apostles, have thus determined this matter? As to information of this description, says an abolitionist, we are able at once to gratify the inquirer, showing the place, chapter and verses, and press them upon the reader's consideration, as they are extremely expressive and explicit, flowing from ;he pen of inspiration in tones of thunder, condemning the awful sin of egro slavery. See Isaiah lviii, 6 and 7, as follows: "Is not this the fast that I have chosen (namely), to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that they break every yoke. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out, to thy house: when thou seest the naked, cover him: and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" These passages of Holy Writ are, indeed, very plain, and, to the careless reader, seem to make an end of the matter, inasmuch as they require that every yoke should be broken, the heavy burdens taken off", and the oppressed set free.
But, dear reader, do not become vexed when we affirm, that although the passages above cited are very plain in their mode of expression, yet they do not, in any sense of the word, apply to the case in hand, or to the subject of negro slavery, as practiced in the time of Isaiah, or any other age. We affirm this, on account of three good and sufficient reasons, as follows:
1st. Consistency among the writers of the Holy Scriptures, who were inspired by the immutable God on the same subjects, forbids the belief that they should clash. If Moses, by so many direct statements as
