Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-10-14
Prom the Wesleyan.l
4 sermon on Slavery--Preachcd in
North Carolina.


reqnest of some friends. | send yon for
publication some remarks on Slavery,
made in Sermon preached at Sandy
Ridge Meeting House, Guilford County
North Carolina. A very large con
gregstion were present. among whom
were several Shareholders. Consider
able excitement, and various threats
followed this plainness of speech. but
nothing worse than noisy breath. -
There are yet in North Carolina some
of us who do not intend to be Slaves.
and we fully subscribe to the truth OF
the stanza:-
They are Slaves who dare not speak
! For the fallen and the weak:
They are Slaves who would not be
In the right with two or three
TEXT, Hebrews IL, Chlpter. "a, q, 90,
Verses, by faith Moses, when he was come
to years." etc. On this tex, remarked as
follows -
The man Moses. presented in the
text. is one Of the most extraordinay
men the world ever produced. He
Sprang from the lowest condition OF
human society, and won his way TO
places of proudest pre-eminence. Jo-
sephus tells us he was Gencralissimo
of the armies of Egypt, at that time
the most powerful monarchy of the
earth; and the scripture tells us he was
mighty in words. and in deeds. -
Yet he was born bondman.-some
have said q Slave This Is incorrect
If we use the word in the American
sense The Isrselites were not Slaves,
but national servants; they were not
bough. and sold as American Slaves
arc; they had each their seperate fami-
lies and distinctive property, the same
as others.
Can a Slave have family9 The
application of the word family" to a
Slave is as much a misnomer as it
would be TO apply it to a stable. or a
shccpfold. They likewise had their
distinctive property, SO that when
God sent the Murrain and Hail, in
Judgment on Egypt. he said he would
sever between The cattle of Israel and
he cattle of Egypt" and he did so,
that Of the cattle "of the children OF
Israel died not one" Can Carolina
Slave have cattle? Why, 4. is cattle
himselt--"gaosis and chattels in the
hands Of an owner" Call not the op-
pressed Hebrew Slave. Bad as was
ais condition. it was a paradise to
American Slavery. But ii the wick
edness of Egyptian oppression brought
the judgments OF God on that devoted
hcathcn lanj, till it was destroyed,
20: how much sorer punishment snp-
pose ye. shall he be thought worthy. "
who in this day of christian light and
knowledge. "inficts on his fellow men
bondage. one hour OF which is frauGht
with more misery than ages Of that
which Israel suffered at the hand o.
Egypt. If pagan Egypt was destroy
ci, what shall be the Judgment Of
Christian America. If Cain shall b.
avcngal seven fold, truly Lamech sew.
enty and seven fold" Let the proud
American orpressor remember snd
tremblel
There is another fact connected witt
the birth of Moses. which wish IL
notice. lie WAS born under q Law
commanding all tho male children o
the Hebrews 20 be put to death. /
was an abominable enactment, Lu
doubtless mum oers were then found, a,
we'll as now, clsmoring for obeiienc.
to law Obey the law is the summuu
5onum OF all political virtue. 1t make.
a man national" The mother O
Moses should have conquered he
prejudices." and put her child to destl
according to law. She did no, so re
gard her duty; neither do |. / vii
obey no law which assaults the grea
principles of morality and virtue -
Man makes wicked law TO de,hron
God, and inaugurate the Devil ruler o
the universe: and we are told, as goo,
citizens, we must assist in its execution
The law is admitted to he bad. bnt w
must obey it till it is repealed. ! shal
do no such thing. Such enactment
are not even bad Law: they are no Law
at all. Man can not make law {
cnslave his brother. The late San
Patch. OF jumping memory, was aske'
how he came to think of taking sue
monstrous leaps? He replied that
+, was the consideration of the maxim
that "some things could be done s
we'll as others" The maxim may b
true But on the other hand there ar
some things which can not be done
and among that number is the attemp
to chat,elize human soul. But III
law OF Egypt, to pu; the male chiidre
!. to death. had this argument for it
policy-''les. the children of Israel be
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