New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-27

49, Of American democracy. lived an dttl .,aVe
rEer End bequesihed hn .l'y,S l.? Ms ,.,
,spd = The "efort ought @ have been truth - ana
hsiores Of its champions mcckery" f,r ineif "a
s,r,ert '-Jefer and NlshiDyt0ns iaciten'lt-
90 Struggle for libey, wss The horrible desire OF ba''ns'
Cling and lafhinc each ot1er III yDlF re,oroioo
aid Boldly speak your mind you wous jteh y9ii n5'gs
ae Tabernacle that WGshiu -tOn was ca-h' ana 30
s.son thistle, or a hideous bag. 80 .
Nitnow what sou viii say.;hli those lat'ioa' n'n,
Assh ,laveholders always felt aud sid thst siIyer w"
rsnhus and a curse to The country F"ss.oy [" may
80 Thet is a subject on which gayo no oP9o9 PuI
~ National Debt Is an incubus aud curse Z, EAs.
"a wi many good men, believing II 70 DC 81 hC.I dSD'i'
res md even 60 so far a. to buy ''VcA u '' 'i'
RI Won crusaders Of abolition. are not con'en' q rest
A. Csc on Grounds Of policy You VII nave II tHa 'i'-7
sho differ from Yen ana agTse WI ~ 80 ''0
,ostous and Intersections always ready and Won seem
asink PEOPLE will take them for reasons What you
4 ~ "csn man be q chnttel 70 whch answer, why
e!, Tbs Legislator OF the Jews saw NJ harm ia II.
swouH yeu sell being with an immortal soll -
essinIy Moses and the Prophets did the sane Would
ssnn send back fugitive 10 his master y Asslri Paul
~ Apostle very honestly sent back the abscond Oaes
- and begged # his owner the worthy PIilsn,n-
Puls dearly beloved and fellow laborertO forgive his
| stumDg slave
ee who an old woman You wilnever get nog code Of
n0rsty received among men We viii never consent % De
ave that you better Christian than the Founder oithat
eon-ihGt you love liberty better than those im n1ra
ersks WHO invented itthat you are tr1er lic4
Oar all the republicans Of ancient and modern times snd
Iboth hupberes This is uIdou1'eh gfeai century
81 Kinks n SHOWS much but have always been a"cn3'
sned TO IL ank God that am behind my age H maj
| tr Of taste. -, - RAJ. -,
Ia,o the Founder Of the Christian religion ~ an ADO
zionist; rot by reason Of any positive conf nnttion or
bbijop Of Slavery slave holding, but by virtue OF
,haf Won call the development Of the religion, wmcn yOn
nprofe 10 be growing and advancing as man grows and
Evsrces Especially you dwell upon the great PrecePt
Do unto Others ye would hat others should d. unto
II Jcro 4. hole inn III
ke shall yeuuIe To suggest e. yOu. most learned clerk.
rte explanation ofthat text which, perhaps, never oc
ta 10 before Il means do unto others as you would
h III they were in your circumstances and you nthes
lei they should do INTO you. If you creditor treat
Eur debtor with tina. fOrbeGraDce and consideration
itch if you the debtor and no the creditor you
sight onaby wish and expect hun to use toward you
MS does not creditors discharge your debtors tree
issiD if you slave holder, use your slave with
sldloness humanity and kindness, rewardng him when
does we'll never pupishing him wenOnly or Dpprss'
ayey- IN short lust rs yOu could reasonably VISA were
,a the slave and he the master that he w0ad behave
gssrd you Therefore the Injunction OF the New Iesta
rent IT, masters discharge Your slaves but be rci
a 10 your saves-aaves be Obeieut TO your isers
But said something of slaves being AshcG Yes the
cry idea Of slave includes the idea OF COERCION bltdoes
p all include the idea OF cruelty and when wished
o plantation Of negroes, your reverence ana lHE
RBUkE, with great c6ndQr proclaim that want slaves
smder 10 have the luxury Of logging them Does any
,sB mary wife that he may have the pleasure OF beat
his children Yet he who spareth tbe rod spoleth the
f1d Does any mau buy NOISE for the sake OF whipping
Imi Did Wellington keep negroes merely thlt he
slelt indulge himself in ttI6shng them! In fact l
,sned to set down the principle markedly as Po-sOe
bat il is wrong to hold slave from this principle It
kIows that ii is not wrong t. make slave Work ana
hre is way vi making him work IN the Iaet resort out
dead Of he lash.
Ills is an ungracous task find myself forced to under
take On my side, III this controversy everything sounds
tsh ana looks repulsve 1Our reverence has chosen
rel the better, at least the balmer part Yours the priv
lee deer TO the eDg henod modern heart, Of altering
nd looking sentences 1t comes easy to You for all the
ur followers, the credit of beneyOlenCe, Gnl phalhrO
y and enlightenment end progress and all the rest Of
while escape the charge of barbarous cruelty aud
blood thirsty aToCy am forced TO shiod myself under
authority of mere anCeuts persons behn the con ury,
who had not the advantage OF hearing yOnr lee
at The Ike tho Legislator ofhe
Jews and tho wsc OF tho Greeks au1 the fanefs of
the Declaration Of independence. Il would be eLsy Tor
ne also Gudt would be true 10 aseer; that am not cruel
tyIannicGl by na'UTe-th0t hate cd oppre7s)nhat
hnd slaves, would influence and govern them UNI
ioImly by kindness instead OF COerClOn IN short tIlt
would use thCm humanely jefferson h!m. Ell whose
enthusiastic reception by he utachs negroes on his re-
turn to Monticello, forms 50 agreeable picture IN Tuck
sr's life Of that ilastrOus Ii would be easy; bit
dOnot ooAescond TO treat the eson in spegsonal AMI
resictCd manner Myposition was, ANA IS Tie naked as
ftrtOn "tbat layChOldpg is moi cIino; alt that no
body thought IL crime un some time toward tho
close OF the last centmy.
For the o OF undoceiving Your disciples at 'he Tabar
Iace think il hight to inform thSm land with
ngrt hG you in the habit Of giving 50 erroneous an
tceount OF Slavery among the Hebrews, that Moses him
sell NOLId not know MS own laws II nc netfu ~
Hribod IN one your reverence Lectures lou say that
The Mosaic law did not indeed prohibit Slavery bat s0r
rounded the system with such restrictions IA 10 make il
Tery iucoUV nieLt and finally TO abolish IT, The very il
genous auihOress of Uncle Toms Cabin" in her key
the sane has asserted quoting MIR Barnes for It, that
although Hebrews might buy slaves they could not sell
them And again. that there was an enactment requiring
Hebrew Shareholders TO berate their slaves every htetl
year. These statements which You and Your school
seem 10 take trust from Mrs. Stowe aud Mr. Barnes;
tut you will find that it is unsafe to rely for facts OF this
OF your hearers and some ofhe readers Of Uncle
"TOm, viii be surprised to hear that there were no such
enaotmonts at al except in reference TO that class OF
slaves who were children Of Israel
The Mosaic Law eommandedthe lsraees TO buy slaves
"of the hoaihon who round about these slaves
eommaI d. them 10 luke inheritance for ever. l9
shah take them inheritance for your Children after
you 10 heret them for possession they shan be your
"bondmen for But your brethren the children
"of Iraol e shall rule over one another with gor"
Levitt XXy. 49,
In the yer Of Jubilee. liberty was TO be proclaimed
hroul hout the land, to al the inhabitants thereof hut
possible for learned theoogiGn like your reverence
not 10 he aware tho foreign slaves never spoken of
nhahtanS CT the land, but as strangers and soourner
is in this very chapter that foreign slaves de
dared to lie their inheritance and their possession and
Atir children possession for Moses says tho
kEned commentator Michaes' specified two periods at
which tie HebreW SeTUGW was 20 regain
9Th year and the 5Oth that is 10 say he explains IT,
the end OF seven years from the date of tho slaves fal
Ing into slavery the eabbacd year had nothing to do
had been then years in slavery not BWt nothing
q alta applied to ke SaVes purchased from foreigners
srtakeR uar, or 10 the ehiidrea Of such SlaUes
Ii is precisely if thore.were law in Aperica where
BY all American citizens, who might have fallen into The
state Of Slavery were to be set free at two stated periods
ntteh century.
II you know Of any commentator worth attention who
taxes different view Of the matter, produce him.
And is not true, is there the smallest foundation
for the statement that Hebrew STAKEHOLDER not per
nied to sell his foreign slave On the contrary there ia
Il in