12 slaves, on the lowest probable computation I How prosperous and united would our glorious republic be at this hour, if the eloquent and pertinacious deciaimers against slavery had been willing to follow their Saviour’s example !” That is the argument, and that the deduction. Next follow the two arguments previously quoted to sustain in full force the Mosaic law, and then those passages are given from the Epistles, which direct servants (bond servants or slaves) to be obedient to their masters, concluding with St. Paul’s letter to Philemon, by the hands of his c fugitive slave’ Onesimus. As in the previous case from the Old Testament, where our argument was directed against the general principle, rather than the individual cases, so here we hope to show that the precepts and example of our Saviour rendered the continued existence of slavery impossible ; this being established it will be unnecessary to follow the writer into special details. It may be remarked, however, that the whole argument from the New Testament falls to the ground, as specially bearing upon negro slavery. It would only prove the justice of Roman slavery, with its sixty millions of slaves, as the writer quotes from Gibbon. Now of whom did these slaves consist ? Not of the descendants of Canaan only ; not of those said to be under the curse merely ; but of the descendants of Shem and Japhet, as well as of those of Ham. Guizot says above one hundred thousand prisoners were taken in the Jewish war, and Titus sold all the inhabitants of Jerusalem under seventeen years of age. Men of rank and intelligence were reduced to slavery ; had it not been for the influence of “ the'precepts and example of our Saviour and his Apostles” the question which the writer pronounces puerile, “ How would you like to be a slave ?” might not have been so absurd. The citizens of a conquered city, when once the battering ram had struck the walls, had lost all rights, and were put to death or sold at auction. According to this principle Gen. Grant, instead of paroling his 30,000 prisoners at Vicksburg, should have sold them for thirty millions of dollars. Now it must be remembered that our Saviour came into the world to preach a personal religion, a reformation of the indi
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