New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-28

proper oslcefs Not, eYss - ~ -
.'o J ~, - u agreeable p The Jaws thst n;eFsS@J
go Ca. = or Is it likely 70 be enforced &,
~ 80 ae State Ike question is other a,j
.ei than shese. 1t concerns me as imaoya
{ ana SUBJECT OF Tod. i this iaw Righ. I.it
equitable anu Iuss Does il agree with the Law
Which GOD has given me, when He tells me !,
love ny neghbor as myself Ill seize that Mar
ard deiiyeg him ap-ii ( refuse to shelter and ~
heip hm-shall do that which God spproyest
"nieA can meet with oy az The Judgment. wheo
human enactments shall have vanished and bess
forgotten N'A
IN answer 10 TINS question. shere comes TO ma
the La" "h'eh God gave TO israel: Thou sbalr
NOT delYer unto MS master tue servan, which In
ESCAPED nom ais master aEtc thee He shall
dwell ruth thee, even among you. in .hat nIscs
which he shall choose in one OK toy gates rhs,.
It hketh him best IH0c SHALT NOT oryprss
Hp. This specific requirement may have ts,
minated upon the Hebrews but ii it's princinl.
were right, even in that dsfhened and bsrbaros
age, how can it be otherwise under the blszsT
Christianity
But leaving this specia! expression OF Go3-x
Will, and coming to the matter directly in hama
with the calm and clear examination Of the Con.
science TO WHAT AM / required 10 send his
Man back To the enduEaAcs OF System wbc.a
character will not exaggeratc by a word cf DE-,
scrption overwrougbt and fanatical but which N
man Gun contemplate as philanthropist wishevt
! shuddering; OF a System-as detined in its ia,
tutes and laws drawn up in the calmness Of lea.
lslative acts and exPoundeG in the solemni!y5
| judicial decisions-which pQts the Man into tia
! power Of the Master; TO b. used by him as u
will, only his life being presery ed to be soiaA,
HIM hen he VIII, and 70 whonlsoeyer he please,
to have bis wife and his children taken from biz.
and sold, at the pleasure OF the other-the VITA
| thatls as dear and sacred - him as yours ia b
| you the Children that are as precious as yeau
to you or mine to me, when tbey prattle upon tia
| knee, or nestle into the bosom. 1t is System
that forhids its subject TO be .aughr 10 read crn
write that keeps aim ignorant and depsndsea
| that ignorance Tor its own preservation; thatG
rectly debars him from accumulation and pr0Sfess
making ali tha. he acquires The property Of Tia
Master that dashes his every pleasure, by tia
sense OF its insecurity; that takes the Joy tfui
every hope by hangingit accomplishment on ta
will OF another that dsrkens every prosperity
the shadow Of constant and inevitable fear =
that takes away the Bible, byPseislasive authority
and vet leaves to its captive norational happiness
but that which is found in tue hope OF Heseai
ter. 1t is to thtS System, that | am to sendtsa
Man back and it will be administered tow2i
him with double rigor, because he has once q.
capped its grasp.
The Man will not go If 1 could persuade bio
to return as Paul did Onesimus to his quslEsl
condition, to one who would receive hina not DOW
as a servant, but above a servant, as q brothe,
beloved'-then my duty might be plain. But Ia
will not go thus. He has tasted bondage that
Onesimus probably never knew The mastes
who is after him does not ask him to come thus.
He calls him again to the rice field and the plan.s.
ton; as ohattel personal
The Man implores me not to send him WAy
should send him WHf should do him tbs
mortal injury He is my Brother by creation;
and my Brother, by Redemption. Both OF usGs
responsible to one Heavenly Father Both ofus
are looking for one Eternity Why should send
him to bondage that he abhors 1T is bond.
age not founded in Equity, not accepted by him
self, and not obligatory upon his Conscience. In
the forum of Equity no other person has proper
t. in hin. He was stolen at the first and aa
point cannot be shown at which that theft and It's
consequences, the Man being always at handt0
assert his right to Himself, became established IN
Equity Nay deeper than this there comes
principle. God made that Man in His own imasei
for His service and glory. He has made him In
mortal; and IN point OF faculty on a level With
others sharer of the nature which Christ has
glorfed fit recipient of biz Truth and his Spirit
How then can another have property in him
Is it by the express grant OF his Creator II 10
not pretended Is it given by the fact Of proximl.
" and neighborhood Thea he has in tum the
same property in the other Ii is simply the et-
T.
precisely this point. The Master has held that
Man because he copld do it, and never otherwise
because his companions have lent him AID. Bar
this gives him no right in Equity, to his captive.
II it did, then the Man becoming stronger would
own him in turn If it did then the Strongest n
the State would own all and an absolute Despot
ism be the only Just government The Master
does not own the Man he is after 81 cagaa
do So The Man has his own ABANDONMENT uf fscul.
ty his own responsibility to God his Maker; BIS
own intrinsic and natural Rshts-to himself, and
to his powers. Except by crime he does not lose
these. He is accountable Tor them TO God and@
the Future. He cannot be the property of ano'
Their, his equal Money may buy gold, or lands,
or horses, or brutes but tcanuot buy the manh0Qi
and the force that God hath given to HIN. lth
as Brougham has said wild and guilty antaI,
that Man can have property IN Man
The question recurs then, Why shall send the
man to this unjust bondage The fact tha!hs
has suffered it so long already, IS reason WY |
should nat. The fact that he is hunted, afflicted
poor and that his pursuers are strong 10 Just the
reason why should aid him. God tells me %
love him, as love myself; to do TO him Wna1
would that he in turn should do unto me. WY
shall not HELP him, in his struggle for the hlgnA
that God gave him ndelibly, when he made nlnS
Man. There is nothing to prevent, but tue sln
pie requirement OF my equals IN the state 'ls
parchment OF the Law, which they have WRITER
But where will that parchment be, when nee;
this my Brother in the Judgment Where WIZ
that parchment be, when Christ shall say 70 me- ne
with ny Eternity depending on his words :.
was an aungere5, and yc gave me nomeatl l VA VA
thirsty, and ye gave Eae no drink was nas ls
and ye clothed not was stranger 1a H., 10 %
We took me not -Inasnucb as We DID II nos IA 4
10 one of the least OF these my DfeIhfen-- w.
it not to Me .t;,s.,
Nay NAY! my friends cannot do thl e. e.
sential injustice Though the commands o. @o Il
law were hundred.told more stfln9epc san,h Ia
pei penalties si were accumulated to teniod gfea.ns
they should not shut my doors against t,a nun
viii not resist the law By force and w yl0 oso I'd
"l resist est it. Although it harls him back upon s
I pei tS Of seiDssnse But I'll not obey ~.
less BY bearing its penalties The nan q m INV
Otherwise is il peril Of bis Soul FS Tb s1 Fge It,
.Fo .ea teh4 our life the Judgment is more
The HE than that of the human Tribunal ang NE