bringing them to Egypt for public sale, independently of those who were sent as part of the tribute; and the Ishmaelites bought Joseph from his brethren, and sold him to Potiphar, on arriving in Egypt." "It was ... the common custom in those days; the Jews had their bondsmen, bought with their money." ... "Moses said to the children of Israel, 'both thy bondsmen and thy bondsmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondsmen and bondsmaids.' 'Moreover, of the children of the stranger that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land; and they shall be your possession.' 'And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondsmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule over them with rigor.'"-(Leviticus xxv. 44, 45, 46.) Bondsmen appear to be one of the last conditions of human society that we hear of. In the final winding up of all things, as described in the Bible, we still find bondsmen alluded to. In the Revelations of St. John, he says, "And causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, bond and free, to receive a mark in their right hand, or on their foreheads.”—(Rev. xiii. 16.) "And the kings of the earth, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond man, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;" "and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb." "For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?”—(Rev. vi. 14, 15, 16, 17.) "I am fast arriving at the conclusion," said Mr. Ting, "that this whole Abolition question is nothing more than an audacious attempt to be wise above what is written in the Bible. Is the mind of God progressive, so that his moral law, delivered with such fearful solemnity to his chosen people, has now, in this sublimely illuminated nineteenth century, become obsolete 'old fogyism?' Does not the philanthropy of the Abolitionist throw into the shade the beneficent teachings of Jesus Christ during the whole thirty-three years of his ministry on this earth? for He never once alluded to the sin of slavery, that these new-light, latter-day saints insist is the sum of all human villanies.' Perhaps they think that our blessed Savior was too much of a politician to attack this hoaryheaded iniquity. Certain it is he never failed to rebuke his most potential adversaries, the Pharisees, with all the indignation that language can convey: 'Ye whited sepulchres;' 'Ye graves that appear not;' 'Ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?' 'Ye make clean the outside of the platter, while within ye are full of dead men's bones, and all uncleanness.' Was not the wickedness of these Pharisees precisely that of the progressionists of the present day? Did they not assume a higher righteousness than that taught by the Son of God himself? Our inflated orators of progress not long since denounced Washington as a slave-holding thief and scoundrel; and declared that that poor, blood-thirsty fanatic, whose diseased liver sought the mercurial alterative of planning a midnight assassination of all the inhabitants of Harper's Ferry, who had for a year extended to him their whole-hearted, unsuspecting confidence and hospitality, this pitiable old sinner was represented by his peers as hanging on a gallows more glorious than the cross of Jesus Christ." "O save, ye gods omnipotent and kind, From such abhorr'd chimeras save the mind." "There are habits of misapprehension and misjudging common among all degrees of men: Fretfulness, industrious to seek or even feign and chew upon matter that may nourish it; Captiousness, ingenious in perverting the meaning of words; Partiality, warping everything to its own purpose; Censoriousness, unable to discern a bright part in characters; Self-conceit, averse to discern the real motives of action; Melancholy, auguring always for the worst; besides many more, some of which I am afraid every man may find lurking in his own breast, if he will but look narrowly enough."-TUCKER. "Do these progressionists," remarked Mr. Beecher, "really imagine, if God commands all his chosen people to take their bondsmen and bondsmaids from the heathen nations around them, that any human power can prevent the institution of slavery? As well may we attempt to alter the stars in their courses. Slavery is God's appointed means for the civilizing and christianizing the heathen world; and I am rejoiced to see the Chinese brought as laborers from their idolatrous land. If God says, 'Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren;' Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant;'God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant;'-do we poor insects of a day beg to be allowed to differ in opinion from Omnipotent Wisdom, for we believe that all men are created free and equal? The ethnologist tells us that Ham is the father of the black race, Shem of the red race, and Japheth of the white race. If so, is not the above prophecy exactly fulfilled? for do not we pale-faces dwell in the tents of Shem on this American continent, and is not Canaan our servant? The South, in her mighty millions, feels secure; and also in her perfect preparation to discuss this question politically, ecclesiastically, morally, metaphysically, or physically, with the extreme North, and she is willing and able to persuade others to be calm.” "In this connexion, I wish to say for the South, to the North and to the world, that we have no fears from our slave-population," says the Rev. F. A. Ross. "There might be a momentary insurrection and bloodshed; but destruction to the black man would be inevitable." ... "The Greeks and Romans controlled immense masses of white slaves-many of them as intelligent as their lords."... "Schoolmasters, fabulists, and poets, were slaves." ... "Athens, with her thirty thousand freemen, governed half a million of bondmen. Single Roman patricians owned thirty thousand." "If, then, the phalanx and the legion mastered such slaves for ages, when battle was physical force of man to man, how certain it is that infantry, cavalry, and artillery, could hold in bondage millions of Africans for a thousand years." But this is only speaking after the manner of men. It is God's Bible decree that puts one race above another. "Repine not nor reply; View not what Heaven ordains with reason's eye, Sin is the trangression of the law, and where there is no law, there is no sin. Can any one of our progressionists produce out of the ten commandments, anything short of the direct institution of slave property; for the order is, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, nor his wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's." If these slaves, rebelling against their Creator's will and that of those masters that God has raised up for them, run away to the free States, allegiance to our Constitution, and every sentiment of honor and religion require us to do as St. Paul did, when he sent the runaway slave (Onesimus), back to his master; and as the Bible tells us the angel of the Lord did, to Sarah's runaway maid, Hagar. (Genesis xvi. 6-9.) But Abraham said unto Sarah, "Behold thy maid is in thy hand: do to her as it pleaseth thee." . . . "And when Sarah dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face." . . . "And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain, in the |