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A Reverend Argument For Slavery

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
August
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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öome one tías Kinaiy sent usa number ot the Visitor, published at CovingtoD, Kenlucky, containing a Ecriptural argument for slavery by Rev. Thornton Stringfeüow, a D. D., if wc mbtokc not. The logie of it is as ! able os its piety. It is vvritten in a most devout style. It is indeed the most unanswerable argument for the 'patriarchal institution' we have ever met with. We give one speci - men of scriptural exegesis, which certainly does credit to the the ingenuity of Dr. Stiingfellow, whatever the irreverent and impious may say of it. He is disposing of Anti-elavery lexls. Here is the summaiy process - toe spiritual lynch-low. 'God has said a man js better than a eheep.' This is a Scripture truth which I fully believe - and I have no doubt, if we could ascertaia what the Israelites had to pay for Ihose slavea they bought wilh their money according to God's law, in Levit. xxv: 44, that we should find they had to pay more for them than they paid for sheep, for the reason assigned by the Saviour; that is, that a servant man is botter than a sheep, for when he is done ploughincr, or feeding cattle, and comes in from ths field, he will, at his master's bidding, prepare him his mea], and wait upon him till he eats it, while the master fcels ander no cbügation even to thank him for it, because he has done no more ihan his duty. Luke xvu: 7, 8, 9. This, and other important duties, which the poeple of God bought their slaves to perform for them, by the permission of their Maker, were dutiea which sheep could not perform. But I cann-t 6ee what there is in jt to blot out from the Bible a relation which God created, in which he made one man to be a 6lave to another.' Thus do Southern Divines interpret the sublime teachings of our Savior, in respect to the dignity and valué of immortal man, in a calcuJation ofthe price of marketabJe cliattels.'

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