Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-02-28


in their own persons or in their ancestors,
have all been robbed originally from their
own country, and by robbery taken from
! their Original and natural state Of freedom.
and ownership of themselves, and forced into
n state Of slavery. This robbery involves
the man-stealing and piratical Kidnapping
made capital by both divine and human
laws. This sin Of robbery runs down through
all the stages Of slavery from the slave
barracoon in Africa to every tobacco and
cotton field of Southern slavery. The con-
tinuous robbery wrests by brute force. every
day exercised, the hard toll and all its hard
earnings from every slave. BY the same
power and claim, which robbed the man
first from himself and then holds his person
az property, are all his labors and the Justly
earned wages forced from him and retained
I tfeloniously by the master.
2 Fraud While the fraud is embraced
in the robbery-for every slave stolen from
Africa was obtained by fraud-there is in
slavery fraudulent Withholding from the
slave every cent Of his earnings 1t will not
do to meet the charge to say, the master
feeds and clothes him. SO he does his horse
And then by what principle of right does
the master first settle the measure Of the
service and then the amount of wages?
Is there no fraud in the principle?
3. The Withholding wages from service
used These are the very terms of the law,
and this is the very thing upon. which it
pronounces its woe. The law presumes wa
ges due where labor is used. The laborer
is worthy of his hire" (wages). This law
is universal. 1t is always sinful to take
man service. especially by force orwithout
his consent, for nothing. The magnitude
of the sin, its moral turpitude, its aggrava-
tions are always in proportion to its extsr't
its complications and the amount of human
suffering and wrong endured and involved
in the violent seiziny or withholding of the
], wages This maie.fde holding back the
l hard earnings of the laborer is wholesale
wrong. 1t wrongs race. 1t descends to
all coming time perneditating the felonious
} appropriating of all the proceeds of the
'service" of unborn generations. 1t in
wolves whole nation in this wholesale
wrong; for it demands the strong arm, and
treasure, and blood, if need be, Of the Fed
eral Government, to defend this perpetual
use of unrequited toll It's gigantic wrong,
by system.
To talk of Slavery allowing the Slave
wages for the use of his service" issimply
to mock outraged, suffering humanity. The
slave code recognizes no such principle as
remuneration A robber meets you upon
the highway, and with revolver in your face
demands your money, x for its Use spares you.
No, pays you'down. in advance your life! You
, call this wages! This is the wages for this
: ''serrice." For every penny ever given to a
slave above his subsistence is, in law and
7 fact a bonus.
And then, there is another element in the
complication and aggravations of this In
iquity: theLe - pasehes neanhess
essehti.i u tiic sysieii, a. His, mhic. maAes
d ioathscme "iche',l1ss, NJ surpal5slng any
coniuloh tiliany. 10 rI1 Po9r GiilI man
" hlock uowh poor ueioiineu sioAy criP-
PIE, 70 cledt an lulo!, u ihailrea. wolna5
o u uo sucli lnlnes - p pn.'eriany ueeLneu =
tle oasest llieaIrcs5' D!t SIasei! IooS T.
DOOR nlentaliy pIinu' anu lgnordns rae l.
hhocHs uown' ruiiai hhe' y weaH IelencelesS
peqpie, Mi.nou. poMet W oei1nu .nelnse.is, Il
OF lrlehus 70 ProSecI !hsm; ~ aegraues tne
negro, anu p.eaus tne eegIaeall9u ilsgii :ii
INDUCES IN eAoehuatloh Oh tnc lta9u IL 9aiiy
, pfactices upon .ne unhappy 'ic'ih oi i's
cupioty. =
a more cruel system Vi lopoery; pasel
system oi fraud, meaner system OF uslna
D Sere'ce WITHOUT Wages Is yet 70 ps inven
: Tea IN that pace whence ali Mlckeu l,ven
tl1ns come; 1! roos Mhcie iacc, anu 'hen
r while reyehhg mus spoiisl L p3asts .hat tii'
spoiiea nave no risn.s Tnicn 1ne spoileI
e bound 70 respect anu Is u4c : law WIN
n out an ann ail9 wl'nout an opJecI u wnen
e thnnders, as from 1ihal 'op, VIZ 70 MI
y thao useth ms neignoor service wl.hou
A wages, ana sivetn nun NOT Ior MS Work
no, these are NOT equlvocai terms nor az
1t they USED N various senses, or WIN sue
le vagueness Una. tne enori1ies Is Gi olateT si
c'i @ u,uae sheir upiiicalioh s;i,a sais w. ia
II wo @ in words that would? III it does not rs
N '.se,yjce'' without WAGES. il is impossible q
NJ one man 50 tn use another mans service.
n 10 il does not violate this law of God. the
q sinners cannot break thatlaw. John Mesle
:, smoke sIvisedly when he said, "Slayerv
N the sum of yiIlainies1, ~
n n 4 The law farther, and in very expre
is terms, requires SHAREHOLDERS to free the
VS. Slaves. In Jer. 34th, 1916, God con
Ii mands all to whom it applies, thus, San
n, ye were now turned, and had done right
of my sight, in proclain,iag liberty every ma
en- to his neighbour We turned and polll
nd ted my name, and caused every man his Sc
cir wants Obed) and every man his handmai
ey whom he had set at liberty at their pleasur
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