The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-10

she must De as regular at PARADE and as fauless as
drill, as The most hirsute specimen Of the rongher
Eek If she fail, she has only herself to blame,
when the ndutant administers the correction due to
her offence.
GERS HARTFORD Cry DIRTcroRY FOR 1853 =
Hartford: Gcer "A useful and neatly prepared
little manual
SiaveholdIng Neither Wrong Nor SIN.
BALTIMORE Cry, August 20, 1852.
TO TIE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Your valuable paper of last week makes the fol-
loving remarks, concerning prevailing error with
Northern men Of both PARTIES
We have to remark, in conclusion that with both par
II IN he North and among the aoundest men OF both
partieswbgs and demociats-there has been too much
temporizpg and trucking TO the uncesn spirit of aool
on and free SOIL in all our elections general and ioca
but particularly in local elections. We doubt whe
Their there single politician in the North-whg ~
donocrathat will have enc moral courage or has thst
prac cai common information, proclaim openly
AND above board the morality the humanity Of the
lie iourpal in the North excepting the Nav YoRK sRALp
that has had the Independence agecy to adopt this
practical view OF the subject Our View OF southern
slavery is that 10 institution consistent alike with
the dictates Of humanity and the principles Of morality
And such is our view Of the Fugitive Slave law The
Southern slave 10 surcd against starvation the als
house He and his family have lien for their support
upon their masters estate while they live Africa day
IL and jamaica prove that Cuea cannot get along with
out Left to himself he rapidly deeriorates
back again TO the fayage cannbal In the
ni;y with the white there il for the negro no other
relation ppness safety race tnan that of
d. pen dsnce and submission. The institution OF slavery
in the south then being tue only system adapt to the
harmony If both in the main
tain thpt il is consistent with humanity and morality,
sense the Bible Sc Paul and the constitution.
The BUSINESS CT all these observations must be
felt and acknowledged by all men in this latitude.
There has been, and yet is, too much yielding On
! the part of Northern democrats, we'll as wings
to what is termed the anti slavery Prcudiccs of the
non slaveholdipg States Nearly all say, . we dis
like slavery in the abstract-ve think it wrong, ami
would remove it, If we could; but We are opposed
| to interfering with it because Of the deplorable
consequences that viii follow" Not one man will
stand up and vindicate slavery as moral right.
Not viii boldly stand up and proclaim it aa in
s.tution of divine sanction This is no way to
b. ht abolltlonisi-a far greater moral wrong than
slavery. Like yourselves, choose the Bible as my
platform, and, ON the faith Of what is contained IN
the holy hook, proclaim aboli,ionism to be one OF
the greatest sios of which any man, protesting
| Christian or otherwise, can be guilty l say thar
/ slavery, such as now exists In the United States,
existed BY sanction Of The Almighty, thousands Of
years ago, and that in no instance that insttu
ton visited with his dsIleasure. AS it has always
been practice with me to prove everything as
pass along, must here call the attention Of your
readers 10 the following, from the fourteenth
OF the fourteenth chapter Of the book of Genesis
"And when Abram heard that his brosher was
taken captVe he armed his trained servants born in
his own house-three hundred and elghteen-and
pursued them unto Dam"
| The persons pursued unto Dan were the captors
| of Abrams brother, and the pursuers were his
| TRAINED servants, born in his own house" Abrm
was, therefore, large STAKEHOLDER, Tor his
were trained and born in his own house" This IS
proof that they were his property, because hired
servants are never born in the house Of the man
who employs them Bat to remove all doubt about
Abrams being Stakeholder, let me here introduce
the thirteenth and twenty third verses Of the seven
| tsenth chapter of the book Of Genesis
| SApl God said unto Abraham he that ia horn
in thy house. and he that is bough, with tiny money
| must needs be crcumcised; and any covenant shall
| be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant"
"And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all
that born in his house, aud all that were bought
with his money, every male among the men of Abra-
hams house, and cirsumcised the flesh Of their fore
| skin on the self same day, as God had said unto
| him 20
| There can be no mistake about this Hero is the
proof that Abraham had slaves OF his o IN raisiny,
and others bought with his money, just as is tho
case with Shareholders Of the present day. Well,
was Abraham censured by his Divine Master, for
thus dealing in human souls he did cattle, as
tho abolitionists express it! find no such thing
in the record. On the contrary. tho proof is il,
| every page of that book that Abraham enioyed
| Gods special confidence, and received nu uerous
favors from his hands. will give your readers
one or two Of these proofs Accordingly, / will
quote first, the 10Th, 10th, 18th. and 18th verses
| Of the I'D chapter Of the book of Gencsis:-
And the Angel OF the Lord called unto Abraham
out Of Heaven the second time:
ara sald, py mysel1 hatn sworn, saith the
Lord, for because thou hast done this thing and
| hast not withheld thy son, thine only son
"That in blessing will bless thee, and in null
tiplyng will multiply thy seed as the stars Of the
Heaven, and as the sand upon the shore, and in
| thy seed shall all the nations Of the earth be
| blessed.
| should be pleased to hear what Messrs. Seward,
| Johnston, Greeley, Stevens, Weed, Wade, Sumner,
Chase Hale, and other abolitionsts have to say to
this. l have not only proven that Abraham was a
very large notwithstanding servants bought vita
his money, and servants Of mis- raisipg-butth that
God blessed him. and promised that, in his seed all
the nations OF the earth should be blessed II fol-
| lows, then, that the institution of slavery among
the children of Israeli not offensive in the sight
OF God, because He gave no instructions to Abra-
ham, or his descendants, to emancpate them. He
did not any moral wrong in it, or proclaim that
II would, at any time, prove curse to that people,
Slavery, as we find it existing in the United States
appears to be precisely like that prevailing in the
days Of Abraham; and yet our abolitionists under
take to denounce what God appeared only have
tolerated. but to have authorized In substantiation
OF this last word, you must here permit to quote
the following passages from the twenty fifth chapter
OF the book OF Leviticus:-
81 am the Lord, your God, which brought you
forth out OF the land OF Egypt to give you the land
OF Canaan, and to be your Cod
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be
waxen poor and be seld unto thee, thou shalt not
compel him to serve as bond servant.
I" But as an hired servant and soiourner he
shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the
year of jubilee.
Sc And then shah he depart from thee, both he
and his children with him, and shall return unto
bis own family, and unto the possession of his
fathers shall he return.
For they my servants, which brought forth
out of the land OF Egypt-they shall not DC sold as
bondmen.
Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids, which
thou shalt have, shall be Of the heather that are
round al out you: of them shall ye buy boudmen
and bonGmaids.
Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do
sojourn among you ofhem shall ye buy and of their
families that are with you which they begat in your
land and they shall be your possession
And ye shall take them, an Inheritance, for
your children after you, to inherit them for pos
session; they shall be your bondmen for ever
Now, here we have a dstinctosIaade between a
hired servant and a bond servant, which is proof