Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-26

| ter. nnd other near ef ktr: and We SIM We
many al the same limo. more wiFrn thnn one,
| not beeau 80 in so doing trausgress Gods law,
TO secure aud advance the good OF man. | might
comment In the same way IN every one of the
ten commandments. hut pass on.
The subject Of slavery. in the view of right
and wrong. is seen IN the very light nf heaven
| And YOU. Mr.. Moderator, know that if The view /
ha.o presented be true, have got you. Great
laughter.)
fTbo Moderator said, very plea sanily-Yes-
| if-blt it is long IT, Continued laughterJ
DR.. r. touched the Moderator on the shoulder
! and said. Yes. fit j. a long if-tor it it. this-if
| there is God, heis not Jupiter. bowng TO the
| Fatea but God, the sovereign over the universe
he has created, in which he makes right. by
making law Ia be known and obeyed by angels
and men, in their varied conditions.
He gavo Adam that oommand-suhlime in It's
simplicity, and intended to vindicate tho pr noi-
pie am niirming-that there is right and
wrong in the nature of things. There was NJ
right or wrong per Sc. in eating or willing to rnt
of that tree of the knowledge Of good and evil.
Bat God made the law-thou shalt not eat Of
TINT tree. As if be had sail-l seek to test tho
submission of your will, freely, to my will. And
that your test may be perfect | will let your
temptation be nothing than your natural
des for that fruit. Adam sinned What wa
the ain
Adam said in heart, MY WILL. not thine, SHALL
be. That the sin The simple transgres
sion Of Gods law, when there neither sin
nor evil in the thing which God forbade to b.
done.
Man fell and was cursed The law of he con
troll Of the superior over the inferior is now TO
begin, and is to 90 on in the deprayed cond tions
of the fallen md cursed race. And, FIRST God
said TO the woman, Thy desire shall be TO thy
husband. and hc shall rule over thee" There,
IN that law Is the beginning of the rule Of tho su-
perior over the inferior. bound to obey. There,
in the family of Adam, is the germ of tho rule in
the ribe-the state. Adam, in his right. from
God. 10 rule over bis wife and his children. had
all the authority afterwards expanded in the pat
riureh and the king. This simple beautiful fact,
thcre, ON the first leaf OF the Bible, solves the
prnblem. whence aud how has man right to ruo
over man. In tlpat great TACT God gives his de-
mai 10 the idea that government over men is tho
result Of social compact, in which each individ-
nal nan living in II state of natural liberty, yiel-
drd some of TINT liberty to secure the greater
good of government. Such thing never was
such thing never could have been. Govern
in"nt WIS ordained and established before the
first child was born liz SHALL RULE OVER
THEE" Cain and Abel were born in n state as
perfect n the empire of Britain, or tho rule of
these United States All that Black stone. and
Paley, and Hobbs, any body else says about
tie snoal compact is fatty and fully denied and
npsei by the Bible, history, and common sense.
Let any New York lawyer or even Philadel-
rhia lnwyer-dcny this if ho darcs. Life, hbcr-
~. and the pursuit of happiness, never were tho
inallenahr right of the individual man
Ills self control, in nil These particulars, iroil
the beginning, was subordinate to the good Of
the family empire. Tho command to Noah
was" Whose shrdd tn mans blood, by man
sln hi, blood be she'd" (Gen o,6)
This command to she'd blood was, and il, in
perfect harmony with the law, Thou shalt no:
kill There is nothing right or wrong in tho
taking OF iltepc5 Sc, or in itself considered. 1t
inpy, or II may not be, natural good or evil
A. n general fact, the taking of life is natural
evil. Hence, thon shalt not kill is tho general
rnlc, 10 preserve the good there is in life To
take life under the forbidden conditions is sin,
simply because God forbids it under those con
ditous. Tho sin is not in tax ing lie. but i'll trans
crossing Gods Inv.
But sometimes the taking of life may secare
a greater good. God. then, commands TINT hto
be- tnken. Not TO take life under the commnn
ded conditions, is sin solely because God, then,
commands it.
This power over life. for the good of the one
gront family OF man, God delegated to Noah, and
through him 10 the tribe, the elan, the Sihgdom
the empire. the democracy,th republicans they
nny l." governed by chief king emperor. pnrlia
Inent. or congress. Had Ham killed Shem, Noah
would hose commanded Japheth TO Stay him.
50 much for the origin and power over lite-now,
Tor the power over liberty.
The right To take life included the right over
liberty. But God iatendrd the rule Of the supe-
nor over III" inferior, in relations of service,
should cxempfy human depravity, his cure and
ms uvorruling blessing.
The rule. aud the subordination, which Is es-
sential to the existence of the family. God made
commensurate with mankind, for mankind IS on
" he conseres of families. When Ham, in his
nntcdtuvian reclles,ness, laughed at bis father,
God took occasion 10 give to the world the rule
Il the superior over the inferior. lie cursed
Hem. He cursed him, because he left him, un-
blessed. The withholding of thr fathers bless
ing. III the Bible. was curse. Hence, Abraham
prayed God, when Isaac was blessed. that lsh.
lnnel might not be passed by. Hence E,nu pray
ed his father, when Jacob was blessed, that he
might not be hft untouched by his holy hands -
Ham was cursed to render service, forever, to
Shem and Japhe,h. The special curse Ca
naan nude the general curse on Ham eonspicu-
"ns, historic, nnd explanatory, simply because
his descendants were to be brought under the
control of Gods peculiar people. Shem was
! blessed 10 rule over Ham. .jnpheth was blesse
! IL rule over both God cent Ham to Africa, Shcn,
II Asia, Japheth to Europe.
Mr.. Moderator, you have read Guyots Earth
and Man. That admirable book is commen-
larry upon this part of Genesis 1t is the phios-
"phy of geography. And it is the philosophy Of
the rule OF the higher races over the inferior writ
| ten on the very face of the earth He tells you
why the continents shaped as they are shap
ed why the mount ,ins stand where they stand
why the rivers run whore they run; why the cur
rents of the sea and the air flow al they flow. -
And he tells you that the earth south of the Equa
| tor makes the Inferior man. That the oceanic
climate makes the inferior man, in the Pacific Is.