The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-05-03

hold slaves under this old charter given L
) the Jews, Have you complied with the re
} QUESTIONS of that charter Do you abstain
from Virginia ham and other swine flesh
Do you observe the new moons,the sabbaths
circumcision, and the appointed feasts Il
not, you are no jew, and are not entitled ;C
the franchises of jew but on the other
hand you belong to the Gentle race, who
according to your theory, were Of right
made slaves If the advocates Of Slavery
choose to 90 back and place themselves IN.
der code of laws given to a race of men
evidently in state Of barbarism, let;hem
take the whole code, and abide by it, and
obey it. Another statement. If the Bi.
bic sanctions Slavery at all, it is the ell.
slavement Of white men. No one pretend-
that the servants spoken of in the Bible
were blacks. The Roman slave was hot a
black man. The Hebrew servant were
not black man. The question is. wheth.
er the laboring man. white or black, may
rightfully be enslaved.
may as well notice, here that wcrn-out
quotation enormously placed on Ham, No
ah planted a vinyard, raised some grapes,
made some wine, and got drunk. When
he walked up, still fuddled with the fumes
of the wine, sOtt0 roce, 50 confused he did
net know his son from his grandson, he ut-
ternd the malediction. cursed be Canaan, -
not Ham, who bad been guilty Of wrong.
And now, in the blaze of the nineteenth
century, with the radiance OF Christianity
shining around. Democrats 90 mousing back
five thousand years to learn the basis of h,-
man rights from the lips of man still halt
drunk. "Cursed be Canaan" is evermore
the refrain of Democratic mnstrelsy
And now to the Bible. will not de-
tain the Committee long, for have no pa.
tience with the impiety that attempts to
throw the sanction of this holy book around
the diabolical system of American Slavery
What says this inspired volume Thou
shalt not steal Briof, comprehensive
and to the point This must be taken from
the Bible, before it can be made to sanction
Slavery. Does this forbid my taking my
neighbor's horse, but allow ME to reduce
the man to slave, and then claim them
both How much better is a man than a
sheep! If ] am told that Slavery is not
theft, because the felonious intent is no,
there, reply, as the gentleman from Geor.
gia replied, who has in former years on
this floor attempted to Justify Slavery on
the authority of the Scriptures. He de.
clared that the act of Paulding in arrestine
the marauder, Walker. was an act of ROB.
berry. Some one replied, that it could no,
be robbery, for there was no felOnious In
tent. The gentleman from Georgia rejoin.
ed. Il said robbery | did lot say lega
robbery" So say theft do not say
legal theft, or theft in the legal sense
We are talking about the moral, not the le
gal character of slavery. The title % every
slave originated in violence and robbery
and its continuance has no other moral char
acter. There can be no mistake about Tho
rightful ownership of a human being. HI
belongs to himself. Because my father o.
mother was reduced to the condition Of
slave, does that justify my being reduced t,
!, the same condition of bru,ism Does tn
. continuance Of wrong take away It's guilt
| repeat, there can be 10 doubt rs to TIN
, ownership of any human being. The It'll
is in himself To take it from him is rob
berry. But we have specific statute ol
this subject, He that stealeth man ant
, selle,h him,or it he be found in his hands,
, that is, in his possession, "he shall surel
be put to death" This enactment take
this transaction out Of the catalogue of OF
| binary crime, and brands it with peculia
: reprobation Other forms of theft cou
be a,oned for by returning four-fold thi
claimed the forfeiture Of life itself thus ma
: king it capital offence. No squirming c
: sophistry can get round this. There
( stands. the estimate of the Jewish Scrir
/. lures of the crime of traificking in huma
, flesh. So once thought the Presbyteria
: church, when they declared slaveholding t
}. be violation of the eighth commandment
0 So thought President Edwards, when
e declared the STAKEHOLDER guilty of manstea
! ing every day This was the constitution;
a law of the Jewish Commonwealth. \
n other statute could contravene it, any nor
$ than state or territory law could annul
G provision Of the Constitution OF the Unite
f States. All the instances Of buying an
r selling relied upon by the advocates of 81.
l. very are confined to the person bought an
(! the perscn sold. \ person "Jalliag IN,
e decay" sold himself, no. as a chattel {
J., slave, but as a servant for a term Of wears
% and when the jubilee came round. libert
- was proclaimed throughout the land, to a
1t the inhabitants thereof When there W;
n failure on the part Of the people to pr
n claim this liberty, promised and secured
o law, then God proclaimed a liberty To the
r. to the sword, and to tie pestilence, and
the pestilence, and those other judcmen
IS that fell swift and terrific from the hand
of an incensed God. II was this providenti
Is retribution which made jefferson trcmb
h for his country, when he remembered th
as God was just, and that his justice would D
lp sleep forever. In the uprising of these o
to pressed millions, he averred that no att
it butte Of Jehovah could take sides with II
oppressor
Sc Honor thy father and thy mother, is t
Q. requirement of the Bible. Slavery utter
- annuls this command The owner clair
or honor and obecience, to the utter disrega
$. of perpetual autority and perpetual CLAIM
rs Whoever thinks of slave child obeyil