9 Judah, David, and Christ ? Or was it not a part of God’s eternal design, that in Christ all nations of the earth should be blessed ? With Christ’s expiation of the curse, therefore, ceased the slavery of the race of Canaan which was the penalty of the curse. How can any Christian man, how can any Christian minister, dare to question the universality of Christ’s atonement ? How can any minister of the Episcopal Church read in his place Sunday after Sunday those consoling words of the glorious communion service, “ for that Thou of thy tender mercy didst give thy only Bon Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption, who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world,” and then deliberately write and publish to the world, that the slavery of the negro race in the Southern States is justified by the curse pronounced by Noah upon Canaan? . The other proofs of slavery being sanctioned by the Almighty have all reference to the Hebrew polity, and refer either to the poor Hebrews, their own children, or to the heathen nations around them, and therefore are utterly irrelevant to the point at issue. Whoever wishes to see Hebrew slavery fully and ably discussed, with its numerous checks upon the power of the master, its almost innumerable provisions for the oppressed, sometimes when a master had daughters but no son giving a daughter in marriage to the servant with the inheritance, its amelioration of a harsher earlier slavery, which was adopted like polygamy and other oriental practices by the Hebrews, themselves an Oriental race, sometimes with, sometimes against the consent of the Almighty, must consult the treatise of Dr. Miel- ziner, admirably translated in the “ Evangelical Review ” for January, 1862, by Professor Schmidt of Columbia College. To look for a moment at the writer’s other arguments: The next proof he adduces is the case of Abraham, who had 318 bond servants born in his own house; and also the case of Hagar, Sarah’s fugitive female slave, whom the angel of the Lord commanded to return to her mistress and submit herself The writer adds: “If the philanthropists of our age had
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