Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-03-21


TO every human being on earth, without ex-
ception, to hold slaves. Nature has been
equally kind to all the creatures. In all the
sea, every one has the authority from the
Almighty" to take, and hold, and use any
other TO which his power Is equal. Thus
the big fish eat up the little ones. every
thing after his kind the original law Of
creation. In all the forest too, every four
footed beast has 'a,thority from the AL
mighty to sieze, tear and cat, just as the
instincts of nature suggest For here. too,
the lawis universal; and the animal instincts
is the law Of animal nature, under which
tho Creator placed animals. It is then, to
common sense, evident that might is the
arbitef of right among the Irrational tribes.
For there is no way Of settling claims be-
twixt the big fish and the, minDow, but the
convenient appeal tcM1ght -Yhcy all claim
the equal right and an exercise IL; and 80
live upon one another. The strong devour
the weak. Thus tho law Of Slavery deter
mines who has the right to be master, and
who is bound TO be slave. And precisely
so the Angels look down upon our sinful
race, living like brutes, one upon another.
So it has always, and every where been,
where Slavery existed The power always
on the side Of theoppressor: Hence all the
risings and fallings Of nations and tribes
one nation enslaves, and again is enslaved
and now in this seven thousandth year Of
the world no man can say his ancestors were
never slaves. Is not Slavery worse than
barbarous? Is it not brutal2 Its law is,
might makes right. 5 ..
Another feature of the Bishops view
I-he makes the moral law an absurdity.-
Can one man desire the ownership of an
other without his consent and his price---that
is without wages agreed upon--withcut
] covetousness? Then may the wolf devour
the lamb withour desiring it! Leo ell o.
There is another silly absurdity in the
Bishops "view Of slavery" This argu.
ment from the 10th Commandment proceeds
upon the assumption that no servant, or
service, or servitude can be the object OF
coyetousness, but slave, or a slave SER
vices. The assumption reaches farther -
That nothing but vendible property can be
an object of unlawful desire. rat
The Bishops argument confounds very
important distinction betwixt mans claim
to hiswife and to his OK or ass. For the
one there is market value, for the other
none. In prices current horses are quoted,
wives never. They are not vendible, more
than children or husbands. Wives have
the same property in their husbands that
husbands have in their wives. Every word
in the tenth Commandment is proper il
there never had been slave on earth. I'D
view NINTH: Is taken from (Ex. XXI
2-D. Here we see that the separation o
husband aud ,cife is positively directed BY
the Divine command. in order to secure thu
property of the master in his bond-maid ant
her offspring. ~ - f-,-i-- r'--
Is there any lower depth than thise NJ
wonder savage. and heartless monsters
bearing the Office of human auctioneers, can
with the GOODNESS of horse jockeys, sell ant
separate and scatter whole families, Husbands
to one State and wives to another, in the ad
ministration of this law of divorce. "
Christ forbids divorce, save for one cdus
only. Here, our Bishop, for the specia
benefit Of the peculiar N institution, add
another cause. Rather, perhaps, we SHOULD
say, abroga tes Chris's abrogation Of thu
ceremonial law Of divorce, and opens thu
Pro- Slavery liberation for a wider liberty
Little matter about the technicalities; on,
thing is evident, Slavery is allowed to spor
with marriage; and we have a long argu
ment to prove that the New Testament doe
not interfere with this superior law Of Slave
ry. This confirms our charge of universe
concubinage, as asserted by the Synod o
Kentucky, to be essential to Slavery as ,
system. And here we have a Bishop plead
Fl ing Bible sanction for this ioathsone sin
condemned by the Bible, and nature, ant
civilization And Of course we shall hav,
the argument to sustain 1.-THE Herculeai
argument never answered, ,-'there 1t is
plainy soritten" n 1fis' eAl
| True, the Bishop says, " the husband hat
E an alternative y And what alternative dit
the law of the Bishop allow this husband, ,
!, free white MANI Here it is, " 4 hepreter
red Slavery to separation And remembe
r the Bishop defines Slavery in these words
g seruitude for life, descending to the of
spring. Forthis Bishop price, man
8 free mana free white man, may have an
a live with his wife Remember, further
r directly contrary to Van Dyke, he saysther
s was no jubilee for slaves--for any slaves
| because it only extended to the Israelite
: who had a possession and a family, accord
Q ing to the original distribution of the Ian
Q among the tribes" This exception refer
to the elder brother-frst-b -born-who coul
be held as hired servsats only Lev. 25:4(
+ All other Hebrew servants the Bishop MAKE
9 perpetual slaues, with their offspring. FL
= there ii Is toritten, Ex-21:6, and he shd
r serpe him torerer." Here the Bishop is col
sistent, and sticks to the perpetual ,torerer
o while Mr.. Van Dyke yields, and allows q
;, Hebrews the benefit of the jubilee. If v
Is mistake Mr. Van Dyke here, and if he an
the Bishop agree, we then have full pi
y ture of Hebrew jargon and refined tyrann.
It never on earth equalled by any tribe Of me
II notibarbarian savages. What is this pi
,s ture? This is it. A people of the same ski
h blood and kin, holding one another, brothe
Z and sisters bought and sold, husbands an
> wives parted at pleasure--all mixed up lii
,t cattle-all natural ties sundered, as it brute
o at the master will, and no alternative 70
q eueri This from the Clergy is the enunci
II ton of,the political dogma boldly enunciatt
,e from high places that : capital should on
y iaJor."e Thiswould be patriarchal. Let!
e. Door mud -sius hail the march Of mind--tl
h glory of the Millenia reign Of Slavery ywhit
At knows no distinction Of color, race or chn
A. lone universal brotherhood of master al
!, servant! How we shall all then (not throu(
Of the dark glass Of, Abolitionism) see Il
Se beauty of the happy etion Of brother Ma
h, ter Phileman, and brother, aboue stdue
"a in the person Of Omsiniis s,sl .sf'.,
Before Instrumentation Of this patriarch
he system, which subjected the, poor and |
ne their offspring to perpetual chattel SLAYER
's we anticipate some dificulty.L While labc
he ers among us enjoy the franchise rights,
- cannot he introduced. Will the friends