Slaveholding Always Sinful

CONTI LED. Tho?e wlio contend that Paul Slavey, and was oonversantvith il in the Hehrew llaves, (as the slaveholdérs of America will lave it) and that bécause he did not rebnko in Jcrusnlem, are prepared to defend the Sluvcry of Rome and ui) its dependencies, as Christian insti'ution. They ore pieparerf, Iso, to defend the Siavery of hnlf-civilized .nssia of modern times, in whicli eounlry of Ciirope alone we believe it i?, at present, tolrated. They must remember, at the same me, that they nre defending tikite Siavery. The Siavery of Enrope, both ancient and modrn. aa nlmoft entirely confined tö the whitfs. Thia is eaid, now, tb make the fact ccessible at all times, and that we may cnow precisely what we are at. EpheBus was a' Roman Ciïy, as we have lready eaid; it wasnn old city, a splemüd ne, and one of immense wealih. Siavery ex ted at Ephesu9, in the same form in which aul saw it, at Rome, when he wrote to Timthy his fir8t epistle. They must be prepared, ao, to admit- as tliey doubtless are - íhat is the paramount insiitution in ny country in which it rriay exi?t; - that slaveholders, from principio, are bound o support its hwsy vvhatever íhoy may be - ttiid that a non-slaveholder, for instance,at ï[)hesus, ora raember of a C rstian Church, n ;lie Northern States, with his one hnndred housand dollars in cash, may iimocently ransmute his means into a pluntation with fifty Slaves, to whom bef ore he owed as men, nothing but the Love of the people, now, nothing but the Hate of the Slaveholder. - This instantaneous chango of feeüng toward the Slave, whether owncd or not, Pau! musthave justified, Hlhe supporters of thot system, on the aulhority of Paul, be right. For tliey woud nol select, that Paul, always authorized the hatred of the Slave, inasrhuch as it was irrtpossible to teil, at any givcn time, who would be enslaved. Plato, the friend and dis ciple of Sócrates, ond Diogenes, the roost famous of the Cynic philosophcrs, were en elaved. If the European, indeed, were obhged aUvft}S to bate the white Slave, not knowing that it rnigïit eoon be his lot to fall into that class, Paul, requirpd on impossible condition for one thnt was loo general to be practical. He rcuired a enndiiión tÜnt is rio where to be found m the charter under which he acted, and which is as open to us as to himA yoiinjf man at Ephesns - or, if you picase, i member of a Christian chnrch at the North. inding it an ir.convenient tbing-, not to speak ig-ainsí. the Slavery that exists at the South, .vhilst he is tlicre, nnd lo soy of the Lnwe, I ivilliout once adverling to the ease with ivhich the condition of the country could be changed, that they are n strict accordartce with tlie state of tliinge, which ia every where 10 be seen around them, finda H convement for liitn to invest his prope-ty, in Slaves.- Then, he has an interest in maintaing the Slave laws; before he did it with bul a fahit heart. Or, if you like it better, he was bound to the Slaves, bêforë he bmight them, by the Law of Love, as lomen, universíiily; biit now by buying them, he has becnmc a Slavehold er. He ot once transmutes the lavV of love into the law of hate. This is the teaching of Paul, if the Slaveholding Chriatians be right. Every body underslands what is rncantby the law of love; bat few un'erftand what is mear.t bv ihe Lnv of hnte.' They never will, if they listen, on!y to Slavcholders. The law of hate is their luw with regard to theif slaves. - Tfiïs can be easily demontra'edj had we time, and did the occasion cali for a fuller exposition than 3 aïready enjuyed. Thp writer does not undertake to say that ihe eiave wil} not choose betvveen t!;é humane Slnveholdernnd the inhumane. But take the humanest Slaveholder and Libertj, end convice theslnvc that ïvs election wil] be cffectval, and n nineiy-nine cases outof one hundred, unlesa there be somethmg in thé. wa, he wilï choose thclatter. In tliis wny, Brynn EdwarJa. nnd his coadjutors, were much surprised to find that most of the nsurrections comraenced among thefavored hovsehold slaves in the West Indies. They ouglit not to have been surprised at this at all. They would not, firad they known the nature of man ia this respect - lo covet all, and the nearer you p'ace hm to the object of his attainment, the more zcdIous does he become. _ The Rev. Tliorhns Scott, D. D. an bpicopalinn, whose Cummentory on tlie Bü)!e í much used in this country, has, on the subject of Slnvery fallen into. an inconsiáteney, which strongly confirms tuy former remark?, nnd mighl natufally crou}il) be expected of otie who wrote so much# f.r poptrlar uie onthe subject of the Bible. SVlieu hts nnlious üf leal classificatie, which iiifluenccs his coiiHirymen very mud), secmed to prevail, the slaves weie but of email considero ion u his ees. VVhon hc Icfl to rtature the chsnifica tion, whicli, vlier: ünd6turbed,6herorely fuils to make, he expresses the religieus opinipnaj whicli we nre prrpaied to hesr froni Iuin, and ■ Slaveholding becumes a crime of the b sesl j d'cert. Ir never once occurred to liioa, U'r haR it to innny others, ns I h3ve before stated . thiit Christianity iö nn cynlzMg syslvm- th;l does not ifenvc the civil relmioñs where it round them but requiresall officerB and others to thcir offices nnd sNuicne to the stand ard oifreliiiious trulh. tl does net exepsp wrong in thoni, becaiiric they exercisr aod particular stations in eociely. Tt iiólds them strictly rcsponsible fur the conl(,epcj of all that they do, wiih the tralh. H reuires'not thit trutli be mcasurcd by stations ind offices, but that. all otfices and stations bc menpured by tli3 initb. To show how üule he had informed liiniself of a muUcr about which bc pre'.Giid toleclure olhers, take the fol')winr, cnrmneiilary on the 5'h to the 9".h veres of the Epistle to the Rphesi.ms; vvritlen too, to tlio Fnme peóple tlmt Timolhy vn pKced over, nnd from'thé same place ond abont tiiat jame time, thal'the epistle to Tirrtothy was wrüten, in which occurs the pissage rov in dispute. . "In general, the servnnt?, nt that time, were slaves, the property of ilicir mosters: and oftcn treatcd v.i'h great pcverity, thougk seldonx ic'iih modern cruelti." U will be fcufficient to reply to this pp.ssage, that nt Rom, and we suppose, nt Ephcsus too, .flie Slaveholder could pi:l liis slnve to death tch.cn hc pleased, and he was on idolator. But Dr. Scott proceed: "nt the Apostles were ministers of religión, nt politicians; tliey hnd not that nifl'i.ence amon{j ru!er8 and leg isla'.ore, which wonld have been requisite for the aboÜtion of slavery; and ia that etate of society, os to other thinijf1, this would not have been expedient - ond théy did not deem t proper, to exaspérate tlieir persecutor, by contending against the lawfulncss of Slavery," Sec. Commentator thinlts hat he does Paul great cre-lit, lere, by rnakin? him a cunnin man. He hnd ta!ent and religión which preven ted him from being a ciinning man, and there is no trait of a low nnd hule clinractcr, that chnstianiy more pnincedly condetnns tlinn cjnning. It repudiates all euch trickerj' and calis not on t for the slightest assistonce.- If Pnul did not possess that inil'icnce wiiicfi would have led to the obolition of ilucry- the Bible did not outhorize him to nsit on a relution tliat liad no existence in Ihe truth - that went far to foster a -pyslem wfjirh cventuilly ruincd the Roman goveinnictit, and which continually added rich nonrisliment toIhe already ratttp&nt prideof ihe ttansgressors. Ij Paul, wlion od'lres.smg bta own Cburch - lii$ own Chvrchwhvknow the tnd'i - lo denl in sucli things only as are "expedient, ' and is he whpn nddresein? his own cburch, to suppress thu truth tliroygh the fear thnt he would "cx.ispcrate" Ihoir persecutora? 16 he to preach the lawfniflegs of Slavcry in o slave stite - ice cniawfulne-s, if nny such can be found, in a free state, v.liero it Í8condcmned? U he tu be Panl, tliefricnd of Slavery, on the South sitié of Mason's Ls Dixon's line, and on the north of i', Paul'the condemner of Siavery? Who cr.nmissionpd him to prcirh on OfpeJ in ono p'mce and becauee it was uot "expedient"' a different one in another? Why ducs ho tlicn prenchi the love and honor whicli ühould be renderedowoman; why should he preach thnt ehe ivas to be led to lier duty, as man was, simily by Christian consMeration?, when they vere totally unknown and nnacknowledged by :he Romana? Jf fcar oí "exusperatinjy their Dergecutors' wore the main ibjéw of Pan]. #hy preacb at Arheus - at Rome - the o.nk 3on in opposifiun to Uie TmaTV tiiottsand ieolp, by which ihose places werc di.tinguished? Surely, he coult! not have taken on himself n more éffe&ual means of drawing perseculions on hisefioris thnu he did. Ifthe condition of Slavery was not nboliálied, by boíl slave and master bcconiinf1 Clirisfians, it was his duty feajlessly to .say so. To lake the sit'e of the matter agairïs'. the slavp, when t was nol anthonzed, Muquid, have been "currjing" popular lavoiymitod vvith power, w'iich, whatcver others may do, we would not suspect the Aposito Paul of. But to the Commentary of Rev. Dr. Scott. ïfe n pain snye, in 6pe:ii;ii:g of t.Ue same passage we have in liaiul : "Tliis shows that Christian msetes wore' notrcqu'cl to sel their ëlaves fit liberty; tboiigh'tliey wereinatructed tobclmvo to them in siich a mannor ns lyould giénHf lessen the evils of Slavery. :' "The pr,nciles bolh of the law and ih gospe', when cirried tó thoir consrquenccF, wjü infaliibly nh !ish einvery." We coniend thal Christianity is a levelmg1 syetem. We expect lo prove it po. Tliis is enough to say, at this time, as to the beeinning of the qnotulion - Ma-ters v,-io enibraced Chnatianity wen? under cbligations "lo" set them nt liberty."' "Thcv were to blinvc to Uiem in füoíi mmner as would grently lossen the evils of Slavery'- How Jet ine osk were tliese evila to be lessencd? Wus it to be done by selhng a man, or his wifr, or his child, once inslead of Iwkc n year? Was it tc be dono by wliipping a slave half as often, as tlie christian, bclore this wae accustomed to; or toking fronr him half his wogos or e.xaciing fr ir him half his slaviüh duties? This is a great reduction - but f-tül it i3 sclling a human beiiL - or robbing aliutnui being, in eome degrec.' Siicli n doctrine as this, we knotv Paul never preaehed. Ought not .Mr. Scolt, too, to know that Slavery, hk? iti twm ti-tjr the slaretrade, can never bc rrffalfftcd? I wül givo him lnp:!np-e tt tróê as it was rortainly uttcred ia thp lïri?h oarü-nieut. Mr. Fox saVS As Tor hiint-e.'f, he nu', ro scriiple to declare, nt the búW&fr.th'at the elave-lraclo oi:ghr B"t te he rryniatcd, but deutroycd - To t'iis opinión l.is inind was mnde up; and he was pfeWusdea, thtt tho nwiê the subject wns ftfbfeïtfèr$d, 1 1 1 r more his opinión woulf cjain g-roimd. - ' ' An'ï whnt ?)'t ;f thièblbgy Í3íhe Rev. gentlrmtn tr tof.ch hs, or what manncr of speech is he to pïrt in tlo moufh of Paöt, when he' ;olls f, tlint tho principies both of the law and of the Goeijel ïcfirn curritd to their conaqiicnis, iFl infallÜy ubolish sbvery, it vv nro hot rd ar-! on tlx-ni. nt this time? Are wp btíi '-"'f '.-■ r-arry "lo thyf cotipq.icncs'; t l,p. priñe ■.- Brttf of t'if IbV and óf the g;s-. pel?" If w. vnc in Aninrit:a, vherf flnvery prpvails tirjf vmrh os it did nt llcnnc and Ephrs-vr. I e rfnid p.odngh to teil us tvhcre thti Bn h ' Vü Pa'i! to or. ach n lir, bernnKO ho Pil iriUníne? ív ng is thp nin?t n.irp'iii1'1" y :'i! "v nre 'f v""r. father, :Le ucvil, " snid o:: LSra'ior to the Jews