Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-04-11
VOL. VIII, NO. 97s.
For ihe Herald, ~ vSes
slavery Tried by the Isilolo and
found Wanting.

that some champion for human oppression
has offered some structures on 4 late COM
munication ofiaine. 4 enter no complaint
against the Editor for permitting an anon-
ymous writer to assal correspondent
4 swfiting over bis own signature, FOR the
simple treason that any man has GOOD and
sufficient reason for concealing his real
name from the public, who ii this latitude
attempts to prove the innoxious character
Of American Slavery from the Holy
Bille.1ss a..8e s ~ sa
IL Your correspondent, e Impartiality,2
seems to deplo e the increase Of infieels,
! but apprehene he has utterly failed to
perceive the true cause Of the increasing
infdelity with which the ceuntryfis being
cursed. The true, and perhaps the prin,
eipal cause: IS attributable 70 efforts Of pro-
! fessed believers n.the Bible, to make that
Il pure and holy book sustain American sla+
very. Only prove by: indisputabIes argu-
ment that the Bible is. in favor of slavery,
and every s'sane" mind not utterly besossed
with love Of oppression OF 50 entirely
cottonized as to obscure It's mental aud
moral vision, VIII Instantly and instinctiyely
ignore the Bible an cast the ahoniinable
/ thing from him with perfect loatlling and
'bdisgust. s. as8s l
The question was once discussed by a
debating society, Is American slavery
Eright?" a grave deacon in 4 certain or
thodox church took the affirmative and at
tempted to draw one Of lns Arguments
from tie Bible Aninfdel on the negative,
| when replying tothis orthodox q deacon,
admitted that the Bible was in favor of
slayery and remarked that it only confirmed
the opinion he had long entertained Of
that book, viz: That Il was the seorat
boob III tie aQorld.'
a c~staipiuidel in one Of the Eastern
States was prosecuted for the crime Of
blaspherny, and H. airing anoHhodox divine
attempting to justify slavery from the
Bible, exclaimed, "WhY, / was never
4 guilty Of such hofid blasphemy as that
So much fer the factory whence iuidels Isl
| sue forth Of. the face of the earth.
| The entire argument Of Ipapartiality'a
is based on the assumption that master and
servant, slaye-owner and slave, are inter-
chaneeable terms We denoninate this
assumption; and it is the most slere AS
sumption that was ever put forth by any
"sanen mind. am not disposed to tell
FOUR readers whether your correspondent
" Impartiality,7 Or myself is the most
sane Of insane, but very respectfully sub-
Limit whether any morally "sqae mind in
this HIGH northern latitude, and with the
glorious rays Of lightilluminating the mid
die Of the nineteeDth century, can enter
tain .he idea that the Bible is q revelation
from a Just and holy Godand yet sustaills
the gigantic iniauity the colossal system
and sin Of American slayeTyl! fAk
II Lar. clad tilat-your correspondent ae-
Inowledges the authority of the Bible.
Why should he then complain ofits teach
: ings! said that every STAKEHOLDER is a
] thief, and according to tue law Of God
would suffer capital punishment. What
saith the law Turn TO Exodus, XXI: TO.
and you will read as follows: He that
stealeth man and selleth him, or if be be
found in his hand, he shall surely be pat
to DEATH Again, Deaut. XIV: /" II
a man be found stealing any Of his breth-
rem Of tne children of Israel, and naketh
merchandize of him, then that thief shall
die, and We shall put away the evil from
among yeu.p Under the gospel 'ALL are
brethren
Is it not passingly strangethat your cor
s respondent did not seem to know that the
denunciation against the man-thief was
written in the law Of God ] suppose he
eonectared that il originated In the brain
Of an an insane abolitionst pat for
| tnnately for the credit Of the Bible ana its
I HOLY Author it is found written IN HIS
/ word, .akat aief shall de-. Let il BE-
admitted, simply for the sake Of argument,
shat master means property owner and SER
want means slave; what then? Turn to
jeremiah, xxxIv: 9and 10, and YOU may
/ read as follows: THAT every one should
| let Iis man servant and every one has inaid-
servant 90 free, and they obeyed and let
them 60. Now if tie term master be
correctIy defined by the term slave owner
and servant blythe term slave, how viii 1t
then read g ThIt every Shareholder lethis
/ man slave aud his maid slave 90 free.
Let SiatACIG1tlGSa IA okiA9 ~ SAtASst ~ e
4 command aud there is an end to the con
lfreyersys and. slavery must at once and Tor
lever cesse. True, the passage to which We
/ here refer, speaks Of Hebrews and he
brewesses, but we have before said thatun-
der the gospel dispensation all distinctions
\ Of Nationality are forever abolished
When any one denies this we shall UNDER
take to prove it.
What is fatal to the whole argument at
tempted to be drawn from Scripture II gfa-
vor Of slavery IS tie fact that no one has
vet proaed that s.lnaster means owner and
q seayant means slave. This has been often
asssf,nal, but neKsr proved. Let : I'M
lYartialitg undertake to prove that Hebrew
servitude and American slavery are ideiiti-
cal ndScriptnres Rill be made tp apTe's,
the most RIDICULOUS piece CT composition
that ever appeared il our world.
4 I do not presume 81 intimate thai your
anonymous correspondent is insane, nor
htbat ia needs to have has head shaved nor