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 Abraham, the father of the faithful and the friend of Gad and man was a slave 
 owner. Genesis 14 ; 14. 
 
 The beet man that the Saviour found in all Israel was a slave-owner. Matt. 8 / 10 . 
 
 St. Paul rejoiced that there was a hope laid up in he aven for slave-owners. CoJ- 
 etsiana 1 ; 1, 3, 
 
 ,MACON: 
 
 PRINTED BY GRIFFIN <fo PURSE. 
 
 1837. 
 

 To the honest YEOMANRY of the South 
 ern States, the following pages are dedicated by 
 their fellow-citizen. 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
 [Copy RIGHT SECURED.] 
 
WHEN the destiny of millions is suspended on the 
 adoption of a sentiment said to be moral, it becomes 
 the duty of the most humble citizen to enquire wheth 
 er indeed it be founded on truth. That such a senti 
 ment pervades our country, is obvious to all who have 
 read the moral essays of the Abolitionists, and marked 
 their unhallowed influence on the minds of the credu 
 lous. No circumstances however delicate, nor events 
 however perilous, have prevented them from affirming 
 that u neither the New-Testament Scriptures, nor the 
 preaching and practice of our Lord and his Apostles 
 will justify slavery." Nor have they been idle ID their 
 efforts to secure the patronage of the virtuous and tal 
 ented in the publicity of the sentiment. The Press 
 has announced it as sacred truth the minister of God 
 has hailed it as the messenger of Heaven to the slave ; 
 and the Statesman has laid it on the Altar of his coun 
 try, invoking the genius of Liberty to sanctify the 
 offering. Under such circumstances, modesty would 
 seem to forbid the humble farmer to utter a word ; but 
 viewing the sentiment as a reflection on the wisdom and 
 piety of our fathers who framed the Constitutional 
 
Compact cf our country, he could not subscribe to 
 the sanctity of its character, until he had searched the 
 Scriptures and found it written in letters intelligible. 
 He has searched them most carefully and the result 
 of his researches is offered to the public in the follow 
 ing pages. 
 
 In the adoption of the sentiment " neither the New 
 Testament Scriptures, nor the preaching and practice of 
 our Lord and his Apostles, will justify slavery" the vota 
 ries of emancipation seem to have lost sight of the con 
 flict with which it involves the moral laws of the Old 
 and New Testaments. The words are so arranged 
 as to admit the conclusion, that the Old Testament 
 Scriptures do justify slavery ; and if according to their 
 declarations, " Slavery is a moral evil, for which human 
 ity blushes and the angel of mercy weeps" then the mor 
 al law of the Old Testament sanctions a moral evil, 
 which humanity, mercy and the New Testament Scrip 
 tures condemn. Nor does the absurdity of the senti 
 ment rest here it implies that the HOLY TRIUNE GOD 
 who inspired the patriarchs and prophets with the purest 
 principles of piety, did not only permit them to live in 
 the perpetration of the moral evil, but decreed, that 
 for " the poor unfortunate slave? the dictates of humani 
 ty should not be felt, nor the voice of mercy heard., 
 until the days of the Abolitionists : for Abraham, with 
 all his sterling virtues and holy faith, seemed to have 
 been a stranger to the warm pulsations of that humani 
 ty with which their bosoms throb ; and the angel of mer 
 cy who permited him to bequeath his bond-servants to 
 Isaac and sustained his immortal spirit in its last con 
 flict, must either have forgottonto admonish the Patri- 
 
arch of the wicked deed, or reserved for the present gen 
 eration, the more melting sounds of his voice : strange 
 divinity this, but it is as plainly written in the moral es 
 says of the Abolitionists, as the perpetual bondage of 
 the descendants of Ham is revealed and sanctioned in 
 the Koly Scriptures. 
 
 Moses, we are told, possessed in an eminent degree 
 the principles of philanthropy. Ho communed with 
 his maker, and on the Holy Mount where he was con 
 secrated the first Law-giver of the human family, 
 received such instructions as INFINITE WISDOM perceiv 
 ed would best promote their present and future happi 
 ness. And did he grant unto the Israelites the moral 
 right to hold the descendants of Hain in bondage ? 
 Hear his words : " And the Lord spake unto Moses in 
 Mount Sinai, sayinz : if thy brother that dwelletli by 
 the?, be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee, thou shall 
 not compel him to servo as a bend servant; but as a 
 hiredservant, and a gbjourner, he shall be with thee and 
 shall servo thee unto the year of Jubilee ; and then 
 shall ho depart from thee, both he and his children 
 with him, and shall return unto his own family, and un 
 to the possession of his fathers shall he return. 
 
 Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids which thou ; 
 shalt have, shall be of the Heathen that are round ; 
 about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bond 
 maids. Moreover, of the children of the strangers 
 that do sojourn among you, of them shall you buy, and 
 of their families that 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 af 
 ter you, to inherit for a possession ; they shall be your 
 
bondmen forever." * Can language be more emphatic 
 than this ? where in all the vocabularies of earth can 
 words be selected, which more clearly justify perpetu 
 al bondage ? But we are told that the woidforevci with 
 which this moral and legal instrument concludes, 
 " should not be construed literally but definitely, for tho 
 institution of Jubilee was specially designed to break 
 the fetters of bondage." By what authority this re 
 mark can be applied to the descendants of Ham, we are 
 at a loss to conjecture. With the most careful peru 
 sal of the writings of Moses and the Prophets we have 
 not been able to discover any other distinction between 
 the bondage of the poorer class of Israelites and that 
 of the Heathen and Stranger, than is recorded in the 
 words we have quoted: the former were released from 
 their bonds in the year of Jubilee, but not the latter ; 
 thus fulfilling as early as the days of Moses, and from 
 thence to the present period, the dying but prophetic 
 words of the Patriarch Noah, " God shall enlarge Ja- 
 pheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; and 
 Canaan shall be his servant." t 
 
 But " this distinction between the creatures of a just 
 and merciful creator," is said to be " at war with all 
 his moral attributes, consequently slavery cannot be 
 right." That such an objection, involving so many ex 
 tremely delicate illusions, should be offered by those 
 who have but little regard for either the attributes of 
 Deity or the precepts of his word, is not astonishing ; 
 but that it should be advocated by those who minister 
 at the Altar, and whose business is- to defend the pre- 
 
 * Leviticus, Chapter 25. 
 t <ycn<;*i., Chapter ; v. 27. 
 
cepts and institutions of the Bible, is truly marvelous. 
 If the distinction on which the objection rests be a 
 reflection on the attributes of Deity, it is also a reflec 
 tion on his word and will which sanction it ; conse 
 quently, his word and will are arrayed against his at 
 tributes, by the moral logic of the Abolitionists. A 
 sad dilemna this in which the Priests have involved 
 themselves, for they have invariably taught us that there 
 is no conflict whatever between the word and will, and 
 attributes of Jehovah, but the most perfect harmony ; 
 otherwise the whole moral Code would be imperfect 
 and consequently beneath the esteem of man. If this 
 be moral truth, and who can doubt it? by what authori 
 ty will they affirm that the bondage entailed on the 
 descendants of Ham, under sanction of the word 
 and will of God, " is at war with his moral attributes?" 
 We leave the solution of this problem, to the morbid 
 mind that conceived it, not however without a word 
 in reply to the objection on which it is founded. That, 
 we conceive, rests upon a contracted view both of the 
 agency of man, and the purposes of Deity. If we seek 
 instruction from the precepts of the moral law, we 
 learn that the great Creator of the Universe is not 
 accountable for that deficiency of human intellect, 
 which distinguish so many of his creatures and from 
 whence spring the ills of poverty and want : and from 
 them we also learn, that in all the dispensations of a 
 merciful providence, our eternal felicity is regarded 
 with a more compassionate eye than our present com 
 fort ; hence the stations we occupy and the spheres in 
 which we move, are not to be received as evidences 
 either of his approbation or disapprobation. His om- 
 
nlscicnce is as boundless as his mercy, and if IFINITH 
 WISDOM perceived that the capacities of the " Heathen 
 and Stranger would not permit them to provide for 
 their necessities, INFINITE MERCY could but provide 
 masters for them, and if infinite wisdom perceived 
 that the condition of bondage would better secure 
 their eternal felicity, JUSTICE and MERCY could but 
 sanction the deed. 
 
 With this view of the subject, we can perceive no 
 conflict whatever between the word, and will, and at 
 tributes of Deity in the permission of slavery. Could it 
 be proven that its subjects were thereby excluded from 
 the means of grace and their condition rendered more 
 intolerable by their bonds, the morality of the institu 
 tion might be questioned ; but the history of the Pat 
 riarchs and Prophets, is replete with evidences to the 
 contrary of this, nor is there an instance recorded, of 
 that rebellious spirit among their slaves, which is said 
 to be produced " by the iron hand of bondage." They 
 had once enjoyed freedom, and with all its "munificent 
 gifts," they could but sip of the bitter cup of poverty 
 and realize in the cries of their hungry little ones, its 
 heart-rending ills now, their bread was given them, 
 their wants supplied, and they gave thanks to Heaven 
 for the ample provision. Would they have exchanged 
 their condition, for the priviliges now granted to the 
 peasantry of enlightened England? It is hardly proba 
 ble : nor is it probable that the slaves of Baoz, would 
 have exchanged their servitude for that imposed upon 
 the hired servants of the Abolitionists. Why then 
 should the voice of humanity be roused to plead the 
 injustice of God and man in the institution of bondage? 
 
Is it iurloed nu act of inhumanity to meliorate the 
 dition .ri beings We appeal to teason and inspfc 
 
 ration for the r< ply, and proceed to the second part at" 
 
 our argument. 
 
 If " neither tlic New Testament Scriptures^ nor the 
 j aching and practice of our Lord and Jus Apostles w ill 
 .jut* j]l slavery ," they must condemn it, and whatever 
 our Lord and his apostles condemn, every good man 
 should also condemn, Tims the Abolitionists reason^ 
 a: 1 according to their premises they reason correct* 
 ] ! at are \ s< s correct? We uisw^r in the 
 
 n.-rntive: th/To is- not a prec--^i :n the writings of the 
 Saviour and his Apostles which denounces the morali 
 ty of the institution of slavery established in t.h~ <ir<ys 
 \ Moses; on the contrary,- we find the moral right to 
 oun slaves, justified by the act of the Saviour and his 
 apostles receiving slave-owners in the church and 
 greeting them as brethren in the faith.- Can thi.3 
 be denied ? In the face of truth and evidence, it has 
 been denied: some of the philanthropists of the pres^ 
 ent age, have assumed the right to say that "the condt- 
 $on of the Roman slaves was nothing more than that 
 f hirelings," and the more effectually to impose this* 
 specious illusion on the minds of the credulous, they 
 h ive asserted that " the word slave appertaining to the 
 condition of our slaves^ is not to be found in tlie New 
 Testament." Into what mazes of error may not the 
 uiind of man be driven in support of a false -position,- 
 If the testimony of the best historians is to be reject 
 ed, if the "galling yoke of Roman bondage" of which 
 fli y speak, be ino < ve be.^ leave o -ssk 
 
 votaries of emancipation for a literal definition &$ 
 
10 
 
 the original word, Doulos, translated servant in the 
 Scriptures of the New Testament. We have endeav 
 oured to consult the best lexicographers and from them 
 we derive authority to say, that the more correct trans 
 lation, is slave ; and this opinion is sustained by the 
 distinction which the sacred writ rs have invariably 
 marked between the origin d words Didaskalos and 
 Bcspotas, both of which are translated master in our 
 yersion. In the Gospel recorded by the four Evan 
 gelists and in other parts of the New Testament Scrip 
 tures where the word master is used to designate a lord 
 or officer of the Roman Empire, the original is Di 
 daskalos ; and wherever the word implies a relation to 
 servants, the original is Despotas, the literal interpre 
 tation of which is a Despot, the peculiar characteristic 
 o! a Roman slave-owner. On such authority we as 
 sume our position; and until it can be proven that the 
 whole Roman history is a farce and its authors deserve 
 to be numbered among the fabulous, we shall con 
 tinue to believe that St. Paul in the following words 
 addressed slaves whose masters were members of the 
 Church of Christ " Let as many servants as are under 
 the yoke, count their own masters worthy of all honor ; 
 that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphem 
 ed. And they that have believing masters, let tbein not 
 despise them because they are Brethren ; but rather 
 do them service, because they are faithful and beloved 
 partakers of the benefit. These things teach and ex 
 hort." * 
 
 If we are not mistaken, those words of St. Paul 
 were addressed to the slaves of Rome, by the hand of 
 
 * Timothy 6th Chapter 1-2. 
 
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 Timothy, who was sent to visit them in the character 
 of a missionary. Ti ie heart of the Apostle burned 
 with a holy zeal for that class of human beings The 
 first to appeal to the humanity of their masters for 
 their temporal comfort, he was not the last to cherish 
 the most compassion ue regard for their ctcru 
 licity. Nor did ae s irink from the duty of exposing 
 the crimes ol each. No circumstances, "neither 
 stripes, nor bonds, nor imprisonment,* could deter 
 him from declaring "tlie whole counsel of God" and 
 exposing the moral errors of man wherever he discov 
 ered them. What then but precepts of the purest 
 morality could have been expected from him in a 
 charge involving the eternal interests of the slave 
 Let us analyze ins words, that we may correctly as 
 certain his view of their moral obligations to their 
 masters. " Let as many servants as are under the yol:c" : 
 wlmt Yoke? surely it could not have been that of a 
 hired servant, for the very introduction t of the word 
 in the sentence implies that there were two distinct 
 classes of servants in Rome one bond, and the other 
 free one under a yoke, and the other not what then 
 but the yoke of Bondage could the Apostle have meant? 
 " Count their own masters worthy of ail honor" and 
 could such masters as held their slaves in bondage 
 contrary to the principles of humanity and " the Scrip 
 tures of the New Testament," have been worthy of all 
 honor ? Did the great Apostle of the Gentiles in all 
 the purity of his heart and the light of his extraordi 
 nary learning, ever advance a sentiment so repugmint 
 to the precepts of tromlity and the dictates of com- 
 mon sense?" that the name of God and his doclrino be 
 
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 blasphemed ;" and could the name of God, ami [11$ 
 dootrme, have been blasphemed by the disobedience 
 of freemen, held in bondage contr; ry to "the Scrip.-. 
 tares of the New Testament ? ?? In tin; name of morali-, 
 ty and consistency, we ask the question ; where in aU 
 the sacred volume can be found a solitary sen^nee^ 
 representing the sons o ftrcmen blaspheming the. 
 name and doctrine of God by contending for the birth 
 right of Liberty/ Did not the Apostle himself con 
 tend tor the liberty of a Ivo-nan citizen when his rights 
 were assailed ? If then the slaves of Rome whom he 
 directed Timothy to admonish in tho words we have 
 quoted, where also entitled to the privilege* KH-IB 
 
 citizens, by what principle of morality or -, :^ 
 
 could he have been justified for the act / \ ind ^ d 
 
 painful to see into wlrot depths of error 
 tency, the votaries of emancipation have thrown the 
 sacred writers. No principle o humanity, putriot- 
 is;-;i, or virtue^ could have sustained the Apostle m uri^- 
 irig the most unqualified obedience on the skm-s of 
 Rome, if their masters had robbed thv .m of their lib 
 erty or held them in bondage contrary to tue precepts 
 of the Bible. 
 
 Wo :nvo already insiiuited that St. Paul devoted 
 mucli of las time to the instruction of slaves, andl 
 that he was by no moans deficient .in moral courage? 
 in ins elibrts to meliorate their condition. To tu-ir 
 niaslers h(} applied the precepts of tiie moral law and 
 urged tlicrn to bo compassionate to their slaves. :^ut 
 \vLore auioii^ all his preeepis do we fin-] a word on 
 the sdbjec:.ol abolition/ Did ho shrink fro it.hot fk 
 fearing it might co^t nira bis life ? certainly noi> for 
 
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 life he assures us, "/.-</$ kid with Christ -in 
 nor did he counr, it dear to iiim wiien he entered the 
 Athenian Court, exposed the fallacy of idol Gods, and 
 planted within the walls of Iniidelity the standard of 
 the Cross. Whence that holy zeal and god-like mag-* 
 nanimity? surely from ardent desire to correct the 
 moral errors of the Athenians which threatened their 
 destruction. And was he less merciful to the slave 
 owners of- Rome ? Did he believe that the bonds of 
 their slaves would expose them to the vengeance of 
 Heaven, and yet was he silent ? We cannot perceive 
 the consistency of that logic, or the morality f that s\ s- 
 ti-mof Ethics, which admits such conclusions. If ti 
 midity or partiality could have occupied any sp^co in 
 the bosom of the Apostle, surely the former would have 
 yielded to the dictates of the latter m the case oi 1 hile- 
 mon. He was a fellow labourer in the Gospel ^nd 
 bound to him by the most sacred ties. To such a 
 friend who possessed his entire confidence, he could 
 freely have imparted his thoughts on the most delicate 
 subjects; nor could he consistently with the duties of 
 his apostolic office have refused to instruct him on a 
 subject of so much interest as the bondage of his 
 slaves. He did instruct him by the hand of his serv 
 ant Onesimus, who h d absconded from his mastf.r, 
 and to whom he applied the precepts of the mor.l 
 Jaw on obedience and fidelity witn such force, as to 
 effect his conversion. Being fully persuaded of o 
 sincerity of his repentance, he made him the bearer 
 of a letter to his master, pr<;> r>r; that? r > \ par 
 doned lor his trcmsgn ss.on.* is H not rnarveious that 
 
 * Epistle of St. Paul to r 
 
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 the Apostle should hare entreated Philemon not to pun 
 ish the -runaway, if he regarded it repugnant to the 
 " Scriptures of the New-Testament," even for suck a 
 master, a minister of the Gospel, to punish such a slave? 
 Could he have viewed the condition of the fugitive 
 with the light reflected from the gteat moral luminary 
 of the Abolitionists, rather would he have concealed 
 him from the sight of his master, until he had sent up 
 his PETITIONS to the Senate of Rome and the Throne 
 of Heaven to release him from his bonds ; but guided 
 by the light of INSPIRATION only, he admonished him 
 of having been an " unprofitable servant, " and desired 
 him to return to his master s service, with the best pur 
 poses of his heart to be " profitable" for the future. 
 
 No reproachful epithets did he cast on Philemon, nor 
 did he insinuate that it was contrary to the precepts of 
 the Bible or the duties of his sacred office to own a 
 slave. * 
 
 44 Servants," said the same Apostle, to the slaves at 
 Colosse, " obey in all things, your masters according 
 to the flesh ; not with eye service as menpleasers ; but 
 in singleness of heart, fearing God. And whatsoever 
 ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men ; 
 knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward 
 of the inheritance : for ye serve the Lord Christ. But 
 he that doeth wrong, shall receive for the wrong that he 
 hath done, t 
 
 * In the election of Bishops at the last General Conference, fhe Northern French- 
 ew were quite too consciert//yjj to agree with St Paui on this subject. As their ten 
 der, feeling would not permit them 10 suffer " a slave owner" to exercise the Episcopal 
 Oilbe at the North, we h->pe they will favor us>, in the future, with the services of 
 Bishops SOULB and ANDREW oaf:/. We want no Bishops in the South who assume 
 more humanity and pietv taan St. Paul, and should the service* rf eueh be imposed 
 upon u, we hope they w.li come prepared lor a CATECHETICAL EXAMINATION, and 
 for a COURTEOUS DISMISSIO.V, in the event of their proving heterodox to the i<uitli of 
 ihe Apo^vie and the principles of the Constitution. 
 
 t Co)lusj-iane 3, Clir^r. 22, tt. 
 
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 Jn this mornl lesson, the sbves at Colosse were not 
 only t-ai^iit tiiat the sincerity of their piety should be 
 u by their obedience and fidelity to their masters, 
 but that the blessings of Heaven would be bestowed 
 on none but faithful and obedient servants ; and if their 
 bondage was contrary to the will of God and " the 
 Scriptures of the New-Testament," we cannot per 
 ceive by what principle of morality the Apostle could 
 have been justified for so teaching tkem. The Epis 
 tle, of which the words we have quoted compose a 
 part, was addressed to members of the Church of 
 Christ, and to such members as were called " Saints 
 and faithful Brethren." Astounding fact ! that slave 
 owners should have been denominated Saints and faith 
 ful Brethren and that too, by an Inspired Apostle. 
 It is nevertheless true, and it is also true that such was 
 the peculiar character of the Colossian slave-owners 
 and their brethren. There piety and simplicity of 
 heart were known abroad, and having escaped the 
 snares of " vain philosophy, traditions, and the wor 
 shiping of angels," into which other members of the 
 Church had fallen, the Apostle approved their fidelity 
 and exhorted them to abide in the faith. Surely to 
 such saints and faithful brethren he could freely have 
 imparted his mind on slavery, and the more so, if he 
 regarded it a " moral evil." Why then was he silent? 
 And why did he conclude his admonitions with the 
 threat " but he that docth wrong, shall receive for the 
 wrong he hath done." If their masters kept them in 
 bondage contrary to " the Scriptures of the New-Tes 
 tament," and their bonds prevented them from re< 1- 
 izing tiie necessaries of life and tke moral enjoyments 
 
* 
 
 of which their capacities \vrre susceptible* they edukl 
 not have done wrong by contending for the : r li : 
 nor could St. Paul as an expounder of " the Scriptures 
 of the New-Testament*" have done right to teach them 
 otherwise ; but admit the conclusion, which is inevita 
 ble, that the coriditicn of bondage was better adapted 
 to their wants and capacities than any other, an* by 
 no means prevented them from the enjoyment of reli 
 gious privileges, then is the lesson of the Apostle jus 
 tified by every principle of humanity and moral truth. 
 No sentiment has saluted our ears more frequently, 
 or with more pleasure from the s acred desk, than that 
 which portrays the object of the Saviour s mission. 
 
 " Ho ca;ne the crimes of masi to efface 
 And lift his immortal spirit to the skies." 
 
 It was for this purpose he came, says the minister at 
 the North, and for this purpose did he come, says the 
 minister at the South. Who then can doubt it? And 
 wiio should presume to question his moral ability to ac 
 complish the benevolent object ? Surely those who 
 greet in the holy sanctuary the votaries of emancipa 
 tion, should be the last to advance a sentiment so ex 
 tremely absurd. But is not the absurdity with which 
 it is marked displayed in their moral essays on slavery? 
 We think so : for if " slavery be a crime for which hu 
 manity blushes, and the angel of mercy weeps" the Sav 
 iour did either not possess the moral ability to abolish 
 it, or he did not possess the philanthropy to denounce 
 it; for it is manifest that he did neither abolish the in 
 stitution, nor denounce its advocates. What then is 
 the- eoodusion ? It should not be told but in terms of 
 human compassion, for the heart sickens at the thought 
 
1? 
 
 of that morality which exalts itself above the Gos 
 pel, and that philanthropy which assumes more than 
 the Saviour. It is not true that the Gracious Re 
 deemer did not possess the moral ability to correct 
 the errors of man, nor is it true that the measure of 
 his philanthropy, was beneath the standard of his 
 creatures. No circumstances nor events, neither prin 
 cipalities nor powers, could arrest his omnipotent arm 
 in the accomplishment of his benevolent purposes. 
 The rich and poor, the bond and free, were all permit 
 ted to hear the admonitions of his compassionate 
 voice, in accents alternately gentle as the dews of 
 Heaven. Nor w r ere transgressors excluded from its 
 hallowed influence. " I will have mercy," said he, 
 " and not sacrifice ; for I am not come to call the 
 righteous ; but sinners to repentance." Why then 
 did he not address the slave owners of Rome, as sin 
 ners and transgressors of the Moral Law 1 If he re- 
 oarded slavery " a moral evil and a curse to the poor" 
 could he in the plenitude of his mercy have refused 
 to admonish them of its baneful effects ! The poor, 
 (and surely the Slaves of Rome were included among 
 the number,) seemed to be the objects of his most 
 tender regard. And did he look upon their bondage 
 as " a grievous burthen, a curse to their posterity," 
 and! an object of his compassion? Certainly not, for 
 where is recorded his compassion for their bonds! 
 And where in the spirit and words of the Abolition 
 ists, did he rebuke their masters as " cruel oppressors 
 tyrannical lords destitute of the finer feelings of 
 humanity We have not found the semblance of 
 such epithets in his admonitions, but in our research- 
 
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 es for the truth on this subject, we found the Centuri 
 on,* one of the wealthy slave owners of Rome, be 
 seeching the Saviour to come and heal one of his slaves 
 afflicted with the palsy his petition was granted, and 
 the Saviour said of him, " I have not found so great 
 faith ; no, not in Israel" How marvelous that the 
 best man in all Israel should have been a slave own 
 er and how much more marvelous that the compas 
 sionate Redeemer should not have torn from the 
 bosom of that honest slave owner, a principle opposed 
 to " the Scriptures of the New Testament," if indeed 
 slavery was that principle-- Away with the sentiment, 
 " the finer feelings of humanity dwell not in the bo-^ 
 soms of slave owners." The Saviour found in at 
 least one of that class of human beings, all the vir 
 tues of the Christian faith ; and if an angel was now 
 sent to select those from whose hearts the milk of hu 
 man kindness pours its thousand streams of charity, 
 we honestly believe that he would make his selection 
 among the vilified " KIDNAPPERS OF THE SOUTH." We 
 may be regarded selfish in this opinion, but we have 
 so often seen the hand of compassion and bounty ex 
 tended to the aged, helpless slave, and the most me 
 nial offices performed for the comfort and happiness 
 of such objects as are doomed in the "Classic land of 
 Liberty," to beg their crums in the Streets and High 
 ways, we can but indulge it. 
 
 We have assumed the position that slavery was 
 and is a merciful dispensation to that class of men 
 
 * Sec St. Matthew S Chapter, 9 rors, whore the distinction of the terms man anJ 
 servant is observed according t the custom of the Renitse tht former 
 mldicr the latter a sfcrrr. 
 
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 who hare neither the means nor capacities to provide 
 for their wants ; and our position is sustained, not 
 only by the moral truth, that the Supreme Being is 
 not accountable for the deficiency of the means and 
 capacities of his creatures, but by the passive acknowl 
 edgment of the morality of the Institution observed 
 by the Saviour in all his precepts. He is a merciful 
 man, says the voice of Christianity, who meliorates 
 the condition of his fellow men hence, our Lord re 
 buked not the Centurion for holding his slaves in bon 
 dage, because their condition was thereby materially 
 benefitted, nor did he forbid him to bequeath them to 
 his posterity, in conformity with the Mosaic Law. 
 " But he came not destroy, but to fulfill the Law," 
 say the Abolitionists, " consequently he could but be 
 silent on the subject of slavery." This is another of 
 the many sophisms which seem to have been strained 
 from the sacred Code, to mar the peace of the slave 
 and excite his vindictive passions. It is true the Sav 
 iour came not to destroy the Monal Law delivered to 
 Moses on Sinai, but every precept of the Ceremoni 
 al Law which he regarded contrary to the spirit of 
 Christianity he did abolish. And w r hy 1 Because the 
 former bore tire impress of Deity, and was therefore 
 perfect the latter was a human production and there 
 fore imperfect and having come to correct the er 
 rors of man, he was bound by all his attributes to cor 
 rect every immoral precept of the Ceremonial Law ; 
 accordingly, in his sermon on the Mount, particularly 
 that part of it recorded in the 5th Chap. St. Matthew, 
 he performed that office. And why may we ask, if 
 he regarded slavery " a moral evil" was it not inclu^ 
 
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 ded among the number of moral evils denounced or* 
 that solemn occasion ? The descendants of Ham 
 were then in bondage and the poor Hebrew had not 
 heard the glad sound of a Jubilee since the days of 
 Nehemiah, a period of 415 years anterior to the chris- 
 tian era. Why was the compassionate Redemer si 
 lent on a subject so momentous 1 Was it because 
 " his kingdom was not of this world," as we have been 
 told ? True, his kingdom was not of this world, for 
 his word assures us it was " a kingdom of righteous 
 ness, joy and peace in the Holy Ghost." And who 
 but the righteous could have been received as its sub 
 jects who but the righteous could have been par 
 takers of its joy and peace ? The Centurion was not 
 excluded, nor were the saints and faithful Brethren at 
 Colosse. Were they received as probationers only 
 until they had atoned for " the accursed sin of slave 
 ry V Why then were not their privileges as subjects 
 of that kingdom suspended on the emancipation of 
 their slaves ? Did the INFINITE WISDOM of the Sav 
 iour perceive that such an injunction would meliorate 
 their condition and the condition of myriads yet un 
 born, but his INFINTE MERCY could not enforce it ? 
 Did his DIVINITY look through the events of distant 
 ages, and perceiving that the present and future hap 
 piness of millions would be destroyed by the bonds 
 of servitude, would fain have rebuked the world but 
 it was more than his HUMANITY could do ? Did he in 
 deed regard slavery, " a reproach to Christianity a 
 principle at war uith every emotion of humanity and 
 mercy" and refused to lift his voice against it ? Was 
 the measure of his compassion ;>o far beneath the Ab- 
 
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 olitionists that he could not utter a word of commis 
 eration for the bonds of " the Heathen and Strang 
 er ?" Well indeed may " humanity blush" at such 
 a picture of the compassionate Redeemer and well 
 may " the Jlngel of mercy weep" when within the 
 temples of the MOST HIGH, it is engraven by the holy 
 hand of Priesthood, and sent forth to rouse a rebel 
 lious spirit. It is not true that the Immaculate Sav 
 iour passed by " the heathen^ and stranger" as objects 
 beneath his care nor is it true that he reserved for 
 the Satellites of Tappan and Garrison, that compas 
 sion for their bonds, which he could neither cherish 
 himself, nor permit his Apostles to cherish He be 
 held their condition he looked to their future destiny, 
 and viewing the events and calamities of ages and gen 
 erations yet to come, he released them not from their 
 bonds, because he regarded them essential to their 
 wants and he rebuked not their masters, because they 
 were acting under the authority of a moral Institu 
 tion, sanctioned by the precepts of a moral law. 
 
 With this view of the subject, (and we can perceive 
 no other that does not represent the Almighty as an 
 unjust, cruel tyrant, accountable for the incidental 
 deficiences of the means and capacities of his crea 
 tures,) it is obvious that " the New Testament Scrip 
 tures and the preaching and practice of our Lord and 
 his Apostles" do justify slavery ; and we will now 
 enquire by what authority the Abolitionists have af 
 firmed, that an institution stampt with the seal of Si- 
 nia justified by the patriarchs and prophets, and 
 sanctioned by the Saviour and his Apostles, " is con 
 trary to the SPIRIT of Christianity ?" The falla- 
 
ey of th,e sentiment, when fairly presented, must be 
 obvious to the most superficial reasoner ; but it is so 
 often viewed in the abstract, and so long and repeat 
 edly has it been acknowledged as a self evident truth, 
 it has assumed the character of tradition, we will 
 therefore examine its moral worth. And what is 
 Christianity 1 The religion taught by the Saviour. 
 And what is the religion taught by the Saviour? Re 
 pentance, faith and holiness ; the sincerity of which is 
 exemplified by a due obedience to the precepts of the 
 moral law. We have been taught no better defini 
 tion of Christianity than this, nor have we been able 
 to learn that its spirit is a separate immaterial parti 
 cle, inculcating precepts more moral and divine than 
 Christianity itself. It cannot be true ; for if there be a 
 moral principle in the spirit of Christianity that is not 
 to be found in its precepts, it must require more than 
 ordinary capacities to comprehend it: then is grace 
 limited to the wise, and God is unjust by excluding 
 the ignorant from its holy influence. We cannot be 
 lieve it ; for the sublimity of the whole moral code, 
 apart from its divine character, consists in the sim 
 plicity of its precepts ; and those precepts most hap 
 pily adapted to every grade of human intellect, em 
 brace not only the whole duty of man, but all that the 
 spirit of Christianity can possibly inculcate ; hence 
 saith the Apostle, " there is one body, and one spirit" 
 and inasmuch as the spirit of man is judged by the 
 deeds of the law, so is the spirit of Christianity testified 
 by the precepts of its author ; for " as the body tcithout 
 the spirit is dead" so the word of God without the 
 spirit of Christianity is dead also. There can be no 
 
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 just distinction of the terms, for it is not possible to 
 conceive an idea more absurd, than that of the Saviour 
 and his Apostles inculcating precepts of moral obedi 
 ence contrary to the spirit of Christianity. What, 
 then, is the conclusion ? It is this ; that all the pre 
 cepts of the Gospel addressed to the slaves of Rome, 
 were not only consistent with the letter, but the spirit 
 of Christianity, for " the words that I speak" said the 
 Saviour, " they are SPIRIT, and they are LIFE." 
 
 With these reflections, we will now proceed to ex 
 amine those precepts which were specially directed 
 to masters, and such others as are conneted with them. 
 St. Paul thus addressed the slaves at Ephesus and 
 their masters : " Servants be obedient to your masters 
 according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sin 
 gleness of your heart as unto Christ ; not with eye ser 
 vice, as men pleasers ; but as the servants of Christ, 
 doing the will of God from the heart ; with good will 
 doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men : know 
 ing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the 
 same shall be receive of the Lord, whether he be bond 
 or free. And ye masters, do the same things unto 
 them, forbearing threatening : knowing that your 
 master also is in Heaven ; neither is there respect of 
 persons with him. Finally, my brethren, be strong in 
 the Lord, and in the power of his might."* In these 
 words the principles of obedience and humanity are 
 enforced in a manner peculiarly emphatic, The slave 
 is taught that to secure the approbation of his Heav 
 enly Mater,he must conscientiously discharge his du- 
 
 Ephesians, Chap. 6, 5-10. 
 
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 tie s to his earthly master ; and his master is taught 
 that if he would obtain the like favor, he must ex 
 ercise benevolence and compassion to his slave ; and 
 having thus discharged their duties to each other, they 
 are exhorted to " be strong in the Lord, and in the 
 power of his might" Whether it was possible for 
 the master who held his slave in bondage contrary to 
 the word and spirit of Christianity to be strong in the 
 Lord, and in the power of his might; and whether 
 the Apostle could have been justified for thus affec 
 tionately exhorting such a master, we leave the reader 
 to determine. It is the opinion of a learned com 
 mentator, that the words "forbearing threatening" 
 were intended as a rebuke to such masters as were in 
 the habit of using menacing language to their servants; 
 the act not being consistent with the spirit of Christi 
 anity, the Apostle admonished the Ephesians of its 
 evil tendency. But here his admonition ended : they 
 were his brethren in the church, and so much confi 
 dence had he in the sincerity of their piety, that he so 
 licited an interest in their prayers.? Not a word did 
 he utter on the subject of emancipation, nor did he in 
 sinuate that it was contrary to the word or spirit of 
 Christianity, for the relation which then existed be 
 tween masters and slaves to be perpetuated. The 
 words "for there is no respect of persons with him" 
 which have been so cruelly tortured to prove the ini 
 quity of slavery, refer specially to the future and eter 
 nal inheritance, which, without regard to poverty or 
 wealth, freedom or bondage, is bestowed upon the vir 
 tuous. They can have no reference whatever to earth- 
 
 * Read the Gth chapter of Ephesians. 
 
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 ly distinctions, for MoseS was placed in a more exalt 
 ed station than the rest of the Israelites by the special 
 will of Heaven, Samuel also \vas anointed king by his 
 MAKER S permission, the priests and rulers were en 
 dowed with special privileges, and the Apostle him 
 self enjoined it on the Komans."to render to all their 
 dues, tribute to whom tribute is due ; custom to whom 
 custom ; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor." 
 
 "Masters" said the same Apostle to the Christians 
 at Colosse, "give unto your servants lhat winch is 
 jtist and equal; knowing that ye also have a. master 
 in Heaven. * Dr. Clarke (who though not an Abo- 
 litioilist, cherished against slavery the prejudices pe 
 culiar to the English.) admids that these words were 
 addressed to the owners of slaves who are requi 
 red by them to give their slaves comfortable food 
 comfortable raiment and a reasonable task of labor . 
 This was what he conceived equivalent to their ser 
 vices, and justly due them. We have no objection t6 
 his opinion, nor do we believe a more correct exposition 
 of the words can be given. They were addressed, as 
 we before stated, to " the saints and faithful brethren" 
 at Colosse, who enjoyed the entire confidence of the 
 Apostle, and for whom he said "there was a hope 
 l;iid up in Heaven. They contain his last admoni 
 tion to masters, and the last that we have discovered 
 in the New Testament. Is there a word in the sen 
 tence on the subject of emancipation? There is not 
 nor did the Apostle insinuate that it was inconsist 
 ent with the spirit of Christianity for saints and faith- 
 Jut brethren to hold their servants in perpetual bond 
 age. Whence, then, have the Abolitionists derived 
 
 ColoRsians, 4, 1. 
 
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their authority for the declaration ? Have they re 
 ceived a special dispensation of gracie to which the 
 Apostle was an utter stranger 1 Was it reserved for 
 their lucid minds so thoroughly to explore; the science 
 of salvation, as to discover that on the subject of slav 
 ery, there is neither the spirit nor life of Christianity 
 in the words of the Saviour and his Apostles I Would 
 to God we could cover their daring arrogance with 
 the mantle of charity, and attribute their unholy 
 purposes to the spirit of fanaticism. But we cannot 
 the disturbing spirit has been roused, not by the 
 credulous and visionary, but by the voice of learned 
 priests and those whom the Saviour and his Apos 
 tles approved as saints and faithful brethren, they de 
 nounce as "unjust, cruel, kidnappers guilty of the 
 most atrocious transgressions against Godandman" 
 Well for them if after all their pious efforts to fill the 
 coffers of monopolists, at the cost of ttie tears and 
 blood of Southern slave owners, some Hetavenly mes 
 senger shall greet them with the salutation of St. Paul 
 to the slave owners at Colosse ; " We give thanks to 
 God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, since 
 tee heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the 
 love which ye have for all the saints, and for the hope 
 which is laid up for you in Heaven" 
 
 It has been maintained by the Abolitionists, that St. 
 Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthians most unequiv 
 ocally condemns slavery in the following words 
 " Let every man atiide in the same calling wherein he 
 was called. Art thoti called being a servant! care 
 not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rath 
 er. For he that is railed in the Lord, being a servant, 
 
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 is the Lord s free man : likewise also, he that is cal 
 led, being free, is Christ s servant. Ye are bought 
 with a price ; be not ye servants of men. Breth 
 ren, let every man, wherein he is called, threin abide." 
 We intend that a trio as worthy as Locke, Coke and 
 Whitby shall expound these words. " Let every man 
 abide in the same calling wherein he is called, desir 
 ing no alteration in his condition, but satisfied with 
 the dispensations of God s providence Jlrt thou cal 
 led being a servant 1 care not for it ; because thy 
 condition as a servant or a slave is therefore not the 
 less acceptable to God but if thou mayest be made 
 free, use it rather; if thou canst obtain thy liberty by 
 righteous means, it may be lawful for thee to desire 
 it ; but if thou canst not, content thyself, and look not 
 upon thy condition as a mark of God s displeasure 
 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is 
 the Lord s free man ; brought from the bondage of 
 sin to the most desirable freedom, the glorious liberty 
 of the sons of God Likewise, also, he that is called 
 being free, is Christ s servant ; for whatever thy civ 
 il privileges may be, when thou hast taken the Lord 
 for thy master, thou art as much bound to obey 
 his commandments as the meanest slave Ye are 
 bought icit/i a price, even the blood of Jesus be not 
 ye the servants of men ; in their ungodly practices 
 and idolatrous worship, but serve the Lord thy God 
 Brethren, let every man wherein he is called, whatev 
 er his station in life may be therein abide with Gvd, 
 resigned to his will and the dispensations of his prov 
 idence" We wish it distinctly understood that these 
 reflections are from the pens of the learned and pious 
 
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 who were free from what is called " the sin of slavery* 
 and who had imbibed prejudices quite strong enough 
 to permit them to discover some moral injunctions 
 against it, if such were contained in the words. The 
 Epistle from which the words are selected, seems to 
 have been written by St. Paul in reply to a letter of 
 consultation addressed him at Ephesus by some mem 
 bers of the Church at Corinth.* In the ardor of his 
 holy zeal, he had visited all the Asiatic provinces of 
 Greece and remained some time in the city of Corinth, 
 then the capital of Achaia in the Peloponesus, where 
 many were converted by his ministry, and whose par 
 tiality for him induced them to consult him on some 
 important matters which occurred after his departure. 
 Contests and divisions had arisen among them, and 
 while some exclaimed "/ am of Pain" others, " / 
 of Jlj>vllo$"nn r 3. others, " / of Cephas" a certain 
 class contended that the privileges of their Christian 
 stdtt; and the franchises of the kingdom of Christ had 
 released them from the ties and obligations which had 
 previously bound them as members of the cicil no- 
 ciety. To that class, the Apostle addressed the words 
 we have quoted. They were servants, and it is obvi 
 ous that they were servants of a peculiar class, other 
 wise they would have been admonished as were the 
 servants of Ephesus and Colosse, for the Apostle 
 could not have been partial and just also. The word ? 
 rfpvfeuthcros, rendered freed man, in Lathi lAbtrtut 
 signifies says Locke, not simply a free man, but one 
 who having been a slave, has had his freedom given 
 
 * The Reader is referred to the tan or of that part of the Episile embraced in th 7 
 fast Chapters for the proof of our remarks. 
 
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 him by his master, and as the Grecians on special 
 occasions liberated such slaves as had once enjoyed 
 freedom, but by the fate of war had fallen under the 
 yoke of bondage, and in that condition proved them 
 selves worthy of their former state, the servants at 
 Corinth contended (after their conversion) that their 
 relation to their masters in the Church entitled them 
 to like privileges. That such had been their fate and 
 such their maans and capacities, St. Paul believed, (as 
 some of our Southern shive owners believe when they 
 emancipate certain slaves) that they might be happi 
 er in a state of freedom, the words -if tkou ma /cxt be, 
 mrlrfrrr, use, it ratfirr" most conclusively imply, but 
 nothing more for the Apostle rebuked them as often 
 as three times in the compass of seven verses for con- 
 teirlingthat Christianity either by the influence of its 
 g/nritoriteprecrijts, gave them a ?irw or peculiar lib 
 erty to change their condition, or imposed that obli 
 gation on their masters. And why may we rsk did he 
 withhold his admonitions to their masters if it were 
 contrary to the spirit of Christianity for them to hold 
 even *uch servants in bondage ? The occasion was 
 one of peculiar interest and must havu enlisted the 
 sympathies of his heart. As an umpire, a mediator 
 and the spiritual father of both master and slave, his 
 counsel was solicited on a subject embracing their 
 present and future happiness. Behold my bonds and 
 pity me, ciied the slave tell me my duty and I will 
 perform it, responded the master. And what said the 
 Apostle ? " Brethren, Id every man wherein he is 
 called, therein abide icith God. For he that is cal 
 led in the Lurd, being a servant, is the Lord s free- 
 
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 man : likewise also, he that is called, being free is 
 Christs servant." Such were his words. And where 
 are those which breathe more of the spirit of Christi 
 anity where shall we find others that more clearly 
 prove the compassion of its author? Shall we seek 
 them in the crimson pages of a Garrison and his god 
 ly companions? The words "ye are bought with a 
 price; b not ye the servants of men" which they have 
 Tauntingly exclaimed, " prove the iniquity of slavery 
 beyond the possibility of doubt," according to their 
 hypothesis, impeach not only the consistency but the 
 morality of the Apostle, For if they contain an ad 
 monition to servants and refer especially to the condi 
 tion of bondage, why should St. Paul have charged 
 the servants at EpheSus and Colosse to " obey in all 
 things their masters according to the flesh ?" St. Pe 
 ter who partook of his spirit and seemed to have cher 
 ished no little concern for the moral instruction of the 
 slaves at Galatia, thus addressed them" Servants 
 be subject to your masters, (detpotai) with all fear ; 
 not only to thegnod and gentle, but also thsjroward" 
 For this is thank-worthy if a man for conscience to 
 wards God endure grief, suffering wrongfully For 
 what glory is it, if, when ye be bu(Fett d for your faults, 
 ye take it patiently ? but if when ye do well, and suf 
 fer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable to 
 God."* We can perceive no morality or consistency 
 in these and such admonitions as St. Paul addressed 
 to the slaves of Ephesus and Colosse, if it were con 
 trary to the express word of God for "no man to be 
 calkd the servant of another" as the Abolitionists in- 
 
 * 1 Peter 2nd Chap. 18-20- 
 
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 form us, but reverse the position, and the Apostles aro 
 free from reproach. 
 
 We beg leave to compare the admonition of St. 
 Peter with the moral scntimtnls of a learned priest of 
 the Abolition School, which, if they did not procure 
 him the degree of D. D. at least prevented him not 
 from receiving it : " slavery" says the divine, "is made 
 up of every crime that treachery, cruelty and murder 
 can invent; and slave owners, who are men slealcrs, 
 are the very worst of thieves. The most knavish 
 tricks are practised by those dealers in human flesh ; 
 and if slaves judge of our moral character by that of 
 their masters, they must suppose that Christians arc 
 devils, and that Christianity teas forged in hell. Can 
 devils plot against us, worse than they do against 
 them ? In art and wickedness, as it respects princi 
 ple and practice, their masters abundantly exceed" 
 4i Out of the abundance of the heart," said the Saviour, 
 " the mouth speaketh ;" we may therefore justly con 
 clude, that there was at least as much of the; spirit of 
 piety in the heart of the writer, as in the words of his 
 mouth. St. Peter, however, differed with the learn 
 ed divine, for, among " the men stealers" of Galatia 
 he found some whom he called good and gentle the 
 people of God elect through sanctification oj the 
 spirit, and to whom he applied the Gospel salutation, 
 " brethren, grace unto you, and peace be multiplied" 
 Strange indeed, that the Apostle should have been so 
 charitable to " thieves and murderers," and still more 
 strange that he should have rejoiced (( that there was 
 reserved in Heaven for them, an inheritance incor 
 ruptible, undejiled, and that faddh not aicay" W 
 
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 had thought that the Heavenly inheritance was re 
 served for a different class of beings to those " who 
 are pruilly of curry c.riin 1 . thai tec&fh-ery, cruelty and 
 mwtlr.r c tn invent" and we still think sa: but we are 
 admonished by one of the fwfy spirits of the Aboli 
 tion school, to be cautious how we form favorable 
 opinions of the future happiness of slave owners, for 
 if //*s words be trrc, what St. Peter said is false; 
 moreover, the Apostle was not farnrd for much learn 
 ing, and it could not be expected that a fisherman of 
 Galilee could so comprehend the principles of matter 
 and spirit as to discover the distinction between the 
 icord and spirit of Christianity. It may be true that the 
 Apostle never received the honors of the literati, and 
 we are sure if is true that he never studied the science 
 of Abolition Divinity; but he learned at the lips of a 
 Teacher, even the immaculate, omniscient Saviour, 
 that " as the body without the spirit is dead," so the 
 word of Christianity without its spirit is dead also: 
 therefore, as the WORD of G od justified slavery and 
 promised an eternal inheritance to the merciful slave 
 owner, the SPIRIT approved the deed St. Peter re 
 joiced to proclaim it and we are happy to believe it. 
 It has been asserted by some whose moral sensibil 
 ity is not quite so austere as others, that "slavery is 
 repugnant to the precpt, t/wu shaft Jove tin/ neighbor 
 as thyself ." A contrary opinion is maintained by the 
 best Commentators, who, to show the obvious mean 
 ing of the words, have thus transposed them, as t/iou 
 Invest thyself ", so shouklst thou love thy neighbor. 
 Thu duties of religion, says Dr. Coke, " are all rela 
 tive, regarding either God or man; and there is norel- 
 ative duty which love does not readily transform it- 
 
self into, upon the uiere view 01" the different circum 
 stances of the persons concerned. X,n?<?, with regard 
 to a superior, becoriles honor and respect with res 
 pect to equals, it is friendship and benerolenc^, towards 
 inferiors, it is courtesy and condescention. Love com 
 pels us to regard the person, property arid character 
 of our neighbor, and makes us ready at all times to 
 do him service, and to act towards him in every situ 
 ation as we would reasonably expect him to act to 
 us, if he was in our circumstance." Thiis the master 
 is impelled by this law of love to treat his slave with 
 humanity and benevolence not as his equal, for 
 providence has drawn a line of distinction between 
 them not to emancipate him, for it is not written in 
 the law of Invc that ho should do so, nor has he just 
 cause to believe that it. would meliorate his condi 
 tion. "But not so away with your doctrine of dis 
 tinctions," exclaim the Abolitionists, " the words are 
 to be construed literally, for God is no respecter of 
 persons." And if we are to love every member of 
 the human family as much as we love ourselves, pray 
 tell i:s what is to become of the law r of nature, and of 
 all the moral and endearing ties of life. How unnat 
 ural must be the feelings of that father who esteems 
 his neighbor s son as much as his own; and how 
 more than brutal the affections of the mother wh6 
 loves her neighbor s child as tenderly as her own off 
 spring. It cannot be true ; for if this view of its mor 
 al influence be repugnant to nature, how rnuch more 
 appalling to behold the turmoils and jealousies it pre 
 sents to the rilore delicate relations of life : for it is 
 hardly probable that the r^/med Abolitionist (with all 
 
 5 
 
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 his benevolent feelings for the slave) would be happy, 
 to believe that the sable son of the Ethiopia enjoyed 
 quite as large a share of his wife s affections as she 
 had reserved for her husband ; and that his daughter^ 
 in all the delicacy of her nature, knew -no difference 
 in her esteem for the uncouth negro, than for the re 
 fined gentleman of her own color. Upon such prem 
 ises, the doctrine of AMALGAMATION is based, which* 
 though advocated by the depraved Garrison, and 
 sanctioned by the suffrages of honored Senators as 
 the happiest method to effect a general emancipation of 
 our slaves, is nevertheless repugnant to every senti 
 ment of refined humanity and moral truth. For when 
 Ezra heard that the Israelites had taken the daugh 
 ters of the Canaanites for their wives and the wives 
 of their sons, the venerable old priest rent his garment 
 and his mantle, and plucked off the hair from his head, 
 exclaiming in the bitterness of his heart, " Omij God, 
 1 am ashamed and Mush to lift up my face to thee y 
 my God ; for our trespass is grown up unto the 
 Heavens, and LO ! ! ! the PRINCES and RULERS 
 of the people have been chief in the trespass"* Nor 
 did the idea of the grovelling and demoralizing influ 
 ence of the transgression originate with him; for 
 Abraham who dw r elt among the sable sons of Canaan, 
 shuddered at the thought of Isaac s forming a connec 
 tion with one of their daughters; for it is written that 
 " when he was old, and well stricken in age, he said 
 unto his eldest servant that ruled over all that he had; 
 put, I pray thce,thy hand under my thigh, and I will 
 make thee swear by the God of Heaven, and the God 
 
 * Ezra, clioptrr 9, 3 6. 
 
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 of the earth, that tliou shalt not take a wife unto my 
 son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom 
 I dwell ; but thou shalt go unto my country and to my 
 kindred, and take a wife unto Isaac my son."* Nor 
 was the thought less afflictive to the feelings of the 
 chaste Rebecca, for when she heard that Esau had 
 married the daughter of the Hittite, she exclaimed in 
 the anguish of her heart, "I am weary of my life be 
 cause of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob also take a 
 wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are 
 of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life 
 do me."f Moses also expressly commanded the Israel 
 ites to form no covenant with the tribes of Canaan 
 " thou shalt make no marriages with them ; thy 
 daughters thou shalt not give unto their sons, nor their 
 daughters shalt thou take unto thy sons ;"|| and 
 it should not be forgotten, that for the violation 
 of this command, it is written, "the anger of the Lord 
 was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the 
 hands of the King of Mesopotamia,":): who held 
 them in bondage eight years, as a punishment for in 
 dulging their beastly passion for amalgamation. 
 
 We have now reached that part of our argument 
 which rests upon the Golden Rule, " all things what^ 
 soever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye 
 even so to them ;for this is the law and the prophets" 
 According to the exposition of the ABOLITION SCHOOL 
 MEN, this passage of Holy Writ, paralyzes the ener 
 gies of social and moral society and arrests the arm of 
 civil authority in all criminal cases. The son, the 
 
 * Genesis 24, 14. 
 
 t Genesis, 27,46. The reader i* also referred to Genesis 10th chapter, for proof th**- 
 the daughter* of Heth were the descendants of Ham 
 
 I Deuteronomy 7, 1 3. || Judges 3, 5 8, 
 
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 pupil and apprentice, have a right to demand a release 
 from the restraining obligations imposed upon them: 
 contrary to their will, and the thief, the murderer, and 
 the wretch who prostitutes female innocence, when 
 arraigned at the tribunal of justice, have only to ap 
 peal to the moral sympathies of the Judge and Jury 
 with the prayer, "forgive us, for even so icouldice do 
 unto f&eeifwewere in thy circumstances," and they 
 are morally bound to grant the prayer. And according 
 to their exposition, the rich are required by these words 
 to make such a distinction of their goods to the poor as 
 to render their condition more than tolerable. They 
 seem, however, to have forgotten that their hypothesis 
 embraces more than Southern slave owners as trans 
 gressors of the precept, we therefore beg leave to il 
 lustrate the consistency of their exposition by an al 
 legory. 
 
 A certain poor man at the North approached the 
 dwelling of a wealthy Abolitionist and thus accosted 
 him Sir, I am poor and have no home for my family ; 
 I would that thou shouldst give me a small portion 
 of thy large estate, if it be but one of thy smallest 
 farms, that I may the better provide for my little ones, 
 and not be tortured in my last hour with the heart ren 
 ding thought of leaving them to be fed by the cold hand 
 of charity do this I pray thee, for even so would I do 
 unto thee, if 1 were in thy circumstance. Now the 
 poor man was silent for a while and likewise was the 
 rich man, for the prayer of the suppliant had entered 
 his ears, but the thought of granting it had not enter 
 ed into his heart : wherefore the poor man importuned 
 him again, and appealinj to his own exposition of the 
 
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 i 
 
 precept, and to his benevolence and his piety, he as 
 sured him that inasmuch as he possessed a more abun 
 dant store of goods than his wants required, he could 
 not consistently with the spirit of Christianity reject 
 his prayer,for thus is it written "having foodSf rui <nf?it, 
 let us therewith be contmt." Now these words were re 
 ceived by the Abolitionist as something more orthodox 
 than the prayer of the suppliant, wherefore he thus ac 
 costed him friend, thou hast done well by reminding 
 me of those words of St. Paul, for they were written 
 specially for the poor, therefore take them to thy sell 
 moreover, thy request is unreasonable, for if I were 
 to grant unto thee what thou desirest, another and 
 others would desire the same, and when S should have 
 done likewise to them, then would I be left to pine in 
 poverty also furthermore, I would have thee know 
 that I do no violence to the spirit of Christianity nor 
 the precepts of the Bible by holding my wealth; for 
 Abraham and Job and the Centurion and many others 
 of old abounded in wealth, and it is said of them that 
 they were the servants of God, yet they suffered not 
 their charity to extend so far as to the giving away of 
 their estates ; nevertheless to the poor they were kind, 
 and so I trust am I. Now when he had thus spoken, 
 the poor man looked with indignant pity at the Ab 
 olitionist and answered hini saying and so, sir, Abra 
 ham and Job and the Centurion were quite orthodox 
 in thy faith of not sharing their fortunes with the poor, 
 but hast thou forgotten that a large portion of their 
 wealth consisted in slaves? They were slave owners, 
 Sir, " base criminal kidnappers" according to thine 
 own words, u icho in art and wickedness exceed the 
 
devil" and wilt thou take such characters as ensam- 
 ples of thy faith and practice in deeds of charity? < 
 Consistency, sir,is ajewel that belongeth to thephilan- 
 thropist, and if the measure of thy philanthropy be so 
 vast as to embrace the poor sons of Ham who dwell in 
 the South, how canst thou look with pitiless concern 
 on the poverty and wretchedness of thy kindred of the 
 Tribe of Japheth, who sojourn in the North ? Wouldst 
 thou know the burthen of my heart and the cause of 
 these my tears I Go thou to the Alms House even of 
 the great city of the North, and look at the pittance 
 provided by the rich for the hungry poor who call for 
 their morsel. And of what does it consist ? Potatoes, 
 sir, Potatoes a scanty share of Potatoes. And is 
 this the boon of thy charity that is to soothe a parents 
 heart in his last hour ? Rnowest thou not, that thy 
 most " cruel kidnappers" do more than this for their 
 slaves 1 Go thou to the South and see the comforts of 
 life which the more humane bestow on their servants 
 of the Tribe of Ham, and not on them only, but on 
 our kindred of the Tribe of Japheth. If thou wouldst 
 find that charity which bids the poor man die in peace, 
 go thou to Charleston the city of thy " hard hearted 
 men stealers" and view their Orphan House filled 
 with fatherless children, fed and clothed and nurtured 
 in the admonition ojtke Lord Go view the POOR of the 
 City and the Suburbs thereof, supplied abundantly 
 and daily with the best of Bread and Flesh see the 
 physicians of skill and science employed to minister to 
 the sick, and the great men of the City, like good Sam 
 aritans of old, alternately acting as Overseers of their 
 cares and their wants without fee or reward there 
 
go, il thou wouldst find that charity which lain would 
 wipe the tears that fall impitied at the door of thy 
 dwelling. And wilt thou suffer those whom tho 
 callest the most depraved of mankind to exceed thee 
 so jar in chanty? In the name of thy boasted phil 
 anthropy, I adjure thee, go thou and do likewise, that 
 the poor man of the North may also die in peace. 
 Now when he had thus spoken, the door of the Aboli 
 tionist w r as closed against the suppliant, for his heart 
 sickened at the thought of the many virtues of his 
 li Southern kidnappers" therefore he determined to 
 hear no more of them.* Nor will we trespass any 
 farther on his patience by seeking a just exposition of 
 the precept in the consistency of his words and deeds : 
 neither will w r e be our own expositor we prefer offer 
 ing the exposition of one who never advocated slave 
 ry, but who having viewed it in the abstract, imbibed 
 prejudices quite as strong as the spirit of piety would 
 permit him to indulge. " The words, says Dr. Dodd- 
 rige, imply that w r e should treat men in every respect just 
 as we would think it reasonable to be treated by them, 
 if we were in their circumstances and they in ours; 
 for this is in effect the summary and abstract of all 
 
 * There is not a City in the world where such ample provision is made for the Poor, 
 and the Orphans of the Poor, as in Charleston. " Leave thy fatherless children with 
 us," Bay the benevolent inhabitants to the Poor in their dying: moment?, "and we will 
 teach them to fear God&walk uprightly." Thousands of such Orphans have been reared 
 under the parental care of THE HARDHEARTED KIDNAPPERS" ofthe Orphan House, 
 all of whom h-nve distinguished themselves for honest industrious habits; some are 
 numbered with the most talented citizens of Carolina, and not one has ever been con- 
 victcn of a penal offence. We have Institutions of a similar character but of less mag 
 nitude among: us, andJOSIAfi FLOURNOY ESQ. of Putnam, has recently contribu 
 ted 40,000 Dollars to the Afethodist Conference of Georgia, to aid in establishing a 
 MANUAL LABOUR SCHOOL in which some Orphans are to be educated. Will not a few- 
 more of the GENEROUS BENEFACTORS of Georgia do likewise and enable the Conference 
 
 to erect a Manual Labour School Asylum for all the POOR ORPHANS of the state 1 
 
 What a vast amount of good would result from t<uoh a*n Institution, and how appropri 
 ately might the Epitaph of ATOLUS of Rhetnif, be engraven on the tombs of?uch friends 
 of Gotland raan u He f.rpf-(cd his Fortune before him into Ifcavcn by his charitic*, 
 he is gone thitherto enjny ?7. M 
 
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 the moral precepts of the law and the propfots, and 
 it was one of the greatest ends of both to bring men to 
 Tms humane and equitable temper." Thus the mas 
 ter, like Abraham and the faithful of old, is required 
 by this precept to treat this slave with all that human 
 ity and benevolence with which he would wish his 
 slave to treat him, provided their circumstances were 
 reversed. 
 
 But what is the measure of that humanity and be 
 nevolence, and how shall it be meted to the slave I 
 Th< Jews understood it to embrace all that was writ 
 ten concerning humanity and benevolence in the law 
 an .7 ike prophets, for the precept was familiar to them 
 being one of their own maxims* and Wetstein and 
 Gro-tius inform us that some of the Heathen writers so 
 understood it; but the Abolitionists have discovered 
 that the spirit of Christianity is not to be found in the 
 lain and the prophets concerning shivery, consequejit- 
 ly they reject the construction. The Saviour, how 
 ever, perceiving in the plentitude of his wisdom that 
 the members of civil society would be disturbed by 
 the discordant opinions of such extraordinary teachers, 
 expressed the precept in words so plain as to permit 
 even the Heathen to perceive that it embraced no 
 thing more than w r as written in the I <w and the proph 
 ets ; therefore, if the master would learn how far his 
 humanity and benevolence should be extended to his 
 slave, and if the slave would know how far his obedi 
 ence and fidelity should be extended to his master s 
 precepts and interest, let them both go to the law and 
 th$ prophets, for more than is written therein, is not 
 
 S Tobit chip. 4, 15. 
 
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 required of them nor embraced in the pr*>*pn1. And 
 
 d .V I tw nn / - / */;// if.s require him to enimicb- 
 
 pate his slave? We have already proven t! at tit re 
 
 is neither vrrcrpt nor cj-^mpff in the Bible to t< ; < h 
 
 hi . that it would be an ;ct of justice or humanity for 
 
 to do so, nor his he cause to believe that it would 
 
 be iwi act of behrvok toce to expose his slave to such 
 
 ruel treatment as the Free Blacks of Ohio received 
 
 at the ban Is of the Abolitionists of that State, :.id 
 
 then, like them, to be driven to the frozen peaks of 
 
 Canada, to perish in the snow.* Thr. kitr and the 
 
 prophets require him to protect his slave from the h<j,nd 
 
 of injury and cruelty to impose a reasonable task of 
 
 1 ibour on him, and no more to provide for his w :uts 
 
 and to reader his condition comfortable, by remov ng 
 
 from his mind that burthen of care and anxiety for ihe 
 
 Ri-cess:irics of life, .under which millions of the labour 
 
 ing cUssof freemen uro doomed to groan to adrnon* 
 
 ish him of his moral obligations arid to use iill the 
 
 as in his power to have him, taught his duty to his 
 
 Ma,k< T and having done tins, he has done all thiit the 
 
 lad and the prophets require; lie has obeyed the pre- 
 
 cpt of the Saviour ; and thru, like Abraham the fa,-- 
 
 ther of the faithful and the friend of God and man, he 
 
 may bequeath his servants to Ids Isaac arid a scend to 
 
 Paradise. 
 
 And why, may we ask, should such a master w /oui 
 
 * The remnant of the Black Colony ol Ohio may now be found in Canada, r poor, 
 friendless, un-tched, w;n<iprinii tribe of him. an beings To the^i ulien ps ai d (iceof 
 fljousnee| is .utribuled Tlif.ciiti^i 1 o, tlu ir lands being .a:-rn tnm .;.( n. .1 theii I ;i.^lb* 
 men: . Le it so A nd if, in such a country HS Ohio, the negro \Mtliout imasi > , -.Id 
 
 n<.: iv.i-iv.uino Itis nf.tiirai pri);r-iisii\ lor i<ll iH---; and iicentiousn^ s,j- it . vo!.;,! i that 
 v ould in Ai ri a ? A ui dues n.-tthi- [>rpVe that ie i- better off tr,- thai w -id a. 
 ; ; vVn tii n ge ! hi Bun 1,-ij.pMtioi, tmd wfr; r jno,,(.h liao Aimigiify tr iiv 
 
 u o* his c 
 
the law and the prophets approre ; wham t^e Jhviour 
 and his apostles hail rs an heir of tlic Ln v n ) ini trit- 
 ance ; why should such a master be up raid d as "a 
 monster, who in art and wickedness exceeds the Prince of 
 darkness? " And w r hy should his slave be told, it mat 
 ters not what is written in the Law arid the Prophets, 
 nor what the Saviour and his apostles may have s ,id 
 about slavery, " your master, who claims your chvd as 
 his property and nurtures and detains it in slavery, is 
 0qually a man theif with the negro stealer on the coc.st :<f 
 Guinea." Whence the authority for such outrage oui 
 declarations? Has another STAR indeed appeared 
 in the EAsT, ominious of a more merciful f ispensa- 
 tion to tlie slave, than that which was seen in Bet >!e- 
 hern or Judea? and moving alternately o er the 
 dwellings of TAPPAN and GARRISON and thence 
 in its marvelous revolutions pursuing REMAN on hi* 
 holy embassy across the Deep with his " image of Je- 
 su* the price of his slaves in his pocket," * have uie 
 Angels of heaven proclaimed with louder acclamation* 
 of joy than saluted the Shepherds oT Israel, LQ ! | [ 
 THESE, THESE are the friends of the slave, j nd 
 not the Saviour and his Apostles ? Fr.iil hum .n v 
 thou must be prone to the most appalling presuiip on, 
 when thy children measure arms with JEHOVAH, and 
 extol their benevolence above the standard of his mer 
 cy- 
 * 
 
 marked, 
 the vrnc( 
 
 eted rhe price nrrl it is said that ; f ever he did an act that /;><- move r>cop I H f -f 
 Ifs ranker, he certainly never did one that v.-a. c so acceptab e to I .i* slavt*. H<- ie 
 gone fo fl;iropet ) negociate a-ialliaiicc \\\ he holy -var : ^re a^uiiT-f, ?!.?v.:---> T , Q t e. 
 is he o seer aid of hi* Bntgnnic Majesty, or of rbr Fci-e, or o b^:h A - -:e Ci^ 
 aaa Co-, 1 :-* affords ^pri- qu^ec-JU^enialtkJl>iv<sl*fUpurpose, k wifl 
 met witk.a grtts rwj?uj& riiro. 
 
43 
 
 If by pr<*s<*ntin^ our argument in this point of view, 
 we saouid unfortunately trespass on the sensibility of 
 those who would suggest a happier method to illus 
 trate the absurd and impious opinions of our most dead 
 ly foes, we cannot help it ; we have not been favoured 
 with the counsel of such friends, nor do we know that 
 j;i..t\ce and truth would have permitted us to heed their 
 ad vioiiitions. There is such a thing as charity, ana it 
 LS said uu.it in the measure of its long suffering nd 
 less, "it beareth all things, belie veth all tunics, 
 hop*-.h ail things, endureth all things ;" that " it ( nvi- 
 ta not, vaunieth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not 
 beaave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not 
 c.us. iy provoked, thinluth no evil, rejoiceth not in ini 
 quity." We admire the apostles inimitable picture of 
 the Virtue, and would be extremely happy to believe 
 th a we possessed it in all the loveliness of its true 
 , jtcr ; but that chanty which " envieth " the pros* 
 p r. y o; ct er- that " vaunteth itself" above aiivir- 
 tt, .1 t iS *o " puffed up " as to exalt itself above 
 God aad .iis holy precepts :hat " behaveth itself so 
 Uliseeml) " as ro curse those whom the Saviour and 
 his apostles have blessse* hat " seeketh her own * 
 prosperity and happiness with such intense desire, ,js 
 to M rget the poverty and wretchedness of those around 
 it li .t is so " easily provoked " as to excite others to 
 WiYich and vengeance ior no caus so " thinketh evil" 
 Oi its neighbor as riot to discover one virtue in his 
 he^rc so "rejoiceth in iniquity " as to be comforted 
 with no ii u -.r loss thantae te-irs ard blood of the inno- 
 ce, "roin such ch drity, " -ood Lori deliver us ; " nd 
 if liiac ue its voice wiucii biiig us " bear alt these things 
 
44 
 
 with meekness and patienc* "believe " that they 
 indited with t .e purest motives "hope," that they are 
 th effusions of pious hearts ,nd "endure" them as 
 a burthen not too grievous to he home;" if this be 
 Heaven-horn charity, nev<-r did our Fathers hrr its 
 Yoic<>, ,md never do we desire to \v.ir it; for its Ion* 
 suffering ? s PU:BT:LLION, and its kindness, DEATH. 
 
 Thattiie institutvn V Bondage was written with 
 the linger of uod and s tnctioned by the Saviour and 
 his Apostles, is a fact as clearly proven in the Bible 
 as the creaiion of the world ; and lie who affirms that 
 " it is an unjust, cruel institution," is either ignorant of 
 the Scriptures or guilty of the most appalling presump 
 tion. God is not unjust; he cannot be cruel ; nor is 
 injustice and cruelty marked in the institutions of ! is 
 word or the dispensations of his providence. He crea 
 ted nun a p re, intelligent spirit, free to choose good 
 or e< ii. The latter was unhappily his choice, and that 
 choice constituted him an heir of mortality, entailing 
 on His posterity its numberless ills. It was then that 
 the compassionate eye of his Creator was specially di 
 rected to his condition ; and when he beheld his pos- 
 tcr.ty already oppressed with the crres of poverty and 
 want "when the children and sucklings swooned ;a 
 thr- streets; when they cried for bread, and no mam 
 gave it unto them," then did he institute Bondage as 
 L;e means of affording protection and succour to those 
 who were destitute of both ; not to augment the mise 
 ries of the poor, hut to save them from greater calami- 
 fees ; not as a license hi injustice and cruelly , for MER 
 CY, with her own right hand indited its Laws, and JUS 
 TICE, wii& &e beal *j Meavea stair/pt 
 
45 
 
 That the imstit.iit.ion has b^rn nii.^rd and its laws 
 
 ! olated in many instances, we do not deny ; but 
 
 r i r the proof of its injustice and cruelty, nor 
 
 f the accountability of its author -or its abuses. For 
 ii its abuses be received as evidences of its injustice 
 and cruelty, tbe same may be said of Christianity 
 
 o liistory is marked with darker features of rnor- 
 ,r;j,\ry than bondage itself and if God be ac 
 countable for the abuses of one. he is equally accounta 
 ble tor the abuses of the other ; and if accountable 
 for both, " then is the just God, whose justice " is said 
 to be " dr.j habitation of his throne ; " " whose merer 
 is lire at unto the heavens and who has reserved the un 
 just and cruel man unto the day of Judgment to be 
 punished" then is that just and merciful Being the 
 author of that injustice and cruelty, which he is bound 
 by his holy word to punish in the day of judgment. It 
 is not true God is riot the author of the injustice ani 
 orueity which is marked in the history of slavery. T* 
 man belongs the guilt, the guilt of having violated the 
 L;W.> oi a merciful institution, which, with all its abus 
 es has proven a blessing to millions of the human race 
 ami afforded protection and succour to millions of oth 
 ers, who would otherwise have fallen victims to the 
 sword or famine. 
 
 Uoiidage was originally a compact between 
 tfie master and the slave, based upon the princi 
 ple of mutual benefit and sanctioned by the Law of 
 $ nai. The morality of that law we have defended 
 
 i.ist the insidious attacks of the A olition Priest- 
 hood, but we find another law imposing bondage on 
 ! man, winch, though stanipt witk Ike 
 
46 
 
 of human depravity, is nevertheless an additional 
 proof of hb having meliorated tne condition or mil* 
 lions even in its worse state. History informs us that- 
 all nations of antiquity, the Israeli^ s nor excepted, re- 
 g i.rtkd tile privelege either to lull or enslave their priso 
 ners, as a ri-ht secured to them by the laws of war. 
 The uibeon.ces were enslaved by the special order of 
 Joshua ; the Assyrians and Babylonians followed the 
 x mple, ana Shaimanezar and Nebuchadnezzar with 
 all tiller evil propensities, preferred rather to enslave 
 tin.: tr.bes of Israel than destroy them. The Phoenician* 
 ami Cartimgenians were governed by the same motives, 
 an:! tiie tuvcians, Trojans and others continued ta* 
 tiortof enslaving their captms. Thus when Juliu* 
 Cesar nad ciosea ins invasion against Britain, he trans 
 ported iiis pnst ners to Rome and sold them as slaves, 
 soon r lh<;n put them to tiie sword, Faulu* Enaims 
 also transported 150,000 after the seige of Epnus ; 
 ami it is said that when Augustus Cesar had conqu r- 
 eu tiie Sahssii his noble spirit prompted him to mjict 
 ^mildest punishment on his captives that the law* 
 i vvar \vouici permit, and he accordingly sold them a* 
 *i.-i 3-s. in Airica also, where the horrors of war hav* 
 b- en extended so lar that it was customary for King* 
 aii,i Princes to thatch their inns and walls with ih* 
 boa; 6 of ciieir capdvos, bondage with ail its " moral 
 in^uity/ has been the means o transporting millions 
 w:.o would otherwise have fallen victims to the barbari 
 ty of man. And would it indeed have been better ior 
 those who were brought to the south to have b < n 
 butchered in Africa or held there in bondage to more 
 
 o 
 
 s ? We aaunot look <tt Ui k^terv *f 1 
 
 
49 
 
 AY:c?m l?iTe trade and mirk with paffcn^ the pirt 
 w .ich ut<" Abolitionists and tiieir L^IMS {? r or .SUM n 
 i tragic sociio. li #uilt be attached to the " ;ct of 
 transporting the poor sons of A r >m the hou of 
 
 their i;ulu r,-," u> them i not to us * a 
 
 1 20, a Dutch vessel under authority fyom t 
 Cv>v ni;: n , i.ro.i^ni die first Airic.iiis 10 the United 
 States and sold ti.ei- ves in Virginia. Froa, that 
 
 pcr.od the trade was continued under the s;:n..tiou of 
 his Britannic iYlajes:^, mril millions had been import 
 ed within his <,oi it . irons In 176o, South C:.n 
 that native stati Oi painctisiii, virtue arid elo..Uv-iiee^ 
 ]> issed an ace in her colonial capacity interdicting the 
 Trudeiii her i or:s. Oid England, by \\vi voice o ti-.r 
 i spirits spurned the act, and IS etc Eti^lanu, ,.-v 
 the voice of her compassionate sons rosj-j ed, cur 
 snu.sareladt-n and ready ior the Traffic. Thus was 
 th ride continued; and so long as they couid baiv^r 
 tli r Riim ior u the poor som of Africa," it was y.n act 
 of .larnaititij LO cram them int;te filthy holes of \\\ ir 
 sh ps in sucli crowds, as to cause hundreds to per.sk 
 .>ii ti.i. wa) "fruM, the home of their fathers" hut v/l,..i 
 tli j can no ongcr be beneiiited by tiie triric, when thry 
 
 * Li the debate on the Missouri question, a Senat(,r from South Carolina iirroc noei 
 t:u senate 01 the Unite.; States, a document from the Custom fiou^e .-,{ s 
 g tht name;- and owners . i vessels engaged ii. the Atrerui elav< 
 
 In ream the document, the name of De Wolfe was repeatedly called. Lc i t 
 wa- the senator eteciot Rhode Island, was pre-.i :t, but had ,.ot lipen qua^ flt-d 1 lie 
 Carolina Senator was ca :ed to order order, onitr," ecluecl thn-b-h thr Sei nte 
 Hall, it 11 con rary to order to call the iia.ne OT a Senator," said ; 
 Meman The senator contended that he was not owt of --rder, tor the *. n 
 
 Kn ,;le Jwand had not been qualified and consequently \va>iiotei ? he 
 
 appealed to the Chair ; Mie Ciia r replied " \ c..u are correct, sir, proceed " 
 hedi/J,calhngtbenameof De Woll( ooften- that beibrehehadfin I i 
 
m 
 
 the fat? wretcft&s " whdrfl they sold if* ras asd 
 savage ignorance, comfortably clothed and nur ureel in 
 the principles of Christianity, then is discovered " a 
 f loud of vengei nee ready to pour its streams of fire 
 on our beloved country because of the bonds of the 
 poor slaves " w 1 101 11 they brought in fetters from he 
 coast of Africa. "Something must be done to MY rt 
 the awful calamity," s:;ys one ; " we must wage an x-. 
 terminating war against the accursed sin of -slavery," 
 eries the holy Priest, with the price of his slaves in 
 his pocket "yes, we must send an ambassador to the 
 Throne of his Britannic Majesty to negocaite an alli 
 ance in the holy war .urc," says anoih -r godly Priest* 
 "for if our Republic cannot stnnd but upon the nocice 
 f two millions of my fellow beings l^t it fall, let it 
 fall, though I be crushed ben-ath it." * rious souk ! ! ! 
 eould they prevail on the noble friends of Liberty and 
 ef the Union at the North, to heed their admonitions,,- 
 kow soon would we realize the horrors of a civil war. 
 These compassionate friends of -these " two million* 
 f fellow beings " desire to have them exported to " the 
 beloved home of their fathers," and Parke in his travel* 
 in Africa, informs us that there is no section oi the 
 Globe which exhibits such app din 4 pictures of slave* 
 ry .s this beloved home of their fathers, nor is there % 
 country to be found where liberty is less value d or sus 
 pended on more fortuitous circumstances. There the 
 late of war seals the destiny of the captive, and if we 
 add famine"; says he, to the unceasing and bloody con 
 flicts which prevail throughout Africa, these constitute 
 the fruitful and endless sources of that cruel bondage 
 
 * Sec ihc Rev. Mt.JMay s Disortatita on the 
 
41) 
 
 with which millions of its inhabitants are oppressed. 
 During the years of scarcity which frequently occur, 
 great numbers are seen surrendering their liberty to 
 save their lives ; and as large families are generally 
 the more exposed to absolute want, it is not uncom 
 mon to see children sold by their parents to purchase 
 provisions for the rest of the family. Bruce in his 
 travels in Africa, al^so testifies to the truth of these 
 statements, and gives the most appalling picture of its 
 walking skeletons, and of the lawless rapine which 
 every where prevail during those years of scarcity. 
 To export our slaves to such a country where misery 
 abounds, and where life and liberty are suspended on 
 the whims of savage kings, may be an act of the kind 
 est charity in the estimation of the benevolent Aboli 
 tionists, but in the opinion of their masters, it would 
 be such an act of inhumanity as would have brought 
 upon the slave owners of Ephesus and Colosse, the 
 reprobation of the Saviour and his Apostles. 
 
 We will now proceed to examine the practicability 
 of the schemes which have been devised by the com 
 passionate friends of our slaves for their emancipation 
 and to present them in the most favorable point of 
 view, we will suppose that their holy embassador had 
 returned from his Majesty s kingdom with the glad 
 tidings of a happy revolution of the laws of nature and 
 barbarism in Africa that the Apocalyptic Angel of 
 Mercy had visited the country and at his appearance 
 disease and rapine hid their ghastly faces and the din 
 of war and rumours of wars had ceased to be heard 
 that he produced credentials of the fact, under the seal 
 of his royal Majesty and witnessed by the sainted 
 
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 Thompson that he also produced testimonials from 
 the Queen of Spain stating that through her agency 
 the Court of Madrid had formed an alliance with the 
 republics of South America, to which was appended 
 their most solemn asseverations, that the annual im 
 portation of 100,000 Africans within their dominions 
 should now and forever cease, and if "the Southern 
 kidnappers" would consent to have their slaves ex 
 ported to Africa, not a hair of their heads should be 
 touched under such auspicious circumstances, we 
 will suppose that they assent to the proposition pro 
 vided they be paid a reasonable price far their slaves, 
 and that the Government and the Abolitionists. agree 
 to the terms now let us see whether their united en 
 ergies will be adequate to the task of exporting them 
 to " the home of their fathers" The number of slaves 
 in the United States is estimated at 2,400,000 the 
 average price could not be less than 300 dollarsadd: 
 to this the expense of transportation and support tin- 
 til they could clear and cultivate a sufficiency* of land 
 to support themselves, 100 dollars more ; this increas 
 es the price of each slave to 400 dollars 2,400,000 
 slaves would therefore cost the General Government 
 and the Abolitionists 960,000,000 of dollars. Not 
 withstanding many princely fortunes may be found 
 among the followers of Tappan, we fan i j y that before 
 one tenth of that amount was paid, there would be 
 such a scarcity of cash in their pockets and of spoils 
 in the Treasury, as to produce more doleful lamenta 
 tions in Congress than were ever uttered there for the 
 fate of our slaves. 
 
 But it is said by some, " we do not propose to export 
 
 $ 
 
them immediately the work must be gradual." Pro 
 fessor Dew in his learned and masterly rerien of the 
 debate in the Virginia Legislature on this subject, l\as 
 proven with mathematical accuracy the impossibility of 
 effecting the object even in this way. The annual in 
 crease of our black population is at least 100,000, and 
 this number is proposed to be sent off, so as to prevent 
 an increase of the original stock. Here is at once 
 the enormous sum of 40,000,000 of dollars to be paid 
 annually, and at the expiration of a hundred years, the 
 original stock of 2,400,00 would remain to be export 
 ed. And " long, very long, says Professor Dew, be 
 fore the colony in Africa could receive even the in 
 crease of this accumulating capital, its recipient would 
 be checked by the limitation of territory and the rap 
 id tilling up of the population, both by emigration and 
 natural increase. Ring Canute the Dane, seated on 
 the sea shore and ordering the rising flood to recede 
 from his royal feet, was not guilty of more vanity and 
 presumption than the Government of the United 
 States would manifest, in the vain effort of removing 
 and colonizing the annual increase of our blacks. So 
 far from doing it, they would not be able to send off a 
 number sufficiently great to check even the geometri 
 cal rate of increase" The colony in Liberia, after 
 all the efforts of its friends for nearly twenty years^ 
 contains perhaps, not more than 3000 inhabitants ; 
 and the Rev. Mr. Bacon, one of its most zealous sup 
 porters, declared in a speech before the Colonization 
 Society, that "the additional number of 1000 landing 
 at once, might ruin the colony." Again, we are told 
 by Mr, A&hmun, the friend and agent of the colony, 
 
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 that " rice does not grow spontaneously in Liberia, and 
 laborious men accompanied only with their natural 
 proportion of inefficients must be sent there, lest the 
 inhabitants be reduced to want" and he further ad- 
 yises that "inefficient laborers should be kept in 
 Jlmerica where they can do something by picking out 
 cotton or stemming tobacco, to wards supporting them 
 selves." Thus we see with all the fine things that 
 have been told us of that "Asylum of Liberty " it is 
 no place for such slaves as can only pick out cotton 
 and stem tobacco, nor is there space nor means with 
 in its borders, for the support of one-ninetieth part of 
 the annual increase of our slaves. 
 
 If with these facts we take into consideration the 
 mortality which has always attended the settlement 
 of Colonies, we will at once perceive the benovolence 
 of the scheme of colonizing the blacks. Professor 
 Dew remarks that one of the greatest attempts at col 
 onization in modern times, was the effort of the French 
 to plant 12,000 emigrants on the coast of Guiana. 
 The consequence was, that in a very short time 10,000 
 of them lost their lives in all the horrors of despair 
 2,000 returned to France the scheme failed and 25, 
 000,000 of Francs, says Raynal, were totally lost. 
 Seventy five thousand Christians, says Mr. Eaton in his 
 account of the Turkish Empire, were expelled by 
 Russia from the Crimea and repaired to the country 
 deserted by the Nogai Tartars and in a few years 
 7,000 only remained. In like manner if 100,000 Ne 
 groes with careless and filthy habits were annually 
 sent off to the insalubrious clime of Africa, what would 
 foe their fate ? In 1787 the British planted a Colony 
 
of negroes in Sierra Leone The intemperance and 
 imprudence of the emigrants brought on a mortality 
 which reduced the number nearly one half the first 
 year, and after a lapse of twenty years, their rights and 
 possessions were surrendered to the British Crown. 
 During the brief period of its existence, says Mr. 
 Dew, " it has been visited by all the plagues that Col 
 onial establishments are heir to. It has been cursed 
 with intemperance, desertion, civil wars and insurrec 
 tions. It has experienced famines, and suffered in 
 sult and pillage. Its numbers have been thinned by 
 the blighting climate of Africa, and it has been con 
 tinually engaged in wars with the neighboring African 
 tribes" Colombia and Gautemala have tried the dan 
 gerous experiment of Colonization, and Mr. Dunn 
 has given the following picture of the latter " With 
 a colored population drunken and revengeful, her fe 
 males licentious, and her males shameless, she ranks 
 as a true child of that accursed city which still re 
 mains as a living monument of the fulfilment of pro 
 phecy and of every unclean and hateful bird. Not 
 a day passes without murder on fast days and on 
 Sundays, the average number killed is from four to 
 five. From the number admitted in the Hospital of 
 St. Juan deDios in the year 1827 near 1500 were stab 
 bed, of whom from three to four hundred died." With 
 these and many other instances of the hazardous 
 schemes of Colonization which stand in " bold relief" 
 before the eyes of the compassionate Abolitionists, 
 they seem determined to wage a perpetual warfare 
 against the happy condition of our slaves. 
 
 But we had almost forgotton to mention another of 
 
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 their benevolent schemes. Some have suggested the 
 plan of " taking off the breeding portion of the slaves 
 to Jlfrica, or carrying away the sexes in such dispro 
 portions as will in a measure prevent those lejt be 
 hind from breeding:" All these plans says Profes 
 sor Dew, " merit nothing more than the appellation 
 of vain juggling conceits, unworthy of amoral man. 
 If our slaves are to be sent away in any systematic 
 manner, humanity demands that they should be sent 
 in families. The voice of the world would condemn 
 us if we sanctioned any plan of deportation by which 
 the male and female, husband and wife, parent and 
 child, were systematically and relentlessly separated." 
 If the compassionate feelings of the Abolitionists 
 prompt them to choose this method to regulate " the 
 moral evil of slavery" they had better adopt the plan 
 suggested by the learned Professor, of keeping the 
 male and female separate in ergastula or dungeons, 
 and then when one generation will pass away, the 
 moral evil will cease of itself leaving them the pleas 
 ing reflection of being sustained in the humane and 
 merciful scheme of its destruction, if not by " the 
 Scriptures of the New Testament," at least by the 
 counsel of Xenophon in his Economics and the prac 
 tice of Cato and Censor. 
 
 With this brief view of the impracticability of the 
 schemes of emancipation, we beg leave to remark that 
 from the da) s of the Patriarchs to the present period, 
 whether from choice, necessity or misfortune, at least 
 two thirds of mankind have been working for the rest ; 
 and whether they toil in the capacities of hirelings 
 or bond-servants, so long as man is clothed with mor- 
 
lality, this state of things will exist. \ow the ques 
 tion occurs, which state is best adapted to the capa 
 cities and wants of the negro 1 To ascertain this im 
 portant point of our argument, we must resort to 
 comparisons. We have already spoken of the wretch 
 ed condition of the colonists in Sierra Leone pnd Gau- 
 temala, and if we add the free blacks of Hayti to the 
 number, the aggregate amount of their miseries will 
 be diminished but little. And who cannot perceive 
 thaUAetr condition is infinitely worse than the slaves 
 of the most cruel owners ? But we will not confine 
 our comparison to persons of their own color and 
 habits In England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, 
 where it is said the benign influence of Christianity has 
 driven domestic slavery " to a more savage clime," 
 the generous and benevolent lords of the soil exact 
 such exorbitant rents from the Peasantry as to com 
 pel much the larger portion of them to feed all the 
 year on oatmeal and potatoes and frequently without 
 salt and when bowed under the weight of years and 
 infirmity, they are exported either to the "land of sla 
 very" to be fed by the hand of charity, or suffered to pine 
 under the griping pangs of hunger, in " the land of 
 Liberty " In Poland the fate of the laboring class is 
 still worse, and it should not be forgotten that their 
 miseries have been increased since their personal lib 
 erty was granted them. Through the agency of Sta 
 nislaus Augustus, that boon was conferred in 1791, 
 and so far from its proving a blessing to the peasan 
 try, it has proven a curse, both with regard to its influ 
 ence on their morals and their means of subsistence. 
 They are in fact still slaves, says Burnett in his view 
 
5G 
 
 the present state of Poland, and relatively to their po 
 litical existence, as absolutely subject to the will of 
 their lords, as in all the barbarism . of the feudal 
 times. In China millions of freemen are said to taste 
 notcholesome meat throughout the whole of the toil 
 some year frequently see their families perishing be 
 fore their eyes seek with eagerness the vilest garbage 
 from the river or canal and voraciously devour meat 
 which our negroes would cast to the dogs and vul 
 tures of the air. And will any man affirm that the 
 bondage of our slaves is not more than equivalent to 
 the liberty of such freemen ? But let the contrast be 
 brought even nearer home thousands at the North, 
 who having toiled all their lives in the service of the 
 landholders and manufacturers for no more than a mea 
 gre support, are doomed in the evening of their days to 
 beg a morsel in the Streets and Highways And is not 
 their condition infinitely w r orse than the bondage of 
 our slaves who are daily supplied with bread, meat, 
 and vegetables, and frequently with milk and refresh 
 ing drinks ? But the other day, we saw a lady of re 
 finement making with her own hands a comfortable 
 bed for an old slave who told her that his mattrasg. 
 was too hard to afford him comfortable sleep. For 
 his owners, who are in very moderate circumstances, 
 he has not toiled an hour for many years, and their 
 children vie with each other for the privilege of wait 
 ing on " DADDY" with his meals, consisting of meat, 
 bread and coffee, and such other articles of food as 
 their table affords. Nor are such instances uncom 
 mon in the slave-holding States the slave who is 
 bowed under the weight of years and infirmity is the 
 
favorite of every humane family and it should not be 
 forgdtton, that the anticipation of being overtaken by 
 age and infirmity without a penny iii our pockets or a 
 friend to minister to our wants, constitute the sum 
 mary of that care and anxiety w r ith which millions of 
 freemen are oppressed, and from which our slaves are 
 relieved. / 
 
 " Hut they groan under bondage perpetual 
 bondage, and who" says the Abolitionist, " can 
 bear the thought of perpetual bondage ?" These ab 
 stract and vindictive remarks have been uttered with 
 as little regard for the history of man as for the pre 
 cepts of the Bible. It is a fact as notorious as the 
 divinity of the Scriptures, that the merciful Creator 
 of the universe has implanted in the bosom of man a 
 principle of contentment, which if not disturbed by av 
 arice or some rebellious spirit, never fails to produce 
 that resignation to his condition and the dispensations 
 of Providence, which is essential to his present and 
 future happiness. But for the influence of this moral 
 principle, "godliness with contentment" wonldbe driv 
 en from the cottages of the f virtuous poor the mis 
 sionary would exchange the toils and privations of his 
 beggarly life, for a more lucrative occupation and 
 our slaves would long ago have heeded the counsel of 
 their compassionate friends and imbrued their hands 
 in the blood of their owners. The existence of this 
 principle is not only essential to the peace" of society 
 but to all the operations of honesty and benevolence; 
 and that charity which supposes that the slave under 
 its moral influence is capable of estimating liberty so 
 high, as to render life intolerable, has neither history 
 
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 nor scripture to support it. Greece and Rome hart 
 furnished many instances of persons distinguish 
 ed for learning and talents, who were so governed by 
 this law of contentment as to be happy in bondage. 
 Epictetus, Terence, ^Esop and Phoidrus were slaves; 
 Daphnis the Grammarian was a slave, and Roscius 
 the actor, whose talents it is said, permitted him to 
 gain annually for his master upwards of 1 7,000 dollars, 
 was also a slave. Thus we see that the minds of men 
 have not all been cast in one common mould for 
 while some prefer death to bondage, others like the 
 Gibeonites prefer to be "hewers of wood and drawers 
 of water unto all the congregation of Israel," sooner 
 than perish by the sword of Joshua.* 
 
 Nor does this variety of human opinions end here ? 
 for we find that from the days of the Patriarchs to the 
 present period, some have even prefered bondage to 
 liberty, and so far from the act being repugnant to the 
 will of Heaven, it has received the special approbation 
 of Deity "And God spake these words, saying If 
 thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, 
 and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 
 If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne 
 him sons or daughters ; the wife and her children shall 
 be her masters, and he shall go out by himself. And 
 if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my 
 wife, and my children ; I will not go out free : Then 
 his master shall bring him unto the Judges ; he shall 
 also bring him unto the door, or unto the post of the 
 door ; and his master shall bore his ear through with 
 
 " Sec Joshua,- Chapter 9. 
 
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 an awl ; and he shall serve him forever-."* Thus we 
 sec instances of men prcfe ring bondage to liberty, 
 even among the Israelites. But how do these pre 
 cepts of the Almighty Arbiter ofthe universe accord 
 with the divinity of the Abolitionists I Most wretch 
 edly for according to the opinions of their most holy 
 and learned Divines, the master of the Hebrew 
 "wkf> nurtured and detained his children in bondage 
 to as as verily a kid tapper as if he* had stolen them 
 jrom the coast of Guinea" and not to upraid him as 
 " a base, criminal monster 11 unworthy of the esteem of 
 his servant -not to threaten him with "Heaven s deep 
 est, vengeful curse" and not to denounce slavery as 
 " amoral evil a curse to the poor and a disgrace to 
 Christianity" not to do at least so much for the com 
 fort of the poor Hebrew slave, was such " an outrage 
 on the principles of philanthropy" as their tender con 
 sciences cannot endure. But as the beneficent Crea 
 tor was not an Abolitionist, his compassion would 
 neither permit him to order the Israelite to emancipate 
 his slaves, nor to denounce him as "a kidnapper" for 
 " nurturing and detaining them in bondage" and as 
 the Hebrew loved his master, his wife and his chil 
 dren, and prefered bondage to liberty, he indulged 
 him in his choice, not only because it was congenial 
 to his feelings, but because INFINITE WISDOM perceived 
 that its condition was better adopted to his capacity 
 and his wants. 
 
 Similar instances have frequently occurred in the 
 Southern States, and we recollect to have been pres 
 ent at the appraisement of an estate of a wealthy 
 
 * Gencaia 20 Chapter 1, and 21 Chapter 2,6. 
 
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 Planter, where a scene occurred which would have 
 afforded the benevolent advocates of emancipation 
 but little comfort. The master of that estate had 
 been in the habit of giving his negroes a portion of 
 land to cultivate, the proceeds of which were applied 
 to their own purposes. A slave as remarkable forjiis 
 intelligence and morality, as for his industry and fru 
 gality, was appraised at a sum not equivalent to the 
 treasure of his chest. A gentleman aware of the 
 fact observed to him, " well uncle Tom, you have now 
 an opportunity of appropriating your funds to the 
 purchase of your freedom no, no, Sir, said Tom 
 I ve no desire to part with Mistress and my young 
 Masters," 1 especially at this time and I don t know, 
 Sir, what I d gain by buying myself for if I was to 
 buy myself, I d have to take care of myself, and if 
 I don t buy myself. Mistress and my young Masters 
 will have to take care of me." This remark induced 
 the gentleman to ask him why he had been so careful 
 of his money if he wished not to apply it to that pur 
 pose ? To this he readily replied " why Sir, my 
 Master who I know is gone to Heaven, always gave 
 me a plenty of food and clothes, and I had no occa 
 sion to spend it and as I ve seen some folks rich one 
 year, and poor next, I thought I d keep it, and if ever 
 thai lot fell to my Master, I d give it to him if I was nt 
 too old to work, and if I was, I d live on it and save 
 him the expense of supporting me in my old age 
 and now he s dead and gone, I feel like doing all I 
 can for Mistress and the children, and I ll keep it for 
 the same purpose." Such instances are not uncom 
 mon among the slaves of the Southern States indeed 
 
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 there is not a farm or plantation of a humane Mas 
 ter which affords not similar evidences of their sin 
 cere esteem for their owners. Out of the bosom of 
 his own family, the kind master finds no friends who 
 feel a more lively interest in his prosperity and happi 
 ness than his slaves in health, it is their pleasure to 
 promote his welfare in sickness, they are his con 
 stant and sympathizing attendants, and at his grave, 
 their tears and lamentations evince the sincerity of 
 their affections, in terms which can neither be descri 
 bed nor forgotten. And do not such instances prove 
 that there is nothing in the condition of bondage cal 
 culated to mar the peace of the slave ? 
 
 However repugnant the assertion may be to tho 
 feelings of the Abolitionists, there is not to be found 
 among the laboring class of freemen in any quarter 
 of the habitable Globe, such a proportion of cheerful 
 happy beings as our slaves; and if the mad and brutal 
 scheme of exporting them "to the home of their fath 
 ers" were now to be executed, their tears and lamen 
 tations would require hearts stouter than " Southern 
 Kidnappers" to witness the scene. And why should 
 their happiness be marred by the voice of an evil 
 spirit? Why should they be pursuaded to murmur 
 at the lot which a merciful Providence assigned their 
 fathers as the means of alleviating their cares and 
 their wants, and the cares and wants of their posteri 
 ty ? Why should the most brutal and unceasing ef 
 forts be made to alienate their affections for their own 
 ers, who are indeed their best and onlv friends and 
 protectors? One of the deepest and most deadly 
 schemes of insurrection that was ever devised in the 
 
South, originated with the poor deluded Blacks of 
 Camden, who were pursuaded that their condition was 
 similar to the Israelites when oppressed by Pharoah, 
 and if in the name of Israel s God they would make 
 an effort, he would miraculously deliver them from 
 bondage. Under the influence of this base and delu 
 sive suggestion, their meetings for the execution of 
 their bloody purposes, were opened and closed with 
 prayer. The plot was disclosed its deluded leaders 
 were hung, and their more guilty accomplices esca 
 ped the Gallows. The same doctrine is now preach 
 ed, and in despite of the sacred and constituted au 
 thorities of God and our Country, it has been affirm 
 ed again, and again, as the truth of Heaven. Our 
 motives our principles our humanity our morali 
 ty and our patriotism are assailed with relentless and 
 unceasing fury. Members of the same confederacy 
 followers of the same Lord, are the agents of these sa- 
 tannic deeds and with an effrontery that bids defi 
 ance to truth and modesty, they have attributed that 
 forbearance which rests upon the conscious integrity 
 of our principles and the affections of our slaves, " tq 
 a servile fear of realizing their vengeance." 
 
 Should the question be asked, why are " holy mm" 
 thus busy in the Devil s work 1 The answer is at 
 hand it is to effect a dissolution of the Union under 
 the specious guise of philanthropy. No other reason 
 can be assigned ; for with the most conclusive evi 
 dences of the fact, that bondage is peculiarly adapted 
 to the com/ort and happiness of the negro, they have 
 assailed the institution, with a recklessness and mal 
 ice, more in character with the Huns of Barbarv, thaia 
 
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 \viththespirit of Christianity. By one class, the word 
 of God is rejected for the impurity of its precepts, and 
 by others, it is perverted to the purposes of their 
 rebellious schemes. 
 
 " If usages sanctioned in the Old Testament," says 
 an eminent divine," and not forbidden in the New, are 
 right then our moral code will undergo a sad deterio 
 ration ; for Polygamy was allowed to the Israelites, 
 and was common and licensed in the age of the Apos 
 tles."* In the name of truth and morality we ask 
 how can " holy men" publish such barefaced false 
 hoods! Where in the writings of the Immaculate 
 Saviour and his Apostles is POLYGAMY justified ? A nd 
 where is the authority for the following words of the 
 Rev. Gentleman " why therefore may not Scripture 
 be used to stock our houses with WIVES as w r ell as 
 with SLAVES!" Well may " humanity blush" at such 
 outrageous declarations. The pious and learned au 
 thor well knows, that the Saviour and his Apostles 
 have no where told us, how " an adulterer" can live in 
 the crime of adultery, and go to Heaven how a 
 " blasphemer" can live in the act of blaspheming, and 
 go to Heaven- how " a Liar and a thief" can live in 
 the act of lying and stealing, and go to Heaven- 
 but they have told us how " slave owners" may live 
 in what the Rev. Gentleman calls " the accursed sin 
 of slavery" and be numbered with " the Saints and 
 faithful Brethren" of Ephesus and Colosse, at the 
 right hand of God. 
 
 These specious and impious declarations but too 
 
 * See the Rev. Dr. Channing s work on Slavery,page 119, the sight of which we were 
 not farored with tntil we had proceeded thus far with our work, 
 
G4 
 
 clearly prove the position we have assumed. They 
 exhibit the deadly influence of prejudices which hare 
 been nurtured for many years, and which now threat 
 en to crush the temple of liberty and drench our coun 
 try with the blood of the innocent. In the illustration 
 of this fact, the kindest feelings of our hearts are 
 brought in contact with duly. We revere the ashes 
 of the dead we revere the names, we esteem the 
 characters of the holy men of whom we are about to 
 speak, as cordially as do their dearest friends, and we 
 rejoice to believe, that having seen and repented of 
 their fallacious opinions of bondage, they are now 
 reaping the reward oftheir pious and unparalleled la 
 bours in the vineyard of the Lord ; but duty, imperi 
 ous duty to our country impels us to advert to events in 
 their lives, which our inclination would fain with 
 hold. 
 
 Many years ago the venerable Bishops Coke and 
 Asbury published a pamphlet on slavery which com 
 pelled the enlightened and benevolent Legislature of 
 South Carolina to pass an act authorizing any persons 
 to repair to Methodist meetings and disperse the ne 
 groes, whether assembled with or without the permis 
 sion of their owners. The act was justified by the 1 
 first law of nature, self-defence, and based upon the 
 fact, that Methodism at that period, whether at the 
 North or in the South was identified with the most 
 deadly opposition, to slavery. It continued in force, 
 (and with the utmost propriety too,) until the ministers 
 of that denomination ceased to assail the institution of 
 bondage, and to expel the members oftheir societies 
 for buying and selling a negro under any circumstan- 
 
But the spirit of Abolitionism thus arrested ii^ 5 
 the South, was still cherished in the North. Immedi- 
 atcly after the discussion of the Missouri question 
 which convulsed the Union, a resolution was intro- 
 ducedin the General Conference to expel the members 
 of the church who would not emancipate their slaves,,- 
 T ie discussion was conducted Svith great asperity ,- and 
 ended without a dissolution of the union of the socie 
 ties, with the utmost difficulty, A few years after 
 this, the General Conference received a letter from 
 the British Conference by the hand of their delegate/ 
 the Rev. Mr. Reese, desiring an interchange of visits 
 as brethren of one iiamo and household, and tendering 
 copies of their theological works for their press The 
 delegate w as cordially greeted, and a resolution pass 
 ed, directing the Bishops to elect and send a delegate 
 to the ensuing British Conference in London. They 
 met at the time and place appointed and ballotted 
 again, and again, Bishops McKendree aiid Soule,- 
 voting for a Southern, and Bishops fledcling and 
 George for a Northern delegate the former contend 
 ing for their favorite on the score of pre-eminent quali 
 fications,- and the latter esteeming it an outrage to send 
 a slave-owner in the robes of a minister to " the land- 
 of liberty," refused to vote for him. They adjourned 
 without making an election, and at the ensuing Gener 
 al Conference, the slave-owner was elected, r eteivmg 
 but one vote North 6f the Potomac. At the last Gen- 
 eral Conference, the same spirit of hostility prevailed 
 so far as to exclude a slave-owner from the Episcopal 
 Office, and though Resolutions were passed, disappro*- 
 bating the course of the Abolitionists, those Resohi> 
 
 I 
 
If! titi 
 
 tions, like the INAUGURAL of Mr. Van Buren, had 
 word too many to disprove our position, or check the 
 career of the bloody host. * They were introduced 
 with the words, " we disapprove of MODERN aboli 
 tionism," an implication as clear as mathematical de 
 monstration, that they approved of ANCIENT aboli 
 tionism ; aftd if there be any difference between anci 
 ent and ?7wdern abolftionism, save the abstract question 
 of ways an<f means to effect both, we have yet to dis 
 cover it. This was evidently the construction placed 
 on the Resolutions by the Northern Ministers, as we 
 are informed several of them Ira ve &inee become mem 
 bers of the Abolition Society. Quite in character 
 with these Resolutions was the address of Bishops 
 Hedding and Emory to the Ministers of the New- 
 Hampshire Conference. It contained the kindest ex 
 pressions of concern for the peace and safety of their 
 brethren in the South, while on its front was impressed 
 the sweeping declaration"- neither the New-Testament 
 Scriptures, nor the preaching ainJ practice of our Lord 
 and his Apostles were ever designed to justify slavery." 
 This being the corner stone of the great Abolitiog 
 Temple f the address was- hailed as a license for seven- 
 
 * $It. Van Buren in his Iriftujmral, pledged himself not to itive his CONSTITUTFONAI.. 
 sanction to any Bill conflicting with the institution of slavery.- Why was the word cov 
 STITUTION-AL prefixedTo its substantive, but to render die pent&rfre more ainbigior.s and 
 Jess explicit ? We wish it had been KXPUNGED, for the President is quite lawyer enough 
 to know, that no Bill conflicting with the domestic institutions of the South can be 
 -O,N STATION AL nevertheless, should such an one be passedin accordance \\iihthe 
 schemes and wishes of the Abolitionists, he has taken speeitri cure not to pledge hiror 
 self to gives it his UNCONSTITUTIONAL sanction. Whvin the plain, simple words of hon 
 est canfiori did he not tell us tiiat no such Bill would ever receive his sanction that he 
 would put his VETO oriit ? Is* there an orthodox Jeffersonian Republican, er a genuine 
 friend of the South and of the Union, who could refuse to do so ? Who but the Aboli- 
 ionists, would have beeJi^ofTended at such a declaration ? 
 
iy of the ministers of that Conference to form an 
 Abolition Society. * To these facts, we add the anti* 
 .slavery law in the moral code of the Church, which 
 was annulled nearly thirty years ago, hut carefully pre 
 served and exhibited in every new edition of the Dis 
 cipline, as a monument of the hostility of the North 
 ern Methodists to the institution of bondage. 
 
 Let not the confinement of our remarks on this sub 
 ject exclusively to the Methodists, be attributed to a 
 want of respect or affection for them. Our dearest 
 friends are Methodists r-the kindest feelings of our 
 hearts are with them and ere we shall refuse to share 
 our last brown loaf with the way-faring Itinerant, who 
 as he goes forth sowing the seed of life broadcast o er 
 the earth, takes care to let some fall by the door of 
 the negro hut, we trust we shall cease to breathe. Our 
 remarks have been exclusively applied to them, be 
 cause we are intimately acquainted with the history of 
 no other church. Facts quite as conclusive, can 
 doubtless be deduced from others, and we have this 
 day been informed by a very worthy and eminent min 
 ister of the Presbyterian denomination, that the Sy 
 nod of Ohio have recently passed a resolution, abne 
 gating all fellowship and communion with the Presby 
 terians of the South, who will refuse to co-operate 
 with them in " the benevolent schemes of emancipa 
 tion." We have deduced the facts under an honest 
 conviction of duty to our country, and we submit them 
 as evidences of the deep rooted prejudices which have 
 existed for more than half a century, against an insti 
 tution, sanctioned by the word of God and the Con 
 stitution of the United States. 
 
 * See " the South vindicate 1 from thfi Trea~o i and Fanaticism of the Abefltion 
 fits " page 193. 
 
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 And with such evidences of deadly hostility to 
 ihe institution of slavery since the adoption of the 
 federal Constitution, why have its advocates refused 
 ]Lo organize why were not Abolition societies 
 formed until about four years ago ? Have our statesr 
 men thought of this matter ? Have they been perus 
 ing the vindictive essays of Northern Fanatics for the 
 past fjfty years, without an inquiry into the cause of 
 their recent efforts jn forming societies and rallying their 
 forces ? Have they asked themselves the question, 
 why, long ere this, they made no efforts to exhibit 
 their wealth, their talent, and their numbers, and to 
 shake the temple of Liberty with the thuaders of an 
 pmbattled Host ? These important questions, demand 
 at this crisis, the most serious attention of every friend 
 pf the Union. There is a cause for the recent efforts 
 of the Abolitionists ; it should be thoroughly investi 
 gated ; and that cause must be removed, or the effects 
 of their bloody purposes will be realized, ero we ex 
 pect them. 
 
 For our self ? we have no hesitation in bringing our 
 views before- the public and the more so, because we 
 cannot be personally benefitted by the act. Our sphere 
 in life, is an humble one -we aspire to no other we 
 have sought no other arid before God and our 
 
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 country we say, that political honors or preferment are 
 objects beneath our personal esteem ; nevertheless we 
 hope we shall cease to live, ere we cease to cherish 
 the pure " apwr patri.cc " of a patriot. The ardor with 
 which we have nurtured this principle, has frequently 
 brought us in contact with our interest and our friends. 
 
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 and in no one instance of our life has it been more 
 painfully exemplified, than in the frank expression of 
 our opinions of the doctrines of the memorable Proc 
 lamation and Force Bill. Hundreds, in whose hands 
 we hcpe these pages may fall, heard us denounce them 
 as doctrines that would move the Abolitionists to con 
 cert and action. In justification of this sentiment we 
 stated that the deadly hostility of a Host against slave 
 ry, would have impelled them to concert and action 
 long since, but the dread of the old Constitutional 
 doctrine of State Sovereignty, which they now saw 
 prostrated at the feet of the Chief Magistrate, quelled 
 their rage. We spoke of the hostility o f the Tariff 
 men, of their jealous and deadly spleen, and predicted 
 that they would immediately enlist a Clerical host to 
 decry the institution of slavery, and crush the South 
 under the weight of the Proclamation. We adverted 
 to the fears of the illustrious Jefferson that the subject 
 of slavery would one day be used as an engine of de 
 struction to the Union, and but for the interposition of 
 the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, we would long 
 ago have been assailed by enemies within our own bor 
 ders, who dared not move in the face of those resolu 
 tions, We told them the die was now cast ; those 
 resolutions were now defunct ; the states were no^r 
 stripped of their Reserved Rights ; they had neither 
 the povyer to resist the enforcement of an unconstitu 
 tional Jaw, * nor to judge of their own greivances ; 
 they had delegated that power, together with their 
 Sovereign Rights to their Agent, the General Govern* 
 ment, and whatever the majority of Congress should 
 say was Constitutional Law, the minority was bound 
 
t.o submit to, T hose wo maintained to be the plain, 
 simple deductions of the Proclamation, deductions 
 that would license the action of a rebellious spirit 
 which had long been lurking in the bosom of our coun 
 try ; deductions that would sever the only bond which 
 secured the perpetuity of the Union. We stated that 
 GeneralJackson .s construction of the powers Vested 
 in the Agent of the States,, was perfectly in character 
 with the views of the old Federalists who were mem- 
 hers of the Convention which framed the Constitution: 
 and in support of this fact we adduced the following 
 Resolutions from the Journals of the Convention. 
 
 < Resolution 01 Mr. Chuik^ Pmckaey Resolved that the Legis 
 lature of the United States have power to revise the laws of the sev 
 eral States, that may be suppossd to infringe the power exclusively 
 delegated by this Constitution to Congress, and to negative and an- 
 mil such as do." 
 
 44 Resolution of Mr. Patterson Resolved, if any State, or body oi 
 men in any State, shall oppose or prevent the carrying into execu 
 tion Acts, or Treaties of the Union, the Federal Executive shall be 
 authorized to call forth the powers of the Confederated States, or so 
 much thereof, as shall be necessary to enforce or compel the obedi 
 enee to such acts, or observance to such treaties." 
 
 " Resolution of General Hamilton Resolved, that all laws of the 
 ^articular States, contrary to the Constitution or Laws of the United 
 States, be utterly void ; and the better to prevent such laws being 
 passed, the Governor or President of each state shall be appointed by 
 the General Government, and shall have a negative on the laws about 
 to be passed, in which he is Governor or President-" 
 
 " Resolution of Governor Randolph Resolved, that the President 
 of the United States be vested with power to negative all laws con 
 trary, in the opinion of the National Legislature, to the articles of 
 the Union, or any treaty subsisting under the authority of the Un 
 ion : and to call forth the forces of the Union, against any member 
 of the Union failing to fulfil its duty under the articles thereof." 
 
 We stated that these, resolutions were introduced in 
 
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 the Convention lor the special purpose of clothing the 
 President of the United States with power to do, what 
 General Jackson assumed the authority to do, viz to 
 strip the states of their Sovereign Rights and coerce 
 their submission to the will of the General Government 
 and in the face of such resolutions, advocated by 
 the Federalists of the old school t*nd rejected by a large 
 majority of the Revolutionary Republicans of the 
 Convention, the General s arbitrary assumption of pow 
 er could only be attributed to his cordial approbation ol 
 the exploded doctrines of the old Federalists and advo 
 cates of a consolodated despotism. We offered it as 
 our opinion that Gen. Jackson was not the author of 
 the Proclamation ; that some artful advocate of the 
 Tariff penned it, and we would soon see the baneful 
 effects of its Anti-Republican principles. For these 
 remarks made in the face of the foregoing resolutions. 
 we were reviled ana 1 anathematized in epitWfets more 
 profane than " an old Piney Woods traitor." And 
 now in view of the desolation with which our country 
 is threatened, and in sight of all the horrors of acivij 
 and servile war, we ask, not with feelings of exulta 
 tion no God forbid ; we ask with emotions of deep 
 heart-rending grief, who spoke the truth on this sub 
 ject? We Jntreat our fellow citizens to look at the 
 calamities with which our country is threatened, and 
 impute the causes, if they can, to any thing but tlu ; 
 doctrines of the Proclamation and Force Bill. 
 
 When the Proclamation was published, there was 
 not an organized party of Abolitionists in the United 
 States, At that time, thev were sneered at as ; f;^v 
 
tiiis erable fanatics." Who, says the Editor of a Hi - 
 MAN RIGHTS " in his paper of the past year 
 
 "Who does not remember the ridicule that was 
 thrown upon the handful of Fanatics in Boston three 
 years ago ; upon the twenty-two men and two wo 
 men in New-York, two years ago ; upon the fifty or 
 sixty men who met in Philadelphia a year and a half 
 ago ; what a fine joke it was that such a handful should 
 meet to form an American Abolition Society ? Now 
 this same society numbers 250 Auxiliaries in 13 States. 
 A few pens, a few tracts, a few periodicals, a few lim 
 ited agencies have electrified the nation, and already 
 stirred up a mighty Host to plead for the oppressed. 
 Our cause is rapidly getting the supremacy ; it has re 
 ceived accession of wealth, of talent, and of uncon 
 querable zeal, that insures its speedy triumph/ * 
 
 Rapidly indeed is their cause gaining ascendency, 
 for since tfie publication of this article 18 months ago, 
 their organized associations have increased to 1000, 
 comprising men of the most unconquerable Zeal, and 
 more wealth than our Revolutionary Fathers commenc 
 ed their struggle with. " Fifty thousand copies of the 
 niost inflammable and treasonable matter are published 
 weekly and gratuitously distributed, and a party have 
 already proposed to haVe 20,000 followers in the City 
 of New- York and nominate its Candidate for the 
 Presidency of the United States." f 
 
 In the face of these facts and the innumerable evi 
 dences of the long cherished hostility of the Aboli 
 tionists to the institution of bondage, will any mair 
 
 * St-e *the South vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northcn. 
 Abolitionists page 191. t See the same work page 79. 
 
say tliey have not been recently impelled to action by 
 some mighty impetus ? And what but the doctrines 
 of the Proclamation, have moved them to action! 
 While they believed that the States would exercise 
 their Reserved Rights in opposing any Act of Con 
 gress conflicting with theirdomestic institutions, they 
 made no effort whatever to rally their forces and ob 
 tain ascendency in Congress; but when the President 
 announced the States subservient to the will of the 
 National Legislature, and ordered his Frigates and 
 Army to enforce an unrighteous and unconstitutional 
 law, against which prayers and remonstrances had fol 
 lowed in succession for years, that day gave birtli to 
 schemes and purposes which now convulse the Union. 
 The fact cannot be denied that the Abolitionis s are 
 determined to gain the ascendency in the Anti-slavery 
 States and control the elective franchises of the same. 
 For this purpose they have enlisted two hundred trav 
 elling agents, who go forth " conquering and to con 
 quer," In addition to their treasonable pamphlets; 
 they take with them 
 
 * Pictures of slaves in chains, with the negro s complaint in 
 Poetry." 
 
 4 * Anti-Slavery Handkerchiefs, ornamented with four cuts and 
 Extracts from the Slave s Friend, printed with indelibfe ink." 
 
 II Anti-Slavery Seals, giving a fair impress of a slave in chains 
 on sealing wax &n. &c. &c." * 
 
 III a work entitled " the South vindicated from the 
 Tieason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolition 
 ists "published in Philadelphia, these and such other 
 facts are exhibited, as should make the advocates of 
 the Proclamation and Force Bill, blush and weep, 
 
 See South Vindicated &c." poge 197. 
 
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74 
 
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 The work has been imputed to the pen of Col. Wni 
 Drayton, formerly of Charleston, South Carolina, but 
 for the past four years a citizen of Philadelphia. Col 
 Drayton s character as a scholar, a statesman, a pat 
 riot and a "Union man," entitles the work to the 
 confidence of every friend of the Union. It embo 
 dies 300 pages, from which we have already taken 
 extracts and to which we beg leave to add the follow 
 ing. 
 
 " It is impossible that any reasoning man can contemplate the 
 resources and activity of the Abolitionists and wonder at their pro 
 gress. It is impossible that any patriot can view, in connection, 
 their past success, their present energies and activity, and their fu 
 ture prospects, without coming to the conclusion, that cither this 
 band of traitors must be crushed, or the Union abandoned. Thev 
 cannot exist together." 
 
 " Let the South look to it. We have already demonstrated that 
 the advocates of abolition are neither few nor feeble ; that they are 
 \Vealthy, powerful and united: possessed of a number of influen 
 tial presses ; and led on by men whose intemperate zeal is only 
 equalled by their untiring energy. Their strength is despised, be 
 cause it is not known. Let him that takes an interest in this mat 
 ter examine the open evidence of facts ; let him observe the extend 
 ed and insidious operation of Presses, Agents and Societies ; let 
 him mark the progress and results of these efforts for the last four 
 years ; and then if he is still secure, he may sleep on, until he is 
 roused by the glare of the midnight conflagration, or startled b) 
 the whoop of the negro at the door of his chamber." 
 
 * A few years ago it was announced in the Emancipator " slave 
 ry will never he abolished until it is done by THE SWORD or 
 the fear of THE SWORD Me slaves trill soon be free." This 
 was then, and is now their policy. They cry ptace^ peace, but pur 
 sue a course which is designed to end and must end (unless the 
 South erect herself and interpose the only shield which can ward 
 off the blow,) in a servile war, and render the whole South a Pan 
 demonium, from which the shout of exulting rapine, and the shriek 
 
75 
 
 .-qt* murder and violeuce will go forth. We repeat, THE ABOLI 
 TIONISTS MUST BE CRUSHED, OR THE UNION ABAN 
 DONED." 
 
 With these stubborn facts in the face of the world, 
 and in the face of the Representatives of the people 
 f the United States in Congress assembled, Mr. Wise 
 of Virginia raised the all important question, whether 
 any set of men had the right to petition the Govern 
 ment to do what the Constitution said it could not do. 
 and should not do in other words, whether the Abo 
 litionists had the Constitutional Right to petition Gov 
 ernment to take away the property of its citizens and 
 to grant them license to create a servile war that must 
 end in the dissolution of the Union. This question on 
 which was suspended the very life-blood *>f Aboli 
 tionism and the salvation of the Union, roused the vin 
 dictive passions of the advocates of the Tarriff, the 
 Proclamation, and Force Bill, who united and voted 
 it down by a majority of 48. 
 
 Fellow citizens of the South, look to this matter. 
 Your rights, your liberty, your all is at stake. It. 15 
 not our purpose to enter the arena of political discus 
 sion, nor to offer you reasons why the party in the mi* 
 noritij on the question of " the right oj Petition* 
 were classed with " the Catalines and Robespierres. 
 Arnolds and Burrs of notorious villany "* for their 
 honest opposition to the doctrines of the Proclama 
 tion and Force Bill, and why the said " Traitors" and 
 opponents of the Prociamtion and Force Bill, were 
 the only oponents of the TREASONABLE PRAYERS of 
 the Abolitionists. We leave this to those better qnali 
 
 * " See tho Federal Union " December I8^> and others. 
 
re 
 
 tied, to the statesmen of our country whose duty it is* 
 but we entreat you to examine " the open evidence of 
 faj&s" which we lay before you facts which have 
 been deduced under a i imperious sense of duty to God 
 and our country, and which we would have rejoiced 
 to have seen presented by some abler hand. 
 
 It is a tiuth, a most appalling iiicoiitroierti bk* 
 truth* that the Abolitionists already wield a powerful 
 influence in Congress that they are determined to 
 obtain the supremacy then to pass a law of general 
 emancipation then to coerce the states to submission 
 peaceably, if they can by the doctrines of the Procla 
 mation and Force Bill, otherwise, by virtue of the 
 sword. Mark die words of our own illustrious Dray ton, 
 "unless the Smith, erect herself and interpose the *mly 
 xfiield that can ward off the blow, ere long the shout 
 of exulting rapm* wil/ go forlh, and t/;<" shriek of 
 murder and vioteuce, be heard in Heavui" Where 
 is that Shield the -shield of State St:vmi<rntt/ to 
 Liberty mid the Union, the only " Helmet of !$alra- 
 tion?" Ask where it is ? where is that skidd that is 
 u to ward off the fatal blow ?" and echo from the dark 
 est page of your country s Records will tell you, the 
 Proclamation and Force Bill have torn from the States, 
 the sacred bequest of our Fathers. Behold members 
 of one Confederacy, followers of one Lord, (locking 
 to " the .Banner of Liberty" on which is engraven 
 the crimson m otto, "K ncll shall be, tolled on Kn,efl, 
 J&edrse follow IL-ar*e, and C tiffin ramble <m Coj/in, 
 until Ike last s?.r/y slave- owner shall s>nf 1o Ins slave 
 depart to Africa the home of thy Fathers" ask- why 
 this embattled Host 1 and they will tell you, o to the 
 
Proclamation and Force Bill, and from them you shall 
 learn that the citizens of a Sovereign State at the 
 peril of their lives, dare not arrest the enforcement oi 
 a law passed by a majority of Congress. 
 
 Alas ! for those doctrines those instruments of 
 destruction to Constitutional Liberty. But thanks, 
 unfeigned thanks to Heaven, the calamities with which 
 they threaten us, are suspended for a season Our; 
 country may yet be saved from the destroying An 
 gels of M< /v-y" the South may yet be rescued from 
 the vengeance of a " Godly Host." She has friends 
 in the North friends who breathe the spirit of 
 Liberty friends who have been nurtured in the genu 
 ine principles of Jeffersonian State Sovereignty 
 friends who are rea>|vto risk their all in defence of 
 her Constitutional Rights and the perpetuity of the 
 U; ion. Let her own sons be true to her honor and 
 integrity, and all will yet be well. Let the voice of 
 her rights and wrongs be heard throughout her borders, 
 and let not her Priests refuse to respond. No let 
 them remember that when Adonijah usurped the doniiu* 
 ion of Israel, and seized the treasures of the people 
 and feasted his minions, and threatened proscription 
 and h(tlter< for all who refused to bow to his will and 
 share his spoils, ZADOCK and NATHAN, Priests oi 
 the living God," were the first to call upon the Tribed 
 of Israel to rise in the majesty of their Covenant 
 lights, and Israel s Rights, and put down the Usurp 
 er. L.et the Standard of State Sorc-eignty be one* 
 more uplifted let every man be determined that the 
 South shall present one undivided, formidable front t 
 that her Legislative Hails shall be filled with the ad- 
 
vocates of the Reserved Rights of the States that 
 her Representatives in the next Congress shall be men, 
 who will unite with her friends in the North, in restor 
 ing to the States their SOVEREIGN POWERS 
 then will the prayers and anathemas of our " Godlif 
 enemies cease to be heard then will our Nati nal 
 maladies be healed, and our country once more free 
 from the grasp of a despotic construction of her rights 
 will again be hailed as "the pride of nations and the 
 glory of the world." But reverse the scene fill her 
 councils with the votaries of " the right of Petition 
 "the Sovereignty of the Government" and "the 
 subordination of the States" let these doctrines b^ 
 maintained, and the day is not far distant, when the 
 Abolitionists will enact a law,Xhe enforcement of 
 which will cause our cities to be demolished, our fields 
 laid waste, and our rivers reddened with the blood 
 of our wives and children. 
 
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