The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-05-14

whlch QescrlDes or recognizes human
being AZ a piece Of property. Before
quoting chapter or verse, desire to say
few words having a general bearing on
this subject. The tteocratic charter
granted to the Jews was exclusive. and
constituted them kind of close corpora
ton, with peculiar privileges as a com-
nenwealth. But all those unusual fran
chlses were bestowed upon them on the
| express condition that they should com
ply with q prescribed ritual. God ex-
plicitly declared that he weald slay every
native born Jew that did not comply
with the provisions of their charter
Now, desire to inquire of those who
claim the right to hold slaves under this
old charter give to the Jews. Have you
complied with the requisitions of that
charter DO you abstain from Virginia
ham and ether swine's feshi Do you
| observe the new moons, the Sabbaths,
circumcision, and the appointed feasts ?
If not, you are no Jew, aud are not enti
tied to the franchises of Jew, but on
the other hand you belong to the Gen
tile race, who, according 10 your theory,
were Of right made slaves. If the advo-
Gates of slavery choose to go back and
place themselves under code of laws
given to a race o: men evidently yet in 4
| state of barbarism, let them take the whole
code, and abide by it, and obey it. An
| other statement. If the Bible sanctions
slavery at all, it is the enslavement Of
! white men. No one pretends that the
servants spoken Of in the Bible were
/ blacks The Roman slave was not q
black man. The Hebrew servant was not
black man. The question is whether
the lalering man, white OIL black, may
rghtfulIy be enslaved.
| | may as well notice here, that worn
out quotation enormously placed on Ham
Noah planted a vineyard, raised some
/ grapes, made some wine, got drunk --
When he walked up, still fuddIed with the
! fumes of the wine, soto poce, so confu ed
he knew not his son from his grandson,
| he uttered the dcton, "cursed be
Canaan" not Ham, who had been guilty
! of the wrong But now, in the blaze Of
! the nineteenth century, with the rndlsnce
Of christianity shining abroad Democrats
go mousiag back five thousand years to
learn the basis of human rights from the
lips Of man still half drnnk. "Carssn
be Canaan" is eycrmore the refrain Of
| Democratic minstresly.
And now to the Bible will not de-
tain the committee long, for / have no
patience with the impiety that, attempts
,n .h.o- the sanction of tie holy book
around the diabolical system Of Americ.
an slavery What says this inspired vol
ume ? Thou shalt not steal !" Brief,
comprehensive, and to shc point. This
must be taken from the b ole, before it
can be made to sanction slavery. Does this
forbid my taking my neighbor' horse, but
allow me to reduce the u,an to slave, aud
then csin them bothi How much bet,
ter is man than sheep? If am told
that slavery is not theft, because the fel.
onious intent is no. there, | reply, a, the
geu,leman from Georgia replied, who
las in former years GU this floor attempt
ed TO Justify slavery on the authority ot
the Scriptures. lie declared that the
act of paulding in arresting the maraudcr
Walker was an act of robbery. Some
one replied that it could not be robbery
there was no felonious intent The gen
tleman from Georgis replied, " | SAID rob
berry; did not say legal robbery" 5,
ssy her; ! did not ssy legal theft, Oh
theft in the legal sense. We are talking
about moral, not tho legal, character o
slavery The title to every slave origin
sted in violence and robbery, and it,
continuance has no other moral charac
ter. There can be no mistake abou. III,
rightful ownership of a human being. -
He belongs to himself. Because my
mother or father was reduced to the con
ditou Of 4 slave, doe. tha. justify ny be
ins reduced to the same condition Of brut
ism? Docs the continuance of wrong
take away It's guilt? repeat, there cat
be no douh, as to the ownership Of any hu
man being The title il in himself. I,
take it away from him is robbery. Blu
We have specific statue % this subject
lie that stenle,h man and sellett
J him, Or If he be found in bis hands," ths
il, in his possession, "he shall be surel,
put to death" This enactment take
, this transaction cut Of the catalogue o
, urdiuary crime, and brands It with pecu
liar reprobation. O.her forms Of their
! could Be atonei for by returning four
fold this claimed the forfeiture of hf
itself, thus making il q capital oaence
E No saujrming or sophlstry can get roun'
- this. There it stands, the estiraste @
4 theJevish Scriptures Ola the crime Of trat
) licking 10 human aesh. So once though
= the Presbyterian church, when they Dc
? clsred the STAKEHOLDER guilty Of man steh
= ing every day, This vas the eonstitu
] tional lav Of the Jewish Commonwealth
{ No other statute could contrayenc It, al
e more than State or Territorial! Law coul
t .nnuI provision Of the Constitution (
3 Of the United States. All the lns,ance
0 of buying aud selling relied upon By tn
:. advocates of slavery arc confined t. I'll
t person bought and the person sold.
j person ".fui!tag into atccay," sold hiu
o self. not as ohat.2i or slave, bu. as
b servant for term Of years; and whe
;, the jubilee came round, liberty was pr,
j claimed through all the land to all tt
g inhabitants thereof When there was
:. failure ou the part Of the people to pr
!, claim this liberty, prom isad aud secure
0, BY law, then God proclaimed liberty
1t them to the sword. and to tho postilcnc
Q, and those other judgments that fell swi
.e and terrific from the hand Of an incense
N God. Il was thi. Providential retrib
T. tion which made Jefferson tremble for l.
country. when h--remoubered that 9,
u was Just, and that his justice would u
IS sleep forever In the uprising Of tho
IN oppressed milIious, he averred chat 10 d
T. tribute of Jchovaa could take sid