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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus.by American Anti-Slavery Society.VOL. I. AUGUST, 1836. NO. 1.TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES; OR, TO SUCH AMERICANS AS VALUE THEIR RIGHTS, AND DARE TO MAINTAIN THEM.FELLOW COUNTRYMEN!A crisis has arrived, in which rig
- 64 An aged infirm woman said to us, among other things, "Since de _free_ come de ma.s.sa give me no--no, nothing to eat--gets all from my cousins." We next conversed with two men, who were masons on an estate.Being asked how they liked liberty, the
- 63 "We thank thee, Lord, for this our food, But bless thee more for Jesus' blood; Let manna to our souls be given, The bread of life sent down from heaven."The benediction was p.r.o.nounced, and the a.s.sembly retired.There was an aged negro m
- 62 [Footnote A: We venture to publish the note in which the governor conveyed his invitation, simply because, though a trifle in itself, it will serve to show the estimation in which our mission was held."If Messrs. Kimball and Thome are not engaged Tue
- 61 Total 131,257 831,105 162,733 1,125,095 [Footnote A: These islands adopted immediate emanc.i.p.ation, Aug 1, 1834.][Footnote B: These are crown colonies, and have no local legislature.]ANTIGUA.CHAPTER I.Antigua is about eighteen miles long and fifteen bro
- 60 Geography and Statistics of the Island,--Reflections on arrival,--Interview with Clergymen,--with the Governor,--with a member of a.s.sembly,--Sabbath,--Service at the Moravian Chapel,--Sabbath School,--Service at the Episcopal Church,--Service at the Wes
- 59 Aunt Polly explained as well as she could, that Huckstep, in a state of partial intoxication, had attempted to leap his horse over a fence, had fallen and cut a deep gash in his head, and that he was now lying insensible.It is impossible to describe the e
- 58 Their mothers were kept at work in the field.It was the object of the overseer to separate me in feeling and interest as widely as possible from my suffering brethren and sisters. I had relations among the field hands, and used to call them my cousins. He
- 57 The early years of my life went by pleasantly. The bitterness of my lot I had not yet realized. Comfortably clothed and fed, kindly treated by my old master and mistress and the young ladies, and the playmate and confidant of my young master, I did not dr
- 56 WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD, _Coroner, (ex officio,) Barnwell Dist., S.C._ The Mississippi and other papers will please copy the above.--_Georgia Const.i.tutionalist_.$100 REWARD.--Ran away from the subscriber, living on Herring Bay, Ann Arundel county, Md., on
- 55 A careful a.n.a.lysis of Mr. Clay's resolution and of the discussions upon it, will convince every fair mind that this is but the legitimate carrying out of the _principle_ pervading both. They proceed virtually upon the hypothesis that the will and
- 54 But we turn from these considerations--though the times on which we have fallen, and those toward which we are borne with headlong haste, call for their discussion as with the voices of departing life--and proceed to topics relevant to the argument before
- 53 In 1785, the New York Manumission Society was formed. John Jay was chosen its first President, and held the office five years. Alexander Hamilton was its second President, and after holding the office one year, resigned upon his removal to Philadelphia as
- 52 Resolved, That our Senators be instructed, and our members of Congress be requested, to oppose the admission as a state into the Union, of any territory not comprised as aforesaid, without making _the prohibition of slavery_ therein an indispensible condi
- 51 6. EMINENT STATESMEN, THEMSELVES SLAVEHOLDERS, HAVE CONCEDED THIS POWER.Was.h.i.+ngton, in a letter to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786, says: "There is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of sl
- 50 THE POWER OF CONGRESS OVER THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE NEW-YORK EVENING POST, UNDER THE SIGNATURE OF "WYTHE."WITH ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR.FOURTH EDITION.NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, No. 143 N
- 49 By voting for this resolution, the south, by a simultaneous movement, s.h.i.+fted its mode of defense, not so much by taking a position entirely new, as by attempting to refortify an old one--never much trusted in, and abandoned mainly long ago, as being
- 48 Strange, unaccountable paradox! How much more rational would it be, to argue that the natural enemy of the privileges of a freeman, is he who is robbed of them himself! Dishonorable to the species is the idea that they would ever prove injurious to our in
- 47 "2d Article. We _will neither import nor purchase any slaves imported_ after the first day of December next, after which time we will _wholly discontinue_ the slave trade, and we will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels
- 46 Brown presented the resolutions of the General a.s.sembly of Ohio, recommending to Congress the consideration of a system for the gradual emanc.i.p.ation of persons of color held in servitude in the United States." On the same day, "Mr. n.o.ble,
- 45 The Const.i.tution of Mississippi gives the General a.s.sembly power to make laws "to oblige the owners of slaves to _treat them with humanity_." The Const.i.tution of Missouri has the same clause, and an additional one making it the DUTY of the
- 44 No. 5 THE POWER OF CONGRESS OVER THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE NEW-YORK EVENING POST, UNDER THE SIGNATURE OF "WYTHE."WITH ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR.NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY NO. 143 Na.s.sAU-ST
- 43 "Resolved, That when the District of Columbia was ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States, domestic slavery existed in both of these states, including the ceded territory, and that, as it still continues in both of them, it
- 42 The celebrated William Pinkney, in a speech before the Maryland House of Delegates, in 1789, on the emanc.i.p.ation of slaves, said, "Sir, by the eternal principles of natural justice, _no master in the state has a right to hold his slave in bondage
- 41 In the preamble to the act prohibiting the importation of slaves into Rhode Island, June 1774, is the following: "Whereas, the inhabitants of America are generally engaged in the preservation of their own rights and liberties, among which that of per
- 40 The Ohio and Indiana resolutions, by taking for granted the _general_ power of Congress over the subject of slavery, do virtually a.s.sert its _special_ power within its _exclusive_ jurisdiction.5. The power of Congress to abolish slavery in the District,
- 39 [Footnote B: Law of Louisiana, Martin's Digest, 610.]The law of Louisiana makes slaves real estate, prohibiting the holder, if he be also a _land_ holder, to separate them from the soil.[C] If it has power to prohibit the sale _without_ the soil, it
- 38 THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER.THE POWER OF CONGRESS OVER THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.REPRINTED FROM THE NEW-YORK EVENING POST, WITH ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR.NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, NO. 143 Na.s.sAU-STREET.1838.This periodical con
- 37 xlvii. 21-23. None but the monied aristocracy would be likely to decline such offers. On the other hand, the Israelites, owning all the soil, and an inheritance of land being a sacred possession, to hold it free of inc.u.mbrance was with every Israelite,
- 36 Their ignorance of judicial proceedings, laws of evidence, &c., made such instructions necessary. The detail gone into, in the verses quoted, is manifestly to enable them to get at the _motive_ and find out whether the master _designed_ to kill. 1. "
- 35 President Edwards, the younger, in a sermon preached half a century ago, at New Haven, Conn., says, speaking of the allowance of food given to slaves--"They are supplied with barely enough to keep them from starving."In the debate on the Missour
- 34 x.x.xiv. 20. Servants must have had permanently the means of _acquiring_ property to meet these expenditures.VI. SERVANTS WHO WENT OUT AT THE SEVENTH YEAR, WERE "FURNISHED LIBERALLY." Deut. xv. 10-14. "Thou shalt furnish him liberally out o
- 33 [Footnote A: There is no evidence that masters had the power to dispose of even the _services_ of their servants, as men hire out their laborers whom they employ by the year; but whether they had or not, affects not the argument.]Though servants were not
- 32 Thus it appears that those who continued servants during the period between the jubilees, were by law released from their labor, TWENTY-THREE YEARS AND SIXTY-FOUR DAYS, OUT OF FIFTY YEARS, and those who remained a less time, in nearly the same proportion.
- 31 Such is every slaveholder.]In further prosecuting this inquiry, the Patriarchal and Mosaic systems will be considered together, as each reflects light upon the other, and as many regulations of the latter are mere _legal_ forms of Divine inst.i.tutions pr
- 30 The horns of the altar are its last resort--seized only in desperation, as it rushes from the terror of the avenger's arm. Like other unclean spirits, it "hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest its deeds should be reproved." Go
- 29 SERVANTS SOLD THEMSELVES, RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES SECURED BY LAW TO SERVANTS, SERVANTS WERE VOLUNTARY, RUNAWAY SERVANTS NOT TO BE DELIVERED TO THEIR MASTERS, SERVANTS WERE PAID WAGES, MASTERS NOT "OWNERS," SERVANTS NOT SUBJECTED TO THE USES OF PRO
- 28 Besides, if we interpret the words destroy, consume, overthrow, &c., to mean _personal_ destruction, what meaning shall we give to the expressions, "throw out before thee;" "cast out before thee;" "expel,""put out,"
- 27 1. "BONDMEN." The fact that servants from the heathen are called "_bondmen_," while others are called "_servants_," is quoted as proof that the former were slaves. As the caprices of King James' translators were not insp
- 26 Rom. xiii. 7. "The laborer is WORTHY OF HIS HIRE." Luke x. 7. How did Abraham teach his servants to "_do justice_" to others? By doing injustice to them? Did he exhort them to "render to all their dues" by keeping back _their
- 25 I. Because to become a servant in the family of an Israelite, was to abjure idolatry, to enter into covenant with G.o.d[A], be circ.u.mcised in token of it, bound to keep the Sabbath, the Pa.s.sover, the Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles, and to rec
- 24 What a myriad choir and thunderous song.]Before entering upon an a.n.a.lysis of the condition of servants under these two states of society, we will consider the import of certain terms which describe the mode of procuring them.IMPORT OF "BUY,"
- 23 THE CANAANITES NOT SENTENCED TO UNCONDITIONAL EXTERMINATION, THE BIBLE AGAINST SLAVERY.The spirit of slavery never seeks shelter in the Bible, of its own accord. It grasps the horns of the altar only in desperation--rus.h.i.+ng from the terror of the aven
- 22 DEFINITION OF SLAVERY, Negative, Affirmative, Legal, THE MORAL LAW AGAINST SLAVERY "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not covet," MAN-STEALING--EXAMINATION OF EX. xxi. 16, Separation of man from brutes and things, IMPORT OF "BUY&
- 21 The leading directions as to the disposal of the Canaanites, are mainly in the following pa.s.sages, Exod. xxiii. 23-33, and 33-51, and 34, 11--Deut. vii. 16-25, and ix. 3, and x.x.xi. 3, 1, 2. In these verses, the Israelites are commanded to "destro
- 20 Here let it be observed, that both Israelites and Strangers, belonged indiscriminately to _each_ cla.s.s of the servants, the _bought_ and the _hired_. That those in the former cla.s.s, whether Jews or Strangers, were in higher estimation, and rose to hon
- 19 3. The Targum of Jonathan gives the verse thus, "Death by the sword shall a.s.suredly be adjudged." The Targum of Jerusalem thus, "Vengeance shall be taken for him to the _uttermost_." Jarchi gives the same rendering. The Samaritan ver
- 18 (6.) _They seem to have had in a considerable measure, the disposal of their own time_,--Ex. xxiii. 4, and iii. 16, 18, and xii. 6, and ii. 9, and iv. 27, 29-31. Also to have practised the fine arts. Ex. x.x.xii. 4, and x.x.xv. 32-35.(7.) _They were all a
- 17 The discussion of this topic has been already somewhat antic.i.p.ated under the preceding heads; but a variety of considerations, not within the range of our previous inquiries, remain to be noticed.1. _Servants were not subjected to the uses, nor liable
- 16 6. _We infer that servants were voluntary, from the fact that there is no instance of an Israelitish master ever_ SELLING _a servant_. Abraham had thousands of servants, but appears never to have sold one. Isaac "grew until he became very great,"
- 15 The general object of those statutes, which prescribed the relations of master and servant, was the good of both parties--but more especially the good of the _servants_. While the interests of the master were specially guarded from injury, those of the se
- 14 [Footnote A: Jarchi, the most eminent of the Jewish writers, (if we except perhaps the Egyptian Maimonides,) who wrote seven hundred years ago, in his comment on this stealing and making merchandize of men, gives the meaning thus:--"Using a man again
- 13 OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED."Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be," etc. Gen.ix. 25 "For he is his money," Examination of, Ex. xxi. 20, 21 "Bondmen and bondmaids" bought of the heathen. Lev. xxv. 44-46 "They sha
- 12 I have supposed it possible, that you might number yourself with those, who defend slavery on the ground of its alleged conformity with human laws. It occurs to me, that you may, also, take hope, that slavery is defensible in the supposed fact, that a con
- 11 You would have your readers believe, that the blessings of education are to be withheld from your slaves--only "until the storm shall be overblown," and that you hope that "Satan's being let loose will be but for a little season."
- 10 I observe that Professor Hodge agrees with you, that if slavery is sin, it would have been specifically attacked by the Apostles at any hazard to their lives. This is his conclusion, because they did not hesitate to specify and rebuke idolatry. Here is an
- 9 Professor Hodge tells his readers, in substance, that the selling of men, as they are sold under the system of slavery, is to be cla.s.sed with the cessions of territory, occasionally made by one sovereign to another; and he would have the slave, who is s
- 8 Sisters in Christ, I have done. As a Southerner, I have felt it was my duty to address you. I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those n.o.ble women who have been raised up in the chu
- 7 4. Act on this subject. Some of you _own_ slaves yourselves. If you believe slavery is _sinful_, set them at liberty, "undo the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go free." If they wish to remain with you, pay them wages, if not, let them leave
- 6 1. If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto another nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.2. If he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall dea
- 5 TO THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF THE SOUTH, BY A.E. GRIMKe REVISED AND CORRECTED."Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not within thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether holdest thy p
- 4 But why, my dear friends, have I thus been endeavoring to lead you through the history of more than three thousand years, and to point you to that great cloud of witnesses who have gone before, "from works to rewards?" Have I been seeking to mag
- 3 3. The slave being considered a personal chattel may be sold or pledged, or leased at the will of his master. He may be exchanged for marketable commodities, or taken in execution for the debts or taxes either of a living or dead master. Sold at auction,
- 2 But after all, it may be said, our fathers were certainly mistaken, for the Bible sanctions Slavery, and that is the highest authority. Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to _this test_ I am anxious to brin
- 1 The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus.by American Anti-Slavery Society.VOL. I. AUGUST, 1836. NO. 1.TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES; OR, TO SUCH AMERICANS AS VALUE THEIR RIGHTS, AND DARE TO MAINTAIN THEM.FELLOW COUNTRYMEN!A crisis has arrived, in which rig