The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-22


law do not turn aside for the accommo-
dation Of slave holding judges Of the Uui-
ted States Supreme Court. God says to
the judges, "Thou Shalt not pcryert the
Judgment Of the stranger How long
will we judge unjustIy, and accept the
! persons Of the wicked? Defend the poor
and fatherless; do justice TO the afflicted
and needy. Deliver the poor and needy
rid them out Of the hand Of the wicked.
Cursed be he that perverteth the judg-
ment of the stranger, fatberless, and wild
ow: and all the people shall say, Amen"
Yes, all the people, without distinction OF
party lines, shall say, Amen. They shall
exelaim,
Judges, who rule the world by lava,
viii sc despise the righteous cause
When vile oppression wastes the land
Dare ye condemn the righteous peor,
And let rich sinners 'scape secure.
While gold and grestnesg bribe ycur hand ?
. Have ye forgot, or never knew,
That God will judge the judges too7
High in the heavens his justice reigns,
Yet you invade the rights Of God,
And send your bold DEGREES abroad,
To bind the conscience iu your chains
Do you say we have no business to
NEEDLE with such things they belong to
politicians We have business with the
truth of the Bible. And which shall
stand; the council of God, or political
platforms and bogus laws? "SLall the
throne Of iniquity have fellowship with
Thee, which frameth mischief by law ?
They gather themselves together against
the soul of the righteous, and condemn
the innocent blood" Take care, friends,
lest you condemn the Lord Jesus in the
person Of the poor negro. he declares,
"Tnasmuch as ye have done it unto one
of the least Of these my brethren, ye have
doneit unto me-" The laws of the Eternal
are all arrayed against oppression. "No
untothem that decree unrighteous DEGREES,
and thst write grieyousness which they
have prescribed; to turn aside the needy
from udgGent, and to take away the right
from the poor Of my people, that widows
may be their prey, aud that they may rob
the fatherless And what will ye do in
the day Of visitation, and in the desola-
ton which shall come from far? To
whom will ye fee for help? And where
will you leave your glory, 4
4. The dirinc iam demaa9qa a systsna
o. paid labor, insteod ef Slaue1y.
Thou shalt not defraud tky neighbor,
neither rob him the wages Of him that
is hired shall not abide with thee all night
until the morning. Thou shalt not OPP
press an hired servant that is poor and
needy, whether he be Of thy brethren, or
Of thy strangers that are in thy land with
IL thy gates; at his day Cor time agreed
upon) thou shalt give him his hire, nei-
thcr shall the sun go down upon it; for
he is poor and setteth his heart upon it
lest he cry against thee unto the Lord,
and 1t be sin unto thee. Wo unto him
that buildeth his house by unrightoous-
ness, aud his chambers by wrong; that
useth his neighbors service without wa
ges, and siveth him not for his work, -.
Paid and slave labor cannot thrive to-
gether; you see which God reqsires, and
which he forbids. ''T viii come near to
you in judgment; and will be swift
witness against the sorcerers, and against
the adulterers, and against the false swear
ers, and against those that oppress the
hireling in his wages, the widow and the
fatherless, and that turn aside the s.ran-
ger from his right, and fear not me, saith
the Lord of hosts. Behold, the hire Of
the laborers who have reaped down your
fields, which is Of you kept back by fraud,
crieth; and the cries OF them which have
reaped are entered into the ears of the
Lord of Sabaoth" fti
5. Tie lar forbade he restoration ofI
tagiiires to their masters.
A stray beast might be hunted from
Dan to Beersheba Every man was to
use his best exertions. to restore it to its
owner, because It was property As the
servant was moi property, none could re-
turn him bat all were bound to befrield
him
"TRou slaH nat deJirer unto di.s mas
ter tie serram rhic5 escaped iron, dts
master unto thee: ne shall dwell with thee,
eren among you in tha. place which ha