The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-07-21
To TIE EDITOR OF THE CoURIER.-

, / "ip'A ~ W ''S ulptttiSIiN tIll
Nr. Taunton in attacking slavery, never sup
: posed, or admitted that it could draw any
support from the Mosaic law; all that law
having been anulled by the Gospel, except
the ''tea Commandments" and into this
view fully entered myself The position
is 80 clear, and 50 strictly Christian, that it
is matter of wonder how anybody should
maintain otherwise. .a. a.asa sa.se Ee
| That there was a species Of servituie in
lstituted by Moses, nobody denies; but it
seems to haye~been upon the whole quite as
mild as the feudal or Baronial system, which
for thousand years existed in Europe; but
which has now entirely passed away. o. 5
! 1t is evident that Mr.. Taunton entered
fnpon an examination Of the Mosaic law, be-
cause those who defend slavery, claim sup
port from that law-hence it was rs well to
gointc it AMI show, as he dill, 1st, that
the patriarchial system Of Moses was in no
way akin to the denominations Of the Amar-
can slave system; 81, that If there lad been
a lirleness in tie two syst.ms, Christ annll-
led the law.
| shall not weary your readers or you. by
following Mr. F. through all his fantastic
wan'lcrngs; shall touch only upon few
of his most prominent points.
/ He persists in milking the ''curse of Noah
his corner stone. Let Us take another look
at that lncident. Mr.. T. attempts to draw
parallel between the case Of Canaan, the
grand-cslid of Noah, and our first parents !;
and he very modestly and greenly asks "why
may not an individual entail the curse of
slavery on his posterity for deriiing him,
with equal justice that God entaed misery,
toll, and death, for simply eating an apple
when forbidden9" When asked for LIGHT
did not ask to have the clear reading and
sense ofmy Bible distorted, and wrenched
from its foundations, for the purpose OF prov
ing the right of any man to sell, fog torture
and prostitute the g members of Christ's
body" If truth really is the Gents OBJ
lject, why did not he state it fairly? The
two cases are not parallels Adam was
the transgressor, and he dill not escape the
common curse in Noah's case Ham was the
offender and Noah does not include HIN in
his curse; 2d, in Adams case all his pos
terity feel the prineval curse; in Noah's
case only the descendants of one child suffer
| 3d, in the case Of Adam, he disobeyed pos
litive command. and the penalty ofthat DISC
bedlence was at the first set before him; in
the case of Noah, he had issued M command:
annexed no penalty, or giren notice of his in
tended drunkenness. | would respectfully
ask your readers to consider, if that can be
\ good or Divine institution which can only
be supported by thus misrepresenting the
plainest truths of the Scripture?
In order to give some show of authority to
this Noah's curse, Mr. F. tells US that che
was the most righteous Priest of the Most
high then living; a missionary of Gods
viii " The force Of this reasoning is NOT so
very clear-we have no evidence whatever
that Noah was any Priest or missionary at
all at the time of his intoxication, or ever af-
terwartls--for aught I know, drunken
preachers who disgrace the Gospel they pro-
claim, may be patronisei where slave v aour-
ishes; but in the free States, such "priests
Of the most high are not much IN favor
Not content with giving us such ludicrous
stuff as this, Mr.. F. puts our faculty of swal-
lowing to a still sharper test He says that,
''as God has not countermanded the curse.
Or rcproved Noah for uttering it, we are to
conclude that il is an expression of the Di-
vine Will Splendid logic this = if Mr..
Fowler'S deductions are correct, then it lor
ically follows that as Col has nowhere "re-
proved Noah for getting drunk, or 'coun-
fernandez" the practice, we are to regard it
san expression Of the Divine will; :" a
thing to be followed by him. and us, and all
men, as much as he, we. or they may choose;
and as NJ f. holds that "if it was no sin then
it is no sin now," drunl1ards will have a 10
vial time for ever and for aye.
"Arse, ye pimpled. tppling race. arise.
"From every groggery aud village come ...s-.
| "shov your red noses, and o'ernoving eyes,
4 sand help him prop the falling cause OF rum"
/ The new apostle is equally unfortunate
when he gives his sense of Ezekiel 18th 90
every rational man of course understands it;
but he says itrefeis to matters affecting 'life
and death" From his decision, | appeal to
the Mosaic law, as laid down in Dcut. 2ith
\ l6, "the fathers shall not be put to death for
the sins Of the children, but every man shall
be put to death for his own sim This
question renders it absolutely impossible that
the Jews in Ezekiel time We're complaining
that they had legally and corporeally to bear
the penalty Of sins they did not commit
The Jews had just then returned from the
70 years Of captivity, and they seemed de-
sirous Of entering upon modified state of
existence; they were in no hurry to try the
lpractice Of enslaying again; and the visiting
the sins Of the fathers upon the children
seemed to them harsh; and hence they said,
!" the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge" '.As |
live" saith the Lord, ''ye shall not have oc-
casion any more to use this proverb in Israel,