Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-03-08

ed States, their freedom; and that too
by q class Of people thatisgOverned very
much by the Almighty dollar. The reason
is expressed by Judge Chase. He said
in the Peace Congress that metin Wash
ington City in Feb. 1851: we have
elected Mr.. Lincoln as the candidate of
Che people opposed to the extension Of
slavery after many years Of earnest ad-
vocacy; and of severe trial, We have
achieved the triumph Of that principal.
By fair and unquestionsble majority.
we have secured that triumph. Do you
think, We who represent this majority,
will throw it away? Do you think the
people would sustain US, If we under
took to throw it away? Did Judge
Chase consider slaves, property? Did
the Constitution of the United States and
the laws Of the United States consider
slaves property? Did the constitutions
of the New England States, and those
Of New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania for many years recognize the
slaves of their States, prOperty2 Did
the Southern States consider their slaves
by their laws, to be property? Had the
Sepreme Court Of the United States de-
eided they we're property, and that their
owners could take them into q territory
belonging to the United States subject to
the vote Of the territory when it made q
constitution to be State, whether the
State would allow slavery in the state,
or not? What would have been Judge
Chase's opinion, if he had been on the
bench Of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States in 1851, as to slaves being the
property Of their owners! The Higher
law would not have been found in his
law text book in that year? In 1860 Judge
Chase and President LincOln'sp party had
gained party triumph TO secure TO slaves
these human rights soon practicable,
in this country. Perhaps Gods opinion
Of human rights, when national lava
were being given to people forming q
national existence may be instructive to
some Legislators, and their disciples. God
said to the Jews in Lsviticus, % Chap
ter, "A, 45, 46Verses: Both thy bond man,
and thy bond maids which thou shalt
have, shall be Of the heather that are
round about you; Of them shall ye buy
bond men; and bond maids. Moreover
Of the children Of the strangers that do
sojourn among yOu; Of them shall ye
buy, and Of their families which are with
you; which they begat in your land; and
they shall Be your possession. And
ye shall take them as an inheritance for
your children after you, to inherit them
for a possession; ard they shall be your
bond men forever We give also an
other law recorded in Exodus, 2lSt Chap
ter, the 20, q verses. And If man
smite his servant, or his maid, with a
rod, and he die undar his hand, he shall
be surely punished: Notwithstanding,
II he continue day or TIVE, he shall not
be punished; for he is his money. It viii
be understood, the bond men, nor the
bond maids, had never made a VOLurttG-
ry surrender Of themselves to be slaves;
nor to be owned by masters having the
right to sell them at their pleasure, as
slaves for life, near at hand, or afar of.
In Kings, 2 Chspter, 80, 40 verses,
right existed for the master to get back a
runaway slave to give his services to his
master: And it came to pass at the end |
Of three years, that two Of the servants !
of Shimei ran away unto Achish, and |
they told shimei, saying. Behold thy ser
wants be in Gath. And Shimei arose,
and saddled his ass, and went to Gath, (
to Achish, to seek his servants; and |
Shimei went, and brought his servants |
from Gath On what principle did he !
act? They are my property, and the
laws Of Achish allows q master to take |
up his runaway servants and take them |
to his home. Solomon ordered Shimei |
to be put to death after his return with |
his servants, to his home. But it was
not for leaving his home to get his run
away servants. The season given for kill |
ing him is stated in the q verse. 'And |
the king sent, and called for Shimei, |
and said unto him. Did not make thee
swear by the Lord, and protested unto
thee saying, know for q certain on the |
day thou gOest out, and walkest abroad
any whittier, that thou shall surely die,
and then thou saidst unto me. The word |
that have heard, is good Shimei was |
confined to Jerusalem for life, for hav- |
ing cursed and abused David, sOlomon's
father. If he left the city, he was to be
put to death for his conduct to David.
A. NJ. G.