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Of these things. But nc commands his {,
know tle facts in his case, as they arc il
the Bible, and havc ever been, and cyeI
will be in Providcnce-tlat he is not III,
white mans. equul---tbat he can never hay,
his level-lhat he must not claim it-.but
that he can have and ought to have, anC
must have, all Of good in his condition as
a slave until God may reveal higher hap
piness for him in some other relation thar
that he must have to the Apglo-American
We have never seen better statement
Of the claims OF, The golden rule" upon the
relations Of whites to negroes than the fol
lowing. 1t is in Dr. Ross happiest style
aud it ought to he sufficient to set at resi-
the consciences of many good people who
are sometimes troubled upon this point;
Jamaica, sir, to say nothing Of st Do.
ming6, is an illustration Of your theory o.
the golden rule in negro emancipation
You tell the Southern master-that, all he
would expect or desire, if lie were a slave,
lie must DO unto his bondSman, that he
must not pause to ask whether the relation
to master and slave be ordained of God or
not Mol You tell him if he would ex-
pect or desbe liberty if he were slave
that settles the question, as to what he is
to do? lie must let his boudmau 60 free.
Yea, that is what you teach because the
moment you put in the word ought, and
say--all that you ought 10 expect or desire,
l. G., all that you know God commands
yoh to expect or desire in your relations
to men, as established by him, that do to
them. Sir, when you thus explain the
golden role, then your argument against
so far as founded on this Tule,
is at once arrested-it is stopped short in
its full careerAit has to wait for rein
forcement offact, which may never come
up. 4i 81. "
For suppose the fact to be that the re-
lation of master and slave is one mode Of
the government ordained of God? Then,
sir, the master knowing that fact, and
knowing what the slave, as slave, ought
to expect or desire, he, the master, then
fulills the. Golden Rule, when he does that
unto his slave WHICH, in similar circumstan-
ces, he ought to expect to be done unto
himself Now comes the question of ques-
tions on this subject. And without hesi-
tation. / reply+rhe Golden Rule decides
that question yea or nay, absolutely and
perfectly, as Gods word or providence
shows that the good of the family, the
community, the State, requires that the
slave is or is not to be set free and made
equal. That as God reveals it settles the
question.
Get the master then sec to it how he
hears Gods word as to that good. Let
him see to il how he understands Gods
providence as to that good Let him see
to 1t that he make no mistake as to that
good. For God will not hold him guitless,
il he will not hear what he tells him as to
that good. God will not justify him if he
has bad conscience, or blunders ih his
philosophy. God will punish him If he
fails to bless his land, by letting the bond
go free when he ought to emaAcpate.
And God will punish him if he brings q
cursc upon his country, by freeing his slave
when he ought not to give him liberty.
So, then the Golden Rule docs not, Of
itself, reveal TO man at all what are his re-
lAtiOns to his fellow men; but tells him
what he is to do when he already knows
them. o. q.
So, then, you, sir, cannot be permitted
to tell the world that this rule mnst, eman-
cipate all the negro slatss. in the Upited
States-po matter how unprepared they
may beTno matter how, degraded-no
matter how unlike, and unequal, to The
white man, by creation--po matter If it be
a natural and moral impossibility77lo mat
ter-the Golden Rule must emancipate-
by authority Of The FIRST sentiments Of the
Declaration of Independence, and by obli-
cation of the great law of liberty-the in
tutional conciousnsss Of the internal light!
No. The Rule, as said, pre'supposes that
he who is required to obey it, does already
know the relations in which God has placed
him, and the respective duties in those con-
ditions. Hns God, then, established the
relations Of husband and wife, parent and
child, master and slave?-Yes. Then the
command comes 1t says 10 the husbands
TO aid you,in your kuown obligation ia
your wife--to give you lively sense Of il
suppose yourself to be the. wife; what
soeyer, therefore, you ought in that -condi
tion, to expect, or desire, that, us husband
do unto your wife IL says to the parent
Imagine yourself the child; and whatsO
ever, as such, you ought to expect, or de
sire, that, as parent, do unto your child
1t says to the master:-Put yourself in thu
place of your slave; and whatsoever yoI
ought, in that condition, TO expect, or de
sire, that as master, do unto your slave
Let husband, parent, master, know bis obi
cations from God, and obey tile Rule.
The discussions in Cleveland will d.
great good, and if DR.. Boss should opll
become the Hugh Miller Of eihnology, L
reconcile the apparent contradictions be
tween science aud Revelation which er
roneous interpretations have caused, h
would achieve for his race and the world ,
benefit which cannot be estimated. Tn
following may be of interest to our readers
as it is the document formerly drawn u
to define the position Of the southern churcl
upon the slavery" question.
THE POSITION OF THE SOUTHERN cHURcl