New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-03
sCRaRBEERY SCRIPTURE.

exempted from the Emancipation P:O,amation
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sCRaBBEEIY SCRIPTURE.
He who undertakes to extenuate the crimes
OF the Mani wners' Rebellion, soon lapses iuev.
itablg into an excavation OF Man.Owning Itself.
The Insurgents, indeed, so far from attempting
to conceal tho nearest motives Of the In,urree.
ton, make q clustering parade Of them to the
whole world, and challenge toe admiration Of
their fellOw.creatures not only for their mar.
tia valor, but also for their intelligent social
economy. They plead guilty with charming
candor, and own their ofenses with the bod.
ness of conscious innocence. awe do ouy and
sell men," say they, 1" but it is best Tor tlen
to be objects of bargain and sale. We do 70
fuse them fair wages for fair WORK, but they
are best contentcd in q pennies condition.
We do force them to unwilling labor, for
without force they would not labor at oil. We
do deny them permanent social relations, but
for these they care little. We do keep them
90 to glory OF swifter and more Ger
tain pace, for the very reason thai
they cannot read their Bibles. We fog
them, but it is as father fOggeth h,
children. We call upon the whole world 10
revise its judgments. We consider Human
Slavery, involuntary and endless, to be .
Divine Institution, and so explicitly established
by the clear command OF the Scriptures thai
We cannot, without ain, abolish it if we would,
while, since We find its practice quito as lovely
az lis theory, we would not abolish it if We
could. Know all men by these presents, tbs.
we are fighting for Slavery, which alone can
make us free aud happy" Such is the Lao.
guage of the Traitor. He draws aud bio.
coughs it in the whisky-shop, and Mr.. Presi.
dent" Davis repeats it, without the earniturs
of profanity, in his Proclamations New-York
patriots of the peace-at-aDy-prlce variety, Who
think that there is great virtue in the vigOrou
damnaton of the "nigger." prattle poor imi.
tation OF this convenient candor. From tie
Great Man in Albany down TO the shoulder.
hitting logicians of Five Points, comes the sams
noble solution of q public problem; while
shepherds in silk gowns, with more Hebrew
than heart, and not much Of either, assure the
iull-fed and liuen-clad lambs Of their flock that
if the Rebels are wicked tho AbolitiOnsts are
totally depraved, aud that if the Black Man 10
logged aud storVed, and swindled, and sys.
Dramatically degraded. he must settle the matter
with Moses aud st. Paul, who wers bot
active Pro-Slavery men in their day and gener.
alton. The same style Of exbortation. undcr
the agoIes Of an unprecedented cotton famine,
has come into fashion in the commercial cir,
cles of London. The Times, printed in that
city, has, to our great as.onshment, so fac
abandoned its old system of direct appeal 10
the pocket as to assign religious reasons fox
the perpetuation of Slavery. Ii leaves the
Bulls aud the Bears TO dilate upon the Apostles,
and turns from LlOyd's List to expound the
Epistle Of Paul to Philemon. IL makes, IL d
do, who undertake to handle thar celebra ed
letter without having read. or at least without
having comprehended it, In all the Holy Scrip.
lures it would be difficult to fad twenty. five
consecutive verses which have brought so many
ignorant folk into difficulties, as the quartee
of q hundred of this notable Letter 1hs
London Times takes it for granted that Pad
sent Onesmus back to Slavery. Most people
who prefer abusing Abolitionsts to searching
the Scriptures, make the same ridiculous but
important blunder. Didn't Paul send Onesi-
mus back to be the slave of Philemon" roars
tbs pOlemic, lisps the school miss, bellows the
Tammany orator. and confidently asks Tie
London Times. To which and 10 whom we
answer plainly and plumply-Nol He DIDN'T
On tho contrary, he appealed to Philemon, a.
to friend and Christian brother, in behalf oi
Onesimus-" son, Onesimus" as be
alectionately calls him. He did not say,
"Flog my son, deurly beloved Philemon
Pickle and paddle, cheat, starye and sell my
son, felos-aborer Should he marry, de-
bauch his wife Should he become father,
sell his progeny! Should you find him reading
the Scriptures, tie him up and tickle him VITA
the cat" 1t will be admitted by all that ths
Apostle gave no advice like this. Let US sec
what he did say:
" beseech thee for my 'on onesimus, whom have be-
gotten in my bonds.
For perhaps therefore departed FOR season. that thos
shoud'st receive bin forever;
Nor SOW Az SERVANT but above servant. BRoTHun
BEL0yEpp
From these verses it is perfectly clear thai
st. Paul was an Emancipationist. The boos
which he asks, with the utmost tenderness, Of
his friend, is the liberation of Onesimus iron
condition Of chattcl Slavery, and his rccog.
milton as q beloved brother. And it must bc