Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-09-15

very profound aversion. In raosns criticism o,
Mrs. kembl1's Journal il Georgia. it favors lis
with the novel and Instructive discovery that
"inyouutary seryitude for life, rs 1t IS called Is
but all extreme form of that sabJectIon. OF the
Individual TO the dominant social power which
prevails more or less III every natlun. L lie res
viewer cannot be unaware that differences of de-
gree pass after Certain limits iutu differences OF
kind but we deny MS fact. American slavery
is in some most essential points utterly different
from slavery even among Turks; to identity il
with the bondage Ut tile Jews Is a INDUSTRIOUS III.
suit to truth.
The Mosaic Legislation recognized a common
bond Ot interest between master and bouduan; IL
threw over the latter the sacred protection VI law
it made no distinction between his testimony
and that otthe freeman, it SANCTIONED his mar
rage, 1t recognised his family; above ALL IL
united the slave with the master Ill every ace VI
religious worship, 1t Upheld the honoraoie ehai
actcr Ut labor, and enuIncd II alike On Tue uasIei
aud the slave. Aud accordingly Tue hiS!oIy VI
the Jews brings before Us II condition VI lhlhSs
i'm which this legislation WAS ~ a greut extent
carried out / uc picture vi BOaZ among HIS
rcauers is III 10 essential feature unlike tDat VI
Abraham serraut, when lie stvod ny the "ei''
side with keDckan. Ine American slave sysN
fem canuut exist without Il fugitive staVe'!aw
the Musaic leg Islativn bids the Jews run the FISK
even OF war rather than give up the runaway
slave In slors, as We have already salu, tueiol 10
nota single point Ut Likeness. between The slavery
Of the Mosaic code aud the fearful 81 stem, nc
In the whole OF this, Mr.. Smith and the
Reviewer" either grossly mistake or wlliul-
~ coniouud two different things. Every one
Of those provisions which these writers say
we're made by the Mosaic legislation, was III
favor only uf those few temporary Slaves VINO
were Hebrews, and who had fallen into slave
ry through poverty. For the great mass oi
the slaves of the Jews who were maue cup
tive in war, or purchased from the heathen
riund about" not a single one Of these stipu-
,ros ever made. There was Tess OF the
sacred protection Of law thrown around thoSo
fore;rn slaves than there is around our me-
crocs. The Mosaic law did not sanction their
g, orriape. nor recognize their family, nor give
the slave right to bear testimony nor unto
the slave with the master in every nor Ill
anvil act of religious worship" On the con-
trary, it excluded them from the jewish reli-
,ion, and from the benefit Of the jubilee; put
we admit that the Jews were commanded hoI
10 work their slaves, nor their horses nor
their asses, on the Sabbath. The Mosaic law
did not uphold the honorable character OF
labor" Labor in the eyes of the Jews was
not honorable at all, but was consequence
and punishment Of sin. Further, the COM
mand to the Jews not to restore fugitive
slave, means that a slave who fled into the
land of the Hebrews from q .toretgm country
was not to be delivered up. The writer's must
know this if they read the Bible at all; and
they must know also that a fugitive slave fly
ing from one tribe of Jews into another was
to be delivered up, as much as an escaped
horse. The attempt to contrast the two SyS-
tens upon this ground is excessively disin-
genuous.
As to Bcaz and his reapers, we can perceive
in that scene nothing one whit more patrar-
chal than any planter and his cotton-pickers.
The British public has got great deal to do
vet before it "clears its mind Of can't"