The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-06-16
For the Ottumwa Courier
Observation of EOWlevism.

As Mr.. Fowler must be drawing nigh the
close of his phanthropic effort to picture
Slavery upon the banner of righteousness, it
is hoped he will not weary in well doing, !"
but continue imparting "more light" to the
benighted Republicans and wavering Demo-
Gratis.
Perhaps there are anti-Slavery individuals
who read the Bible as often, and as carefully
as he, and are fully rs capable of understand
ing the full force of the Jewish government
al laws, as given the Israeites by Moses. 1t
would be well for him when he quotes
scriptural passage, to refer the reader to the
particular chapter and verse where it can be
found. In reading his last ray of light in
the Courier, the writer Gas all readers are)
was referred, for a convincing proof of the
Divine source of human Slavery, 10 Exodus
Xxx, 3, which reads thus: Thou shalt hare
no other gods before me. What text for
the Slaveocracy! Have care Mr.. f., lest
you violate TINT law when you make the
Slave-Oligarchy your God, and few passages
Of the Jewish law, your prisons to the same;
neither handle the golden maxims of Christ
lest they rebound to your utter foolishness,
and your bark be wrecked upon the barren
waste of shame for your froward folly!
"Every RATIONAL intelligent mind must con-
ceive the idea," after reading the laws of the
Israelites, and contemplating the same, that
the Jews, who look forward for Savior vet
to come, have far more valid right, had
they the power, to enslave the Southern slave
dealer and Mr.. f. himself, with the remand
er of the Gentle host, than Mr.. F. and his
Southern and Northern coadjutors have to
buy and sell in Slavery the black people of
Africa. This position neither Mr.. F. nor
the Methodist Church South can deny, if The
Old Testament be trusted for proof And il
Christ did not fulfill the Jewish law and an
null the Mosaic polity, the writer wishes to
know why such views are taught in the New
Testament, and why the Jews are not holding
the heather in bondage at the present time.
Mr.. f. has yet to prove, to convince the wri.
ter that the laws spoken by Moses to the
Children of Israel were given to extend thro'
all time, and all over the heather world
(heathen to the Jews } for it is plainly per-
ceived that no part or parcel, but the ten
Commandments, was adopted in the new
dispensation, or ratified by the Savior.
But not desiring to oppose such an illus
trious parsonage as Mr.. F., the writer hopes
in future articles of logical power cogent and
acute, he will tell us why the buying of bond.
men and bondmaids from the heather was
not as peculiarly law of the Jewish nation,
as that spoken of in the 18th cha ,ter of Eek
iel, which he seems to teach, is not applica-
BILE to other nations.
Mr.. L. has harped about the inconsistency
in the arguments of Mr.. Taunton, and .'On
the Fence Yet" but it is hoped he will amend
the inconsistency in his preceding averments;
and when he has exhausted his animadver-
sions upon Mr.. T., and "On the Fence YET
and proven Slavery Divine institution to
his own satisfaction, he will confer favor
on mankind, doubtless, if he will continue
explaining more of the laws that were given
to the Jews as nation, and convince the
Gentle world, and modern readers and think
ers of their validity now.
And if he thinks that one part of the same
is more binding on the American nation than
another, he must refer us to the law and
the testimony" proving his position. The
Decalogue is admitted, for that is reiterated
in the New Testament. T. H. GRIFFIN.
ashland, June 9th. @