New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-21

dr.n from you You would not have your 'eipw-
being. take away every natural rsh' and axny o.
burd.p You would not consider II e1soton on your
part II you demanded that your children should De
r6rr children and ebould be free since You never en-
tired into any contract with any human cfes.Ss
wise, and could not nghuuiy nave uone euoN '1's
If you had wished.
treatment the sane award Of justice, TO your ielew
being; spd any relation IN when you nola nun,
v,r.,ve Of thee natural rghn and claims OF ioVe,
sinful The compulsory relation nsen, as your WORK
il sinful II is sin per Sc and cannot possibly oe ou'
errjse might trace and demoisra'e ms siniu'neS'
in other inractiens of the law put lne Isao mn
and the noe, prolific, 10 the robbery OF children irvui
n cir parents The they are born into the "oto
al the claiming, as your property, what wa u. Nv
OF God TO those parents, what you never paid
for What you never made contraet iof "ne. ~
never received from any trader evel in human nesh,
and over which you nave not the ieast snaoo" VI .
claim on any ground on which human Oelnss e'eI
.ettle the lust relation Of possession or ownersnp
between one another. You cannot IN any'hips W "
ob,rs as Won would they should do TO you If IN thus
Fundamental thing you take their children and cAih
and u,e them as your prVperty. lou could not righ
fully your own children as your PioPei''' ~
10, the children OF others.
m;sbt ret the whole .rgume ut here but pass to
Second demoustratOn OF the siniuIness OF Sis'e! -
the various laws enacted againai oPpfe'noH, w
II Slavery il not oppression, nothing under heaven
can be- Ii is the violation, IN every psrcuai u
eyey one Of the statutes OF I'D against tna' "cAu
ness. When God says, Cursed Is ne ua' ofP'..e'
his neigbb in whatever respec; thai curse comes
in eyery possible shape, upon the man VINO claims
rrop.riy in mar because that clam gathers up mo
ittef ,yefy conceivable e1actlon and exeperaon oi
tyranny either as essence result When God says,
!: TLon sbalt not oppress the stranger the father
" less the widow the servant the hrelny; snd
when he teaches US to pray, " Denver he Ifoh tne
oppression Of man so will | keep thy preceps
eydy ore Of tlese statutes and instructions demon
fba of
fundamental claim Of property in man If the sum OF al
tle-e oIpressons; and God could never san,ton ~
general system right that which he f9rold' ID every
IaIticular as wrong. All the laws agalns'
oppression, all the manifestations of Gods ao,
loirence Of it, 90 - show the Divine sentiment and
q, nienoe in reprobation of Savery-God ha'red OF
it, Gods intense feeling and Judgment aSahst !.
When God seys, II stranger sojOurn with thee 10
your land We shall not vex him; but the stranger
that dselleth with you, shall be unto you as
" one born amongst you, and thou shat love
" HIM as myself and when lie names the counts
in His Indictment of the nation for its sins,
In the midst Of thee have they dealt by oppression
with the stranger; the people Of the land have used
oppres sion and exercised robbery, and have ve1ed
tie poor and Ieedy; yea, they have oppressed the
stranger vropgfuly the just moral application OF
these sentences cannot possibly DC mace ~hout the
condemnation Of Slavery as sin
There was never at any time in the JeE.sb statutes,
or authorized by them, any such thing as Slavery III
the Hebrew nation; never any claim OF property IN
mar. When they fed out of Egypt there were no
slaves with them the census o, souls 10 tbs. OF nee
souls only not creature went out OF Egypt on COM
pulsion. And the laws promulgated by Moses In re-
gard TO The obtaining and the treatment OF servants
were in no re.pect what called slave legislation but
eesaton against Slavery legislation to render lite IN
PRODUCTION into the nation absolutely and forever i'm,
possible legislation only for free voluntary contracts OF
service with free men The obtaining OF servant oy
such contract called the buying OF hun; 1t was
Elm ply and solely the buying OF his me and service
for such period might be specified in the contract;
and to prevent the possibility Of such service ruanng
into Slavery by long possession, the perod iseit OF
,uth contracts was limit. TO six years and If in any
ca.e extended TO longer time only by solemn mutual
agreement, aid in NO case on no consideration NOR
with any party, could such contract hold beyond the
jubilee. Every fifty years every servant In the iand
was free.
And children were never servants because their pa
rents weie no claim upon the time or service OF the
parents create any claim 10 that of the children Ser
vtude not transmitted by birth, ana never o1au
he Every instance of seryee whether OF the He
biews or the heather, by free voluntary contract
Tie came phraseoogy is used OF contracts with the
heaben as OF ihoee with the Hebrews, and tne one
70 more profession than the other. Whether He
br. " or heather when man entered into contract
With servant, be was said TO lave bought hun rs
| when be married wife be was said - have bought
k,, and az 20 the obligation 10 fulfill the contract and
rertorm the work paid for, the servant was described
a, is money hs possession, Tor thai contracted period
HEIR. thus sola themselves TO strangers or heahen
and beshen sold themselves 20 lie brews but in every
| care a. freemen in case as property There "a no
,uch idea that Of property In man recognized except
ss wicked oppression; and the whole 'sac legisla-
ion guarded the ps ople at every point against such
OPPRESSION and admirably conuiyed 10 render 1t
| in possible.
In consequepce of these careful and humane stat
utes both the spirit Of the Hebrew constitution and
tie letter OF the law 30 eectuay secured freedom as
pers, nal buthIght, that the idea OF slavery, IN our
ter &c OF the term, never embodied IN the Ian
| auspe There is no word to signify what we eau q
save-a human being degraded into an article Of prop
| cry. And the laws were minute and specihc IN
gard the treatment Of servants and their rights to
such degree, with such expictness and exac.ness,
in order that there might never be any temptation TO
oduce establish slavery in the land it being from
the ou ct made impossible, that withou. direct de
| spce Of Almighty God no man could intend such q
| IL ing and no tribe could accomplish IT, And accord
Dst notwithstanding all the oppression OF ~ ich the
| jews we're guilty, and the instances and forms in
which they aded the law, and az length attempted
TO establish slavery self instead of the system Of vol
uDtsIy paid service prescribed by law, yet never at
any time in Peettine there any slave mart pub
lie slave-trafic. Babylon and Tyre Greece and
Rome all nations of the earth, indeed Of the land
that as under the teaching and disc plne of these
laws of God, maintained the slavetrade ADD never
philosopher, uDenlgbtened by Gods Word, rose
bieh enough 10 its wlckedness but 10 Judea It's
violation Of the first principles Of Justice and humanity
were 80 manifest by the law Of God and 60 many
statutes combined to render il impossible, that though
the idol attain Of the heather world az length
naturazed in Israel, and in the seducuODs OF idol
worship the people were carried headong yet the
saye traffic and the slave msrts never once obtained
q footing.
But here you aver that God devoted Ham to per-
petual slavery. IL 10 difficult 20 treat this udicrous
and wicked refuge of oppression either with patience
or gravity; for in the first place, was not God but
Noah who pronounced the curse; in the second place,
the eurse fel not upon Ham, but upon Canaan whose
tescepdants were a. white az tie Hebrews or or
eNes; Id the third place the descendants of Ham,
YOU claim the Africans to be- have nothing TO do with
thin curse Your pretended title 10 euree them is not
- ,l;. Add. our m, epsion 10 a riyht from Heaven