American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-09-07

trusted with the stewardship Of all his
property whom he armed for the rescue
Of Lot and led into battle; to one ofwhon.
he committed the delicate Office of seek
ing bride for Isaac, sending him with a
tempting dowry into a distant land" o
how unlike the slavery of modern times
As to the buying Of these with money,
shall speak Of this under the next argu-
ment
B. The next argument in favor Of Sla-
very, IS, that the Mosaic laws allowed of
slavery, and that the Israelites practiced
it under those laws.
Ia reply to this argument, it may be
said that the servants were not held as
chattels. A price was paid in advance
for the labor and for the control Of the
servant as we pay Or stip4late to pay for
bound boy. This is being bought with
money" Money was paid 70 father for
a daughter when one wished t6 wed her.
But the wife and servant retained rights
guarded by law and by religion. Boa2
purchased Ruth to be his wife. (Ruth.
4:l0) But did she become his chattel
property thereby? Not at all.
A man could "seHhis daughter to be
maid servant" (Ex. 21:SD And a
man could sell himself and family for
debt. '.But the s0-called sale did not
make the subject Of it a ehattel in the
hands Of the purchaser" In the one
case the maiden was behothed aud had
the c0nnubial rights Of a consort Of sec
ona rank; and in the other, the debtor
merely mortgaged his labor fora term Of
years Where the servant is spoken Of
as his masters money the sense is obvi-
ously, not that he was an article of prop
erty, but that, on account Of his services,
he was worth money to his master" Ser
yitude was the remedy for theft and poy-
erty; and hence there was no need of
prisons, and poor-houses and alms-housos.
The Jewish laws Of seryitude were almost
wholly unlike the lawsof the Slave States
In the Slave States there is seldom any
marriage covenant between the slayeswho
pass as man and wife. Husbands and
wives are separatedat the will Of the mas
ter. Children are separated from parents
in early age and sold into distant bond
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may be, they have no redress; their tcs-
timony cannot be received in court of
justice. And they may be punished in
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