Josiah Priest
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 152
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...is true respecting them, as we suppose them to be unanimous in their published opinions on the subject, we shall quote a few remarks from one of their news prints, entitled, " The Friend of Man," published at Utica, Jan. 15, 1839, under the head--" The Facts of Slavery as they Are," as follows: "Remember (says the writer), we are now inquiring after facts, not theories: the facts of our own age and nation, not those of a dim ant-iquity, or of a distant region. We bring into the court (me! n ing before the public) the facts belonging to this trial, not the facts of a cause that was tried, and decided and awarded, two or three thousand years ago." From the above quotation of abolitionist effusions, is it not certain that the writer of the above remarks, in order to turn aside the force of the Bible, on the subject of negro slavery therein recognized, has aimed a deadly shaft from the quiver of his reckless imagination, at the sacred and venerated institutions of Moses, by the insidious words "two or three thousand years ago; and another at the decree of God, set forth by Noah, in the phrase "dim antiquity." The whole of the article, as above, was intended as a slur upon such as resort to the Scripture to prove that the servitude of the negro race is therein allowed and justified. To the perception of the writer of this work, the author of the "dim antiquity" idea might as well have written, that "although Noah did pronounce the will and decree of God, in placing the race of his son Ham under the ban of servitude to the races of both his other sons, Shem and Japheth, that it is now, in these enlightened times, entirely antiquated; as that was but a transaction of '...
