UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

KEY TO UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
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But the Presbyteries of South
say, and allthe other religious bodies at
Carolina
the
South say, that the church of our Lord
to interferewith
Jesus Christ has no righ
civilinstitutions. What is this church of
our Lord Jesus Christțhat theyspeak of? these ministers and church-members, in common
Is it not a collectionof republican men, who with those who are not so, theyare every
have constitutional power to alterthese laws,
to the slave that which
and whose duty itisto alter them,and who are
disobeying the apostle's
tilltheydo alter them 1
directions every day
Everyminister at
the South is a voter as much as he is a
minister; every church-member is a voter as
much as he is a church-member ; and ministers
and church-members are
among the
masters who are keepingup this system of
atrocity, when they have full republican power No man would wish to leave his own
to alter it;and yet they talk about givingfamily of children as slaves under the care
their servants that which is just and equal ! of the kindest master that ever breathed;
If they are going to givetheir servants that and what he would not wish to have done to
which is just and equal, let them give them his own children,he oughtnot to do to
back their manhood ; they are law-makers, other people's children.
and can do it. Let them giveto the slave But,itwill be said that it isnot becoming
the right to hold property, the rightto for the Christianchurch to enter into political
form legalmarriage, the rightto read the matters. Again, we ask, what is the
word of God, and to have such education
as will fullydevelophis intellectual and of republican citizens,
moral nature; the right of free religious his rights and dutiesas a legalvoter'?
opinion and worship; let them givehim the Now, suppose a law were passed which
righ to bring suit and to bear testimony; depreciated
give him the righ to have some vote in cents in the pound,
the government by which
his interests are
controlled. This will be something more
dollars a
barrel for pork,givetheir slaves
and intimates
three or four pounds a week ;
that, if that will not convince people that
they are doing what is just and equal, he
does not know what will.
Mr.
these unjustlaws every day,by their silent
C. C. Jones,after stating
various permission of them.
placesthat he has no intention ever to interfere
The kingdomof our Lord Jesus Christ is
with the civil condition of the slave, not of this world, say the South Carolina
teaches the negroes, in his catechism, that
Presbyteries ; therefore,
church has no
the master givesto his servant that which righ
isjust to interferewith any civil institution ;
and equal,when he provides for them but yet all the clergyof Charleston could
good houses,good clothing, food,nursing, attend in a body to give sanction to the pro-
and religious instruction.
of
This isjust the greatVigilanceCommittee.
like a man who has stolen an
Theycould not properly exert the leastinfluence
estate which belongs to a family of orphans. againstslavery, because it is a civil
Out of itsmunificent revenues, he gives the institution, but they could givethe whole
orphanscomfortable food,clothing, "c, weight of their influence in favor of it.
while he retains the rest for his own use, Is it not making the kingdomof our Lord
declaring that he is thus rendering to them Jesus Christquite as much of this world țo
that which isjustand equal.
patronize the oppressor, as to patronize the
If the laws which regulateslavery were slave ?
made by a despotic sovereign,
whose
movements the masters could have no control,
this mode
be called
of proceeding might
just and equal;but,as theyare made and
kept in operationby these Christian masters,
one of them refusing
isjust and equal șo long as they do not
seek the repeal of these laws ; and,if they
cannot get them repealed, it is their duty to
take the slave out from under them,since
theyare constructed with such fatalingenuity
as
all that the master
utterly to nullify
tries to do for their elevationand permanent
benefit.
Christian church ? Is it not an association
each one of whom has
the value of cotton or
sugar three
would thesemen consider
the fact that theyare church-members as
like giving him that which any reason why theyshould not agitate for
is ;'just and the repeal of such law? Certainly not.
equal.
:'
Such a law would be brittle as the spider's
Mr. Srnylie, of Mississippi, says that the web ; it would be swept
planters of Louisiana and away before it was
Mississippi, when well made. Every law to which the majority
they are giving from twenty to twenty-five of the community does not assent is,
in this country,immediately torn
Why, then, does this monstrous system
stand from age to age?
down.
Because the community
consent to it. They reznact
ceedings