The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-07-06

use, are already slaves in the haM
despotic, ignorant, heather mas II, ie''a a','
ed by not one principle that e - ~
philosophy of slavery. That 81 'noa'u 70
part from the true rule into az nuiue
and rapine is to be expected. = oi'i
one mode by which power ca ait4 oe =
voluntarily to act within the 5 its hoas.
rule, and that is, by christianizi ELL gence ~
But this requires time and ii goes y,
moral culture. But Mr.. Re- know
deeper into the subject. Hessf slaHy defer
IS ~ that we cannot suees 4
slavery Asaass we can justif "a J
slave trade. - prcf,ssitir,,' = u
loaiG in !1s,v in Ilisssi1
lafation that you cannot stccessiully defend I
your title to the house you bought and paid |
for, unless you can show that ygu haye Alright
to steal my horse or knock me of androb me
of him. And if those who advocate this poll
CIV can succeed in proving to be world that
slavery as il exists with us athis time rests
on no higher authority than oar right to kid
nap and murder, they may then congratulate
themselves that they have SUCCEEDED in doing |
what the wisest and most wicked abolitienists |
have been unable to do--they viii have |
struck the severest blow at slavery it has ever
received
Southern men who thus decaim have very
lax notions of political economy and yet more
lax opinions Of the moral aspect of the in
! stitution under consideration. | aver that if
! the institution runs back to kidnapping, to
| murder, to rapine, that is tosay, runs back
to time in the history of the ancestry OF our
slaves when their reduction to involuntary
bondage was in hostility to the moral govern
ment of God, there is now no plea for their
present enforced servitude. Let me be under
stood.
The principles of social philosophy are not
only eternal but they are intexible. They
are as fixed and immoyable IS is the charac-
ter of God by whom they are instituted Ii
now the ancestry Of our slaves were wrong
fully deprived of social rights-rights that be-
tloneed to them in virtue of moral principles,
can conceive of no plea that can justify
moral man-one who desires his conduct to
be concerned to moral goenment-in per-
petuating the outrage upon their descendants
If as men-if as the creatures of God-if UNI
der the moral rules the Supreme Ruler has
instituted for the regulation of the social
f state of the tribe of Ham, their original re-
duction to involuntary servfude was morally
wrong, the crime Of American shareholders
must be as scarlet in comparison with thai
of their original captors, thousand fold more
> aggravated because we profess to be amenablt
to moral government-profess to understand
the Interchangeable character Of the science
!. the social state.
g Men who think with Mr.. Reagan shoult
t have their attention directed to the very wid'
: distinction between nag, right, for example
: 10 my Stare ard the rig'f Of SLAVERY in ON
temptation Of morals. b. right to my slav'
/ may be founded in sons act Of some rogue
S,avsEs f'ssf0'
t Of ineszls can have no sther foundation ma
i the moral laws of Godt The same remark
5 hold good in respect to Ny right to my hors
!. as to other of my personal or real possessions
Ownership among na' grows out OF tn
. moral philosophy of theiocial state, but tn
% ownership have of any particular piece
property may be run back to fraud, rapine o
= murder. Ny OWNERSHIP Of horse that ha
= been stolen-n,y ownership of land that b
: violence or revolution has been taken fror
previous owners-my ownership of a slav
whose ancestor has been kidnapped is due an
r. - traceable to the civil laws that regulate til
= existing relations of my social state, but o'e'
20 srship qeneraHy-ownership of man as tn
= genera name for the creatures of God, look
- for its authority, not to mere human legisls
:, ton, but to the moral regulation Of the stat
~ of man in the social relations of life. hay
- therefore, to thank God for the general inst
tuition of property amongpny race, but 1 loo
to the existing civil lac when wish to hay
y mn property in partic,tbe horse or stare L
~ gally protected. The distinction is tnomel
n tous. Let man once admit that Gods Law
u prohibited ownership of al horses, then m
). 10 ownership of any particular horse, althouG
lof sanctioned by the civil authority of the coul
lot try, is an act of immortality which no leng
'eS of possession which no lapseof time can re
Use cue from that condemnation due to ascertain
M ed departures from the imnlatable legislati'
~ of Heaven The theft of a rogue and Il
act of God are not to be insrchangably co
os- sidered as is done in the philosophy Of
IN Reagan. 1AIoo'
ON P. 81 compare slavery Is an Institute
ia to the separation of the Jsws and to t
of preaching of the Gospel, ct dtera.
sti- Now, there are many very bad peor
in among the Jews, and Their are also maj
So very bad persons among preachers, and y
ON Notwithstanding, both these Institutions ha
se- wise and benevolent punse in view a
nee have the divine sanction; thu is to say, arr
its in the determinations of tln Supreme Bel
Now, when l say tha God sanctio
,wn preaching, or the separated of the Jews
n of am no more to be understood as saying Il
But he sanctions the acts Of those among
Dhy preachers or the Jews who depart from
hen philosophy of those institutions, than
nd. that he sanctions deeartures tom the philo
.ver pny OF tue Shave Trasio asc.tliIe part q tn
oral by whom it is carried on and sustained.
lght 1t is not denied that ownership among m
exclusive ownership, is goui,ded on the m
,tad al philosophy of the social state. What
do the known consequence Why civil Il
are givers pass laws to protect the institution
oco. What does this mean? II n@ns that an
oto stitution originating in the divine legislat
and may be prostituted to the very worst purpo
n of When doa instituted in'asiou@ owneiS .
he designed that his creatures should act h
-. estly and benevolently. But do they do
' Manifestly not. They steal, lie rob
-. 10 cheat. But must we abaadon the institu
s',s upon that account Notai all.