The Placer herald., 1862-10-25

earth and hell to prolong it, to render it
more bloody and perhaps insure the success
of the Enthusiastically to afford them
their only chance of success-by converting
the war for the Constitution into war
against slavery. You are as hostile to the
Constitution as the rebels themselves and
you prefer their success to the preservation
Of the Government transmitted to us 10y our
fathers, simply because that Government
recognizes an institution which God has
sanctioned and the right OF masters and
the death of servants rs prescribed by the
apostles of Christ. In short, you are not
willing to live under Government which
protects shareholders, though it does not
know them in that character and has no
power over the institution.
wonder that you do not openly rebel
against the government of God because "he
sendeth his rain on the ust and the nm Just"
TO be consistent you ought to object to
living on the same earth and under the
same skv with slave holders to being warm,
ed by the same sun and brea hing the same
air. And sure y you will pray for a heaven bv
yourselves for those who think no slaveIold
er can I've fit associate for T. EN- in Chris
tain church cannot be happy IN heaven
peopled with such shareholders as Abraham,
Isaac. and Jacob, Moses, David and Solo
mon. and such aj!vorates of slavery rs Paul
and Peter. Now, how can you be happy in
that Heaven where that God is who express
Iy authorized his people of old to buy slaves
and hold them in bondage forever; or that
Christ an essential part of whose. religion is
the cheerful obedience of the slave to his
master!
Yes, in your "doting about questions and
strifes of words" you not only promote rev
ou'ion and bloodshed in your country, but
you are sapling the foundation of your coun
try's religion. When you prove that slavery
is in itself sinful realion, you will prove
that the Bible is false; that the God of the
Bible is a God Of sin and that Christianity
as taught 10y the descpIe of Christ" is but a
cloak for "the sum of vilIainies." Truly il
has been said on another occasion, 1T is
hard TO believe such men sincere. If not in.
fid-ls already, they are on the highway to
thai bourne"
How many weak minds, having been first
inhued with the dogma that slavery is in itself
a sin and a crime, when they come to find
that from Genesis to Revelations it is recog
nized as lawful and not unchristain insiitu
ton, will be induced to re- ect the whole Ri
hle as fable, aud the God of the Bible as an .
imaginary being9
April, 1862. AMOS KENDALL.
p. SIT should be noted that the Greek
word doulos end the Hebrew word ebed,
translated by the single word "SerOant" in
the Bible means bond servant or slope The
Greek word translated "hired serpant,' is
misthotos, and the Hebrews had different
expression for that relation. Both relations
ment toned in the 9Th verse of the 25lh chap
ter of Levilcus. If the relation OF master
and slave be sinful one, is it not singular
that it is used more than any other through
the Bible to illustrate the relation between
GoD aud good men9 Pa,riarchs, prophets
and apostles are called the servants of GOD
and CHRIST, as subjects to their will, and AS
devoted to their service As a slave to his
master. If this relation were sinful among
men, would not an innocent one, such, for
instance, as father and children, have been
universally used rather than master and
slave?
p. 81 observe the following comnuni
cation in your paper OF the 18th instant,
viz:
"Messers. Elitors: have been both inter-
ested and amused with Mr. kendali's elabol
rate effort to prove the excellence of slavery
by Scriptural quotations. Mr.. Kendall is too
good a lawyer to know that he cannot make
one part of any document evidence without
accepting the whole | therefore recomi
mend TO his attention the following passage
as bearing on fugitive slave law:
"Thou shaH MT deliver unto his master the
seruant which is escaped from, his master unto
thee. He shall dwell with thee, even among
YOU, in that place which he shall choose in
one of thy gates; where it iketh him best.
thou shalt not Cypress him."-Deuterono
my, xiii, 5 and l6.
"PhiladeIphia, June 6.
Audi Alteram Partem."
Upon this beg leave to submit the fol'
lowing remarks, viz:
l. | have made 10 "effort to prove the
excellence of slavery" My effort has been
sim ly to prove that it is not III itself sinful.
In my argument there is nothing about
"a fugitive slave law"
3. The Scripture quotation copied by" eau
di' of itself proves the existence of slavery
at that period; otherwise there nould have
been no servants to escape from their masi
ter.
4. commend to the writer his own rules,
viz 'that he cannot make one part of n doe
ument evidence without accepting the whole"
as well as the additional rule; tha, "every
document shoaM be so construed # possible as
to make IL consistent With ITSELF" BY these
rules et US construe this Scripture quota.
tion.
God authorized the Tsraeties to buy the
heather for slaves. s.-Lev, Is, 44.-Does
this mean that, # Helrew buy such slave
to day, and takes shelter in another lie
brew's house to- morrow, he shall be forever
free?
God authorized the Israelites to hold the
heather so purchased as "a possession on"-Lev.