New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-17

buit up under the immediate protectioa Of Prsxi
aence He allowed IL 10 pass down TO lssac and IA
Jscob and to the Pstrierchs who followed them hv
way Of Inheritance, and when Meses Wa called as n.
crest religious and political leader OF lsse he fouad
il existing among the Jews II vas not Negro avery
60 isr as we know, But il WAS the weak reduced =
seIvi'uGe by the stroDghe inferior subjected 70 the
will Of the superior Il was seryitude reodered wiz.
cut cousent II violated natural righs [, sccon-
pAnied with al the horrors Of buying aud selling
and where the slave was a stranger and net
lew il continued for life. In this form Il existed 1,
the DAYS of Noes and yet there "a no. one word in al
his writings hat condemns It 80 imnorai Il eIisssi
a. r,oh,fcdi Is stitution, inenwlIed with the Js1A
poity ana a. such he t IL alone, except far ~ 10
regulated il by law. When God gave him the Law
ar id the ieh,nngs snd thuncers Of Sira be did not
dire. him 10 abolish SiGvery. He commanded thsk
Dlan-sfedhag should be punished WITH death, but in
medisisly following the delivery OF the tables upoa
which re had written the decalosue With his finger hs
declared the su in relation 10 the purchase Of s1ves
Ard IN the Leyca code it Is more faily aud plainly
written that the he ahen shall be your boad1ea for
erer.' How could sll this have been IL Moses raj
considered it his duty to abolish Slavery az violation
Of the law of morality and, therefore of the I,ya
God 1.-The had so thought and The question had bsan
with him an original one and not already dxed and
settled by the Jewish people would he have permitted
II 10 exist Goo, through him. by the word OF hs
poser might have broken the bonds from every
Jewish slave ard have made him As free a. his nassr
Blu, he did not. He permitted Slavery TO continus
not only during the days OF Moees, but those Jossus
and | the Judges and Governors who followed him"
ALI this 10 Straightforward and to the point
Aritatipg for Slavery Restriction is wroeg, be.
cause Slavery itself is not a moral evil for il Il
had been God would have condemned it in the Law
given By Moses and in the Bible history of tho
Hebrew Pstriarchs. l do not concur in this trsia
Of srpunee tatiop, but clearly comprehend it
Well: after talking on for couple of hours, cur
orator appears to have forgotten this yllogism Il.
together, and proceeds to deliver himself n fol-
lows:
"Iwould not put it in the power of majority
or OF a mere combination OF political parties, to step
the Union at any given point would have il 20 on
ard expand until the whole country, from ses TO sea-
was blessed by its Influence.
"But there Is a single Limitation to this power: Il
cannot Be exercised so as to squire or retard the pac
sce1faye The State when she applies for admission,
must have Constitution repub lean N form. II q
contain provisions against public policy, then not
re, ubiean and therefore may BE- rejected. A. for az
ample: if Utah should present Constitution giving
sanction 70 polygamy, that would be, like contract
for the same object, against public policy on the
gTourd of inmor sity. She might in ths, case, bs re-
;eo.ed The power to admit new States is given TO
promote he public interest, and must be exercised for
mat purpose and other. The question of polygamy
in a Territory is a different question Coagress
the Territories ii should in the csse OF Utah prohib4
il at once.
All. Richard Richard whittier has fled your
deyout reverence for Moses and the Patriarchsi
Dare you pretend that Abrshams slave holding
was any more built up under the immediate pro-
lection of Providence" than Jacobs polygauy,
And did Moses abolish polygamy any more than
Slavery Did not Abraham, and David, and Solo
mon, and many other Hebrew magnstes, in their
domestic relations, do what We should moo COZ
sider very gross immortality And is there an
utimation in the Record that the mere fact Of their
having each more than one wife was reprobated
and punished Did not Christ say that Moses.
"for the hardness of your hearts" had permitted
many things TO the children Of Israel which weso
not in accordance with absolute morality! De-
pend on it, Mr. Thompson, you have run Slavery
into a category here from which you cannst
rescue it without leaving hole large enough
to let through pOlygamy also If you arc
intent on keeping Utah out of the Unisu
because of her poygamy, you will inevitably justtJ
our opposition to the coming in of any new State
which legalizes Slavery. All yoar scriptural argd
msnts are familiar to Brigham Young, Farley Pratt
and Bsrphisel and serve them quite as well they
do you. And If you really mean that State may
be rejected because her Constitution contains
"provisons against public policy" why then we
say that nothing could be more repugnant to sOssd
public policy than Slavery. as the relative growth
of Kentucky and Ohio, Illinois and Missouri,
abundsnay proves II is not that We arc jealous
of the West or wish 10 limit her growth, but b.
cause we desire to her blossom as the rose and
flourish as no region ever did till now, that We are
anxious to keep her free, so far as possible from
the blightiDg curse of Slavery; aud this you, Dick
Thompson perfectly understand though your
speech utterly, dishonesty ignores the truth H. G.