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'^lofhu.
"! "YOUR NAME."
; The iioney bees aro humming it
Among the clover sweet,
1 It trembles in the southern wind
That ripples o'er the wheat,
, j It steals to me through peasant songs, i
I It conies with bridal beils,
J { And is aa full of music as
The ocean is of sheiis.
1 In silver letter? on the skv,
) : ■"
, j Away above the sea,
> The clouds so busr all the dav,
' , Are braiding it for me.
I se it in each drop of dew
j! That like a diamond shines ;
Tke iris writes it through the rain,
In many colored line?.
It is the sp!l that makes the hours
Run golden in the spring ;
It's in the notes I love so well
To hear the wild bird* sing.
In starlight and iu uuinmer tlowera,
It a all tl>e 3ame, the same ;
The oinsic that my heart beats to,
Is thai euclaanted name.
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Bitfi-flalifry §frnion.
BIBLE &S.IVEI IV..
A DISCOURSE
Delivered in UNION CJI RRTCN. SyJvania,',
i'a., Snuhii/. .1 Uijiist 2, 1857, hi/ RKV. |
JotL JEWEL, of French's Mills, Fa.
[('oc7t<r/cJ.]
• EZYK. 22 :27 : 30. "ITer princes in the j •
'midst thereof are like wolves ravening the
j prey, to shea blood, and to destroy souls, to i
ygut dislioncit gain. And her prophets have '
daubed them with untcmpered inortar. sec- '
; ing vanity, and divining lie* unto them. °ny- j
jiog: Thus saith the Lord God. when the' i
■ Lord hath not spoken. The people of the j
' land hare used oppression, and exercised rob
bery. and have vexed the poor and needy'
yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrong- j
! fully. And I sought for a man among them. '
; T hat should make up the hedge, and stand in ,
'he gap before me for the land, that I shal j
not destroy it: but I found none.'' r
Now, although our govenrnicut ia deaf 1
to the wail of thousands who are groan- £
ing under oppressions manifold greater 1
than these, this pious Governor declares.
"I was angry when I heard their erv, I <
rehuked the nobles and the rulers. I
said unto them, we, after our ability have f
redeemed our brethren the Jews, which , c
were sold unto the heathen; and will ye
even sell your brethren ? It is not good i
that ye do: ought yc not to walk in the'}
fear of our God? RESTORE Then said 1
they. We will restore. Then I called the.s
priest* and took an oath of them, thst a
they should do according to this promise, t
Also I. shook my lap, and said, so God c
shake out every man from his kuusc, and i
from his labor, that performeth not this r
I
promise, even thus bo lie shaken out and a
emptied. And ail the congregation said, c
Amen, and praised the Lord." Here is c
Heaven approved abolition; and that of 1:
the mildest type of servitude, which could '1
; only last a few years. Cau any man say i
| ihat lam an enthusiast, a traitor to my t
: country, a preacher of politics, because I s
i demand, in the name of Almighty God t
ii' • .
and down trodden humanity, that this c
professedly christian nation shall ad.pt 1
the same course in relation to our afflicted 1
colored brethren? .May I nut export f
|th at this entire community wili say, t
! Amen ?
VI. HEATHEN SERVANTS WERF, NOT ;
I CHATTEL SLAVES. Here is the law.— c
"JJoth thy bond-men, aud boud-niaids; 1
finale and female servants of all work. > f
i which thou shalt have, shall be of the t
! heathen that are round about you; of them j
shall ye buy bond-men aud bond-maids. | a
Moreover, of the cltildreu of the stran- < t
i gors that do sojourn among you, of tlieui a
; shall ye buy, and of their families that I
; are with you, which they begat in your v
i laud; and they shall be your possession. }
1 Aud ye shall take them as an inheritance t
: for your children after you, to inherit £
them for a possession. They shall be s
your bond-tueu forever." t
We have seen that the word ''bond" is c
not in the original statute : and that "buy" 1
had greater lyttltude than with us. They ;
bought servants, just as you buy field l
hands and dairy women. t
You notice that these heathen servants y
were procured cf themselves; apd, when i
minora, •' v f their f:ia;iiU" A Hebrew,e
(jh'bond lo h: £Vb}cipUs of f Jnu nod i,K |)b?scmiißtb>i] of iiioraliiii, JLiteirqitiirc ffln) tutu?.
COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1857.
could no more hire or purchase a strau-
Igor of a third party, or reduce him to in
voluntary servitude, then you can do it
in I'ennsylvauia. "Of them shall ye buy."
i "Of the children (or descendants, so many
I as arc willing to enter into contract,) of
them shall yc buy."
| Further notice : these servants, as a
matter of course, were to be "a posscss
; ion and an inheritance" for their children,
j even unto the end of the contract, in case
j t he master should die.
Notice once more: their engagement
; was to serve "forever," or until the. jubi
■ lee. The stipulation in this respect, dif
jfcred not from the agreement with lle
| brew servants on the long covenant, which
: should last from seven to forty-nine years
*
This would generally be forever, or for
life. No bargain, whether fir laborer land
could possibly bind beyond the jubilee.—
"\c Bhall hallow the fiftieth year, and
proclaim liberty throughout land uuto
jail the inhabitants theieof; it shall bo a
i jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return ev
ierv man unto bis possession, and ye shall
return every man unto his family." There
-
should be a general emancipation and uui
vennil The only exception was
in the erue of property devoted to the di
vine service.
: That the servitude of foreigners was
not coerced and involuntary, is further
evident from the following considerations.
1. It was u system of prosclytism and
naturalization.
Maimouides, the Jewish Tbibbi says, j
"The master is to seek to win him over
bv instruction, and by love and kindness." '
" " #
I)r. Hoy, author of the Hebrew Lexi- i
cou. says, "tliere is no worvl in the Bible}
for slave. For the law of the Sanhedrim :
forbids slavery. The contract was to be
mutual aud voluntary. It was condi
tional that the servant should, within onej
year, become a proselyte to the Jewish,
religion ; if not, be WPH to be discharged." j
These servants received moral and relig-l
ious instruction, both in tlie family and'
at ail the .stated meetings, equally with j
the native burn inhabitants.
2. The:; had the same civil and reh'y- '<
■ t \ <
ious rnjhts.
"Ye shall Lave one manner of law as j
well for the stranger as for oue of your,
own country: for I am the Lord your
God. As ye are, so shall the stranger be j
before the Lord. And it shall come to
pass that ye shall divide this land by lot.
for an inheritance uuto you, aud to the j
strangers that sojourn among you, which :
shall beget children among you : (YOU see!
tiiey were all required to be Free Soil-j
era;) and they shall be unto you aa born {
in the country among the children cf Is- 1
*
r;el: they shall have inheritance with you !
among the tribes of Isr:el. And it shal!
come to pass, that iu what tribe tuestran-i
gcr sojourueth, there thail ye give him.
his inheritance, eaitli the Lord God."—j
Thus they citizcnized all foreigners. This :
is the gospel plan, also ; infamous I)red
b'cutt decisions to the contrary notvrith
ftanding. "Now therefore, ye arc no
more strangers and foreigners, but fellow :
citizens with the saints, and of the house
hold of God. For there is no difference i
between the Jew aud the Greek ; (why ?)
for the same Lord over all is rich uuto all
that call upon him." j
3. Hebrew law forbade all oppression. \
"Thou shalt neither vex a stranger nor
oppress him; for ye were strangers iu the
land of Egypt." How infinitely wide
from the truth, are the assertions of all
those who insist that the Jews might com
pel involuntary bondage, like Pharaoh;
and that we may treat tlie African stran-j
ger ia the same way, and plunder Liui of
all right to himself! 'Rob not the poor
because he is poor; neither oppress the
afflicted in the gate; for the Lord will
plead their cause, aud spoil ilie soul ofj
those that spoiled tlieui. Aud if a stran
ger sojourn with thee in your laud, ye;
shall not vex him. But the stranger that
dwelleth with you, shall be unto you as
one born among you, aud thou shalt love
Liui as thyself; for ye were strangers in
the land of-Egypt; lam the Lord your}
God. And i charged your judges at that
time, saying. Hear the causes between ,
your brethren, and judge righteously be
tween ever- man aud his brother sou the
r
fctrangcr that ie with hum Ye shall not
- respect pcrs<ms in judgmeut." Take no-!
-'tice, brethren, that the thunders of God's j
t j law do not turn aside for the r.ceommo- '
dation of slave-holding judges of the Uui-'
r 'ted States Supreme Court. God says to
:\ the judges, '-Thou shnlt not pervert the
judgment of the stranger. How long
i will we judge unjustly, and accept the
- persons of the wicked ? Defend the poor
. and fatherless ; do jus tice to the afflicted
■ and needy. Deliver the poor and ueedv ;
rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
t Cursed bo he that perverteth the judg
- meat of the stranger, fatherless, and wid
ow: and all the people shall say, Ameu."j
■ Yes, all the people, without distinction of;
i - party lines, shall say, Aiueu. They shall
exclaim,
•• Judges, who rule the world br l&wj,
i Will ye despise the cause
When vile oppression wastes the land ?
Dare ye condemn the righteous poor,
And let rich sinners 'scape secure.
i While gold and greatness bribe vourbnnd?
*
j •• Have ye forgot, or never knew,
j That God will judge the judges too ?
High in the heavens his justice reign?,
: Yet you invade the righvs of God,
, And aead your bold decrees abroad,
To bind the conscience iu your chains.''
Do you aay we have no business to
1 meddle with such things; they belong to
: politicians ? We Lave business with the j
truth of the Bible. And which shall;
stand; the council of God, or political
platforms and bogus laws ? ''Shall the
| throne of iniquity have fellowship with!
; Thee, which framcth mischief by a law ? j
They gather themseives together against
tiic soul of the righteous, and condemn,
| the innocent blood.'' Take care, friends,
1 lest you condemn the Lord Jesus ia the
1 person of the poor negro. De declares,.
'"lnasmuch as ye have done it unto one
! of the least of these iuy brethren, ye have
i. * J
i doueit unto me." The law 3 of the Eternal
.are ail arrayed against oppression. "Wo
| unto them that decree unrighteous decrees,
laud that write gricvousness which they
! have prescribed; to turn aside thi- needv
! from judgment, and to take away the right
j from the poor of .my people, that widows.
• may be their prey, aud that they may rob
j the fatiicile.-s 1 And what wiii ye do in .
! the day of visitation, and in the desola
tion which shall come from far? To (
- whom will ye flee for help ? And where
I will yuu leave your glory.
4. The divine laic demanded a system '
:oj paid labor, instead of slavery. j]
"Thou shall not defraud tky neighbor, <
neither rob him ; the wages of him that 1
is hired shall not abide with thee all night
until the morning. Thou sha.lt not op- 1
press au hired servant that is poor and ;
needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or i
of thy strangers that are iu thy land with- '
ia thy gates; at his day (or time agreed t
upon) thou shalt give him his hire, nei- j
ther shall the sun go down upon it; for i
he is poor and sefteth his heart upon it; r
lest he cry against thee uuto the Lord, <
and it be sin uuto thee. Wo unto him !
that buildeth his liou3e by unrighteous- 1
ne-3, and his chambers by wrong; that
uscth his neighbors service without wat
tres, and giveth him not for his work." — t
Paid aud slave labor cannot thrive to- 5
get her; you see which God requires, and t
which he forbids. ''l will come near to (
you in judgment; and I will be a swift ]
witness against the sorcerers, and against 1
the adulterers, and against the false swear- 1
era, and against those that oppress the <
hireling in hi 9 wages, the widow and the (
fatherless, and that turn aside the siran- i
ger from his right, and fear not me, saith 1
the Lord of hosts. Behold, the hire of 1
the laborers who have reaped down your i
fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, t
ericth ; and the erics of them which have, I
reaped are entered iuto the ears of the 2
Lord of Ssbaoth." ' {
5. The lav forbade the restoration of t
fugitives to their masters. \'
A stray beast might be hunted from i
Dam to Bcersheba. Every mau was to t
use his best exertions to restore it to its
owner, because it was property. As the t
servant was not property, none could rc- (
turn him ; bat aii were bound to befriend <
him. , t
"Thou shalt not deliver lunto his mas- t
. tcr th-e servant ichifh escaped from Id.;
master untoihee: he shall dwell with (hoe. <
evcu among yu in that place which huj
j shall choose in one of thy gates where it
jliketh him host; thou shalt not oppress
him." No underground Rail Road was
necessary. Hero was a broad track of
ligl.t above ground, deeply imbeded in
the plain statute of Heaven. Every fu
gitive slave law in oppsition to this, is
null and vtid: being rendered unconsti
tutional by the "Higher Law. ' If your
servant or laborer leaves vou, can any now
* I
cr on earth force him back? No. Why
not? Because he, like the Jewish ser
vant, is not an involuntary slave. Slave
ry lives by might, and not by right. "So
(I returned, and considered all the oppren-
Isions that arc done under the sun; and
behold the tears of such as were opprcss
jed, and they bad no comforter; and on I
| the side of the oppressors there was pow
er ; but they had no comforter. Take
(counsel, execute judgment; make thv
j shadow as the night in the midst of the
°
noon day ; hide the outcasts; bewray not.
: hiui that wauderetb. Let mine outcast
| dwell with thee ; be thou a covert to them
: from the face of the spoiler." The go?-'
j pel enjoins, "Ba not forgetful to entertain 1
strangers." And commends the widow.
: "If site have lodged strangers." Now,
how long would slavery exist in this!
country, without au enactment to return!
j fugitives ?
6 The laic condemned man-stealing, j
man-retting, and man-holding.
"If a man be found stealing any ofj
j his brethren of the chidren of Israel, and !
I maketh merchandize of him, or delicti: 1
: him ; then that thief shall die ; and thou }
j shalt put evil away from among }'ou." j
Do you say that although we may not
make merchandize of our brethren, we 1
may of others? Why, under the gospel!
we are all brethren. But, forever to:
; silence such pro-slavery pleading, God
ha 3 rapeated this law ; and given it uui- j
,versal application. "He tiiat stoalotha;
man (any man) and selleth him, or if he
be found in his hand, he shall surelv be
put to death." This section of the law,
not only declares the slave trade piracy : !
but, that that person who shall steal a j
man away from himself, or sell a man !
away from himself, or hold a man away j
from himself, in either case he is worthy'
of death.
Jxrcbi, a celebrated Jewish commcn-!
later, says, "To U3e a man against his
will, thaugh ho use Lis services ever so'
little, the pernon compelling him shall !
die as a thief." A stolen man cannot ;<
be sold until the title becomes good.!
Your claim to a sheep that has been sto-'
lon, is not diminished though it innv
- i
pass through a thousand hands. " How <
much then ia a man bettor than a sheep?' j:
\Yhat right cf property in Christ did ji
Judas convey to the priests for thirty i
pieces of silver? None. The same <
right has the slave trader to the, flesh j 1
and blood he brings from the African !
C #
coart. The same right, and no more, i
have all the holders ov stolen humanity
In this union. j 1
The Lord says, All sonla (or persona) .
are mine." He gives infants during <
their minority, to parents for education, :
saying, " Take these children and train i
them up for me." Government also; (
owes them instruction and protection. ! <
Besides. Personal liberty belongs to every t
man as the gift of Gocl. It is the birth j'
right inheritance, inalienable except for £
crime. Slavery worse than Herod, siczes <
one hundred thousand of these helpless 1
innocents every year; steals them away t
from God, away from their parents, away 1
from the protecting arms of Government, -
away from themselves, aud dooms them 1
to hopeless bondage. Then, this hell- s
born monster demands that we, like so i
.
many blood-hounds, shall engage m per- c
petuating and extending the enormous t
crime; and attempts to brand ns with r
" treason" against the union aud Democ- £
racy, if we refuse to steep cur souls iu £
the crimson dye. <
Thus have we seen that the Old Test
lament no where sustains slavery, but <
everywhere, and in erery possible way i
denounces it as a most gigantic sin. it i
teaches ns that property ia man is an ut- i
tcv impossibility.
Vll. The new Testament favors fret- t
f/om. 1
After the "line upon liao" of the Jew- t
; FOUR CENTS.
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ish scriptures, it would seem unnecessary
tbat Christ and the apostles should add
another word upon the subject; yet they
have not failed to do so.
Our Lord in his expositions of tho
Moral law and Golden Ru'c, as in all LLs
other teachings, has mo-1 clearly shown
the opposition of Christianity to slavery,
lie opens Ids divine commission, and the
commission of all his ministers, by say
ing The spirit of the lord is upon me,
bee; use he hath annotated me to preach
the gospel to the poor; he hath sent mo
to I eal tho broken hearted, to preach de
liverance to tho captives, and recov
ering of sight to the blind, to set at lib
erty them that are bruised, to preach the
i acceptable year of the Lord;" or the
world's jubilee. Clirist ultereu not tho
first word of encouragement for the
doomed institution. The parable of the
servant that owed his lord 10,000 talents,
.and imprisoned his fellow servant; la
hostile to all modern ideas of slavery.
So also is the parable of the servaut wha
refused to occupy the talent.
The gospel siys, " Masters, give unto
■ your servants that which is just and
j equal." Who does not know that juit
riiceand equality would annihilate slave
ry? To the servant, who is about com
mencing a christian life, it says, " Art
thou called being a servant, care not for
it(be not over anxious eoneerniug
it.) but if thou mavost be made free, uso
: it rather." That is, if it is iu your pow
er to become free, avail yourselves of tie
. privilege by all menus. " For he that
jis called iu the lord, being a servant, u
the Lords freeman; likewise aho he that
is csilcd, being free, is Christ's servant.
!Ye are bought with a price; be ye not
: the servants of * men." The gospel of
universal freedom declares. "God hath
| itiude of one blood all nations of men for
ito dwell on all the face of the earth.
One is your Master, even Christ; and
all ye arc brethren. There is neither
■ 0 rook nor Jew, circumcision nor unclr
: eurackion, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor
' free ; but Christ is all and in all. For
! ye are all the children of God by faith iu
| Christ Jesus. For as many of you as
have been baptized into Christ, have pat
on Christ. There is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female; for ye
litre all one in Christ Jeena." There is
no distinction of nation, or caste or color,
or sex; for ail a-o emancipated iu Cnrkt.
I am asked why it is that many com
mentators and learned men suppose the
Bible authorizes slavery. I reply : Why
did the Roman Jesuits imprison Galileo
more than 200 years ago for tine hereby,
as it was called, of holding the earth was
a ball revolving round the sun ? Why
did Dr. Emmons, and learned men a few
years since, denounce as infidel, the id&a
that the work of creation waa affected la
longer periods than six literal days i
Friends, the Bible does not ehangs, but
knowledge i 3 increasing.
Fare Christianity, in the Or?t fuar
centuries, destroyed the slavery of Rome,
and well nigh of the woild. Fake Chris
tianity, during the last four centuries Las
done its utmost to again introduce and
extend it. The Revels tor says that mys
tic Babylon would make merchandize of
" slaves (gr. soiuatou bodies) and the
souls of men." True to the des
cription given of Antichrist, five cf the
Pope* issued their bulk or decrees for
the enslaving of man : vis., Pope Martin
V., in lToJ; Eugene IV., in 1433;
Nicholas V., in 145-4 ; Calixtus TIT., ia
iieS ; and Scxtus IV., in 1184. They
grant the sovereigns of Portugal plenary
permission " to take any of the Guineans,
or other negroes, by fores or by barter :
to reduce their persons to perpetual slave
ry, or to destroy tbem from the earth ; to
appropriate the kingdoms, goods and pos
sessions of all infidels or heathen iu Afri
ca, or wheresoever found." Here wa#
the origin of modern slavery; which
differed from all that precceded it in bo
il g based ou color. Although the insti
tution L...i not "Abraham to its father;"
it may claim five {tape's, or popes. "Ihe
mother of harkta ' had a Cardinal to in
troduce the system on our continent, the
Laruel Calmer to give the proper gloeaotf
W the word of G -d, and she has numcr-