Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-02-20
SLAVERY IN THE BIBLE.

The o. S. Journal says: 1t will be rec.
objected that not long ago. Ex-tiover MOI
Hammond. of South Carolina, sent to Row
Henry " ard Beecher. few texts of Scrip.
ture. elegantly printed on silk. and called
by the South ,arolinian. Gods Higher
Law" 1t is unnecessary to state these
texts had reference to the great question
of slavery. and from their apparent justif-
cation of the abOminable system of bondage
in the United States, were triumphantly
quoted by not only the partizan press, but
by certain self styled religious period icals,
that seem to think the highest duty to God
is to apoiigize for African slavery. One
Rev. Van Dyke. in the pul pit echoed at
length the sermon intended to be con-
veyed by Governor Hammond, in the texts
printed on silk. In reply to Gov. Ham
;:ond aud the disappearing Rev. Van
Dyke. the Ratchman and Reflector, a
religious paper printed at Boston. fires the
following fatal demslishing s-riptural shot
We advise all our religious Democrat
friends, who fly to the Old Testament for
approval of their unholy prejudices against
the Niger and Abolitionists, to cut out the
extract and wear it In their hats or place
1t in some other conspicuous place where it
may daily meet their eyes, and where it
may be instru entail, if possible, in turn
Ing them from their unrighteous ways
The extract is as follows:
There are some things about this"
higher law which Gov. II, did not present.
/. The only way to make slave under
the Hebrew Commonwealth was by purchase.
''Uf the heathen round about shall ye 6,,y."
etc. LevitleuS XIV, 10.
,. 10 obtain bondman by kidnapping
or stealing. was death. ''He that steaieth
a man, etc. ''shIll suiely be put to death"
Exudus XXI, IL.
, ). a slave could not be SoH under He
brew laws There is no evidence that
Hebrew erer sold slave. There was no
Have mart OF auction block in Palestine.
+ A runaway slave could not be return
d. n hOu shalt not deliver unto his
master. etc. Deut xiii. 10.
u. az AASbANh.SpAS CSSAAGu GOGAL Gll4du-
ipatiIn at certain periods; for Hebrew SER
Iuts every Sscemth ycar-Ex ,dus XXI. ,;
JII. ". - jeremiah xxxiv, Ii ,nd fot
III slaves every tifueth year; Liberty
throughout ali the land unto all the in
I4OItants thereof
e shall return eCer,y ruau unto. his possess
OnS, etc LcvitiruS XIV, 10. IL. his
vas statute law. aud set Il limit to the word
'loeevcr. in l.eviticus XIV. 10. just as the
ono word when applied to the Hebrew
xxi. twas limited by the
cyeuth year emanci patton law.
d. Ali slaves. under the He brew code,
.ad L large AMOUNT ot time to themselves, !
eekonlng every seventh day, and every
eIr. aud the national festivals and rel
iJus feasts, they had about tl0euty-tiiree {
ears i'll fifty of cessation from labor.
these provisions, Iestrictioes and limita- t
ions, all belong TO Gods Higher Law" c
ct Gov. Hammond apply them be adopted |
nto the Southern slave code.
No slave stolen: that would end the c
1r-ign trade. which is system ofkidnap- '
lug and violence. /
No slave sold: that would end the inter- S
lave trade 4
No fugitive slave returned: that would L
pen Il passage to freedom, and wind up c
nc quarrel about personal liberty laws. V
Iot4l emancipation once in fifty years:
lAkin5 it diff ;uiG m ItIer to start anew. j;
our or five such chasms in our slave his Ii
Try with neither foreign nor home traffic. u
Ould have created tremendous call for t
ee labor all through the South. v
And, lastly, third or m,re If holiday n
me to all the oppressed, while awaiting II
he jubilee. fC
Such was Gods method with slavery in Il
le Hebrew Commonwealth. Every law, Il
-ery provision aud restriCtiOn looked to r,
lie extinction of the system. And it was al
,tiuguished. There was but little of it Sc
the time Of the prophets What little pl
ere was. was terribly denounced, and 1t
hen Christ come, not u yestige of the bar n
lrous system remained in Palestine ?
here is no evidence that Christ ever saw "
slave or STAKEHOLDER. s.
1t seems to Us tn 1t GJv. HImmJ Jnl has &c
t carefully extmined the whole of the eT
ebrew Statute Box. and, as conse- iii
I-ncc, does not fully understand Gods uC
IIher Inv. W