mere obligation to do service for
another; as of child to a parent up to
sdult age-aS of one who contracts 10 serve
for a certain sum up TO gwen tine-as OF
citizen who by constitutional compact,
may be required to serve as a soldier or
juror: each OF these is obligation to do ser
vice, but not slavery. Slavery is that rela-
ton 10 which one human beng is, without
his or her consent made the property Of
another or other human beings, before and
after adult eye.
That thus relation is sinful, is manifest
from the following considerations.
!. Those facts and arguments proving
that the reader, or any one human being.
mas right 10 liberty, prove that ell other
persons, not criminals, have right to lib
erty.
The fact that one man, or race Of men,
may have more intellectual capacity than
another man, or race of men, gives no Just
ground for enslsving the inferior: otherwise
the most intellectual man that exists, may
have a right to enslave every other man.
white and black.
Nor does the fact that one man has a
darker skin, thicker lip, fatter nose, or
more knappy hair than another give q suffi
Gent and jus; cause why he should be en-
be who has a fairer skin,
thinner lip, sharper nose, o. ::....shter hair
than you, or |, may have right 10 enslsve
US and the fairest man in the world may
enslsve every other.
Again, BY common consent as right,
there are colOred men-negroes, who, in
the South as we'll as the North, are free
men, having by protection Of law, personal
ownership, proceeds Of their labor, and 9TH
er natural rights.
Then by common consent a black SKIN,
with all the features of the negro do not
Of themselves constitute a reason why
man should be enslsved.
Again, the large portion Of the human
family are colored. Is the large majority
TO be enslaved by the minority, because cli-
mate and other local causes have given them
darker complexion than that Of the few
pale faces! What presumption And yet
We often hear it, and that, TOO, in high
Phces.
2. In a state Of nature, before govern
ments are formed, man, universal man owns
himself-has a right to liberty. Now,
whatever violates natures order must be
sinful.
Nor does man lose bis right to liberty by
becoming a member Of an organised socle-
~. He has no right TO barter il away, and
society has no divine right TO take il from
him-Psnderers to despotism, in our own
State, from a foreign land, to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
The province Of human government is
to pIotect-not to destroy mans natural
rights-,o more perfectly secure them to
hun, as may be shown from the best OF au-
thoriiies (Which authorities show also that
slavery is sinlul.)
The trainers OF our Declaration o. In
dependence said dive hold these truths
TO be selfevident, that all men are created
equal, and have certain inalienabe rights
among these is life. liberty, and the pursuit
ofhsppiness. For the protection OF which
not acknowledgements are formed,
deriving their just powers from the consent
Of the governed" Thus recognising the
fact that man in a state of nature owns him.
.alc .nd a., a1sax;n, aoo;atu he loses moi