St. Mary's beacon., 1859-04-07


IL into New Hampshire nor keep il there il
introduced. TIE experiment has been tried
and failed. Slavery was given mp in the
northern States not BY the force Of nsoral but
natural laws.
I Il il true the discussions Of the !aSt twenty.
Ave years have pFUduced great desd Uf senii-
tirient IN the SUBJECT Of slavery in the nort9,-
ern State; hu, yoIi know how utterly barren
of any gbod results il has been 20 the Afri-
leam In trnrds-and because their nnmber
" small, and viii continue tn Ge snlali--we
Ekhavc IN the cxsePtaes N0stst gfveu -tlierI the
rights OF citizenship and equality; but in SrOrks
we deny them. The most respectable colOrrd
men IN By~t'n would not be permitted to hire
! or to own and quietly enjoy pew in the
brad aisle Of any fashionable church. In the
West where your soils IS more fertile, and
where more frca culrrcrl mcn would lie likely
TO go, you are more stringent; and the black
laws "f Ohin Illinois, Iowa, and Oregon, and
the still more expusive Topeka constitution Of
KanSas-fI which ! believe. you and all your
! republican associates voted-proclaim. A. with
I trumpet tongr. the innate and ineradicable
! prejudice against the African. lurking as it
J still does, ia the loSnm IL those whose tongues
are eloquent fr his rights.
: am not a little surpise,l at the manner in
!
( him Jus, man, and perfect in his genera
ii"n;" aud vet b-ca,,se he, by Divine inspira-
tim and 10y Diving command, forctold the
slavery of tie chillre.l Of Ham. Nnu give him
>omc very hard thruISts and leave him on the
pages Of your speech with a character by no
Means 81 fair ~ that given him by the sacred
historian. Was Noah In the Iay of vuur
theory. that you strike at him so vigorously
as though yuu would hew him down You
say be mist"ok Canaan e." Ham. Suppose he
| dIi, the prrdicii"n and the curse rest xDre-
where--oT some nation. The principle il the
same III the Divine administration. Who
are the children q! Canaan? Tradition ana
history unite in the belief that they inhahit
the continent "f Africa Their cnndI,ion full
| i!S. with remarkable E,eiity, the prophecy
nf that righteous man and preacher of
righteuCs' "Ss.' Noah. "A servant nf servants"
was tile double curse. which has resiel OH that
cuntinrut and race ET many centuries Il is
covered with a network uf double slavery
every chief having his rctuue uf slaves, while
( he pays tribute 10 some higher chief or pet
ty king.
| You seem to lay great stress upon the fact
that the CInaanitrS were not black. How do
you know ? DR.. Thompson who has written,
! perhaps. the most thorough work on Syria
aud Palestine that has ever been published
says the ancient inhabitants Of that cou,trv
came from Africa. The great prinfin: uc
| Samson grinding in the mil shows his Phils-
tine drivers very dark, If MT black But you
miss the point of the Scrptur.Gl precedent
and example f,r slavery. You prove as you
think. that the CLnaniteS We're not black, and
and then jump at once a. the conclusion that,
| IL they were not black. they must have been
euslaved because they were ldJOrihg men
! This Dies very well TO stir up prejudice n, the
/ North; but Is il the truth d? The IsracliteS
were permitted to ensave the CInaani;es
not becau.e they were laboring men, but be-
cause they were hedtten, and therehy 81 de-
graded that a transfer L. the Hebrew COM
monwealth. where the true God was wor-
shipped, WAS a privilege and n blessing.
This furnishes the parallel point on which
| American slavehudcrs rely with great c"rfi-
dence. The Africans were taken from the
most degraded hcatheniSnl, and are here taught
to worship the tr'Ie Cod and in the opinion
-! every Bible man, more Uf them have been
fitted for and gone 20 heaven from the thou
sands in America. than from tie millions in
Africa. pr Dwight said. after long experi-
tncc and wide observation. :hr' he never
knew but nne lazy man converted. And as
G"l had ~''ne chosen people in Africa, it
work in order 10 their conversion. But in the
South trey are not allowed to rad the Bible.
Well, in Africa. ;hev neither read it, hear
of it. roi from it. Faith cumrth by hearing;
and is 1t not better T. hear the truth than 20
live entirely destitute Of IL?
You quote the eighth commandment as a
prohibition Of slavery. This is singular.
Were your ancestors thieves? They brough.
or aSscn'ei I" the bringing nf. slaves to t!is
country. II Is a singular fact that while we
boast of our Puritan ancestry, the laws #
the present day would hang half the men
that lived hundred years ago, As engaged in
the >Eavc traffic, dircCtly or indirectly. and
another law would impriSnn all the men who
lived frty years since. The eighth cummand-
Iuent was given on the way out Of Egvpt.
Il was the charter nj the constitution OF the He
brew nation. All their other laws were con-
trnlied hy che Decalngue. Well. now, what?
Why, they had slaves by Divine permission
under this charter. How could they. if the
eighth commandment forbids it? But are the
slaves stolen? Certainly not by Americans.
They buy them, pay fur them, transfer them.
and provide for them. in the cnly and most
bcnevolcn; manner ia which it can be done.
As To the metaphysical abstraction that man
cannot have property in man, il las been cou-
tradIc'ed from the fouEdation Of the world 70
the present time. Holding. use, and transfer.
are the elements Of property: aud this has
been done By men 10 men III all ages; anil vet
yoa say that there is no wOri in the COOL old
Hebrew tongue that conveys the idea Of pro-
perty in man. When master inadvcr,en,-
" killed his slave, no blood was 10 be shed,
for ''he was his money" Dies not tha.
mean property?
Il cannot be denied tha. the i,lca Of slavery
runs all through the Billie; it was stamped up
on the entire history "f the Jewish nation
and upon the history Of every vigorous nation
upoE the face Of the earth: indeel ] strongly
suspect this Is the Norma! condition Of large
pust'ons Of depraveai race, aud can readily
believe that man may sustain the relation OF
STAKEHOLDER. in all god conscience. and with
the entire Divine appreciation TAere are
risi1le FoO:prints Of Goi's diSayprObatiOa Of tss
GtOIitiO.isBs y a.is country. LIB at the aocks