Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-12-02
Extracts from a THANKSGIVING
I Sermon.
By Ut. HENDRIcK.

IL Under the Jewish dispensatior
we find the subject of slavery fully
provided for, and the most explicit
regulations concerning it laid down
These regulations refer always either
to Hebrew servitude or servitude
from the heather round about them
When God separated the Jews from
all other nations, he gave them laws
peculiar to themselves, and yet the
Jewish law in regard to slavery con-
tinued much as it was in the patri-
archal age, as it did in the days Of
Christ. See Ex. 21,f2 of thou buy
a Hebre ew servant, (Ebed) six years
shall hid serve, and in the seventh
shall h go out free for nothing.
And if the servant shall plainly say,
| 10y e hy master, my wife, and my
children |, | will not go out free, then
his master shall bring him unto the
Judges, be shall also bring him unto
the door-post and his master shall
bore his ear through with an awl, and
he shall serve him JoreUer, Thus
we find an official, legal act for per-
petual slavery. Moreover, all the
children we're kept in perpetual bon
dage, for the law says, eff the mas
ter have given him a wife, and she
has borne him SO ms and daughters,
the wife and her children shall be her
masters, and he s hall go out by him
SELF Here we f nd the foundation
of the Justinian code fully recog-
nized "Pmtas seqFitas ventrqm,' the
children go by the mother, a slave
motheg perpetuatfs the children in
slavery. This all refers to Hebrew
serYitude- which thus became perpet-
ual. When we til m to the servants
taken from the Heathen the law is
still more explicit. Leviticus %,
IL, IS, "Both thy bondmen and thy
bondmaids which thou shalt have
shall be of the heathon round about
thee, of them shall ye buy bondmen
and bondmaidens. Moreover from
the children Of the stranger that So
,journcth among y ou1, of them shall
ye buy, and OF tt he families that are
with you, which they beget in your
land, and they shall be your posses
sion. And We sha II take them as an
inheritance for ypur childr en- after
you, to inherit the N for a possession,
they shall be Jour bondmen forever,
but over your bret hren, the children
of lsreal, We shall not rule with rig
orr Note three things, viz:
/, This law cl early teaches that
they might buy a nd hold as slaves
forever the heathe b nations.
g. They could will them to their
children as an inhe eritance as property
in perpetuity.
3. These are called "i6edim,"
slaves emphaticalllT, who were born
inItheir house, and bought with their
and willed from father to son.
Now I ask any reasonable man to
say, if there is q ny other slavery
known at the South, but such as is
here described? All the slaves in
America are bought, born at home, or
all thre be of which are
as lawful hid proper among
the chosen people bf God under the
Mosaic dispensatid IN.
But there is another argument of
great force t5 whith we ask your at
tention. The telM and fourth pre-
cepts Of the moral law clearly imply
the existence of 81 livery at the time
they were given, md in all time to
come. "Remembfr the Sabbath day
to keep it holy, 81 + days shalt thou
labor and do all thy work, but the
day is the Sabbath of the
Lord thy Gol, in IT thou shalt not do
any work, thou, nbr thy son, nor thy
thy nab se'T'ant nor thy
mad sci Pvant, nor thy cattle" &c.
Then in the tenth commandment,
Thou. Shalt not c9vet thy neighbor's
house, thou shalt \ lot covet thy neigh
bor' 5 wife, nor his mon sefranf. nor
bis naid se,,eant, Dor his OK, nor bis
ass, nor any thing that is thy neigh
bor's.' This law shall never cease
while the world Stands, heaven and
earth shall fill before one ijot or tit
tie shall pass away. But this shows
also, that slaETery may exist as long