rogate it, any more than the law of love can abrogate several other particulars of judicial appointment. Such as, it is appointed unto men that they should die; the woman was condemned to be ruled over by her husband; the earth was cursed, in relation to its fruitfulness; the wicked dead are sent to hell; the earth is doomed to be burnt up; and many more things which might be adduced as being determined judicially; all of which the law of love cannot reach nor abrogate. It is idle, therefore, to urge an argument on such ground as that; for God's determinations and decrees are not frustrated by his benevolence, else there were an end to his government. To strengthen this position, if need be, we may mention that Abraham, Job, Lot, and thousands of the holy men of old, as well as modern, had vast multitudes of black slaves. Were none of these lovers of God and their neighbors, in the true and holy sense of the word?
At the time Moses wrote the famous passage of Deut. xxiv, 7, saying to the Hebrews, that if any man among them was found out in having stolen any of their brethren, the Israelites, and of having sold them, that such a one should be put to death. What a pity it is, that there was not, at the time, a thoroughgoing abolitionist at the elbow of Moses, to have just popped the idea respecting the strict necessity there was, of inserting simply a word or two in favor of the negroes, and to read as follows: If any man be found stealing any black or negro person of the race of Ham, whom Noah cursed, from this time to the end of the world, and maketh merchandize of them,
