Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-09-07

The above is letter handed moty f. NJ. Hood, of
Maryvic, Tenn. He is our Post Master at that place
to receive and distribute papers, letters &c without
any authority from the department at Washington
or Richmond. lie got it from his ettcr-box with
out knowing how it came there, 1t had three
cent stamp on IT. address, Old Mr.. Spencer Henry
signed o. X. | suppose il was written by Il mate or
tcmate the latter, judge from its mechanical cX-
ccution. The mattcr and style indicate that of Il
Theoogian Of the deepest research, the spelling that
of Il school girl not farther advanced in webster
than crucjfr. Having but little correspondence
with the better sex, | will not even guess who my
correspondent is. | shall therefore address Simon
the Sorcerer, or Sister Lydia, seller Of pupie.-
First, You tell us when Saviour was earth he
was a subject Of that vast suvoholding Roman En-
pirc with her sixty millions of slaves Very well.
Who were the slaves of the Romans, and how came
they in possession of them? Were they niggers
You will bear in mind that the Romans were the
most warlike people upon the globe They carried
their conqucsts into Asia, Africa and Europe, sub
jagatng all the nations of the world worth conquer
ing. Before the "eyes of the Saviour opened on
pleasant Bethlehem the land Of Judea was Il Ro-
man province by conquest and thousands of the
Jews (captiycs) were sold as "bondmen and bond
women, and she continued the traffic until Jewish
slave was worth scarcely anything in the Roman
market, and when the Apostles cnjoined Obcdience
on the part of the slave to his MASTER it was all he
could or dare do for the benefit of the slave. The
Saviour advised the rendering to Caesar the things
that be CGsars.' By the same rule in logic sup
pose your son had been captured at Vicksburg and
sold upon block at Hartford or Boston Gf slavery
was legal therc) would he not be slave in thesamc
sense that the Jews were to the Romans? And
would not your advice to him be the same as that
given by the Apostles Surely it would, if you
felt any interest in his well being Why, Sir or Mad
I,.G Il,
Naamans little captiCe, | expect was in no wise in
feror to yo,, and she loved her master. Christians
have been onslaved by the Turks all right according
to your logic. Again, abraham and Isaac and
Jacob the Fathers and Patriarchs, were holders of
bondmen and bondW women Very true. And Chaldea
will add another to your list of "slaveholding States
Terah, the father Of Abraham, was an idOlatcr.
suppose Abraham was to some extent until he
dwelt in the land of Canaan, and when he came to
the land of Canaan he brought all he had with him,
his wife, his servants those born in his house. those
bought with his money! but did he ever sell any Of
his servantsI Did he not marry his wifes servant,
and raise up another seed by her? and were not
polygamy and concubinagc lawful in the land of
Canaan, and did ii not have a legal sanction under
jewish theocracy for hundreds fyearsl Hence you
see by your bible proof of the right of slavery, you
prove too much throwing us into the vortex of the
Fanny Wright Asrarian SYSTEM dissolving the
most sacred compact ever instituted by the Creator
that of the marriage state Jacob had two wives
and two conCubines, and Solomon had seven hun
drcd u il were right then, because it had legal
sanction is il right now In so far us slavery eX-
istcd among the Jews, it was not perpetual. The
servant or slave if you please went out free in the
Jubilee and if he sold himself into slavery for life
he had II mark of intamy put upon him, his car
was bored through with an awl, that he might be
looked upon with sc6rn and deri,ion by all future
generations ia little like it is now in the State of
North Carolina, they fox and brand them for horse
stealing.)
The Recommendations you daily hear from men call
ing themselves the servants of God against slavery,
or Shareholders have not been fortunate enough
to hear. l have heard no preacher or laymcn
priest or levitc make war against shareholders or
slavery, for 10 these thirty odd years II say wo
unto We Bccchcrs and ye Henrys wiser and better
than our Saviour when on earth, 90 ye with your
new version Of the Bible and shout your gospel into
every living creature This is the most ilbcral Of
all in your modern proverbs. l stood alone among
the Henrics as preacher for quarter of century,
they scattered all the United Staes-a vast
multitude Of them, that no man can number all
akin too, | expect. Some Of them are perfect giants
physically and intellectually; others of them irc
mere dwarfs in size, and telerably slack twisted
about half of them are knock-kneed the other half
bow-leggcd, two-thirds of them are bue-eyed, a
large portion kinky- headed. | belong TO the dwarf
tribe "Wo, wo unto We Henrics wiser and better
than the Saviour. | never made any pretentons
TO wisdom or learning | am what | am, by the
grace Of God You speak of King james and the
Danay versions of the Bible the latter is the Cath
olc, | suppose | know nothing of it-1 acknowl-
edge none but King james. Alexander Campbell
and the Baptists have tried their hands at new
version-they speak for themselves. Go yc and
"a, .-,r,r ,,ospo1 a proy sir uaddam NVh