Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-11-10

creditors discharge your debtors fret
Again, if you are a Shareholder. us
your slaves with gentleness, humani
ty,and Kindness, rewarding him whel
he.does well, never spunlshing hin
3Iwantonly or.,oppressiveIy--in short
just as you. could reasonably wish
were you the slave and he the mas
Ter, that he would behave toward
you Therefore, the injunction 0
the New Testament is not, maste
discharge your slaves, but be merci
full 10 your slaves--slaves he obedi
ent to your masters. -.
But | said something ofsIayes be-
ing 1dshed. Yes, the very idea of a
slave includes the idea Of a correc.
ton. but does net at all include the
idea Of, cruelty; and BhenI wished
for a plantation Of negroes, your rev.
erence and The Tribune, with great
.candor, proclaim that / want. slaves in
erderto have The pleasure of whip
ping them. Doesany man marry a
wife in order that be may have the
pleasure of whipping his ehildren5-
Yet, he Who spare,h the Iod spoileth
the child. Does any man, buy a
horse for the sakeof Whipping him?
DID Washington keepuegfoes mere
lystbat be might indulge himseIfin
tlreshing; them? In iaet, | santed
to SET down the principle. as nakedly
as possible, that il is not wrong to
hold slave. From The principle it
follows that II is not g.eng 20 make.
a. slaye work; and there is 10 way Of
them Nerk 1int thekst resorf)
but dread of the, LASH. ss..ssf.
This is an upgraciops task ] find
myself forced to undertake On my
side, in this controversy. everything
sounds harsh and looks repulsise.
Y Yourrererence has closen,if BOT the
better, at lesst the bslInicr pprt.s--
Yours. is the privilege, ,dear tozthe,
enlightened modern heart, of utter
hg kind locking senteuces. 1t comes
sasyet6isou (fer an the prevailing
carts are With you) to assome for
foufseh and your followers. the cred-.
t Of beneyoienee, and philanihropy,I /
md enlightenment, and spregress,
nd all the rest Of it. While ], to es.
APE the lchatges of barbafous cruelty
md blosdthirsty atrociiy, am forced
o shield myself -an6er the authority
# mere aneients-persops behind
be century; persons who bad not the.
dvantage Of hearing yeur lecture at |
he Tabernacle; persons ike the Leg.
slator. Of the Jews, and The wise men
f the GIeekssand tbefraIners. Of the /
Declaration of .Indepe endeRee. It
goulsl be- easy for me also, and would
5efrne, To assert that am not cru
.l-or7tsfapnralt nature; that ] haze (
all oppression; that if ] had slaves, i !
aoeid il lfleree ana, gorernit them u
lilornly by kindness. instead Of CO.
,fcien--in short, that / would use
hSm as homanely rs Jefferson did I
lis, whose enthusiastic reception by t
lis attached negroes onziis return to-
Monticello, forms, so agreeable a pic-s
ure sin fuckers life Of that illustfi-,.
iis man 1t would be, easy; but j
10 not condescend 70 treat this sub |,
ect in this personal and restricted L
Manner Ny position Was, and is,e
he naked assertion, staat slaye-hold.g
ng is meta crime. and, that nobody I
yer thonght.it crime until some
ime towards the close Of the last
century.
4 hope, aherelore,- you will tell [
our heaters, at your next leeture,ll
hat have been misreptesenting
Hoses ali this time; aud that, Ia fact, #
be Mosaic law, imposed no Iestric- /
ions upon slavery. at all except in
he CASE Of Israelitish slases-a class
e farestrietions which ale here hap-
lily unnecessary, sas no sAmerican
itizen can sell himself into slavery,
II become a slave even for debt, as al:
Hebrew citizen might. .zs.i,
Weeomit the conclusion Of Mr.. {
IfHclnll's areply, for want Of room.
fhes part omitted possesses not much
the, general reader. ,itnI,
Dean Swift says that men are !
grateful in the same degree thattbey /
ire resentful.f If that ibetrue, gratis4
;pce is not SO rare a virtue as. it, is |
esteemed.
Z. HORRIBLE HonlcIpE.--Man stab !