, 1865-06-08
THE CHURCH AND SLAVERY.

I Their coutostions and g11maccs, their looks
| Of disappointment and dcspa.r-the!r want oi
| fnith ard their wc-tegone WTetchedness
almost excite our pity. We meRn the yery
plors, the very sai1t-like, III: very orthodox,
the very godly subjects Of a kingdom not o1
this world" the very elect Of the elect, who,
feeling their own fitness for the task, took
the Heavenly Fathers p-oyidences into their
own bands, and logically and 1heologically
established slavery On this Garth. attempting
to prove BY Hts Word, that the buying and
selling Of men, the whipping Of women, and
Ill the manifold "tlessiDgs Of the institu-
! tion," Including forced prostitution, concuai-
mage and tie robbery Of the cradle, we're 50
many acts Of sweet, uay, angelic, sayor to the
multitude around the ThIonc, and the cause
Of infi.ite satisfaction to the Parent Of JUS
tice and Mercy himself We mean, in other
words. the ''cu1.ed be Canuan,' tribe,
the s6inily brotherhood Of IS 'Did-not-Pa PAUL
send back Onesimus s-the false priests Of a
divine 1dth-the theological stipendlaries Of
Satan-the diserAeetul apologists Of wrong
and injustice, who IN Spain would have delft
ed the Inqnisidou, a1t in the South would
have justified the starving Of our prisoners
the paid defenders Of the uttermoss oppres-
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console poverty 70 hgotcn misery
OF e3c-'e noi'es Oh my out a siave-