Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-04-28

upon by the advocates Of Slavery are
confined to the person bought and the
person sold. \ person "Jaliing into
decay" sold himself, not as q chattel
or slave, but a a servant for term OF
years; and when the jubilee came
round. liberty was proclaimeAthrough
out all the land, to all the inhabitants
thereof When there was a failure on
the part Of the people to proclaim this
liberty. promised and secured by law,
then God proclaimed liberty to them
to the sword. and to the pestilence.
and those other judgments that fell
swift and terrific from the hand of an
incensed God. ii was this providen-
tial retribution which made Jefferson
tremblc for his country, when he re-
membered that God was Just, and that
his Justice would not sleep forever.
In the uprising of these oppressed
millions, he avcrred that no attribute
Of Jehovah could take sides with the
oppressor.
Honor thy father and thy mother,
is the requiremento of the Bible. Slav-
cry utterly annuls this command.
The owner claims honor and obedi-
ence, to the utter disregard of parental
claims. Whoever thinks of slave
child obeying his parent in preference
to his master? The very suggestion
is preposterous. Does the Bible sane
ton system that abroga.cs It's own
injunctions?
There stands that slave mother,
pressing with a mothers love her own
child to her heart To whom does it
belong? Is it not hers against the uni
verse? Is there any being, this side
the throne of God, that has the right
TO take it from her? Has the master
the right to come and tear it away
from her embrace, and claim it as his
property? And is this robbery sane
toned by the Bible, and that Bible,
the word of God? | know the people
arc taught this by ministry that ]
dislike to characterize as | think they
deserve.
"Wealth, lust, and fashion, bid them still t.
bleed,
And holy men quote Scripture for the decd.
But these men do not truly interpret
the Bible. They teach for doctrines
the commandments OF men, and make
the work of God of none effect through
their traditions. How dare these men
make the Bible lend its sanction to q
system that abrogates parental author
ity and filial duty?
SO, also, with the conjugal relation
The Bible everywhere represents this
as the most sacred. inviolate. and In
dissolutc of all human relations
Father and mother are to bc forsaken
in obedience to the claims Of this still
higher and holier relation. Now, what
does Slavery do with this domestic in
stitution? Leave God and the partie.
perfectly free 10 regulate it in their owl
way? No; with impious and brazer
front, it steps in and utterly annihi
lates the marriage relation, so far al
its victims are concerned. There II
no more legal marriage among TIN
three or four millions Of slaves in tn,
United States, than there is among ST
many cattle. Slaves in tire eye of tn
law are cattle, and their union is tha
of brutes. They are declared to b
goods. chattels pcrscnsl, to all intents
constructions, and purposes, whatever
The civil law which prevails in som
of the States take them pro nuiiis, pr
mortuis, pro quodruped;Jus.
Would ii not be an interesting spec
tacle to see one Of these clergymen
who teach that the Bible sanction
Slavery, called in to attend the wed
ding of bureau and chest of drawers
The chairs, and shovel, and tongs, ar
invited as guests. After a icrven
prayer for the divine blessing, the clcl
gyman says:
"By the old Levitical laws,
Join the bureau TO the drawers"
Quid Rides7 mufato nomine, de te fabufa
Rdrrdtur.
Absolutely, there can be no more
legal marriage between two slave.
than between two articles Of furniture
or between two brutes. They "tak
~ together" they do not marry. y
clergyman dare pronounce two slave
husband and wife till death shall seps
, rate them. The will of tlrc master
their fate. The Bible says: "Wh;
God hath put together let not man p,
asunder." The slave system says
"Who cares for God? Twill separa'
them when please" a slave who
church member is taught by his re
, ligious teachers, that it is his duty, o
being sold from one plantation to al
other. leaving a so-called wife benin,
to take another mate: and the reaso
assigned by these pious instructors i
, that in this way he can be most prof
able to his master. which is his fir,
and paramount duty. Thus he ma,
as a good Christian, take up with
; new woman on every plantation
; which he is sold. This has been form
2 ally so decided by an ecclesiastic,
) council. And yet these blaspheme
seek to make God partnerin ;his r.
: voting practice.
e The Bible everywhere requi.es a
2 equivalent to be given for services rel
2 dered. "Woe unto him that buildet
r his house by unrighieousness and h
f, chambers by wrong; that useth h
e neighbours service without wages, m
S giyeth him not for bis work" B
{ hold, the hire of the laborers who ha'
b reaped down your fields, which by VI
fl ., l-o,t I.oI l, fronI or,a,h. o,l al