The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-10
AashriIle aIlniun.
Defence Of slavery by Vermont

Defence of slavery by Vermont
C'evgYmnn.
There is nothing wonderful, hardly
any thing remarkable, in the fact that
a citizen of a Slave State, and slave
holder, should defend slavery. When
early prtjudices, social Influences, and
elf.intere,t all impel the STAKEHOLDER TO
apologize flr his peculiar insttu ion, we
may regret, but we cannot nationally
wonder.
Bat our feelings are altlRether different
when the apologist and champion OF
slavery is uon-slaveholder and a
cit zen of free community, Such a
one is a moral monster, and food for
som, tling more than nine days
wonder Strange as it may seem such
champion has actually made his appear
auoe in the person of the Right Reverend
Bishop Hopkins, of Burlington, Yer
mont, who has published pamphlet
making an elaborate vindication of the
system of compulsory unpaid labor, man
selling and concubinage. We will
hastily notice some # the Bishops posi-
tons
The Bishop asserts that the Bible
sanctions and establishes human slavery.
The Almighty, foreseeing the total
degradation of the race (of Ham) or
dained them TO servtude or slavery under
the descendants of Shen, and Japhet
doubtless because lie i&dge} 1t 10 be their
fttest condition"
God then has doomed the descendants
of Ham to slavery, without limit of
course, for their is no limit set to this
servitude in the Bible. Why then does
this Bishop say at the beginning of his
pamphlet, that he should 'rejoice in the
adoption of any plan of gradual aboli-
ton which could be accepted peacefully
by general consent?" Does he propose
TO Get aside the decree Of the Almighty 2
Again what certainty is there that the
negroes are the deeeendants of Ham 2
The Bishop also proves slavery frpm
the Tenth Commandment:
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
| house, thou shalt not c1vst thv nsigh-
br's wife, nor his man-servu,5 nor
his maid seyyant nor his OK, nor bis ass,
nor any thing that 10 thy neighbor's -
| Exodus Xxx; I'D Here ID is evident
that the principle OF prep rty-- any thing
that is thy neig hbor's" runs through the
whole am quite aware, indeea, of the
pr JUDGE whictf mauy good people en-
trrtain against the idea Of property in a
human being, and shall consider It, in
due lime, amongst the objections. i am
equally aware that the wives Of Our day
may take umbrsge at the law which
places them in the same sentence with
the slave, and even with ihe house and
the cattle. But the truth is none the
less certain. The husband has 3 real
property in The wife, because she is
bound, for life, 10 serve and to obey him.
Fhe wife has a real property in her hns-
band, becspse he is bound for life to
cherish and maintain her.
Let us follow up the logic. Wives
men-servants, maid servants, oxen, ass
es, ETC., are all here placed on the same
footing as property, and he goes on t.
say that the man has real property il
his wife, and the wife has q real proper
ty in her husband, To be consistent b
must say that the master has real pr p
erty in his slave, and the siavs has a rsa
pr, Perty IN his master t, The jackass, also
must have real property in his owner
and without irreyerence we must saJ
that il Bishop Hopkins has iackass We
know of no mental or moral superiority
which he possesses over tae ,ckass, L
prevent that much abused animal iron
exercising the right Of property over hi
reverend owner, Indeed, 80 far as W
are posted at present we should be in
clined TO believe that the donkey belong
ed to the master race The BishoI
by his own authority, cannot escape ia
conclusion that husband has a right
seR his 'oVe, for to sell property is both mo
, rally and legally right.
The Bishop next proceeds to justf
the selling IF slave husbands from thei
/, wives, and slave wives from their hns
bands, and Of slave children from thei
parents And having made this annun
citation, which he asserts was sanelione
by the Almighty, he adds that jest
Christ endorsed it all, by saying that
had come mot 20 destroy the law, bl
to fulflp If there be any more cold
blooded blasphemy in all the writings
Atheists and in6dsls than this, We cor
, fess this, it has escaped our notice Tt
: Bishop next attempts to quote St. Paul
defence of slavery. He sAysi
aFhe inspired teacher lays down q
Y law In very strong terms, 70 Timothy, d
: FIRST Bishop Of Ephesus:--'Let az mar
/, servants as are under the yoke (that
. the woke Of bondAge), count tneir ON
Z masters worthy of all h0nor, that ii
d name Of God and his doctrine be n
blasphemed ."
II IL will afford Che Bishop any sati
: faction, we will inform him that abO
three years ago we heard General Geor
! Washington Buckley, founder Of the O
n der of the Knights Of the golden Giro