The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1861-04-19

tutiOn thht DlnuS tnfct mitllOnS OF people W
servile bondage, degrading them to leve
with the brutes Of the feld--thattake ava
honest employment, and grinds and impov
erishes seyen-tentbs OF the white population
Of the South that forces them TO be idl,
and ignorant, and at length vicious and
criminal-that OF necessity must have bod,
OF human fends 10 perform the work OF mis-.
cry and torture:
The human stock buyer with fell intent,
Upon his hend.like work is bent.
And IL he can. with pangs untold,
Convert the human form to gold,
'TiS all he wants: nothing he fears
Nor cares for suffering mortals' tears.
The driver, too, nn the plantation
Pursues hiS immoral occupation:
In cotton held, and riCe-swamp dire
'Neaih ~cnrching sun, in knee.deep mire,
The bloody lash Is used instead
or muscle and sufficient bread
And drops Of sweat from dark Drows rolled
To lie turned into yellow gold.
The slaNe.catcher, with bounds that bay,
Pursucs the painting runaway
Through swamps and cane.brakes dark and
lone,
Only by slimy reptiles known.
ITO be !ree all these dangers dare
The hunters are un thy track, beware!
And " at last the hounds ileet step
Thy exhausted form should intercept,
Woe to thee then! would not he
Near that dread place the sight to see.
That institution that allows the high an d
rich to roll in luxury and idleness and dis
sipation--that allows Them license TO crafty
their unloly passions - that deadens their
finer feelings--that makes cruelty a necessi-
ty-t that impoverishes the soil that is the
prolific source Of thousand other evils.
Verify, Bishop. thou art not in earnest
when thou sayest: "Slavery as it exists in
rhe South is not a mora, evil" And wha,
may we expect TO follow such declaration
Why that he should seek TO enttench him.
self behind the sacred word OF God, to per-
vert is meaning, 10 sustain his pro slavery
doctrine; but this course is only in keeping
with hundreds Of other divncs, who pro
mulgate from the pulpit the tiehtfulness OF
slavery, aud that it is sanctioned by :he
Most High.
But thOro shall he mishticr day;
There Sh.dl he \ herccr blast;
The earth SHAH mc!t like wax away.
And jIC stars from Heaven be- cast.
Justice then shall be- done
To every one hcnca Ia the sun.
next object 10 the use Of the hrst quota
ton from Holy Writ, as follows: - "Cursed
be Canaan "A servant Of servants shall he
be unto his brethren" In the first place
object to The assertion that this las refer
encr 10 manual slavery. 1t had reference to
subiugat,on 10y war and conquest. And
ueS'. object 70 its application 10 the negro
race. f"e examine carefully, We find that
the descendants uf Caanan dweit IN Asia,
and are described as follows: "And the
border OF Canaanltes was from Sidun as
thou cpmcst 10 Gerax. unto GAIA, as thou
eoesi unto Sudom and Gomorrah, and Ai-
nah, and XeboinI, even unto Lasha." All
the territory included in this boundary, lies
from the place where our nero slaves are
Therefore the negroes are not
the descendants Of Caanan, and this passage
does not justify us in enSlaying them. But
thr Caanani!eS are the same people that are
destroyed BY the lsrlrl,trS, who are the de-
ScenlantS Of Shrm. The CanlanItes were
d.yt cis into diT rent families, called tie
Jebus.tr, the Amor.te aud HE G GirgaS,te, and
the Invite, and the Arklte - the same tribe s
OF families that are mentioned as being de-
stroyed by the Children of Israel. ISee
Joshua, vi, 81 This is wha. I think is
meant by Noah's curse: subiugation and
destruction by war; not bondage and end.
less slavery. And there isno evidence that
n single descendant of Caanan was enSlav,t
b. Shem's pos,eritY; and all the tribes men
toned as being the descendants Of Caanan
are also mentioned as being utterly destroy
ed. In the chapter TO which We have refer
red, It is said they utterly destroyed them,'
and "neither left they any To BREATHE" an,
of course none TO make slaves of. See SAM
chapter, verses 6, % incluslve.l Then no,
are we going to Justify negro slavery with
passage that has no reference to TIE African
race, but 10 a race utterly destroyed. not b
bondage, but by war and conquest Bisho
Hopkins, or any other man. must be drive,
TO dreadful lengths to attempt TO ius.if
slavery with this passage.
More anon. -iG. W. W.