Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-03

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and ber duty of marriage-that is to saw
her right 10 his bed. If he did not do
these three things. she should go,ou. frscs
~ e., cease to be his slave without his re-
eelvipg any money for her. E
f3 There, sir. Sod sanctioned the lIsraclite
fatlIer irSselling his Daughter. and the. is
ehte man to buy her into slavery and into
polygamy> And it was then, right, Sbe-
cause God made it right. In verses 90
and -2Iryou have these worlds -----,-------
''And if a man smite his servant or his
maid with a rod, and he died under his
hand, heTsKali be surely punished; not
withstanding, if he continue Il day or two,
he shall no! be punished; for he is
his money" What does this passage
mean? Surely thls-if the master gave
his slave q -hasty blow with roc, and died
under his hand, he should be punished.
But if the slave lived day or two, it twould
50 extenuIte the act of the. master, he
should not be punished, inasmuch as. he
would be- i'll that case, sufficiently punish
ed in losing hismoney in his slave, Nov,
sir, affirm that God was more lenient to
the degraded Hebrew master than South
ern laws are to the higher Southern mas
ter in like cases. But there you have what
WAS the Divine will. Find fault with God,
We ,apti-sIavcry men, if you dare. In Le-
bopdmcn and thy bondmr ids, which thou
sbalthaYe, shall be of the heather thatare
round about you; of them shall We buy
bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover, of
the Children of the strangers that do so
IF el,
and of their families that are with sou,
which they beget in your land; and shall
be your possession. And ye shall take
| them as an Inheritance for your children
after you to inherit them for IL Possession;
| they Shall be your boudmen forever" ~
Sir, do not see how God could tell us
more plaiulK, that he did command bis peo-
pie tobuy slaves from the heather round
about them, and from the. stranger, and of
the ir families sojourning among them. The
passage has no other meaning. Did God
merely permit sing Did he merely toler-
ate dreadful evil? God does not say so
anywhere He gives his people law to buy
| aud hold saves Of The heathen forever, on
certair conditions, and to buy and hold
| Hebrew slaves in yaliously modified par-
| ticulars. Well, how did the heather, then,
get slaves to sell? Did they capture them
in war? Did they sell their own children?
| Wherever they got them, they sold them,
and Gods law gave his people the right to
| buy them, ,un 81 ce-. .if.s ...... y..e,r,.
God, in tho New Testament made no
Law, prohibiting the relation of master and
| slaye.''i ~ .. ur.@ ..tf :au t.r
Read that aga n, and having fathomcd
its import, let us ask If it is to be wondered
at, that the Bible has lost its power, and
religion, been brought into contempt, when
dignitaries of the Church make use of
them tocrush, corrupt, and degrade man
kind? We know it ought not to be SO; but
/ there are thousands who, unfortunately,
do take the perverted representations of its
professcd expounders, Tor the teaching of
lhe word iiselt; and finding. those, repre-
senta.ions make the Dibie the justifier and
strong defender ofaH pollution, licentious-
ness, oppression, and wrong, reject all re-
ligion as an imposture, and revelation as a
fraud. We honestly believe, that the per-
version of the Scriptures, to the support Of
the nameless denominations of slavery, has
done more, in the last twenty years, topre-
pare the way for the wide spread skep-
ticism that is SO manifest in our country
than all other things and agencies combin-
ed. One pro-slavery religious paper, will
do more 10 undermine a reverence for the
Scriptures, than all the professed infdel
books that are circulated. The infdel lee
turer dislorts the Bible 10 be sure, but he
docs it as its proiessed enemy, and the fal-
lacy of his differences are easily perceived;
but when the D. d. who processes to be It's
Heaven appointed interpreter and friend,
distorts it worse, and for Il baser purpose.
} whatmust be the fruits of his labors? But
this We suppose is ':JJanatac'Sms." If 50,
then are we u fanatic? ..
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