The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-15
POTTER COUNTY, Pa, THURSDAY OCTOBER Is, 1857

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ed. Every moving thing that liveth
shall be meat for you; even as the green
herb have l given you all things Here
is Gods grand delivery of all things to
man; to have, to hold, to convey, or to
eat. 1t "a plain that if negroes are not
men but things, they are meat for God
expressly says, every moving thing that
liyeth shall be meat" Why should it be
deemed incredible, that the Romish Jes-
uit who presides over the Judiciary Of this
Protestant nation, and find. in the sons
and daughters of Ethiopia mo rights that
white men are bound to respect" should
next decide that they are to be eaten for
food? To prevent this brutalizing pro-
cess the Lord placed all Of Noah's sons,
and, Of course, the entire race into the
contract; and after having given full per-
mission 10 take the life Of bird, fish and
beast, makes shis reserve, "Nhoso shed
deth mans blood, by man shall his blood
be shed; for in the image Of God made
he man. the race.
But, it is said that God cursed Ham
and doomed his posterity to perpetual
slavery. My brethren, God blessed all
the sons ofNoah, and there is no evidence
that he cursed any of them. Noah, pro-
Phetieally says, Cursed be Canaan a SER
want OF servants Cor working servant)
shall he be unto his brethren" Canaan
was the youngest son of Ham. His de-
cendants did not settle in Ethiopia, but
in Palestine, and gave name to the eoun-
try. The prediction Of Noah received
It's fulfllment some 900 years after, wheu
the Canaanites were destroyed by Joshua;
and the remnant became hewers Of wood
and drawers Of water for the congregation.
As to this service, notice four things
There is no chattclship, or property con-
yoyed. Africans are net made servants.
There Is no colored servitude; for the
Canaanites were as white as their mas
ters. And command to the Tsrmlitas t.
destroy these inhabitants for their wick
edness, or permission to put them I'M
der tribute of labor, gives us no right
thousands Of years after, to cnslave the
people of another continent. Our names
are not in the bond.
III Con DID NOT ESTABLISH SLAVE
RY II THE FAMILY OF ABRAHAM, or OF
THE PATRIARCHs.
i. Slarery IS Inconsistent rtH the Cos
pei aehich sraS preached.
This declared to Abraham, an thee.
and in thy seed shall all the nations, kin
dreds, aud families of the earth be bless
ed" not cursed with Slavery. fit could
be shown, as it cannot, that Abraham and
Jacob held chattel slaves, it would be no
more evidence that God approved ofSlaye-
ry, than the fact that each Of them had
TWO wives is proof that God is in favor
of Mormon polygamy. Why, then, are
We referred to these Patriarchs as slave
holders Do We not know that if they
were now living among US, they would be
put in prison for bigamy? There is no
evidence that the servants Of Abraham
we're involuntary slaves.
2. The uord rendered serrant, does
not, Of Itself signify q chotte5 sIare.
The Hebrew abed, obed, and ebed,
and the Greek Doulos are generic terms
Ike animal, man, tree aenoting all kinds /
2F servants; az, the servants of the king. !
Joshua the SCI want of Moses, Moses and
be saints, the servants of God. "His
ye are to whom ye yield your
selves servants to obey" Even the i
bondage Of the wicked one, is voluntary
being led captive by him at his will"
Jhrist was called servant dare any
nan say that he vas slave? There is
10 word in the Hebrew for Slave. The
acrcd language is to pure Tor it.
3. The prr5;.r bond, a4 bond seruaat