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V-2 - , - - M W KUSD JVK 23, 1851. - K DISCOURSE 'became a chtis its; and th Apte.o fa St.rT Eptdk fe Pkikmmi., tzkZLUig ii. twee, and wit acrcrdirietr. . ffff! ! iwiWf irflrciKHi. to obvioo.. indeed -T1'- M xrty to demand . panic?., S 3Mvm4 .. Cbwt rl.H.HLrd.CWti.'u thi.. that had Sl pJSLLIT: thing mortally wrtg ia iht relation of Mr aad slave.br rou Id not. tad would Among the book of tht New Testa-1,ot hk" ,on w,, did remit u a ment there U a short leiler, written en- ,UNf of donirtJHi servitude one wins, aj. lirrly on a private subject, and hivins no re - "H n," H, had acquired 1 rut, Dfwi,l fl, 1850. a? s jshxatos, . . crferettce l the proof or elucidation tf any doetriml trath; which yet liaa lirld its p!ee in the Sacred Canon anqucsttoited fiom aey aouter, and been aUayamler etood at designed by the Holy GhosT for ifle general education of tlie Church. . From he nature of the subject of liirii it lrca, il attrartt little am-BJtoa from the general reader. Yet.ainre it exhibits an example how a Christian A posile be luted tinder certain peculiar circum tancea, which circumstance liare be come our own in every essential particu lar, we naturally reeur in it for instate linn. There ia this advantage in an ex ample over a preeepi ; the example, or instance, interpret Ih precept, and solves whatever there may be doubtful in it. if there be reasonable ground lor doubt. When we aee the rule actually applied in a particular case : when we aee a man like St. Paul, acting under the inspiration of the IIdy (Jhon, doing in his own per son precisely that whirb is in accordance with his public tear-bin, we have a prac tical illustration of hi meaning: and we know and feci thai we are doing right when, under parallel rircumsunres, we act as he did. One might almost sup. pose that the 1'rovi.lenre of Cod had an ticipated the my crisis in which ihi country is now placid, and had ratised this comparatively unheeded letter to be . . r t . ww iuic in irrrtioui oy uis ail pimn iota me UhnIian fanuly, ir Iu former bonds were ttujus u Anmlier circumstance lobe remember ed ie, that Onesimus himself was salified the wlude procedure, since he ae qHfd ia it, anil, by ihedireciinn of the Apostle, returned to his master. - And, what makes the ease a still stronger one, the slave was of the same coptmifl. and piobahly of the same race, with lus owner; and, what is still more, all the parties were Christians. On a ruidid review of all these circum stances, 1 know nt how an unprejudiced mind ean evade the ronciasinn, that the holding of men la iavoluntaty service is not. tinder all circumsisnees, inconsistent with Chistianhy i or, in oihei words, that slavery has not been prohibited by the word of God. ll as now aee whether lite A pontic's law of Chii'tianiiy h regard to slavery, as it appear to ray own iiiiiid, f have spoken toyna as L'hriaiiaos, solicitous to know your duty, .or whu may be your duty, at a eery drSicate and important eii sU; and trust that every ground of reasona ble d-ubt has been removed. Cut there are other eonsidcrai'mn. be. sides lite mere obligations of law, which I wish to submit before 1 leave the subject. iwu io uses t now ass your attention. tre uol liey who teach ev4mriic-.ha would defraed tits rsateriyemicing away lb hoodfman, or detaining him harao terixed eorulc mnatory epkhess whirb it would b l!iotJ sesrrely courteous to tier now,; eptihet piled otue on another wiih rhetottctl profusion, as if the culpa Mity of their eood.- ould oot be mad toctand out in to imor rfrfff Are they, indeed, to be identified wiih the tnen-lea!er$, of whom the AjtosJe speaks eWewhere? .-. ., Wt lute nnw. ! thirtk. airired at th true reasons on wltk h a Christian man, who honestly desires to do his duty, is expected o a metier of conscience to ac quiesce in the law whk-h demands that the fugitive fro service shall, on legal requiniiion, be relnrned. That he should be so relumed, 1 need not say i the law of the land, and has been ever since the adoption of thfc Constitution under which we live.-. That it is not eontraty to the law of God. is too evidrni lo need further proof. If, then, these fact be incontro vertible, the moil scrupulous conscience need not be disturbed by the demand of a cheerful acquiescence in the law which reclaims the fugitive slave 5 a law which demands no more than St. Paul thought it his duty to do inaparallel ease. When I rail the ease parallel. I must. however, make an exception in regard lo domestic servitude has become sanction slavery, nor to pronounce any opinion in regrd toil: no such thig. AH that they demanded wa, that slavery should be recognised as a fad, an exis tence, a thing that was, subject lo no con trol but their own; and. moreover, that fugitives from labor shotU be restored a tiling of no sort ofronnequenr to u,bu he fleetest possible ronequenee io ihero. To these conditions we assented, and rerr nmnerlr iiull.i1.Mii,. I i . I , - i .ii..."uwum iiuiiiic nave wtn lauftit W.fteen eorsummsled on any other term. mruiT oi our itreuiren oi the South ! And now, if we dchlwratly violate those lor retaining the ittsiiiution ofslavery.it is1 conditions, Mr, through a culpable ncgli proper to retuind such thct i wo not o.ligene. permit ihern lo be violated; if we lAetr procuring in thejirtt tmlanet. I ; allow a noi-y faction, whatever their mo eamiot but reuiein! er that ii was fon-ed j lives may be, so far to prevail as to set upon them, in their then condition of ro- the hw at defiance, and in any way lo Ionics, by the moiher country, in ihe day render Ihe recovery of a fugitive iiopos oriier moral darkness, when neither she sible, whether by ennui vance. or sham nor any one eUe supposed there was any .legal prweedings, or by open resistance, thing wrong oi even questionable in the , or by exhonaiions to resistance, then what eiave. trade. It does not become us to for-, follows? Why, the compact is broken by get that the capital and the navigation of ts; we refuse lo fulfil its stipulations, and New England- the ships of Chithm." :lhe aggrieved States mav. if they choose, the navigation people were Urgelr. if not at any moment declare the ronfedetacy principally, engaged in lrnponinr slaves 'dissolved. When their rights in this mat from the barraeoons of Western Africa to"lcr. as agrewl upon and confirmed in the ut snores oi v irginia any me l,anir..u; i ontitniton, the great instrument of un- against the eawesl protest, too, of both ion, shall be denied them, or cannot any colonies. And when I remember all.ihis,, longer be enforced, ihe bond is broken, and consider how, in c inequenre. this and they are cast loose from all ohlia- dontestie Servitllllo liaa liimmi an !n.i.. 'tinn m f. It '11.. r .? teaehmg. in reference to the same subject, , Pt ; tul that exception phices porated with the whole texture of inuth- in that case i ours, not theirs; the crime oh ins practice iii ine-.---v" ,-.-, m rwarer , ern in utuions anu smnety; how l! leyhav e orUtsimion lie at our door, and not with nen ite testoreu me lugtuve 0 giown up together, and are s.. inter- them. All this seem plain enough. r ; in- rningieu.iiuioy no postUiliiy can slavery Let me present the case in another ",v " oi ci law , ne suitdeniy lorn onl without the mot de- point of w in accordance ease of Onesiinus, Allow me to make one preliminary re mark. tfc'1iiftl inllcl tin Itnma in I.. . w-..,,. -v wiiiv- ,11 iifiiiii m . ....... .-1 J ' order lo comprehend ihe force of Ihe pa-1 1 ' , 1 ,rjr "nP"eU by expression plorahle consequences, both to the master subsist together in the same commnnitr, sages I am about to adduce from ihe New ,w,,on, ouldhavo re ained with roe;' and the servant; I think I see reason in ami thinr tike eaualnuniher,. . ,Aj-.aii:i.a?. . t i . r a a rtew. Wherever the two races IIC new . . . . .. . . . . . - - . . . . . - . nil aid nm nfiiiivafi ia i.. ... ii - .1. r . . i estament. itenever the word tenant f V "v- ' l"OD t eiiuugn ior a very Ktnmy lorDcarance on is used bv the Apostle in speakinjr of or 1 "njr Pos'l.,rec,.,8fe,,l,el of th:owr part; I recognise even a stern demand ence has shown it lo he best that the re lation nf master unit linrwUtnm almnl.t .. l -------.... - wwiiM.-tai. .IIVUIIJ to a particular rlas of persons, the per- ! T , . "'""v ""w)"J .oijiisitce, irrespective or all written laws, prevail. Whatever may be the evils. . - - - - ... tai. . inn h r.i niiiniiv nn.iuin i.aiii ainrii irm n n i .. s i i .. .... . r . t, . t . . ,:o " 'J t'm vit t iiiwoi miu rir mi. i'iwiii; mil l BUC1I 8 sons indicated are lave$, in the common ' ifi .. w - ivuriwurii eaisi-iitii aiisiii written as a guide tft Christian conscience meaning of the lenn. and were aa much f nu nr ,a , 01 Ju,uce l0wr." ? V,,,,,,w.'1 lh,nS ,,ke wnnieljr nd reproach, a well relation and I shall neither deny nor ex- . the nrooertv aT iJieir mair m nr h t""' " lt those who, in their erratic , a from an ofFn-iou intermeddlioe with tettuato the rituemon wa a citizen of Colosse, in descendant of the African in any of the , . " nB . an ni ,,,m1,,l) " i what i now altogether their concern, and more aggravated one, though of a differ- Asia Minor, and evidemly a man of wralih and consideration in hi own city. Hut that of which it principally concerns us now to peak, i the esteem in which he wss held by nidi a man a St. Paul. He had been converted by that Apostle to ihe Christian faith ; he is commended for his "love and faith towatda ihe foid Jesus, and towards all saints;" St. Paul calU him " our dearly beloved and fellow w v. v i-aatia Hill H IMC . Bl rn State. Thi will not benucs-' lu,e. mi",e ,nf.w ,roP0,r,,,,,l !' none of i by any one conversant with an- 7V", impeach him if they please f a say. in story; nor that the power of the ?er,el'?T of8h. moral auues, The , North ir Southern tioned . cient History ; nor mat ute power ltoman slaveholder over hi bondsman wa .far more absolute than 'any thing known in this land. Keeping this fact in view, then, that ihe $ervantt, to often mentioned by the Apostle, were tfovei. let a tee ureeea to una class ol persons but doing precisely what I have an ex- that anr amnmrat ua should feel ihm. what ortof precept, ihef del npleof in the action of the Apostle to . el ve at liberty to indulge ia the Nn this das of peron in their the t,e,,t,le und" h con- gttage of eituperation, ao long a we insist ..nm. mm uiai Knpircu va we ciuscii on pratsingour nuttatirl.JprMAU look in tain through all the , lipistte for a imiUr inHance mf tender friend ahip and personal esteem for a man in the private wUk of life. Many audi are indeeij inentioned with distinguished honor; but oo one of them has been li ni.li'd down to us so richly embalmed n consecrated by the dear affection, of the chicfest of the Apo tles," as Phile mon of Colosse. Philemon' was a slaveholder. One of his slaves, Qnesijnus escaped i.:. I,. ami fi.nnil Ilia wav to lt..me. where- Sl. Paul then was, an jobcy all ihtngi honorable prisoner within limits, but al lowed lo cxercife ihe iiiuiiiry. There, Onesiinus hears the Apostle preach, and i converted to ihe faith of Christ. Ho seek an interview with the Apostle, tuhooi lie had nrobably known at ihe house of his master in former day coa fosses tii him that he is a fugitive, and Bolicit hi counsel. . A ease is now presented, in which all ihe fifiMimst:inces concur to bring to a de cision, and before a competent tribunal, the rights and duties of all concerned. Thw decision we have in the following passage, in the letter of St. Paul to Phile mon : - ' I beseech thee,'fr my n Onesiinus, my bonds; ' - .- , . , world lo instruct men m the duties which nartain lo their seveial" elation. They alone are responsible for uch precept a the following: ).Si. Paul to the Ephcsian: "Servant 'be obedient 16 them that are your master I according lo tho flesh, with fear and Ijemhling, in singleness oi neart, as nnw Christ. Knowing thai what soerer good things any man doeih, the same shall he receive of the Lord.'tcAeA c r Ae be.bpnd or free, ours. And 1 go still further, and enl description, would follow ih tnn.lo. view of the nan taken bv the ing of ihe lie: evils which wnnl.l Ml mn in former limes, in sini-lcina iIia hasvitv .,.,.: ,.... , n.o..s.i iwr , sugar anu cotton neius oi me South with . hi former master. I sneak now f tl. me mal, in obeying a particular law tin-, their sable ciiltvalors, that, whoever are ! actual ieUlive position of the two race in -.w...M ,.., . wiht uujrti. enmieu to cast me nrst stone, wo are not the sonthern Stale, and on the unnosi ngmyseiiioa -poweroruaineuoiuoil,"ihat people. -It seems indeed inciedihle lion that the are to eoni.nni. i in l.uK.i me same land, but it would be foreign io my purpose io pursue this idea further. tor my own part, after the matures! ).. iJ W IT'S l " IX, 1 .-nul-hr.. ,f ihe riirhteous. ' am unable lo separate me Weaol uoiont rri'in"v " w - . "... a .. .i.ii airencv the slave zatton from emancipation on an exlenue - - . - i . .. -. ... . nd all the conse-' scale, uwetnogemeras equals, me two race never can; at least in this country Wherever the sons of Ham and ihe son n Janheth have been brought intojuxtaposi .'lion, the original law of servitude in some prevailed : " a onto his nderstan is,ence.,hey eanno, suddenly abolish - rilifl aw w-f '"- So ii ever has been; so is at me present moment, even in me nlace where I now eland: foi s ou know can be no equality here. A liIiliniA In Cntpn ih lorn raeea .i- r . r aiMlaamon inat we oiniiuu.., ....... ..... - inv liirciuur. J nr - .. " - - -- " . . lime, that every one should be atisfied. The consideration which met us in the , . I a ..I outset, wa the universal requirement i j carried on, a alienee incurred of which many are now disposed to complain. Slavery'having thus been imponed on t k,it,roi. ui ihe Sniiih: tiot unwilling Christ' law to .ubtatl ourselves, wiutoui -: ' ., nn(,gA M far of it form, has universally leserve, to the lr.w under which we live, v. wc " V nra ' ; ' BWi -, ' servant or scrvnt shall he bo for wmh'. sake, for conscience . ake. ? Potion of them. -wfrr wnrmd. "ri f m mwh (j . I become Bn iniegrai pan i iiikii -i , . . . .. lor me i.oru a skc. , . I n, mii ennsiileration was mat, in lar instance of restoring a 0 .1 ..I I I). .a Milialhas IhAtt ili;ill thu submitting ouwelve. in th.s pan.cn- , " . ' n .'. wonU he so. - ' nr hiiuii iiiii Hifiiiipii it ui nui in Hit , . VI --- of ours. It was rightly said on a late oc- fugitive, not in . :i balttng ttte omeer. ... . , b one of our mo?l eloquent ora- F Si. Paul to UtlTColossian, : Servant. .p.-w - 1 owuerwe ' or. while com.nen.ing on a remark of , ero ,. a m ciiui& .!. ": :o n-..i i.i.. foremost of on r B.atesmen. mat we . u. .AAtilinit ttsiBB Hins'vi w w ---( .... ... :..0iiin whit notes a man titan oi. i aui,, -" . ... . - ,, mii social nosition nave oniv lo the Hesli; not w.nn eye serV. - jTV - i ,i,- had e to Uo witn me slavery i uw , - : ... ... r,i. TpS to Titus Chilian pasipr'.imilar ease; only that he wa. not eon- ft', ,l biC : - Exhort .errS to bK- ..rained, a, w. are, by any postt.ve law 5 ferior race must, by a law wich w? can- Idient to their own masters, and to please , oi man. i nwach hy ,he very spirit and intent not comro,. r... , ., .i.-ir, Then.re erring to mo eowi.s , --. Mnnn. n. snbon inatinn to tne nigncr imeueci oi i . "r .. .. . ..A.icinT umnniii reeerTr. umiiuw . i ... . n. f'swi m iiii nn in ine nrnnnnnppu lour Servants W uojeet to your mamera icw8iiis. - . . -f fence. Many seem to lorgei mis. amnain - i-r ; - Lr.t r::;: .i;io .he iood and gen- lion, or censure, the relat or, master, lence. w five M 9g0 w... " arMi .lave, and giving a variety ol ins.ruc - ,,;), 1 How ihis will be brought lo pass is not lie. OHi F "'c . . .. 1 7. ... I ..... , rr,l to the duties some snutww-n ....... - - , ...... a p: .i:.in. in tl.U Eoistle loTi- n. to the Utter regira uu nunhV. another pash.r and bishop : Lrtrf P"' . . . . ) ""rvaut a. are under the yoke On all these accoun s JfJ . ,i,.u n masters worthy of a mind the conduct of fet. raul in me case irine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing master?, let .them not tie- whom I have beuen in my dor. , i - theV Mre bre,hren. but which in time pan waslolhee unprofita- jSp.so ti em eau.e . j Me. but now profitable ,o lltee and tome: ; rather do . senu . J sre 7"I'1.a.s 1 lioro. i iiiiiitf n siv -" whom I nave tern aguuf. n .. -- - . . 1.:... .t.ai mine own howe s: leach otherwise, lllir, ICI'.I'IVC IIIMl, mo. - - with his precepts, and those of his follow Apostles, we are oot.geu toruircmus . act as he did. nd consent not to whole . 1. a ..four I.nril Whom' I would have rela.ned Witt me y . . , - , . . he is proud. r... ....i..f. . - , m,n;r(Jc( h.,1 ih daxvnincr law lo wipe owl this ioul blot, a iwy;."?r , r ,.',VaVr; are pleased to call it, from our national ,fC.od' providence .n regard to he Afrt ' " ... ttri... .: . .1- .,r can are not perhaps nndistingutshable at rVt.. sioi it be decerned in the opening of a door for has nem for one instant been under our the return and rcgather.ng of , long " .' 1 : ...,. whaiererJ servile raoe in the land where their breth-i control. 111 Hiijr ."-- "."-" - . i.,.fM i.Ta-Kt..l,ih. when ihey sold htm into Egypl, cuise to the land ten. can no more become a practical question .... -1 1 I.. I. in iimiia. jeMia viiii-- V.at.in utyS.eao. ..u....s- , o,lliness. leied unto me in me oonus oi me no? ei. ( ; -, , . . . e8 i ;,f,n, thu nind would I do no- knowing nothing, but doling aftont. qi es I is l av is vaw w'tf - ihing. The essential facts brought to our tice in this epistle, o far as they con ccrn our present purpose, are utese . On ol the best and most exemplary of Christian men. and the bosom friend of ?io s nd strifes of word.,, whereof cometl, If any objcciton -T'"- ... . e-,f0-railiu.evilsrmising, per- oinuman.iy.au.. "Jrr''Z on ! werse' .listings of men of corrupt minds, of a ret,,, n to when, under itniiar pttcu,... h , - . - ba1 inslilu on.i mow ourselves woe.i" : " . . . . - i-. r tthirh1 lion, a blessing or a ,e ,... . nr-x. no. ,,- concern 1.:. .... mai? he sure mat weaie ",",v" i . . . . niitrit mi", . 1 .:t,i 1 ihis conclusion 1 am content to rest, till I uav I . " .a .-l.ma IV10 new revelation i --! to do. . ' I otr.ilml in. und a (rood and sufficient If ny objection be -rged on the score - u It1 meant it for evil and God meant it for of their captivity -m fa ,he way prepared and tho dr is opened, n ten io your yei ben'ghted bre mrea in the country of your &rf.iiber. and impart to them the blessings you hae leeetved; bear to ihcra the tidings of the ererlasiirg -Gospel: acquaint then with the art of civilisation yon have learned; open the wildein' to cultivatioii; let ehurchea arit. and let cchool be es.aldiahet-; let the native African e wiih hi own eyes, and bear witness to the superiority of Christian and civilized over brute rae fe. De ihe founder there of a hew m- pire; build cities on every harbor and io- et ajong me coast; and know that, when you are achieving Utese things, t on are doing what noma else can do for the xuil- tone there. You are reducing them to a state of civilized humanity; and yon will atso oe uotng what i loar ran never be done by treaties, and protocol, and squad- tone oi armed cruisers vou wail be put ting an end loreter to the Airirao slave trade." Such, f trust, will yet be the mission of the descendant ol ihe African in ihis country. Ii has been begun already. The coiony at Liberia, tne ntuieo of a future African empire, wa prospering nnder ihe fostering care of the best of our great men. both at the North and the South, when it . encountered a deadly and relentless foe in lose who now claim to b exclusively ie friends of the African. Their friendshio tas been fatal in every way, and will be. till the objects of their benevolence are torn from their embrace. Hut though their perverse labor, have impeded for a time, they have not been able to arrest an enterprise, which I have ever regarded as comprising more of enlightened, and com prehensive, and far-reaching benevolence, than any other which Ihis age ha brought lonti. wtien the present agitation, o aimless and fruitless of every thing but evil, shall have died away, we may .up. pose mat the desire or the African exile ill be more distinctly and finally turned toward a home already prepared to re ceive him, ana where he can stand eierl a a man, conscious of do superior by hi ws a 1 sine, v nen tne present advantage, and fair promise and hope of the colony at Liberia, shall have been spread before him, and the dream of an entiality here which is properly hi country and hi home, and to share in the toil nnd glory of adding another lo lite civilized nations of ihe earth. Then will commence a spon laneott emigrition of ihe race lo the coast of Africa, such a is poured in upon now from the shores of Europe. Every ship which parts from our shores, laden with our manufacture lor me use oi mo colonists, lo be exchanged for ihe rich product of the eastern tropic, will be made vocal not with the groan of mis erable captive manacled in the filthy hold, but with the ongs and.gratulation of cap tive made free at last, and going lo be stow upon their brethren the liberty wherewith Chrit ha made them free. No will the fund of ihe nation be with held fiom ihe enterprise. Then will thete be, what there has never yet been, an open door, and effectual t to the emanci pation of the southern slave. The great hindrance, in me estimation oi uiur ww ought to know best, will be removed: the dread, namely, of a constantly accumu lating population among them unfit for .1 freedom, aa they always must be while iney continue mere. I cannot regret the discission which is now going on in these northern Stales. Il ha been forced upon us by ihe recent outbreaks against law; and it i lime that we should all understand our duties as Christians, a citizens, as members of this great Confederacy. I am glad that a crisis has been reached, when we musf determine whether we .will any longer in vile or tolerate an agnauun uucuj ihe lieht ofa' :-with !e Pple of New England, than is ne what! cghl' he question of serfdom in Russia of I o ne wnai i u, g fj esg fof , have good, so may blessing tncalculable e , . J llislnrheJ the ncace of lha cm - - . . : . . I . .1 . . ! . ....... ..lal. 1011, and now mreaieua n ci lf we are henceforth to live in and destitute of the truth. such withdraw thysell. a state of bondage; if our r,.,.,! .vmnaihies are ensaged in behalf of any -J I-"- ."..I" .k-:. k...la who, having ejscapwi in" ow" .. When the people of the southern eo lonies. as ihey then were or lately hat been, were about to unite with lliose at tne t . i .r..iHMatAit fAiTi !ru . . . U l i". .l,1.llio.monrsins.how Piortli in a muiuai couhmic....... . I witl not affirm that St. Pan nao m nave -- V" , merpia, aml for lher purposes, they were ! hi view a , , .. -. ;".,. ! Uw .imnle and obviou. is SS3l E nme: , . in.hat case, only to purchase ! dtC TOVOUCU lliriii iiMiwtvi - - w . . a iaiIho till I 1 Ilia llliPflV III 1IIC Otaii-I ita , wav to a fat diatant civ. where lieenih cuniury, wlicn ne w r ..-. iftvmenl of his home. A few fefrotn all pursuit: I may y U had I, - - S dollar would redeem all who . . l- : I I. .1.1 . n Aposue, ia a EimriioiuiT . .1., n t I :.,(,. .nilille The slave escaped from his master and New England, in the middle finds his l Hn r.. r.kfn all mir.nil Jlc IB Balv ii..... ih.....i - . - . . . ! . .. ii i... .... l.oc. hcunrnm He is Here met hv an Apostle, ami ny i "car - --- , i tirn pver - ...... .- . .-i,i v: .ini.naniiiin ni r aimi -j . . . . . Iiim convertetl lo Christianity shown ihe anu near. -".;- n.. Enffamt and probably not a master at me nave uccn i - i i !.:. i i-nl ihe nrranffe- OOUlll WIHMll ucoi.ii- i" "v-v.. - a - I I . I . : Mn.l n I WrOtl"' ne lias llOIie i umi-m, uu rm 'back lo Mm, with a letter oT commenda tion and "friendly entreaty, which has l n mit oi.tMprn nf Its rvei nee ii cousiucicj a i----- -r --- kind. ; . ttn ihe transadions thus briefly nar rated e mav remark, that nowhere in the epNtle is ihere a word of censure, ex press, d or implied, ol Philemon, for be ing the owner of slaves. There s is no ap i,. i...iiBcieiire as a Christian; none whatever to any high" 'w than the law of ihe country which gave property in Onesimn. That right re mt.iiied"uninpaired, even fter Onesirmis graphic could not i:ri;ifA wi.'. :. tin, Smnort of all these , 11.11, 111!.., "- -- . .mnhiin nn.l reiterated injunctions, nn " . . , I. .initjsr posed on such a were ,n oonu ;- the vokeT. How do they comporv wm. ihe 5-pal nfonr nseudo nhilanthropists to hreak. everv hazard, the bond wimii unites the servant to his mnsier? Is not he relation here recognisetl in its fullest exlenl, and made the groundwork of a particular class of duties T Is not obe dieoee in the slave according to Iheapos itnli standard, made a duty as sacred as mtier dm v. social and morht? "And as independent of us as we were of them. Tl.ey had their locallaw and institutions as we had; and they had a right to re quire, as they did, thai one of ihe condi- . . , i.:..i : w linns of the eomDact should be, that ine) to oe rccidiuicu .k-:..t,.msii snnuia continue io mauao iic ...- without any m spring from an art evil in itself the car-; "ea.r rvimr'awav of the African to soinurn fora 1,010 ttme in a state o. nonuage. i hi' wilh our brethren at the South, not been lost to him. Compare ihe moral harm 0, Ksilnl ,h,traction. condition of the southern slave wit h thai - justly, and follow after of his almost brute brother in ihe forests, mi,-JmJafnr And jtof Western Africa-worshipping the De-, "M factious man il. and ptop.i.al.ng his wratn witn tinmati " k. .iu-.d 'l,h imn.tnitv to sacrifices and rites obscene; adm.ntsterlng . .TvU o nontdar With :. ami Itiriwiwi iiii ; I" I " me poison wa cr; w.m..x - . f n-roetuating an ins ttutton - i . . t no retneuy. sarcasm . they are un- 11 ...iihnni ehfimn nr restraint m wi.!..... . ......... .... .. :e t.:. for which. at piesent. there is ,he grossest sens ua.uj-anu - of . j j ri,ale ,hem wilh bondage. Hard as oon.iage may Be.c,"l" mean and ungenerous as l,.a nni heen to htm a blessing? Be-. mvan. ! . K . ... us, - "... . . a 1 I 1 t 1. . H.H..l..ltltf 1 I . . 11 I I. n . - A 1H menl. BUI ICl tne law mat hub -nurse! without hindrance or obstruction from any quarter; and when the liigiuve shall have been loond and tueniinni, ; will soon learn whether Ihe real irten of his race are not to be found among the strenuous supporters of lwv? . l o un 1 .In not see what possible oDiectuui can be urged by . ttte mo.i,aerupuiwu mind, however unsatisfactory -if may be to the factious and turbulent.; . , f ...ki t have said thus far, I simply endeavored to preseftl to you a (fairs in their own way. lerference.from" us, jtislas we were to "uhnnt anv inlcrferenre from llU6V .T - . 1 them. - It was one of the mutual stipula tions, that persons held to service in one Slate, escaping into another, should, on requisition, be given up. That was a part -i .n,i oiwl a erv important one III lite mililiani T--.-. , i .t c.i were encumbered IO uia ni , ii.v" - -.lit, numerous nootilalioti of this char acter; and ihev had a right lo say that nn- lesia that condition , weie made a. pari o 'U'.nn.mM. the negotiation should not the1 go on." ; They did not ask the orih to have yond alt ootini, ne nas ot-en unpcnaurj elevated in the scale of being, humble as his nosition may still be. He has gained, the knowledge which would never have dawned on his dark'mind in his native land. He has been made lo know the Rod who made him, and the Saviour who bought him, and all those precious truth of the Gospel which, more than any oth ers, tend to improve and ennoble man's nature; his bondage, then, ha oeen io nun not altogether a curse. Very far from it lust. And let us learn, aisu, u )ui mn faith in time ana progress, w orum wm result which appear to us desirable. In regard to slavery and it concomi tants, one truth, at least, must by ihis time have become apparent to every dis passionate mind. No desirable change can be wrought by violence, by denuncia tion, by withholding from any citizen tho rights secured to him by law, by any re sistance, secret or open, to the execution' of law. What must be the effect of such . " a AMn,tnnT - , i a tiuii in nvtrv And. now that he has been in aome degree vih..c ui - - w nrepired for usefulnew in the hands of way. and to all concerned m ii; another master, shall we not eay lo him, amongst us is not concerned in uph diiisj and to all hi brethren dwelling in the land , the rapretnaey of law! It w peculiarly
The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.)
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June 25, 1851, edition 1
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