The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-06-23

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different treatment of the various classes o
/ men; and likewise, when we come down tc
, the apostolic time, we find that the slave was
treated as slave, and freeman as free
man. Carrying ont to the letter. our con
st,uction of the Golden Rule And, at the
present day, we find Mr. T. himself, in one
r instance, falling in with our construction o.
, it. In his his letters, "On the fence yet
he says the Savior did "not command the
master to set the slave Free" and gives the
J reason to be that the sl,ve "was bought in
, good faith under the civil law" consequently
he was held by the buyer, and the Golden
Rule did not liberate him, therefore in ac.
/. cordance with the Golden Rule, he
J treats him not as a freeman, but as
a slave, commanding him to serve, and be
obedient unto his master. And yet Mr.. T.
claims the freedom of the slave under this
. Golden Rule, and this alone. He tells us
| that it is "the real key, commanding the
, whole position on Christian grounds" when
he has, himself, shown to the contrary
Shown us that his position is wrong, that the
Golden Rule does not liberate the slave.
Mr.. T.'s argument with regard to the two
contradictory wills of God, the Old and the
New Testaments, is too absurd to demand
any attention. Thong, if we thought that
even one reader the COURIER, who believes
the Bible to be of Divine origin, believed that
the New Testament Scriptures changed the
. eternal principles of justice. of laws estab-
lished by God, in the Old, or that they
taught that God had established laws in the
Old that was contrary to the eternal and in
evitabe principles of right, we would give
it our attention. But as none but an infidel
could even think of taking such a position,
we pass it for the present, without further
notice.
There are many other things which Mr.. T.
said on this subject, and rather many foreign
to the subject, that we deem not now nec-
essary to pay any attention to. We here
close the argument with regard to evidences
dedr ced from the New Testament Scriptures.
We have selected comparatively few of The
evidences that exist in the teachings of the
Savior and his apostles, but with what we
have introduced we feel satisfied to rest the
case, for "in the mouth of two or three wit
nesses, shall everything be established" >"
Ifno interdict to slavery by the teachings of
the Savior and his apostles, has been shown
by Mr.. Taunton; but on the contrary, we
have shown that the Savior and his apostles
recognised, sanctioned and gave rules of gov
ernment for the relation of master and slave;
we have done all we proposed to do: found
slavery to he no crime against the morals and
religion ofthe civilized world, as granted by
divine wisdom. Now, if we have tailed in
this, and the contrary rises up rs truth, we
find the people of which is termed "this glo-
riOHs union" engulphed in wickedness and
the so-terned, happy land, whitening under
a blighting curSe-and instead of being the
"lan.l oc the free and home of the brave" ii
turns out to be the land of the wicked, in
cursed chains of slavcry-all our boaSted
glory has been nothing but the welding rod
; ola tyrants power. Washington, Jefferson,
Lee, Franklin, and the host of the Revolu.
ton, turns out to be bnt so many tyrants Of
the slave power. IF Mr.. T's doctrine be the
true one, these would-be facts representing
the dark and deplorable condition of the
United States, in its present and past history
But, if we have tried and sustained our sys.
tenn Of government, by divine law, and pre-.
cepts Of the mighty God, we yet have the
boasted ''land of the free, and home of the
, brave" for country.
Having viewed the principles of slavery by
the laws laid down in both the Old and the
) New Testaments, we might here dismiss the
subject, as that is all that was embraced in
the proposition for discussion; but as Mr.. T.
has gone outside of that, both in his letters
ION the fence yet" and in the discussion
and attempted to review slavery in politi.
cal sense, it my not be improper here for us
to follow him up and give some of our politi-
cal views with regard to slavery; and also
) show some Of the odious positions taken by
Mr.. 7. He tells us in his letters "on the
fence yet" that ne is no aboltionist, though
his abolition friends here, who are more hon.
est and acknowledge themselves to be such
tell us he is and they claim him rs SUCH
He tells us again, in his letters, that he is in
favor Of gradual emancipation though he
does not tell us how he would bring it about
and what disposition he would make of tn.
slaves. But, fortunately, we are not left ir
the dark with regard to that, for in that h,
gave his views during the discussin. Ant
; that we might then understand him fully
and clearly, he gave us history Of th,
emancipation of the slaves on the Island o.
Jamaica, by the British Parliament, wherein
; the slaves were gradually emancipated by q
special act Of parliament giving them i'm
mediate liberty. And he then went on t.
portray, in vivid colors, the happy results
| and unbounded prosperity, as he called it
growing out of the system of government
e there, wherein the former slaves were tn
/ 1 -: &c IL