Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-03-18
lRAsBURGH, VERMONT, FRIDAY. MARCH IS, 1859.

ton Is preposterous. Does the biDie
sanction system that abrogates its own
injunctions 2.
There stands that slave mother, press
ing with a mothers love her own child
to her heart To whom does it belong ?
Is it not hers against the universe? 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 sanctioned by the Bible, and that
Bible the word of God? / know the
people are taught this by ministry that
dislike to characterize as think they de-
serve.
" Wealth, lust, and fashion, bid them still to
| bleed,
And holy men quote Scripture for the deed"
But these men do not truly interpret the
Bible. They teach for doctrines the com
mandments of men, and make the word
of God of none effect through their ira
ditions. How dare these men make the
Bible lend its sanction to a system that
ahrogates parental authority and filial du-
ty?
So, also, with the conjugal relation
The Bible everywhere represents this as
the most sacred, inviolate, and indissolu-
bic of all human relations. Father and
mother are to be forsaken, in obedience
to the claims of this still higher and ho-
lier relation. Now, what does Slavery
do with this domestic institution. Leave
God and the parties perfectly free to reg
. ulate it in their own way? No; with
: impious and brazen front, it steps in and
: utterly annihilates the marriage relation
: so far as its victims are concerned. There
: is no more any legal marriage among
: the three or four millions of slaves in the
? United States, than there is among 81
many cattle. Slaves in the eye of th,
l law are cattle, and their union is that 0
!, brutes. They are declared to be goods
e chattelS personal, to all intents, construc
tons, and purposes, whatever. The civ
0 il law which prevails in some of th
o States takes them pro nuiliS, pro mortiu,
II pro quadrupedibus.
l. Would it not be"an interesting specta
! Gle to see one of these clergymen, VIII
5 teach that the Bible sanctions Slavery
e called in to attend the wedding of bu
+ reau and a chest of drawers The chair
/ and shovel, and tongs, are invited as til
e guests. After fervent prayer for th
/ divine blessing, the clergyman says;
Il by the old Levitical laws,
+ Join the bu eau to the drawers"
q Qlid Rides? aaatato non,iae, date tuJuia 1arratu
d Absolutely, there can be no more
a. legal marriage between two slaves, tha
is between two articles of furniture, or bt
Ie tween two brutes. They e" take up Il
Is gether;" they donot marry. No clergy
Is man dare pronounce two slaves husban
10 and wife till death shall separate then
of The will of the master is their fate. Tt
e. Bible says: ;" What God hath joined Il
I'd gether, let no man put asunder." I'll
of slave system says: : Who cares for God
of | will separate them when please.
ce slave who is a church member is taug
an by his religious teachers, that it is h
a duty, on being sold from one plantatiC
So to another, leaving so-called wife b
e. hind, to take another mate and the re
n son assigned by these pious instructors
n tha in this way he can be most profit
h. bic to his master, which is his first al
ny paramount duty. Thus he may, as
.w good Christian, take up-with a new W
u man on every plantation to which he
in sold. This has been formally so decid
Ip- by an ecclesiastical council. And y
m these blasphemers seek to make Goo
A partner in this revolving practice.
Elf, The Bible everywhere requires
ant equivalent to be given for services re
BIZ dered. . Wo unto him that builde
led his house by unrightousness and
bi- chambers by wrong that useth his neie
ire boris service without wages, and give
his him not for his work" Behold, I
,w, hiEe of the laborers who have REAP
EN- down your fields, which by you is k
md back by fraud, crieth and the cries
md them that have reaped are entered il
sed the ears Of the Lord of Sabaoih." ST.
bu- cry never allows any wages at all
his those who garner in its harvests.
9od say that the clothing and the food t
not the slave receives are wages, Is to
ese that the hay, grain, and stabling of
at horse, are wages. These constitute
With keeping Of the horse and of the sla
wages they are not.
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