Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-06-30
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used as teA.' IN hardly know ONO that does snmv-
Ih,leG o institutions Directly VI a great
is taken for granted 10 that the in
o 'a orynp evil and hopes are atom to it
ana ci1 If the people will soon put stop were in
fs. vsnrs back many reading nv obiec.
ou g; our schools containing passages =" ceased.
tona character. This has, 70 az c(ufey's series
, ,;vsn our Southern schools consin enn;Isrs who
mity in this matter, and has inducea circulation,
wished their books 10 have an eA'eIrated to make
to guard against inserting s snecmen Of read
: h,nG nmbl;shed within the last IL" ,ba ds
would be rather amusing. II II "" Mr. C. z. Clsave-
eusting fansticsm shown IN IT, u: Of Milton for the
land edited an annotated edition o.sinn TO depart
nss Of schools in which he takes ~ hscoms an
from his appropriate duties as an eu''o' ~
anti.slavery propagandist. o, ot present, to dis.
s NOT our ,,s Generally One Of recent date sug
.u ass,a ~; or.;cle We werelatey examining Ho.n
u Mara Science. by Prof. Lsurus Hlcxok' aa me,
struck with the evident tallacieS on w" ss an abl
domestic slavery DR.. r n mS position as philo,
nn,,ar I'VE will not trouble ourselves or our le"ue's
with an examination OF his ph0Sops'Gai nTuoas :;
bnsa NAV he true or fa!se-may nave lnel o"S's III
rho well sttes..d facts OF consciousness OF they may
a ,I,a mo-. vnysries Of his imagination They may
he nnre fiction or ike most similar works, mixture
of truth and error. With that question we nave
nothing TO do We merely wish to show up me 90
iectunabe features ~ the wolh' anu a''"o 10 '"''"
.i-s IN ;hi, one subject.
In examining the ground on which domestic slavery
become. righteous, Dr. lIickok boldly asserts that
..ths only end that officially Justify his (the mas
tersl control over him. 1.-THE slsve is, that lie sustain
That relation and exert that authority, solely to the end
OF his preparation for state citizenship somewhere
and for Heaven. Not at all the consideration OF the
masters profit or pleasure, but the highest public
Freedom aud pety, Can alone make domestic slavery
stand square with the claims OF morality.
While va are willing, as every Southern man Is WILL
ny to admit the claims of the 'slave to the means OF
moral mpro ve,nent, we emphaticnly deny any claims
10 preparation for citizenship anywhere Is INC negro
capable of citizenship! Where in history mas negro
commonwealth existed that gave its people ireeuoh'
or ought other than pure despotismi Africa mas
never advanced in civilization. No negro State, par
taking tn any extent of the character OF clVlIIao'
has ever been known to man, while all tn9 eh"fs ~
form CONFERENCE.-The i'll Africa have practically ialeu.
Sierra Leone is admitted all hands to be falure'
although the power Of the British Government mas
been used for the advancement OF The race mere
Should that government Withdraw lis officers 's sol
dirrs its navy, but very brief period would eapse
before the colony would be botted out OF the map OF
the world Nor il Liberia an example OF negro
commonwealth. Until recently, 1t was governed en-
trelv by white men; aud even in the nominal repuo'
| lie the Colonization Society is all powerful. Elk
President Roberts, universally acknowledged Io oe
the abest in the colony, is not oil pure Negro
| blood; nor is any eminent man there-any one VINO
has made name Tor himself as statesman or o,ier'
wise without an intuson Of white blood. lth"s oeth
Liberia that there danger of the eu!anc'pated
slaves rtapsing into barbarism Liberia iias Eot ac
| compslsd what it was designed for-a tree negro
| commonwealth.
N.ed we more than mention the unfortunate island
| of lIsyti-once the most hourlshiIlg, now lhe Hos
| degraded of the West Indies!
Has emancipation ia the British and French West
| Indies been of any advantage TO the negrof Is he
not in those islands rapidly retrograding into oarna
rism while the Spanish islands, though under the
| worst government in the world are prvsperIngl =
Does not British AM, French Guiana present a stri
king contrast in every respect, not excepting .nt
| mental and moral condition of the negro TO Dutch
Guiana, where well regulated slavery has preser'eu
the colony and elevated tho labor-rs. We, there
fore, INTERESTINGLY with the teachings u! hIatory
before u, deny the capaby OF the negro rae" ioi
the enjoyment Of citizenship. lie does not ENJOY IL
in Ilay i'll Liberia, ia the Free States, nor eau he III
CANADA.
The masters pleasure and profit are not to enter
into the question at al lie has 10 right to pro lid
right 20 pleasure Only the duty Of preparing ohcH
citizens Ia obtain positions tor which they can never
bp cuslitipd We might we'll assert that Dr. Ii
hal no right teach, to write, but for the purpose OF
mprovin. his fellow msn-to advance them inental
ly, morally aud, may sdd, politically. lie should
not look 10 pleasure or profit ht ALL bu why dd he
PUBLISH Was that the world needed his books, OF
was il mainly pecuniarv prof! Some of his writings
were possibly given to the world from higher designs
IN part, hu, the volume before us with lis kindred
work on Z ycho!ogy were written not TO supply
|
money Into the pockets oi the author ana publisher
We wish 10 b.. uad.r.tu"i. We don't mean 10 say
that man may not i-gitiInaely publish Tor pecunia
ry cnnsi !erstr..s. GA ia" contrary, we nod thai
every man has right to publish what he c.'aoses 81
it ia not imnora! nor destructive 10 the interests :"
society.
But how is this position, Of education heing tho
oniy object Of siavery, sustained. Tho jewish code
says Prof. H.. follows out h- principle. we Wi
erIeuyur 10 exam each point he makes separately
1T. Il recognised no right to slavery among tiit
heaihen.' To prove this, Dent. xiii, d. IT, Ii
quoted. No slave escaping from Pagan mas'e,
s!nuld he delivered UP. This wss II" denial "t rlgh
tn hold slaves, but a municipal regulation merely
like the right of asylum in all ancient nations. Inc
right of IN. heather 10 hold slaves was nevertheless
admitted. Tor the Hebrews told TO purchase the
slaves from the hea;licn around them-Lev. XIV
| IT, IL.
I'd. alt prohibited al Hebrew slavery. except by
contract" Those passages quoted which per
niited Hebrew 10 Gu purcliase,t but he should -
ou; Tree in the seventh year. This Is all So bat why
wheu the y >, q .. TX. xxi were quoted ~a' ihe az
verse omitted Was it because It reads thus: "l
MS master have given him wife, aud she have GorE,
him cons or daughters, the wife and her children sha!
be her masters, and hr shall 70 "ut by himself. l.
learned d. d., a professor in Union Collage thu
| guilty of sUpp,essi0 rcrt , The man shall serv'
forever; why Can il be for any other reason thai
that HE wife and children are servants lorever! "
course il can be for no other. So The children OF
Hebrew msn nigh: be born III slavery and rcinai!
IL that condition |y'sr'r.
GA the third and some others we agree
9TH. :" 1t allowed domestic slavery by pu!chas'
from the GentiIes.' Tni9, of course, we admit. IN
| police regulations TO secure GOOD Treatment OF IN
lave are similar 10 the regulations found IN all IN
| .lnve codes IN Chris;endon.
One OF the most untcnabie positions found in Dr.
iIickoks attack our institutions. Is that by tn
Jewish code the Gentle slave attained hts liberty II
the year of jubilee the ftieh year. 1t will he evi
dent to any who reads Lav. Axv. seq, that th
Gentle slaves, others born in their masters house
we're not free, otherwise than from their ordinary Ia
bors. We have seen above, that while ltebre"
would 90 out free on the seventh year, hid children re
manned slaves. Aud, in the regulations OF this grea
year of Jubilee, find further regulations Tor lie
Drew servants, that they should go out and return
their possessions. "They shall not be sold as bond
| men," Then follows the permission to purchase
bondmen and bondmaids from the heather who shall
be possession and an inheritance to their children
| and be bondmen for ever.
| The whole chapter 80 evidently disproves the pro
| position of DR.. H., that only suppose tina
| no thought no one would take the trouble Of exam
| ming the chapter further Than the few verses N
quotes. If he teaches such logic as he uses in THU
| look to the young men who frequent the halls o
Union College, it is not surprising that Western New
| York is prolific hot bed OF isms.
| He starts with mere hypothesis, that 1t Is prooa
BILE Gentle slaves were MADE free at the year OF Ju
bilee, and winds up with the crcnfhedra assertion
every slave was made free at the year OF Jubilee.
A more reckless argument was never published. II
the merest hypothesis of it's enunciator, not only
without shadow of reality, but in direct contic
| with the chapter quoted.
In discussing the grounds on which domestic slave
ryis uurighteous, the whole argument is based OF
the iulmuable right Of every human being to liberty
| As we have already shown tho incapacity OF The
African race for the enjoyment of liberty We further
oostuate that no has right to that liberty he il
incapable Of enjoying. This needs 70 argument, fol
It is one Of those propositions which have only to b.
| snunciated to meet the ASSENT OF every thinking
| man.
Leaving the Mosaic code, D.. II. comes to the
Christian CODE and asserts that under this dispense
ton IA save raS 10 takc has tresdom, II he eonid.'
10 provo this Cor. viii. 2l-2I il quoted-the gst
;he passage is: " But if thou nayest he free use il
.a;lsr'' We charge here upon the Rev'd Taurus
F. IIickok, d. ID +, gross and wllfnl perver,ion o
The Scriptures. In the verse tho Goth Immediately
| a. cod;n, tho uuoted massage, ths Apostle saws