The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-09-24

In lne ilFSS sentence OF the DOCTORS cOInmu-
ncatios he siyS that NEGRO equality with Ihe
whites is the most inlpQrtant question ever pre-
sentcd of naiiouN Character" All have to
Isay to this is, that negro equality is not the
question to be discussed. | am not going t.
advocate the social equality of the negro or any
other race.
The object of civil government shou be to
protect all men in their just rights leaving ev-
erg person free to select his own equals or choose
his associates The idea that every person you
would not wish to make an equal or associate
| Of or take into your house or family, ought to
be enslaved or degraded, in some way, so as to
keep up an aristocratc distinction, is a ridicu-
lous one-a remnant OF the alistocratc Feudal
system of Europe.
The Doctor next proceeds to define the at.
tributes Of God. Says "He is represented as a
being of infinite knowledge, power, goodness y
&c. | must contesss | cannot see very clearly
what the Doctor intended to prove by this SEN
tenee, unless he takes the ground some persons
hold to, that God being the creator and uphol-
der of all things, and being God of goodness,
&c. has created and governed all things Just as
they should be, Therefore, everything that
lis, is right" and that as slavery exists it con
sequently is right But this kind of argument
proves too much. If sound, it would justify
all the murders, thefts, &c. Of the world; would
destroy the difference between virtue and vice,
and needs no more than mere statement of it
ior every person to see its talSity.
The Doctor next produces, with q flourish
the passages OF scripture which all advocates OF
Slavery rely yon as authority for the divinity OF
their institution. lie quotes some verses from
the 25th chapter Of Levticus, wherein Moses
appears to have allowed the Israclites to buy
Bond men and Bond-maid of the Heathen
around them The Doctor appears to take it for
granted that if God allowed the Isractes to
buy Bond men Of the lloathen that it estab-
lished the principle for all other persons. And
that the superior race Gas he styles itl has q
right to ensaye the inclior, giving no rule by
which to decide inerority but physical power,
or in other words that the strong have a right
TO enslape the weak Such is not the teaching
Of the Bible as understand it.
But let Us examine the circumstances of the
people to whom this law was given, and the re-
lation of God to them, and | think it will read
| lily be seen that this passage Of Scripture does
not support the Slavery of the present day. In
the first place, if this passage proves anything,
it proves too much for the Doctors side. Thl,
regulation was given to the Israeltes as a ma
ton all other nations to them were Heathen
! The people of these United States Except the
JeWS) have descended from those Heather
round about, of whom the they were to buy
their sIrvants. Now, il the passage quoted
proves anything it would authorize Jewish
ltabi to purchase the Doctor at what he thought
him WORTH set him to cultivating his garden OF
falling care of his horse, or whatever he thought
was most to his profit, without consulting the
wishes of the Doctor
/ But let us go back little and see who these
people that Moses was giving laws TO were, and
| ii it should turn out that they were set O
runaway slaves, and that God was acting the
part of an underg ground aboltionist towards
them, it would seem strange that he would
| give laws to establish an institution that he
was freeing them from.
The first account Of the slave dealing of these
IsraeIites was the selling Of Joseph by his
brethren to Mechanism merchants and they tc
Potipher in Egypt; and this believe, is the first
and only case recorded in the Bible where one
person sold or made mercnandze of another
and it was as legitimate transaction as any
other slave dealing; yet Joseph appears to have
been freed without any remuneration to the
master. Most persons look on the transaction
as wicked and inhuman on the part of the sales
men. | would like to know if the Doctor
thinks it was moral and right. What comes
next? The Iraelitsh nation are made Bonds
men to the Egyptians; they are made to work
at making brick, building cities &c. Pharoah
and his officers own them, and, according to
the Doctors theology, had divine right to, as
they (the Egyptians) were the superior race and
the Israelites the inferior. Pharoah acted to-
wards them with the foresight and skill of &
prudent slave owner; Ga prudence that will have
to be adopted by some of our Southern eoun-
try if things progress as at presently seeing
them increase in numbers rapidly and no
wishing them to get more numerous than he
could manage with profit, he put the children
to death, as farmer would knock his pigs il
the head when they are getting too numerous
for profit. And this, if he had divine right
to own them, was making legitimate use o
them. This condition OF things continued fol
several generations; so, if time sanctions anG
sanctifies a relation, it was in favor Of the mas
ter in this case.
But what do we read? This lawgiver, whom
the Doctor relies OH as establishing slavery
meets Moses and tells him to 60 and tell Pha.
roah to let the Israelitcs 60 free. Moses does
So Pharoah acts like any other slave owner
or advocate, would He objects, gets out 0
temper, has the drivers whip, orders them tc
work and to put those faratcal notions of free
dom out of their heads. What does this law
giver the Doctor relies on do now? Does he
say to Pharoah, know you own these mer
and ought to be paid their price? No. This
lawgiver Of the Doctors appears at that time tc
have been rank abolitionist. lie annoys the
4 Egyptian masters with toadsS, lice, &C.; and az
ter destroying all their first born Of man ant
beast encourages the slaves to get all the prop
erty they could from their masters and make
Wholesale strike for liberty. Encouraged BY
their leader the Bond,inen leave. The masters
seeing their chattlcs likely to be lost like slave
owners Of the present day, collect their mar.
shals, overseers and drivers, (whether they had
dogs or not is not said, } and pursue. On the fi-
bgitivcs move with their pnrsuers close upon
them; the waters of the sea separate, the fugi-
tives march over, their masters close upon them;
and here this lawg YER of the Doctors acts .
part which would je looked upon as shabby il
\ lhc most Etnatical abqltionist.g just wher
4 these masters, inthe honcst pursuit oa tleiI
property, Gas the Doctor would say were, toll
Ing in the mire Of the bed Of the sea, he slip