one company, and denouncing them as a set of villains, fit only for the lowest abodes of damnation itself. For, abolitionists condemn slavery of every grade and description, to all intents and purposes, in all times, ages and nations, let it have been practiced or sanctioned by whomsoever it may have been — and this they do in the very face of God, who, through Noah, Moses, the prophets and the law, did not only allow of restrictive slavery, in relation to the Hebrews, but also of irrestrictive slavery, in relation to the whole race of Ham, throughout all ages, or to the end of the present constitution of the earth.
But, abolitionists, in order to get rid of the fact of Bible slavery, as recognized in the law of Moses, and applied to the negro race, have argued much, and labored hard to show that the Canaanites, who were bought by the Hebrews for bondmen and bondmaids, always bought them of themselves, and never of another, as if they were the property of somebody besides themselves, and with this they find no fault, being perfectly contented with the idea that a negro Canaanite, should, if he liked, sell himself — that was all right.
But this idea, we consider a most singular position for an abolitionist to take, as they pronounce all kinds of slavery and slave selling or buying most cursed, and without authority, either from God or man; and yet a man may sell himself, even for life. How is this? Is there no paradox here? If a man sells himself, is he not sold? Is he not as much a slave as if somebody else sold him? This position of abolitionists, which, by a strange refinement, struggles to get
