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Show Fales H enry Newhall. colts and eal\' e~ arc hi . They are his stock; she raises stock {or her maste r. /1. n I has no citi zen hip, lL would be ' trangc enough for property to h:we political rights, to YOt , prose ·utc and. clefe ~~tl its •lC in the courts. It would. be strang e nough to :ee prope rty prosccuti11g its owner! lienee to a juugc and jury a 1avc i::; no more than a hor.-c ; he can no more appeal to the ballot box than can the cattle. And all this must be; let it be notcu, all this i ju t and right, if it is ever right for one man to own another. 5. lie has no God. Y ou start, but i t is tru e ; the . lave code allow · the sla.ve no God but his ma ·tcr. lie mu8L worship what his ma, tcr bids him w o r~hip - :::;o _ay::; tile law_ God or idol, or no God -if the ma ·t ·r so command. Duty is what the master bids him do- he has no right to any conscience. lie muf't blaspheme at every breath, and br ·ak every command of law or Go pel if the ma::<tcr o command; so ~ays the slave code. And this too must be ; thi ' is rirrht b ' if it i ' ever right for man to own man. J\Ien who dwell in comfortable h ome. ' amid the rwattle of lau rrhin O' children b 0 ' who worship weekly on elegant cu.·hions and arpetR, tell us that the lave ought me kly to uffc r, and obey the e law till tlte Lord's time of deliverance ·ome:;:*· llavc you ever r efl ected tltat n. man cannot obey the. c laws and Lc a Christian? If not, think of it now. Can a man do what the slave code Lid · him do and be a Chri t ian? N ow mark it, if there is any truth in this Gospel, obcdi nee to the . lave code secures the damnation of the slave ! A ·lase mnst ui - obey the. c laws, in a word, be r ebelliou., in heart if not in deed, to ave hi. ~oul. 1Vhcn U ncle T om is commanded to stop praying or die- and thi • his ma. ter mny command, for any whim at any moment - then the time lta come for * Ay; and minis lct·s who dwell in pl'incPly nt O.Ili'inns, Ju I o v i n ~ fa mily <'i rclcs, and sunoutH.lc!l l>y b osts of ad miring fl'icntls, nn!l who wct•ldy preach in ridtly Clu·pctcd p ulpits, w!Lh liumptuously cushioned soatR, too I Sco Hcury Ward Bcccll cr's Sermon! J.R. Fales Henry Newhall. 199 U ncle Tom to choose b etween his ma ter and his God; to choo ·c !tis ma. t ·r, anu lo.·c hi. soul, ·or choo:c his Gou, and die. But this is not all. (). \Vh ·rc there is property in man there must be markets for human . lock; . lave auctions, with all their atrocious and sick ening d e tail~, coflles aml chain gan g~, stock fancier , stock breeder s, with ten thousand oth 'r equally di ·gu ·ting consequences, vd1ich my tong ue would r c fu:c to speak and your re fined ears r cfu e to hear. Y et it is silly quearnishnc:s for any man or woman to recoil from any of these con equenccs who bcli ·ves that ther e can be " prop eTl!J in rnan." Finally . It would be incon. i::;tcnt for a cotlc of laws which r ecormizcs this r •la.tion not to arm t.he rna ter with power to 0 enforce his claims. Gr eat and a . toni shing as arc these claims, his power mu t equal thrm or he cannot be a master. lienee the master must cru sh the int ·ll 'et of the slave, or cca e to be a ma. ter. I gnorance must be enforced by tatutc, or Slavery will cca. c. L et the mcnta.l faculties be quickened by c<lu ·ation, and how long would a man r emain a lave? To t a ch slaves to r ead is to teach them their manhood, it is to tea ch them Jition a.nd r ebellion. No . laYc could be safely tru ted with the Bible. The mn. ter had better put loaded r evolvers into ltis ha.nd titan id ·as into his head; he hau bett er turn him loo. c and bid him help himself in the S pring field an:; •nal than in the Cambridge library. F or a man who has no right to be allowed to defend himself, under any circum tanccs, would be ab. urd enough. It is right for a ma.n to whip a r efractory hor c, and a ' a r efractory man i:s a.. thou and times more dangerou. animal, his puni: l11n ent mu ·t be a. thou. and times more sever e. A true man wilt not y ield up his manhood, a true woman will not sutT(•ntler he r womanhood, without n. terrible conflict, in which blows and blood may be but trivial inciLlcnts. Aml let iL be rernerub ·red tltat any caprice of pa. : ion, or the merest wl1im of fancy on the part of the master, is to be absolute la.w to the |
