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Updated: May 14, 2025
Caught by four cruisers in a dead calm, hidden from his enemy by the night, but with no chance of escaping before dawn, this man-stealer set about planning murder on a plan so large and with such system as perhaps has not been equaled since Caligula. First he had his heaviest anchor so swung that cutting a rope would drop it.
To allow the slave-ships of a Confederation formed for the extension of slavery to come and go free, and unexamined, between America and the African coast, would be to renounce even the pretence of attempting to protect Africa against the man-stealer, and abandon that Continent to the horrors, on a far larger scale, which were practised before Granville Sharp and Clarkson were in existence.
They would be shocked at the proposition of fellowshipping a SHEEP-stealer; and at the same time they hug to their communion a MAN-stealer, and brand me with being an infidel, if I find fault with them for it. They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.
In plainer words: Did God command the Hebrews to make slaves of their fellow-men, to buy them and sell them, to regard them as their money? He did. Then, did the Hebrews sin when they obeyed God's command? No. Then they did what was right, and it was right because God made it so. Then the Hebrew slave-holder was not a man-stealer. But, you say, the Southern slave-holder is.
He, then, with the divine blessing, made himself the master of slaves, men, women, and children, by buying them, by receiving them in gifts, by having them born in his house; and he controlled them as property, just as really as the Southern master in the present day. I ask now, was Abraham a man-stealer? Oh, no, you reiterate: but the Southern master is. Why?
Of course, I need not caution you to be silent about this affair, especially concerning the slaves being mortgaged to me. If that is whispered abroad, it will soon get into the Abolition papers that I am a man-stealer, as those rascals call the slaveholders."
So, then, that crime was not the mere stealing a man, nor the selling a man, nor the holding a man, but the stealing and selling, or holding, a man under circumstances thus forbidden of God. Was the Israelite Master a Man-Stealer? I now ask, Did God intend to make man-stealing and slave-holding the same thing? Let us see. Sir, that man was not a hired servant. He was bought with money.
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." The abolitionist charges the slave-holder with being a man-stealer. He makes this allegation in two affirmations.
But her greatest curse of all is the white man's cupidity, tearing asunder the tenderest ties of human nature, and plunging villages and families into mourning and despair. The hyena, the tiger, the crocodile, are creatures existing by the will of God; the man-stealer is a sin-created monster!
Why, the abolitionist responds, The African man-stealer sold his victim to the slave-holder; he, to the planter; and the negro has been ever since in bondage: therefore the guilt of the man-stealer has cleaved to sellers, buyers, and inheritors, to this time, and will through all generations to come. That is the charge.
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