Slavery Volume 102; its origin, nature, and history. considered in the light of Bible teachings, moral justice, and political wisdom

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...service without wages," (not his slave's service without wages, but his neighbor's service without wages,) " and giveth him not for his work; that saith, I will build me a wide house, and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. Shalt thou reign because thou closest thyself in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? He judged the cause of the poor and needy; " (to see that their wages were paid to them;) "then it was well with him: was not this to know me, saith the Lord? But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness and for oppression and violence to do it. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, concerning Jehoiakim, They shall not lament for him, he shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem." Jer. xxii. 13 to 19, inclusive. The oppression of the hireling, in not having his wages paid to him, is one of the great sins of the Old Testament. The abolitionists gather up all the passages in which this sin of oppression is spoken of, and apply the sin to Southern slaveholders. They profess to believe that the slave of the South is defrauded of wages for his labor; to which, according to the Bible, he is entitled as a hireling; overlooking, at the same time, the astonishing and remarkable fact, that, as a class, they receive v iiges in the shape of a comfortable home for life, and a supply for their wants that is equalled by no such number of free laborers on the globe. For the benefit of men, who wish to know the truth of the Bible on this subject, I will add a little for their instruction. In the first place, the hireling of the Bible, who is not to be op...