The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-06-02

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MONDAY, JUNE 9.

which may De found In the gun ana lIs'
chapters of Exodus.
"Thou shalt no, coyet thy neighbor' 4
rnsn servant, nor his maid servant, nor
any thihg that is thy neighbors. Ii the
the or shall push man servant, or maid
servant, he shall give unto their mdster
thirty shekels of silver, and the OK shall
be stoned. And if The servant shall
plainly say, love my master, my wife,
and nv children; will not 90 out free
Then his, master shall bring him unto the
Judges; he also bring him to the door, or
unto the door post; and his master shall
bore his ear through With an awl; and he
shall serve him forever.
We should like to know ii the laws
quoted above have been repealed. We
are not the advocate of slavery, but pro-
pose to leave il where the law OF 6 Cd and
the Constitution of the United States left
It keosauqua News.
The old sinner who "like the Devil
quotes Scripture TO serve his purpose, -
was member of the Church before we
were born probably. He has at least been
member long enough to know better
than to garble the Scriptures, -misquot-
ing them and jumbling the Ten Com
msndments with the civil and ecclesiastical
laws of the lsrAelites.
The Commandment says thou shalt not
coret thy neighbers wife, us we'll as his
maid servant, and il the fact that maid
servant, is mentioned in the Command
ment constitutes her property, does not
the same rule make the wife property
Also
And was not this conclusion so patent
as 10 constrain the venerable editor to gar.
BILE the Com dment and leavr out the
prohibition concerning "thy neig hbor's
WIFE"
Then We have some garbled quotations
from the Jewish civil law from which it is
to be inferred, that there were servants
among that people, but the nature or
length of their selvitude cannot be infer
red from the extracts. But frem the fact
that Abraham armed three hundred of
his followers, and that be spoke OF one Of
them as his probable successor and heir,
and from the further fact that his Grand
son Jacob had no SERVANTS when he and
his family went down to Egypt, with
other circumstances, il seems very clear
that Patriarehaf slavery had no resem
bianee to the peculiar Institution" OF
the South.
Now what is the meaning of that last
provision quoted in regard to boring the
ears Of serrant..
Look into the Bible and study the mat
ter little and see if something reasona-
bic cant be made of it. You remember
that Jacob offered to serrs his uncle La
ban seven years for Rachel, and that the
bargain was made, and after the time was
up Laban cheated Jacob out of Rachel
and gave him Leah instead. Then again
Jacob proposed to serve seeen more wears
for Rachel. This circumstance implies
two general facts, first; that aven wears
was common term of service; and sec.
ondIy that it was common to pay by service
or otherwise for wife.
Well, by studying the Scriptures you
will learn that NJ oses' laws restricted that
common seren years terms of service 10
SIX, by enactng that the land should lie
Idle the seyenth year, and that servant.
should be free from their labor. That
law was IN the right direction. it mitipa-
TED and diminished the seryitude amongst
the jews whether that seryi,ude was Of
the voluntary character rendered BY ia.
cob, or not.
but there was another evil 10 be reme-
o'ea, and that was the one provided for in
the last ciause Of the above quotations.
Dunng the period Of service [wh.teyer
that may have been and the Law ;,sa,t
shows that in the first instance it was IN.
y Tor term Of years servants sometimes
msrfisd the daughter of their master. or
fellow servant. When his time Of sar.
vice Was up his master would not let him
have his wife and children to 90 cut with
num- and 50 he preferred to stay, in or.
der to be with his wife and children
IN Illustration Of this 1t will be remem-
bered that Jacob had to run ax.y with
h'' family, and required Divine interpo.
sitaoh TO protect him from Laban.
n order therefore to discourage this
evil practice Of serving a term Of Wears
f2r wife, or Of marrying while n service