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Show .. 262 LTBJ)'RTY AND SLAVERY. Theoclore Parker, "are necessary for the support of each colored man, I know not why he should toil longer." You know not, then, why the colored man should work more than two hours a day? Neither docs the colorccl man himself. You know not why he should have any higher or nobler aim in life than to supply his few, pressing, ·animal wants? N either does he. You know not why he should think of the future, or provide for the necessities of old age? Neither does he. Yon know not why he should take thought for seasons of sickness? Neither does he; and hence his child often dies under his own eyes, for the want of medical attendance. You know not that the colored man, who begins with working only two hours a day, will soon end with ceasing from all regular employment, and live, in the midst of filth, by stealing or other nefarious means? In one word, you kn.ow not why the colored man should not live like the brute, in and for the present merely-blotting out all the future from his plans of life? If, indeed, you really know none of these things, then we beg you will excuse us, if we do not know why you should assume to teach our senators wisdom;if we do not know why the cobbler should not ARGUMENT FROM TUE PUBLIC GOOD. 263 stick to hi• last, and all such preachers to their pulpits.* Abolitionism is decidedly progressive. 'l.'he time was when Dr. Channing thought that men should work, and that, if they would not labor from rational motives, they should be compelled to labor. t The time was, when even abolitionists looked upon labor with respect, and regarded it as merely an obedience to the * We moot n big'bcr question: Is be fit for the pulpit,-for tbo.t great conservative power by which religion, and morals, nnd freedom, must bo maintained among us? "I do not believe," he declares, iu ono of his sermons, •• the miraculous origin of the Hebrew church, or tho Duddhist church, or of the Christian church, nor tho miraculous character of Jesus. I take not the Bible for my master-nor yet tho church-nor even Jesus of Nazareth for my master . . . ....... lle is my best bistorio ideal of human greatness; not without errors-not without the stain of his times, and I presume, of course, not without sins; for men without sins exist in tho dreams of girls." Thus, the truth of all miracles is denied; and tho faith of the Christian "W~rld, in regard to the sinless character of Jesus, is set down by th1s very modest divi11e us the dream of girls! Yet he believes that half a. million of men were, by the Dritish aot of emancipation, turned from slaves into freemen! That is to say, he docs not believe in tho miracles of tho gospel; he only believes in the miracles of abolitionism. lienee, wo ask, is he fi~ fv•· the pulpit,-for the sacred desk,-for any holy thing! t See extract, p. 111. |