The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-06-10


closed the disgusting but solemn farce:
II then, agreeable to your Request
and with the consent Of your Masters
q Mistresses, do Declare that you have
License given you to be conversant and
familiar together, as Husband and Wife,
SO long as God shall continue your
Places OF Abode as aforesaid; And SO
long as You Shall behave yourselves as
it becometh Servants to'doe:
For, you must both Of you bear in
mind, that you Remain Still as really
and truly as ever, your Masters Prop
erty, and therefore, it will be justly ex-
pected, both by God and Man, that you
behave and conduct yourselves, as Obe-
dent and faithful Servants towards
your respective Masters annd Mistress
es for the Time being:
l shall now conclude with Prayer for
you, that you may become good CHS
tlans, and that you may be enabled to
conduct as such; and 10 particular that
you may have Grace to behave suitably
towards each Other, as also dutifully
towards your Masters & Mistresses,
Not with Eye-Service, as Men-P Pleasers,
but as ye Servants of Christ, doing the
will of God from the heart, etc.
SO adultery was necessary result of
the robbery of the slave system. But
it is true besides, that the laws at the
south knew ne more of the marriage of
slaves than ofcattle. Some Of the
churches, many years ago, in Virginia,
Georgia, and other states, doubtful
whether such havoc Of the family in
stitution could be justified among min
listers and church members, held con-
Ventions and conferences in which the
subject was tearfully and prayerfully
considered. The final decision in the
Sevanah River Association in 1885,
(and the universal practice everywhere,
before and atter) was in these words
ga separation by sale among persons
as our slaves are, is cimlly a sep
aration by death, and we believe that
in the sight Of God it ,OiH6 be so Uie.Oed b..
The slaves are not free agents land a
dissolution by death is not more entire.
ly without their consent and beyond
their control, than by such separation"
The robbery of slavery extended also
to the right of education and religious
worship. 1t is not yet quarter of
century since young Miss Douglass
was fined and imprisoned one month in
Virginia, for teaching, not slaves, but
the. children of free colored family to
read; the only books used, as appeared
in the trial, being Primmer and New
Testament. A Bible Society's colpor-
teur, not much longer ago, was arrest
ed and tried for the crime of giving a
copy of the Scriptures to a family of
slaves. The magistrate, whose name
was Black, remitted the penalty on be-
ing assured that the stupid fellow was
ignorant of the law, and some of the
directors of the Society becoming surety
that the like offence should not again
be perpetrated. Some of the penalties
for daring to teach slaves to read or
write, were outrageous.
That slavery was samurder is beyond
all question, wheh it is remembered
that the slave was completely in the
power of the master. A slave girl,
daring to strike her brutal master in
defense of her virtue, could be lawfully
killed ON the spot, or her father for de-
Tending her
What, then, was slavery, aside from
all cruelty of torture by overvorking,
undertaking, iron yokes, shackles,
thumb-sorews, whins, scourges, mutil-
atoms and red.hot branding irons p
Apart from all these, it was one whole
sale system of Robbery, Piracy, Adul-
terry, Heathsnism and Murder! Its
like was never seen or known in all the
dark aud bloody history.of the past.
And the chief propslling impulse to
a warefare on such perdition of all.
imaginable woes as this, according to-
the New York World, was "political5
ambitionl" Never was human natureE
more foully libelled than that before.II
What a compliment the writer pays toe
his own manhood by SO cold -blooded AM
uttefance! o shame, where is thyS
blush! To what would he apply theE
principles of virtue and morality, if not
to wholesale system Of all possible sin,
uncleanness, crime and cruelty like
American ehattel slavery?
The Garrison-P Phillips abolitionists,
he says, were "mere fanatics" He
does not condescend to call them ''phi-
lanthropists," to sneer at them rather
as such, for he adds, chad the anti
slavery movement been left in their
hands, it would have resulted in moth
ing but empty agitation, among a small
band of headlong, excitable people,"
For what, then, are God and his gov,
ernmeut in the universe Why was
the Bible given, proclaiming liberty to
Captives, and commanding that "the
oppressed go freci" Wherefore came
the Son Of God proclaiming that glori-
GUS gospels enforcing that divine com
mandi What is the mission, the work
of religion, if it be not to cleanse the
earth of such an abominationi Of
what sin, crime, cruelty, shall an indi-
vidual, or nation, repent, if not of
such as slavery inevitably and always