The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-07
The Re-opensn9 OF the slave rr,

crowded last evening with congregation at once nte
lectual and refined Among the audience the galleries
there might have observed fe OF the cpored
inhabitants Of New York. to whom the question OF slavery
vital one and Who listened with deepest
and attention throughout tie whole OF service.
The exercises were began with the usual formuIary
the Presbyterian church, singing and prayer The nrs,
stanza Of the Psalm selected thus-
Al round about Jerusalem
The guardian mountains stand,
So shall thu Lord encompass them
And bold by his right hand.
ne Of the Psalms Of David denunciaory os oppression,
robbery and violence in any FORM then read after
which
The reverend gentleman offered prayer, in which he
sin Of the nation and prayed that the conscience oil
people might be awakcDco TO its enormty.
rom the 2st chapter Of Exodus and the i6 verse: Aud
he that stealetb and selleh him. he found
his bsDo he shall surely be put 10 deaih" THIS he said
gusge that could possibly he used in denunciatoo
FOUL system OF slavery And Ia order that there might
no doubt about be would drst demonstrate It's author
and applicability under the Gospel by the tes mony Of
the New Testament, secondly the putty Of American
slavery 90 being the prime cause Of all the evils arising
out OF the African slave trade and the crime OF steal
ing thirdly, that Il 10 the piracy, which is
dtmned by American law fourthy, that is the active
and responsible cause Of tho continuance Of the slave
trade With all It's horrors and mseries; hfthly that
an EVIL that can only be cured by complete abolition;
and sxthy, that Il a responsibility of the
Of righteousness against il through the agency
Of Gods word Paul, in Of his epistiea to Timothy
says that this law OF the text made for steaers
and 10 man Can faithfully preach the Gospel in places
where this sin prevails II be does not apply this law.
No man can be used the property Of
continuation Of the same dishonest act He could not
be sold to any other man. could there DO any bargain
With tho first thief, except BY completely aud couson
NO man could be go disposed OF without stealing, for
var clearly against his WILL This was the great arga
mint Of the learned Grous and this the great CON
mandmeDt by which American slavery is proved To bs
nab- stealing Such O Pronunciation against this sin
once appeared the book of the faith and prac
tce Of the Presby terian church of America but
Low IT is blotted out aud Is nowhere 70 ne
But hero in the monstrous doctrine
that when man has been already stolen there
can be no harm in keeping him So and that it is sin to
proclaim that such course 10 sin. The application Of
the civil law may well be made, and scapegoat of So
phislry should be allowed to drive into the wilderness
The sole or gin OF slavery s admitted by Americans
themselves, to have been man stealing But from whom
was the man st0tDf From himself and from hts God!
The crime IS Dot bleached as the skin Of the poor victim
mon the Of the shores OF the land Of his mprison
meDt The crime remans there plain and papabIc, and
can never be translated into righteousness The analogy
between the man thief and the horse thief was perfect
If the most respectable and we'll connected member OF the
church we're 10 be pointed out the who had re-
oeived stolen horse knowing him TO have been stolen,
and If he refused TO make due reparaton, and TO
restore the horse TO the proper owner, he would
be branded as thief. and would have 10 endure
lie odlm ard disgrace which attaches 70 such charsc.
ter If be knows the owner he must give no the
property, even though he had paid ten times lis value
again. or otherwise IL would be evident that he had
entered into diegraceful COLLISION 10 defaud the proper
c. Of his property Let the stakeholder apply this com
parsor-rom whom did be buy the man whom be claim
TO held IS his slaveG-om himself PNo from third per-
son. and be did SO knowing that the originally
stolen His only remedy was TO return him TO his
and there he stands before him-the stolen man himself
In keeping him from himself you steal him, and In buying
bin from third person you steal him frem himself It
this light that Joseph viewed his compulsory arr
val into Egypt and the condition OF servude into which
he fnrpo I'M In AoUa H.
said 10 be his value is not paid to himself but TO
the who has first stolen him, and the pro-
ceeds Of his blood and sinews have gone into the
pockets Of whole succession OF thieves It therefore
becomes the positive duty Of the conscientious STAKEHOLDER
to release these stolen men whom he unjusty holds in
tcnGage. We arc always assailcd with the cry-"Iet
this subject aone tho laws against emancipation
it cannot be; tell something that we can do" Hero,
Cod Gather your slaves together tell them that they
men, and hot chaels that you would not hold them
IN slavery single day but tina. you win give them free
having the power TO march of at any momeAt-you viii
pay them the fair wages which man expects TO give
their labor except for fair wages, and thus wipe out
this black STAN altogether Tell them ALSO that the law
win remain with you as men, you will protect them
with the power and the might OF law, but that
If they go of from you they must abide the
result Of their actions. Such course would at
extnguish slavery the whole system would thus be abo
ishcd and the law itself would perish through very
tivity But whatever became Of the human law let the
Egyp would be destroyed from of the face of the land in
one night 1t this principle that the law Of God
was enacted In the olden time II man away from
those who kept him bound every man was commanded
to protect and him, and none should lay hands
upon him To deliver him back again into servude
though he worth to his master the whole price Of
Naboths vineyard And this law par AMOUNT whether
II sought to be applied 10 the commal OF offence
over the desert or up the Jordan yhe American people
piracy and where the difference between American
slavery and the African slave trade to cause the to be
ohar ,aboreds r. Tho iradc IN The .u
coast be piracy, then the transportation OF re-.
Gently imported Africans along the coasts of America
must be piracy also. Was not the second purchaser
bad rs he who bought the originally the African
ccastY II the villains caught in the act Of stealing
their victims in mdoceap, the law declares it to be
piracy but once let the stolen property be landed in Anne
RIGA, and the slave trade stands redeemed and Olsen
braled by the genius Of American piety. In
and his wife brooght from their native land to
be the slaves Of other If the woman had
NAMED in Africa she would still be wife, and her chill
dren born to her in that matrimouy which sacred
even in Affcs, would ut least be her own. But in Chris
tan America she loes her place wife, and no longer
90, and her children without any right whatover-no
that of purchaseare stolen from the birth and
converted into savesand yet the men who are guilty of
this monstons nquty, are no longer pirates, but good
Christian gentlemen-Gods messengers Of salvation
stretch Of logic give these q right
to this woman's children S-what principle, either
ct earn Or ~ 10 ., the sye trace
Of their ignorance and through the cupdity of Others
and they called pirates In America the slave dealers
refined and civilized and they are not pirates but
Christian gentlemen, though they break through every
commandment Of the decaIogue. n the injuries inflicted
upon benghted African tried any other nation
Of the world the result would be vastly different.
vessel to land the shores of Great Britain or the
Isle Of Wight, and by an agreement and colusion with
agents. be able to ship four hundred British sub
jects and bring them 10 America TO make them slaves
how quick would Great Britain declare war against Anne
RIGA, the authorities did not Immediately deliver up tho
pirates who stole them To be hung at the yardsarm Bn
in the Of Africa poor, weak and unprotected nation
the far different and therefore the crime Of the
American people much WORSE The African is COM
mted by God TO protection. They have refuge,
and God plainly trying US 10 see he
will descend into gulf so deep as TO perpetuate their
bondage and to continue 10 make merchandise Of them
and thus he than the wreckcr who throws him
self upon tho unprotected body Of his suffering victim.
The reverend gentleman at great length and with mucn
eoquencc then proceeded 10 demonstrate that the exist
oncc of slavery in this country the fruitful of
the and horrors Of the slave trade He re-
errcd particularly TO the recent arrival Of Africans IN
Southern States and the exutaton Of the press the
event, with their advocacy for tho open revival OF the