Year: 1859

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years ago, as engaged in the slave traffic,
directly or indirectly and another law
would impriSon all the men who lived forty
years since. Tie eighth commandment
was given on the way out Of Egypt. 1t
was the charter, the constitution Of the
Hebrew nation. All their other laws were
controlled by the DecaIoguc. Well, now
what? Why they had slaves by Divine
permission under this charter. How could
they, if the eighth commandment forbidS
liz? But are the slaves stolen? Certainly
not by Americans. They buy them, pay
for them, transfer them, and provide for
them, in the ouly aud most benevolent
manner in which it can be done As to
the metaphysical abstraction, that man
cannot have property in man, it has been
contrad,cted from the foundation of the
world to the present time. Holding, use,
and transfer, are the elements Of property,
and this has been done by men to men in
all ages; and yet you say that there is no
word iu the good old Hebrew tongue that
conveys the idea Of property in man.
When master inadvertently kills his
slave, no blood was to be shed, for " he loaS
his money" Does not that mean property!


1t cannot he denied that the idea Of Sla-
very runs all through the Bible it was
stamped upon the entire history of the jew
iSh nation, and upon the history Of every
vigorous nation upon the face of the earth ;
indeed | strongly suspect this is the nermul
condition Of large portions of deprayed
race, and can readily believe that man
may sustain the relation Of stakeholder, in
all good conscience, and with the entire
Divine appreciation There are riSiJle foot
prints Of God's disappro6atiOn ef The Gboii-
Honism Of This country Look a the locks
Of uncicun beasts aud birds that have come
up out of its train Infides that curse
God, abuse every man of good character
and then praise humanity in general to
counterbalance their malgui'y aud bias
phemy. Out Of the abstract rights of man
have grown the more abstract rights OF
woman; aud once respectable wives call
ST, Paul crusty old bachelor, and A bra
ham a tyrnnt, because Sarah obeyed him,
and Paul makes mention of the fact. The
second edition of the rights of woman is
divorce, " afinity," aud universal coucubi-
mage. We have far more of these immoral
tendencies in the northern States than they
have at the South. Is it not time to look
at home


The truth is, we have been wont to con-
template the condition Of the slaves at the
South from Il wrong point of view. We
compare them with races or nations more
highly civilized, and their condition seems
harsh and degraded one; but what were
they when the Christian nations took them
by the hand and led them across the ocean!
American slavery has produced aud cult-
vated more African intellect, more social
affection, more Christian emotion in two
hundred years than all Africa Central and
Southern) for two thousand years Ameri-
can slavery is a redemption, deliverance
from African henthenism - The dark
places Of the earth are full Of the habita-
tions Of cruelty" and no part of the earth
is more dark or more flied with cruelty
than Africa. Treading beneath their feet
one of the most fertile soils, they cultivate
almost nothing-live on fruits and nuts,
with few cattle, and little commerce. They
are in the 6rst place lazy beyond all hope
of seii-improyement. They will not work
Now, God has ordained the law Of labor
so surely, and so universally, that if bar
barians will not work, ciyilizaton will
yoke them up and drive them 10 it. This
is fixed, sure as light and gravity. Why
not? Why should one quarter of the
globe, one section OF the human family do
nothing for the race? If Ham will not
bring timber for the ark, Shem and Ja-
pheth will drive him to it.


But Africa is not only great wilder
ness Of loungers, but out of this idleness
grow all manner of vices Work is saliva
ton, Work regenerates the earth aud
man. Work is progress, and without it
nothing The title deed Of tho earth to
man had this proviso: that he should sub.
due it and multiply upon it. Now, if he
only multiples and does not subdue, he
has only squatier sOrsrGgHty--no certii-
cate title deed till he builds bis house and
tllS his farm. Hence the Indian must be
driven out; he will not work ON any condi.
ton, neither selfmoved nor. driven by the
hand of another, and, therefore, the last
tomahawk of the red man will soon hang



as a trophy in the halls of the eonuueror.
Now, the African works patiently and well
when driven to it; he will work on no other
condition. His climate is terrible pro-
lection from white invasion, therefore be
must be transported and taught to work,
thereby civilized, thereby christanized,
thereby improved every way, and perhaps
by-and-by sent back to yoke up and sub
due his whole continent, according TO the
pattern that has been shown him in this
working beehive Of America.


You touch in no very fraternal manner
some Of the social vices Of your brethren at
the South. Perhaps if they deserved the
stone, it should hardly come from a north.
ern hand; the garments OF our cities are
dripping with the waters of Sodom, and
some Of the western States Sunder the
marriage covenant with as little consid-
Grafton us the must ruthless STAKEHOLDER.
Sensuality is not at this hour producing as