The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-08-04

he is forced into the vortex, not merely OF
schite slavery by the Jews; but unicersal
slavery, without regard to color; because
Paul would then be made to sanction white
slavery ont Of Juden, and consequently make
the flood of denominations universal. May
God grant that your readers will ponder this
well, and its consequences. AS F. has not
proven the above required points nor attemp-
ted to do it. it is fair to say that he has yiel-
ded up to the enemy ali the ground contended
for Had he either shut his mouth, or given
more argument and less abuse, his prospect
would have been more smiling. 2"
At the time Paul was in Rome, about one
half the population Of that city were slaves,
composed of the high and the lowly, the
(once) wealthy, and those whose heritage
was poverty; the educated, the man of sci
ence. the ignorant, all involved in one COM
mon fate; gathered by the victorious arms
ofIsome from every quarter ofthe then known
globe. Why did not Mr.. f. and his friends
show us that Paul denounced this atrocious
crime to the Romans? Some of Mr.. ?. an
cestry might have been in Rome, in chains
for Britain, Gaul, Spain, and Germany, as
well as the continents of ASIA and Africa,
furnished in their turns, vast hordes of slaves
to Rome. Eighteen years after the death Of
Christ, Caractacus. King of Britain, and vast
numbers of his people were carried captive
to Rome; they were subsequently freed
but who shall say that none of Mr.. Fowlers
ancestors were there? His name is of Brit
sh origin. ~
recommend your readers to the third,
fourth, and fifth paragraphs in NJ F.'s article
of June 16th,--he there asserts that "Christ
and his apostles boldly attacked sin in erery
,form"-here we are at issue; have said,
and repeat that they did not; the burden
of proof rested with him, and he has not
given it, shall not be as chicken-heartefl
as he admits he was, when he thought he
had Mr. T. on the Shrink" of the precipice.
have Mr.. F. there and | shall kick him
gnsmiuionsly off the ''brink.'
Paul preached in Rome, in Corinth, in
Ephesus, in Athens,in Thessaly md in vari-
Gus other parts of the world where sehite
slavery existed by law all out Of Judea-
in all these places slavery existed in its worst
form, especially in Rome In these, as in
all other heather countries in the apostles
time, capt:ves taken in war were, without
regard to sex, age, or condition sold into
slavery here was no negro slavery nc
crime save love Of Country, and willingness
to die upon the alter of freedom, like our
own loved Washington and his coadjutors.
Did Paul raise his voice direct against this
awful sin? Or was it no sin to enslave mon,
whose only crime was, that they had nobly
defended their country against the legions
of Rome?, IfMr F. gives perpetual slavery
as the reward Of patriotism, what punish,
ment would he inhict on the traitor? Was
it no sin, to take the poor, but patriotic cap.
tives of war and expose them in the vast
Colosseum ian ampitheatre erected for the
purpose) in combat with the widest of wild
beasts ?-on one occasion alone 400 were
thus exposed and killed--was this ''no sim:
Were the Gladiatorial shows "no SIM" in
which hundreds, armed with swords and
spears were often made to fight in mcrtal
combat, mostly in pairs, sometimes in bodies
all to CRAFTY the public eye ?--all these and
thousand other facts of equal arocity, moi
grasped by Mr.. F's "feeble scope of mind,'
are patent enough to the most ordinary stu.
dent in history. All these enormities were
at their very hight at the time Paul was in
Rome. Caligula, the most cruel Emperor
Rome ever had who once said he "wished
the people of Rome had but one neck, that
he might destroy them all at blow;" this
brutal man began to reign four years after
the death of Christ Did Paul here or any
where else where slavery (white slavery e
course) is known to have existed, raise his
voice against its Ifhe, or Christ, or any
of the apostles did so, why has not the apos
tie Fowler shown if 1T was all importan,
that he should have done so-not having
done it, he leaves both Mr.. Taunton and my.
selfin full and peacable possession of the
ground contended for, viz, shat neither
Christ nor his apostles butted themselves
againsta solid wall of national enactments
and MISUNDERSTANDING the tree was
their mode of dealing with both slavery and
poligamy; leaving its vitability to perish
as it did, under the influence of the Golden
Rule.
But this is not all. Mr.. F. has laid il
down as rule in the case of Noah's curse
that "as God did not countermand or re-
i, prove Noah for uttering it, it must de regar
ded as an expression Of the Divine wilr,-
So long as the infatuated man presses the
binding scales of slavery to his eyes, he
will not see the ridiculous inferences which
flow from his own logic. As in the case o
Noah's drunkenness, if we apply the above
rule of Fowlers to slavery, it will give us the
Divine sanction to aehite slavery. As neither
Christ nor his apostles ''countcrmanded' tht
laws. in virtue of which white slavery existed