Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-08-25
For the Freeman.
Reasons Why should not Vote
4e> Free Soil.
" mar sBR IS
THE HIBLE.

THE HlbLNs
- On b,ezsed volume who tell thy worth!
Not an the distant Indias' countless wealth,
Not ralifarnia's, not Australians gold;
Braz's or rich Golcenda's glow gems,
Are worth thy precious words, Of peace on earth,
Good will, and equal rights, To every man.
OF life md Immortality to come
BY the prophecies, the presidents, the moral
teachings of the bible. am urged not to identify
myself with the Aboltionists, or vote with Free
Sohers. am informed that Ham signifies
black negroes must be his descendants of
course that Noah when he awoke from his
drunken sleep said, Genesis 9: 25 J Cursed be
Canaan, (son Of Ham, servant Of servants
shall he be among his brethren" Then, by a
long, daring leap over logical gulf, that one
would suppose as inseparable as that between
Lazarus and Dives we are to come to the con-
clusion that American Slavery xis Heaven
appointed institution that God has irrevocably
doomed all its black and white victims to per-
petua bondage
"Mr. -, they held Slaves in old times
they certainly DID," are phrases of frequent use
By reading my bible, find that Gods law to the
Israelites by Moses, was so that an Israelte
might buy bondman of the heather round
about,-Lev. 25: 40. 46. That bondman was
his possession. When escaped, no man might
deliver him to his MASTER Deut. 90: Is IF
cruelty treated might claim his liberty on the
spot,-Ex 81 : 26, q. He was to enjoy the
rest of the Sabbath,-Ex. 90: 10. II he lived
to the set time, he must be elnancipated, Lev.
25: 10. Once in fifty years, Gods law required
that liberty should be proclaimed to all The in
habiiants ofaH The knt. From these tolerations
Of selv,ude nnder the imperfect Mosaic dispen-
salon, we are to infer that American Slavery is
beautifully Christian, and should oe pcrpe,uated.
Gods law, by Moses, required complete political
emancipation once in so years. By the practice
Of Israel, this law at length became imperative.
Americans may do as Israel did, and incur the
same penaty-DEsrRUcTuoN!
ST. Paul. am told, would have Christians
"suhject to the higher powers,-Rom 10: /
81. Peter directs us to "sublnit to every ordi.
nance of man. for the Lords sake" under.
stand these passages to have particular reference
TO Free Sellers or Abo'itionsts. 1t was perfectly
right for United Safes Bank men to oppose The
Independent Treasury, or the Independent
Treasury men to oppose the Unlted States Bank
for Democrats to oppose Fillmore, or Wings II
oppose Pierce But Slavery is a time honoret
institution" or ordinance, sanctioned by lh'
higher powers " Of the land, aud It is presump
tuons, wicked, to think of agllating, or voting il
opposition to its behests. II these texts have
wider range Of meaning, suppose the ladies' o
ConstantlnopIe must submit. in "cheerful ODE
dience to poly gamy. the widows of iiIndos
ion to the funeral pile, the women Of Anerc,
to The drivers lash.
81. Paul approved Slavery, for he sent bacl
Onesmus, fugitive, TO his master. Indeed no
now "as servant, but above servant.
brother beloved both in the .fssh and in TIT
Lord" do not exactly see the Pro-saver,
doctrine Of this, but infer from analogy will
the present times there must have been som,
ruse about it. Wonder il Philemon tied hi
brother IL The flesh" to the whipping post
.RDrsor G. NoLuA.
Shurhurnp Ann TX IS53