THE HOLY BIBLE. 26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh ;-Proverbs. IV, 1. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.-Ecclesiastes. ISAIAH.-Chap. V, ver. 20. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! LVIII, 6. Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? JEREMIAH.-Chap. XXXIV, ver. 17. Therefore thus saith the LORD, Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. JESUS CHRIST. Chap. V, ver. 7. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. VII, 2. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 12. Therefore all things what soever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. 117 IX, 13. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. XXIII, 8. But be ye not called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. XXV, 45. Verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.-St. Matthew's Gospel. IV, 8. To preach deliverance sight to the blind, to set at liberty to the captives, and recovering of them that are bruised.—St. Luke. Then Peter opened his mouth, ST. PETER.-Chap. X, ver. 34. and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: feareth him, and worketh right35. But in every nation he that eousness, is accepted with hirn.Acts. III, 8. Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous;-1st Epistle. ST. PAUL.-Chap. II, ver. 6. Who will render to ever man according to his deeds. 11. For there is no respect of persons with God.-Epistle to the Romans. XVII, 26. And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth, and hath determined the times be fore appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.-Acts. III, 17. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. VIII, 14. But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want, that there may be equality.2 Corinthians. V, 1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has nade us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 13. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. -Galatians. V, 9. And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.-Ephesians. III, 25. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. ¡V, 1. Masters, give unto your se.vants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master which is in heaven.Colossians. XIII, 3. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.-Hebrews. ST. JAMES.-Chap. II, ver. 6. But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgmentseats? 8. If ye fulfil the royal law ac cording to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: 9. But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. ST. JOHN.-Chap. IV, ver. 20. If a man say, I love God and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. -1st Epistle. XIII, 9. If any man have an ear, let him hear. 10. He that leadeth into captivity, shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword. 11. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: 13. Fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves and souls of men. XX, 13. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the Idead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. XXII, 12. And behold I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.-Revelation. APPENDIX. SLAVE LAWS. Extracted chiefly from Stroud's "Sketch of the Laws relating to Slavery in the United States of America." WHO MAY BE HELD AS SLAVES. The law of South Carolina, to which those of all the slave states are similar, is as follows: "All negroes, Indians, (free Indians in amity with this government, and negroes, mulattoes and mestizoes, who are now free, excepted,) mulattoes or mestizoes, who now are or shall hereafter be in this province, and all their issue and offspring born or to be born, shall be and they are hereby declared to be and remain for ever hereafter absolute slaves, and shall follow the condition of the mother." Act of 1740 2 Brevard's Digest, 229. Descendants of Indians, as well as of Africans are probably involved in the doom of slavery in all the slave states. In Virginia the enslavement of Indians was authorized by statute from 1679 to 1691. Those whose maternal ancestors have been reduced to slavery since the latter period, have been decided by the highest courts in that state to be free. So late as 1797, it was decided by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, Chief Justice Kinsey, that Indians might be held as slaves. "They (Indians) have been so long recognized as slaves, in our law, that it would be as great a violation of the rights of property to establish a contrary doctrine at the present day, as it would in the case of Africans; and as useless to investigate the manner in which they ORIGINALLY lost their freedom." The State vs. Waggoner, 1 Halstead's Reports, 374 to 376. Persons emancipated, but not in the prescribed form of law, are liable to be re-enslaved, thus in South Carolina, "In case any slave shall be emancipated or set free, otherwise than according to the act (of 1800) regulating emancipation, it shall be lawful for any person whosoever to seize and convert to his or her own use, and to keep as his or her property the said slave so illegally emancipated or set free." 2 Brevard's Digest, 256. And in Virginia, "If any emancipated slave (infants excepted) shall remain within the state more than twelve months after his or her night to freedom shalt have accrued, he or she shall forfeit all such right, and may be apprehended and sold by the overseers of the poor, &c. for the benefit of THE LITERARY FUND!!" 1 Rev. Code, 436. |