Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-08-22
For;l,e Poueroy Weekly Ts!essaph.
4.rq Slavery. =


lhe question then is, what is 4 slave?
AnAmeriean slave is a human being
wh9 Isl by wicked brute force anl against
his wil, reduaod to state of civil death,
ard is eensi aered, held and treated as
property, as merchandise and as brute
beast, lie irIa human being who is de-
lrivedo Of a, name, and deprived of the
riah. of 5belonging to any native tribe,
kindred or people. lie is human be-
lug who is Incapable Of haviag a wife, a
f,thers a, mother, chila, brother, "a
sister or any other relation more than
brute teast, 4 hanan being who,
against his viii, is owned by'another hu-
man being as absolute property, as he
owns his horse, or his hog. Aud, if a
fathcr does not own his child, and has
nodamily name that his child can bear
any more than the father Of colt, or
pig; and if mother, her child is not
hers, it belongs to another, and he takes
and dispases of it when, and how he
pleases, and as soon as she ceases to feed
it atsher breast, she has no more right
or control over it. She is precisely held,
treated, and viewed as the mother Of a
coslt OF an ass is, SO far as her ci.;ld is
concerned. A human bein. who,
against his will, is rendered inelpab bic of
holding, owning or possessing, as owner,
any'sPecies of property whatever; his
bole time, lis whole services, and all
the proceeds OF bis labor belong to his
master. If any thing is given to him it
belongs to his owner. Not moment
of time belongs to him; it belongs to his
master; he cannot hare will or judg-
meht with regard to anything. He has
no heirs, nor. is he heir to any person or
thing, and therefore nothing can descend
to hinL He cannot make a will, and
therefore is reduced to the condition of
brute beast A slave is a huuan be-
ing, who, by unlawful and wicked means
is deprived of making contract; lie
cannot even make a contract for mar
riagc, ,inor can he perform a coatract, nor
can he be bound by contract, any
more than a brute beast Persons, and
persons only, can contract, aud be bound
by contract. A slave can neither con-
tract nor be contracted. with, sue uoI be
gued.a This aRost clearly shows that
shay iare reduced to the condition Of
brute beasts, and are not persous. a
slave is d human being, who, oy the
forces Of the circumstances su. rounding
him,sand his igr rorance, is compelled to
liveinatho sin of fornication, lewdness
RIGHTEOUSNESS, incest aud libertineis,n IN I.
The intercourseo the large plantations
is as the intercourse Of beasts-they
have acknowledge of ther or mother,
brotherior sister. They grow up in the
PLACES called nurseries, without any
Knowledge of who their parents are, or
whether they have any blood relations
on eaith, and without any sense of any
relstioa higher and more sacred than
thati@ hiehj exists between monkeys and
apesaoThis isa part Of what slavery is
Slavery is hereditary, and descends like
a beast in the female line, aud Tot like
II human being in the mail line forever.
And now, by way of conclusion, l ap-
pealoto the unprej udiced of the entire
civilized world. what do you think of
il? How does it coincide with the nat
uraiximpulses of the human heart?
What siinilitudes are there between it
ed the great cardinal doctrine of the
Christian religion? Can any man in
his right mind, with his eyes open, and
his conscience unseared with a hot iron,
go insultthe religion of the Bible, and
thesGod Of the Bible, as to claim, for
one moment, that the teachings of that
holy book sanctions, in the smallest de- !
gree, such a hell born system as that?
Why, sir, it is burlesque on the Chris
tian Church to intimate that there could I
be found one living mortal within its
sacred precincts that could doubt, for
an iustants its criminality and sinful
ness. And we hope in God that the
time is drawing near when not only the
Church, but the whole civilized world,
will. be relieved from crime SO dark
and. damning. w. w. I'll.
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