TWELFTH SECTION.
Inquiries whether the Scriptures have, either in the Old or New Testaments, abolished slavery, as abolitionists assert that they have — Query, if they never sanctioned it, how could they abolish it? — The famous passage of Isaiah, chap. lviii, on which abolitionists found their argument in favor of the scriptural abolishment of slavery, examined, and found to have no allusion to the subject — All the Jews, their elders, nobles and kings, enslaved the race unreproved — Reproofs of the prophets, for the Jews enslaving their own people beyond the jubilees, but not the negroes — The famous passage of Exod. xxi, 16, which respects the stealing of a man to enslave, or to sell him, examined, and found to have no allusion to negroes, while abolitionists assert that it does — Isaiah's opinion respecting the Jews enslaving their enemies, chap. xiv. 3 — Abolition argument against slavery, founded on the law of love toward our neighbor, replied to — Abolition argument, charging the institution of negro slavery with an attempt to usurp the sovereignty of God over the souls of slaves, replied to.
That the Scriptures have abolished negro slavery and disallowed of the principle itself, is contended by abolitionists, who boldly aver that they do not, in any case or instance, justify it, but every where condemn and reprobate the practice, as well as the principle. But whether this is true, the reader has already seen, if he has read the preceding pages with but common attention.
But, as to the Scriptures having abolished negro slavery, we inquire where the passage or portions of that book can be found, which have done this; and which of the prophets, kings, patriarchs, judges, or
