O. S. General Assembly
The leading mcmbers of this body were greatly delighted when, in the space of. Uventy minutes.they hod succeeded in set-, tling the greal question of Slavery Without anv discussion whatever. 'Büt, ah is usual Ãn such cases, the discüasiöh comes aftenvards. "We noticè'tha't someofthr O)d School cliurcliëS: are dtssatisfied wilh the positions of 'the Assembly, and are ilebcting thern. Frotn the general opjïositiotTlö'ïhém 6ut of the'church, the members of :tlie Assembly are necessurily Hriven i rito a dofence of their action. - Rev. N. 'L. Rice, it appears by the Cinóinnati Herald, is lectui'iirg in that city in support of ll.e aclion of the Assembly. - He bas a-g'réat wórk. before him. The 'Herald says of him: "tfIt rs a horrible position certainly, for a p'reacHer of the gospel of Jcsus Christ io occüpy- -h'e posiliönof a'fde to human rights. B'JÃ, ho'iv can hè help himseif? Ele pleads'that man rnay riglÃtfully be lield ás á slave - that G(xl expressly auihorized slavery atnong tlie Jews - llioil Jesus Ãhrist and his Apósiles and the Prirhitrve Church did not disapprove of it - that the relalion of slaveholder and slave bas been a subject of divine regulation, and is therëfóre sinless, &c. &c. 1f this be rrfce, 'thön man has not a natuVol righ't to liberty. - the Declaration of Indnpendcnce is a Lie - t'liè fn-thers wlio framed V, and we their children who throuhöut t'hése States repealcd h last Tidny. Were guilty öf charging the Most Ãligh wilh folly. Every argument iñ favor of the sinlessness of the slave relatioii - every a'rgiV.nent to prove that the Bible sanctions slavery, is nn argument iigainst theexistence of Humati llights - and 'fte vtto tises Utren argument 'tvars againt TTtfman ferphts and tiieÃr dvogates. . This is tjie posiricm of ïhe Rfv. N. L. Rice, a minister of the Pre.sbyterian Church in Cincinnnti in 181,0. He may protest and disclaim as mücli as he :pleases - he camiot by a syllogism prove 'llmt good is evil, or evil good; or that he is a friend to Human Liberty, when he lïinkps God the regulator of Human 'Slavery."
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