that the Holy Scriptures justify the servitude of the negro race, writers and lecturers of the above description have sacrilegiously dared to lay violent hands on a high and venerated circumstance of the Bible, namely, that of its antiquity; as if a subject and doctrine, which has become aged, is, therefore, of no more influence; and in this way they endeavor to disarm those particular passages of the sacred Word, which relate to this subject, and thus open the door for infidels to laugh at Christianity and its adherents, because they refuse to receive only such portions of the precepts of that Book as suit their interested opinions, instead of the whole. But this kind of insinuation against those who believe the Bible justifies negro servitude, is equally against St. Paul, as well as the prophets, on that subject; for if we find that great judge of both law and gospel, sustaining Moses and the Jews in this thing, he, too, as well as those who were before him, who believed as he seems to have believed on this subject, must be condemned as sinners by abolitionists; for, be it known, that they would rather stamp the Bible into the mire of the earth, than to receive that opinion, so high have they set their dogmatizing feelings above all that is sacred and true.
A specimen of the recklessness of the spirit of abolitionism, is seen like tissue spinning from some opening crevice in the earth, which covers a subterranean lake of fire, in the speech of Mr. G. Bradburn, of Massachusetts, in the great London Abolition Convention, as follows: "But then it was said, that slavery was advocated and enforced in the Bible. Now, if it
