Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-03-18
WHOLE NUMBER 1863.

over tue system. IL every uiAsteF eA-
emplifed the extreme capability of the
system for outrage and diabolism, an in
dignant world would rise and wipe it
out.
Suppose, now, this system, all reek-
ing with lust, incest, crime, and cruelty, !
is brought out and placed under the
blaze of Christianity. Whatsoever ye
would that men should do unto you, do
ye even so unto them for this is the
law and the prophets. This is the con-
densed summary of the whole Bible
Who has the hardihood to say that the
practice of slaveholding is consistent
with this injunction? What, in TIE New
Testament, is the classification of slave
holders? 1t tplaees them with murderers
of fathers and murderers of mothers.
Everywhere the Bible inculcates a
spirit of generous magnanimity, Ye
that are strong ought to bear the infirm-
tiles of the weak, and not to please your
selves Slavery, know, claims this
attribute, and talks about its chivalry
and magnanimity. And is it not magma
nimous to cheat poor, ignorant, degrad-
ed man, out of the entire earnings of his
whole life-rob him of his wife and chill
dren, and then justify it by saying that
.they are an inferior race? Admit the
fact of inferiority-dces it therefore fol-
low that it is right TO oppress them ?
Every page of the Bible flashes its ana
themas against the oppression of the
poor and helpless. The chivalry Of the
Bible is to help the weak, to protect the
defenceless, and rescue those in peril
This, indeed, is the idea of the olden chiv-
airy. Witness the incident in the ro-
nance of IvanhOe. The true knight,
enfeebled by sickness, rides into the lists
to meet a powerful antagonlst-and in
whose defence For one belonging to a
race as despised and degraded then as
f that of the African now is. This chiv-
airy we recognize as having something
manly and noble in it. But, from the
chivalry that robs mothers of their chill.
, dren; that applies the scourge to help
less women, to secure their labor or make
them surrender their chastity whlcl
sells boy for harlot and girl for pail
} of shoes which, by superior knowledge
combination, and legal enactment, reduces
millions of human beings to the condi.
. ton of brutsm, and then by false teach
. ings seek to delude their conscience, anC
p cause them to believe that their ensav
ment is in accordance with the will O
God-from all such chivalry | ask to b.
delivered.
r The Bible sanctions Slavery, and, fifth
a Bible, then God. What kind of al
n ideal of Deity has that relgionist VIII
: holds this doctrine ? The ancients di
: vided their vices, and made one of thei
= gods the divinity of each. The advo
d cate of Bible Slavery takes a syster
!. that concentrates in itself all crime, an
e makes Jehovah its patron Deity. l d
J. wish that Slavery would leave US al
e ideal of the Supreme Being that is nc
! polluted with its Shiny touch. 1t is sal
a of Goldsmith, as a writer, that ther
It was nothing that he did not touch, an
Is nothing that he touched that he did nC
n beautify. And it can truly be said {
e Slavery, that there is nothing that it doc
a. not touch, and nothing that il touchC
s. that it does not defile. 1t has perverte
a. the Government, violated the nationi
ID faith. muzzled the press, debauched ii
a church, corrupted Christianity, and seel
o. to change the glory of the invisible 90
is into Moloch, and transform the etern
I'd and loving Father into patron OF err
ct city, lust, and injustice; and then, vii
a the impudence of the strange woma
wipes its mouth, and says, have cor
an mitted no sin. / should be ashamed
n such God as that Il is TO me utterI
tn incomprehensible that any one can ST
lis cerely believe that the Bible sanction
D. the system Of American Slavery, and
:th leave that point.
he But this fanaticism goes still farth'
ed and arrogates to itself preFogatiV
.pf which God himself never claimed, a
Of what, be it spoken with reverence,
lto Supreme Being himself cannot do; a
lv- that is, to make right wrong. Before
TO law and above all law, human and
To vine, Is the idea-Df right and wrong, Ct
hat nal. indestructible. The Omnipott
say does not claim the right or power 70
the initiate this distinction. lie hims
the bows to this idea, which sits enthron
ge; absolute and supreme, higher than
Highest The supreme Legislator n
"a ar undertook nv mere arbitrary ens