Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-19

upon the principles of humanity. So you see that
resolution is worth nothing t. you.
There has been but one speech here in which n
Northern man went to the Bible to sustain his side
and that Northern man spoke for the Southern In.
stitution. (Dr. Joel Parker.)
Now if that be so, is il not startling fact? Is
it not startling fact, that no man dares to opens
his bible to prove the pOstiyns Of the North? How
is this? Sir, it speaks volumes. There is con-
stant attempt 70 run away from his plain English
Bible into the fog of the Hebrew and the Greek,
whenever the question of slavery is brought up.
bring you to-day this English King James Bible
with its beautiful dedication and l remark that
this Bible shows the sources of all power over men
to have been gwen by God himself. Do you admit
this2 Is it not true? But if it be so then all your
theories drawn from Blackstone and Paley, as to
the sources of power to human society, are not
true. Adam and Noah had in their families given
to them all the power that is now given to the
Emperor Of Russia-power over life, and over lib
ierty-power to be exercised to the fullest extent
for the interests and good Of the family and the
empire.
There is no such thing as abstract right to "lib
erty and the pursuit Of happiness" Every man
comes into the world with all these rights circum.
scribed by the fact Of his being in the family, the
state, the clan the empire There is no legal man
that can dare to meet that position. | deny the
doctrine of Blackstone. | deny Paley. / deny
tho Hawes, | say that God has settled the fact
of how men exist in social life. God gave to Noah
the very first right to circumscribe life and liberty
in his family. If Ham, instead Of laughing at
his father had killed Shem, Noah would have or.
dered the offender to be killed. for the law was
given that "Whoso sheddeth mans blood. by man
shall his blood be she'd" The curse of ineriority
was entailed upon Shem. Consequently, there
never has been an African man who can pare
with the highest type of the Asia.ic man. to com
pare with the highest type of the European.
Turn to Exodus, 2lst chapter: snow these are
the judgments, which thou shalt set before them.
1t thou buy an Hebrew servant six years he shall
serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for
nothing. If he came in by himself he shall go
out by HIMSELF If he were married. then his wife
shall go out with him. If his master have given
him wife, and she shall have borne him sons or
daughters, the wife and her children shall be her
masters, and he shall 90 out by himself. And if
the servant shall plainly say, love my master,
my wife, and my children, l will not go out free,
then his master shall bring him unto the judges;
he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the
door-post and his master shall bore his through
with an awl; and he shall serve him forever. And
if man sell his daughter to be maid-servant
she shall not 90 out as the men-servants do. II
she please not her master, who had betrohed her
to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to
sell her unto strange nation he shall have nc
power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfuly with her
And if he have berothed her untoshis son, he shall
deal with her after the manner Of daughters. II
ne take him another wife, her food, her raiment
and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish p
DR.. WIsNER-Does the Bible tolerate Polyga
my2
DR.. Ross-Yes, sir. l have principle which
will explain all that (great laughter). 1 could
make that all plain to you, but will read.
And he that steaeth man, and selleth him,
or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be
put to death" Well you may take that verse
and-do what you please with it! Uaughter.)
"And if man smite his servant or hs maid
with rod, and he die under his hand, he shall
be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he con.
tinue day or two, he shall not he punished, for
says "for he is his money!"
| will turn now to Levticus, 25th chap. 44th
verse, both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids
which thou shall have shall be of the heather that
are round about you; Of them shall ye buy bond
men and bondmaids." Now, were the Israelites
allowed to buy of the Israelites? Did they kid
nap them? Perhaps so. But wero these buyers,
under this institution of God or the heathen-sel.
lers, men-stealers? Certainly not
Now. how far this institution was modified is
not the question. The simple fact is, and the one
which we need that the institution Of slavery is
ordained of God, like the family institution; al.
though the relation of master and slave is greatly
inferior to that of husband and wife. / affirm that
slavery is one of the social relations of men. |,
is like husband and wife, parent and child, older
and younger, teacher and scholar. magistrate and
citizen, merchant and clerk, captain and soldier,
sovereign and people. These relations of life are
expressly ordained of God or they exist in that
social economy which is the result of Divine Prov
idence. IL all these there is service This ser
vice is found to be either voluntary or involuntary
and as to duration, brief or protractcd. There is
either restraint or liability to oppression. The
common talk of oppression in the relation of mas
ter and slave is just applicable to all these So
cial relations.
1t is remarkable that in the highest and lowest
of these relations there is a strange parallel to say
nothing of all the others. Women are said to be
SOLD in the slave.markets and it is called cruelty
and oppression but have seen ladies, dressed
fine, fine houses, polite manners sold in deliber-
ate bargain and sale, upon their own sofas | have
known of the father dispOsng in marriage of his
daughter to one whom she never could love, and
would never of her own choice, marry and all
this for nothing more or less than money. say
there is strange parallel. / ask if the relation Of
the wife and the husband, in Europe and America,
is entirely voluntary on the part of both parties,
in the formation OF the marriage connection In
all Europe marriage is a contract. 1t is as much
IA bargain and sale what takes place in New Or
leans DR.. Adams in the "Sou,h-Side View 4"
takes up court after court and counts the number
of applications for divorce, in the Northern States
with the number granted. You seldom hear Of o
divorce in South Carolina.
would say to the ladies in the gallery, that you
cannot leave your chamber without the consent Of
your husband, although you may be superior to
him in mind and in heart as heaven is above the
earth (great laughter.)
What is right and wrong?
We are told that there is an eternal right and
and wrong in the nature of things. | am not de-
pendant upon God to know that two and two are
fur. thank him for tn mind by VIII ch am en-
abled to know that that is fact know it from the
laws of my own mind. God has made laws rs rules
of government, which we are to obey. Where
there is no law, tn is no transgression An
offence depends upon the law which it violates,
and not on the nature of things. 1t is against
the law for man to marry his sister, Now, is
that wrong in the nature of things9
MANY VoIcEs-yes
DR.. Ross-No 1t is not. can prove from
the Scriptures that it is not. Cain and Abel mar
ried each others sisters, didn't they How do yon
get over that? And so the relation of a man 10
more wives than one was not only OF forbidden
IN IL ya mr. sin af oil Tod g. A.