Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-03-20
A few Words for Pharaoh.

seldom writes anything but what is good
and to the point. The following is one
Of his latest-and best:
Ever since we were old enough to 90 to
church, We have heard old King Pharaoh
spoken Of 10 terms Of disrespect. Preacher:
all seem to shave pick at him." more
especially at his heart which, if you would
believe them, was as hard as granite
They always tell one side of the story ;
let US give the other.
Pharaoh was kingo Egypt, in Africa, a
country once celebrated for its science, It's
corn crops, aud its masons. When the
Pharaoh, about whose heart we hear SO
much. was on the throne, the Egyptians
owned about two millions of siaves-de-
scendauts of a certain white man named
Abraham These slaves were multiplying,
very rapidly; were, in the main, conteh-
ted; aud were "De,ter off, by far, than
the most Of US. Pharaoh aud the EsyP-
tiaus were much "attached to them, ''prc
yided for them" made all their laws, and
they had nothing in the world to do but
work, eat and be jolly. Their masters
had all the trouble.
But they were multiplying too fast, $50
we'll off were they aud Pharaoh was in-
duced to order, that, after certain day,
all the male slave children born should be
drowned or strangled like kittens. This
looks bad, and the preachers have made
the mos. of it; but, let US consider his
motive. 1t was to make slave insurrec
tiou impracticable. Now, We all know
what horrible tbing slave instruction
is. Stump orators sometimes tell us OF
St. Domingo. Pharaoh thought his slaves
might be melted by some miserable fanatic
like John Brown to rise, and then what
would they do but cut throats, burn hou-
ses, ravish iheir dusky misresses, and run
pitchfcrks through the curly-headed chill
dren Of their good masters? ? Who will
say, that, in view of all these possible
horrors, it was not best just to send the
little Hebrew slave boys of one or Two
generations to heaven, where they would
be better off!
1t is true, too, that whipping and beat,
ing, even to death, were rather common,
and that women, even, were not spared
but, to Offset this, they had plenty Of leeks,
onions, aud other savOry things to eat, and
all they could do. They had no concern
of mind, TO schools to attend, no laws to
make, no cares to furrow their faces,
nothing to do but work, eat and be jolly.
We are certain, that, if CORES spOndent of
the London Times had taken boat ride
on the Nile in those days, be would have
failed for language to describe the happy
condition Of the chivalrous Egyptian
masters and their contended slaves.
But, alas! they were walked from this ,
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sgitator named Moses, well educated
man, but, like too many now, he made
bugbear of himself by his ultraism. He
was q kind Of a Yankee interloper.
Whea he saw an Egyptian beating a
brother man, cruelty, instead Of helping
to subdue the wretch, as he should have
done, be smo.e the oppressOr so violently :
that be died from the blow. For this
cause, Moses was obliged to Iul away.
But be could not stay away. lie heard
something out Of burning bush one day,
which inAimed his abolition notions,
fanatics are always having visions,) SO he
went back to Egypt. When be got back,
everything was going well. The country
was fourishing, the people were united,
taxes we're low, and trade prosperous. II
Pharaoh had hung him at once, great
deal of trouble would have been avoided
But Moses insisted on the emancipation
of all tho Hebrews. Think of that
Slavery was an old institution, the slaves
were happy, and worth about S2GO,OOO,-
VUU l1UW COulu -NOSCs dsh SuCu q I
rifcs Of property? He claimed that God
had sent him-that the Israeites were
oppressed and all that; but Moses was
minister: what right had he to meddle
with slavery in Egypt, purely "poli'ical
question: The other preachers in
Egypt were faithful to Ammon, and let
Slavery alone. How much better it ,
would have been if Moses bad done as our
American Tract Society, and as several of
our popular churches have ne-preached
the Bible and kept out of the dirty water
of politics !! But nothing would satisfy !
him but emancipation. G
OF course the pride Of the Egyptians
was touched. They we're chivalric race, !
with hot southern blood. They knew
their rights. To show their contempt for {
Moses, they Increased the tasks of their
slaves, and whipped them harder. The
Hebrews themselves intreated Moses to 60
away and let them alone. But he went