Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-05-08

itie 1lI1lI lll5 does not own those same
slaves, and the slaves owned. The fourth
commandment enj oins duties on slave
owner. The tenth commandment nions
duties toacards slave-owHeF. But who is to
be the slave, the Decalogue saye.h not. The
non-sIave-owner learns from the fourth COM
mandment that it is lawful to hold slaves.
| He learns from the tenth that il is unlawful
for him even 10 covet his neighbours slaves,
and there the Decalogue, the constitution,
leaves him. Is there then any law which
gives effect, in this particular, TO the fourth
article of this constitution Mr.. Badger
has quoted the law which ful6lls this con-
diion. Levi,icus, xxv chapter, 44lh s. 461h,
''Bolh thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids,
which thou shalt have, Of the heathen that
are round abou, you; OF them shall ye buy
bondmen and bondmaids. And ye shall
take them as an inheritance for your chill
dren after you"
! will now state the laws on ,slaveholling
in connection, emitting whatever is not to
that purpose 'Remember the Sabbath day,
10 keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour,
and do all thy work BnI lne seventh day
| is the Sabbath of the Lord ny God : Ia 1t
thou shall, not do any WORK, thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter, thy man-seryant nor
thy maid servant.-Thou shalt not covel
thy neighbours man-servant nor his maid
servant" Exodus, Xxx chapter Sth, 9th,
l0th-l7lh verses. "Buy hsathen bond
men and bondmads-take them as an in
heritance for your children after you" Le-
vi,icus, XIV, 44th, as above.-The state of
the religious controversy between the N orth
and the South, is this. 1t is agreed that
these laws as ! have stated them, were en-
acted by God for the Jews, and were once
by His authority enforced among that peo-
pie. 1t is conceded by learned divnes of
the North, that the word servant, in the
fourth and tenth commandments, referred
to slaves. II is agreed that the Decalogue
has never been repealed but is as fully
binding upon us, as it was upon the Jews.
That it was law then, is law now, and
will be law to the end of time. The
N orlh hold that the law above quoted
from Levlicus,. which authorises the pur-
chase and the holding Of heather slaves in
perpetuty. is abroga,ed. We believe that,
like the Decalogue, this law is moral and
Interchangeable, and will continue in force
while that to which it applies remains in
existence.
The question then is, is this law now in
force or is il repealed? remark, if it is
repealed, then is not the d ogue, the per
pelual moral law Of God, as all admit, as full
y in force now as it once was. That the
Decalogue and this law were both in force
at one time is agreed, and that the latter fur
nishedm matter for the former to take effect up
on is certain. for lis operation was to bring
hea,hen slaves into the possession of Jews,
and every slave acquired under it, added
one more to the number Of those who, by
force of the fourth commandment, were al
lowed 10 rest on the Sabbath, and one more
to the number Of those who, by operation
of the tenth commandment, were not to be
coveted.
!, is said that this law is not in force now
because it was a law of the Old Testament.
We are subjects Of the New Testament dis
pensaion, therefore this law does not take
effect upon us.
have never been able to apprehend the
meaning of those who talk in this manner
and ! have come 10 the conclusion that