Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-03-28

Savior Of mankind.
You denounce the buying of men ant
women with money as sinful, and it, tel
Grafton in our country as Ga great natona
SIM, which has brought down upon us tht
judgement oflIoaven. Abraham did th,
same thing, and Heaven showered bless
ings upon him. Our fathers and brothers
did the same thing, and were blessed a.
Abraham was, until the reformors of God
moral law, by their impious assumptions
disturbed the peace of the country, anc
aided in bringing down upon it the calam
tiles under which it mourns.
You denounco slavery as sin. God
says, EXODUS, 2l, 2.) IF thou buy q
Hebrew servant six years he shall serve.
1hc4 is SIo0cry, or snvoluntayy serviiutlc
by Tie command Of COL. Who knows
best what is sin, you or God !
He may become free at the end of six
years J but if he choose, he may be made
u slave forever by means of a ceremony
prescribed in Exodus 81, 6, and Deutcr-
onomy 10, II. lie had no further option
on the subject; but says God, he shall be
thy Aeryant forever
But you may say this is voluntary ser.
vitude, Not only certainly for the FIRST
six years; and according to your princi-
pies, man cannot ALLEVIATE his liberty -
II so, this voluntary slave, after he has
become so voluntarily, mag change his
mind and resume his freedom but C cd
says he shall be servant forever Is
God sinner
But ii he accepts his freedom at the
end Of six years. His sons and daughters,
il born of a wife given him by his master,
doubtless herself slave,) 'shall be her
mastor's;' > and he shall 90 out by himself.
In other words, they shall not be free on
the seventh year, but shall remain slaves
forever. This is Gods order. Is it sin ,
Reverend Sir?
Y ou say there cannot be ownership in
man. God says the women and sons and
daughters in this case 'shaN be her mas
ter'S
In the Dist chapter of Exodus, after
directing that if master beat his slave to
death he shall be punished, God says,
verse 2l: Notwithstanding, if he con-
tnues day or two he (,he MASTERY shall
not be punished for he (thc slave, is his
money Is not man S money his prop
orty? You, Reverend Sir, say that q
mans slave ism his property God says
he is; which shall Christian believe -
[ would like to hear you preach sermon
from these words of scripture, 'For he is
his money
Thus saith the Lord in Loviticus 25,
"A, Both thy bondmcn and thy bondmaids
which thou shalt have shall be of the
heather that are round about you of
them Shall yc buy bondmen and bondmai-
dens.' Give US sermon on this text also,
and show US how acts which God express
ly authorizes can be sinful.
'Thus saith the Lord in the next verse
Moreover of the children of the strangers
that do sojourn among you, of them shall
yc buy aud Of their families that are with
you, which they bcgo' in your land, and
shall be your posscssion.'
Another good text, Reverend sir, from
which should like to hear you dcducc the
conclusion not only that buying these chill
drcn was sin, but that POSSESSION here
does not mean property
thus saith the Lord, in The next verse
'And ye shall take them as an inheritance
for your children after you, to inherit them
for possession they shall be your bond =
smen forever.
Your Bible tells you, Reverend sir, that
these are the direct words of God. God
himself authorizes the buying of slaves +;
God himself authorizes them to be held as
"a po5seSsion;' God himself declares that
they shall be IAN inheritance, passing from
father to sou; God himself declares that
they shall remain in this relation forever.
ct you teach that slavery is itself sin
that the buying men and women for money
is sin; that holding them as "a posses
sion is sin; that THAR transmission as
'an inheritance from father to son is a sin;
and that holding them in bondage forever
is the sum of all villanies'
What is tho inference ? Either that YOU
do not believe the Bible, and assume to
believe it only as mask to enable you to
lead astray ignorant men and silly wo-
men, or you believe that God himself lie.
gallzed sin among his chosen people.
Take which horn of the dilemma YOU
please ; you cannot escape both.
Let MS now review the subject in the
light of the New Testament.