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Show 64 THE MONTHLY OHERJN1), Notice to the Various Towns Concerned. IJ:7''£he MASSACHUSETTS ANTI-SLAVERY FAIR will be held on CHRISTMAS \V EEK. (!7"' All penshab\e article~ should be forwarded befm·e tlte 1st of November . ..£Jl The SlaVe's ReillY• By Maria W. Chapman~ "What cant do for the cause 1" said the farmer. '~I sh~mld ~ot ~ uta loss," re))\ied the fugi~ive he had sheltered the p1:ecee~1ng mght; weae all these fields of yours mmt."-From a Manuscnpt Sketch. J When the creaking harvest-wain Homeward bears the golden grain- When the glowing orchard•tree• Bend beneath the autumn breeze~ When the dairy's rich produce, Safely stored for ~vinter use, . Fills your heart W1th grateful pr1de, Think of me, and set aside Somewhat then, as freedom's due, "As the Lord hath prospered you.'' Blessed be you evermore, In your basket and your store, . 'you in whose free homes the JOY Of a freeman find• alloy, When the tale of wrong is told Of our rights betrayed for gold. Blessed be ye whom the cry Of expiring infancy, Or the mute, reproachful glance Of grief too deep for .utteranc.e, Moves your harvest-fruits to bnng,To my cause fit offering. Brother! now my right maintain! Bear not thou the heart of Cam: 'Then the Lord shall have respect 'To the shrines thou dost erect, And upon thy faithful head lllessings from on high be shed. THE MONTHLY OFFERING. N 0 V E MB E R, 1 8 4 0. For the 1\Ionthly Offering. Sin of Slavery. BY CHARLES Sm~roNs. In illustrating the sin of slavery, T remark,-It is a dar· ing and impious invasion of tlte rights of God. We can conceive no more complete anu important right than God has to "ive supreme law to all his rational creatures, or to say to ~ach one, " Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." True religion and morality, and conseq!Lentiy the order and happiness of the world, depend upon a proper and sacred regard to this divine right. By assuming this divine prerogative, and exercising it over some of the intelligent creation, as slaveholders do, they open the floodgates of moral disorder upon the. world. Slavery sets aside the divine precepts, and substttutes laws of Its own. Can any thing be more impious, more heaven-daring, or God-defyisg 1 It is nothing less than a bold effort to dethroae the MAJESTY OF HEAVEN, the rightful owu-er and proprietor of the universe. . Slavery is a plain v~olation .oft~e law of God. It might easily be shown, that 1t 1s a viOlatiOn of every prec~pt m the decalogue.* In his first comm~nd, God re9u1~es a supreme regard to his ow.n glory and mterests, to h1s .nghtll and prerogatives. which IS the substance of. our dut1es toward• Him. And in his second, He requrres us to leve our neighbor as ourselves, and to regard the rights and in- •l.ide New Enc1and Telegraph and EQ)ectic Review, 1835, page BJ. |