New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-28

quoting ard spplyhg ihis u" eg Or sns s.ss q
To-. 81 sn.st Of servants, bat Oh men, ana u-e7
800 - 81 re,fectly well Known and nng1Stnpns-
IL ,oo.n;oo AZ applied 10 men, and Dol - sia'e5' 20
H., ~ ,.tes tie mater, even u upon t1e ln'ePr'A
Too OF the statute there had restei the s n'es coad
81 fs S"urh place the nvioabe sacTedness Of the
III ,eIa,ot by witch the children OF Tie parents
bclong 10 them and them only; thng eckno",elsed
,n Ty the most baTbarOns ribo- al The word over,
~, so.; a nv The legislation Of the Hebrews. den"n
,,I,tes slavery 70 be sin. For tbe denial. the utter
dsrooa,d and ruth. violation OF the parental right
ana claim Of the cs7eniiai elements Of cry 80
a., q, ~ .ie nost valuable sderaons Of this Kind
of opery Is its life power Of redupcang itself By
~. payaiion through the very prostitution and peryer
H. ~ the family and parental relation ior the bTe ding
q, slsyes And It j. wrought into slave-lsw, 10 tnns
that might make the ar rtddon with wrath e. such
lie against Immortality, and such theft OF body aod
.onl in the very instant Of birth, that the thing born
E,oys the condition OF the womb hat bore j.. The
nother being the property Of her master By law, the
chic born ~ without any pretense OF purchase.
EQUIV atIt paid bargain contraction permission u
consent asked given, toe property Of the seme mas
ter. This claim ID in itself and wrought by lag into
~ syspm Of Slavery, anj set a. its foundation com
nal violation Of the parental claim and authority
etsb ished by the Creator IN every generation L i
stealing from the parents Even II there were bar
gain wiIh the parents that could not wipe out The
guilt change the moral essence OF the Transaction
For parent has any authority or rgnt TO sell L4s
child. man cannot abrogsle resp nsbhlty oI
he parental relation for his chi own good cahnOt
sell hun 10 another for pricr. cannot soil
what Lc docs not own TO cell Tbs i l. that vltiares
the cl.im 10 Il 9 children property, ami beyond al
possibility Of contradiction demOns ates The s. stem U
be- SIN per sc that maintains suca claim as IT.
esseIce.
Now is jus. here that the shoe fatally puches the
argument cuts TO the quick. There Is nothing at all
that up such anger, 20 be told that ssvehod-
log is maI-sesns. But the logic vii have ~ way
you can stop il than you stop the lightning
AID You more, by noise and fury, prevent tue
truth OF this conclusion ron beng truth, o. ZION beiag
lsU av6E 1Ff q
an eclipse or hang vel over the soar sysem. four
exceptions are honesty and frankly admitted II
the case that under inherited cOmpulsi0n some be-
come Shareholders in law, who not such in gospel
that L. they hold their slaves no. az property, II -
| owners Il them but az human beings Who own them
selves and whom they owe, for their services, what
is usi and equal aid over whom they maintain
their legal claim lot ~ sell them but a. masters and
guardian their good wei D. domestic service
to preserve tht N from Oppr sOn III the providence OF
Go may open door for all parties out oi tue whole
evil Less than tbs cannot possibly cons with the
phrase that Which Is just and equal, With the Law
to DO 70 others you would they should do 10 yon
BIT wh0soever claims them as bis property 10 set for
money Us hOIsc is sold, q wheelbaTr0@ whoever
takes their chdrer born Coos inn or al souls, AID
says, These my property, because bought tne
pert D-, aud tlese CAD sell mine, or do whasooVer
peate With them that the law allows, that person s
by npIeg1 able logic, mansiCalcT. lie may say,
There vide diversity OF option this subject, AMI
never could it in THIS light He may keep out OF
the light may refuse and scOrn with great indsn u)n,
no difference in the truth itself or its application II
be might zee and refuses 20 God is the judge why
he Will see; but his keeping away from the light
docs change the nature Of the sin, any more than
mans committing robbery at midnight; wihou, o lam
tern, when be absolutely could not whether what
be stole bank bils or brown paper, prevents that
act ir, 10 beng EN-.
But when man says see and with his eyes wide
open goes into this Wckedness as sacred right;
ii God sees that he loves darkness rather than
light because his deeds are evil, and that he
hsies the lighr, and comoth not "a the Light
lesl bis deeds should be reproved then God must
take him in han1 and will administer judgment, for
man cannot do il. I,ut oh, the -olenny ci that dec
araton, in regard TO any part OF Gods Word hat You
will not hear, but deny: " The word that | have
spoken, and which you reject, that same Word -ha
Judge yeu in The last day :" Men apt 10 think
il they put away Gods truth, and deny its gppca
tiop VI keep out of lts light that what they DO .hor
mag ued innocence because they do not SEE or ac-
knowledge it's iquy, they will not have 10 encounter
in the judgment uDd-r Gods Word, IN Coos inter
probation, and not their own. But u they say, We
see, are not blind, and We kUow tina. We are
nghi; then comes the anrwer, IL yc 'oerc blnd, ye
should have no Elm bui now 70 say, We scei there
fore your rim remeine.h. Aud for Judgment am come
This world that they which not might sce-thet
u.s. uey that feel and acknowledge their blindness, and
con to God for light; and that they which so might
be III. DE- bno-hat 10, they Who declare that they
and CO mot and will not be taught by greater light
than their own opinions, the Light from Heaven,
they shsll justly and udiciay remain IN blindness.
and go on presumptuousb and confidently SHINING IN
consequence.
him from responsibility though the Romsh cassists
excuse the most enormous crimes IN this way. A man
has but void evade the truth or TO restrain him.
self from examination and reflection and thencei9r-
ward for things done in his ignorance he is not TO be
held te account. a Roman Catholic theooglan, writing
concerning the quality ofhuman actions says Ii man
commit adultery bomcide rejecting indeed, on sun
veIy mperiecty and specifically, upon the wicked
"Tess and gieat snfulnCss Of these crimes however
beinous may be the mat els he stli sins bat slightly
That may be logic earth, but 1t VIII never 90 IN
heaven. A may abide by II here bat II WI aoide
bv hln hereafter his cost if he does not repent OF II.
Thee are gecs of sn riding to degrees N light,
but ID, who keep ont OF the light IA order that M
c,pce e sin every de-ee OF darkness IN which they
sucC. I'd il sinking DemsClVes does but add 10 their
guilt They who deliberately sanction oppression, and
live in and by the proVa OF me ciah 81 proPei! III
man msin,a mig Slavery TO be right as divine nsti-
tuition csnnot do it AID keep up TIE profession u
Christian hope but by violence and sitting somewhere.
Like divers, they have to put weights uP)n ther fees
and amor over their bodies 10 get down mic such
dep,hs and not die there, and al the ar they do get l
but inst enough Keep them from suilOc ttIng, aud
the, get lat in the most constr ined toruous artificial
way Aud the fact that people can live and 6res,hs al
all in such daIkLess is not 10 be- taken prooi that
darkness as good hight, the sea as good as toe
ar 70 live in just So 'hOre ls abstsct ptssoIity,
perhaps probability and actually, of there being slave
holders who such III he eye OF the Jaw nut noi 10
,he eye of God, because they abjdre, before God 81
cls M 10 any OF their fellow creatures a. properly, ana
cop,ider their slaves servants simply, 10 whom they
are bound 10 give that which is just and equal Rut
one such Gaze a dozen SUCH canno! change the ma
time of the system take away its slniuneSs, Nor
excuse the Hickeants- OF tcsiiBs man as a thing,
Ior SHIELD Slavery fem bang declared 10 be,
what il is with the claim OF property ~ len sh ttr s.,
Tie crime OF nlur,ier considered simply ~ me "h'-
iag ot a maa, is more IN pr Sc han slavery;
there may be- exceptions in the way, but tn *
ce1ti,ls DO no, des;cOy he Tae. r. man kul5
al other a. Moses did IL dolCrss OF b. oio.cr, the