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To impress me with my security from recapture and return to slavery, Mr. Johnson assured me that no slave-holder could take a slave out of New Bedford; that there were men there who would lay down their lives to save me from such a fate. The fifth day after my arrival, I put on the clothes of a common laborer, and went upon the wharves in search of work.
This argument on the abolition charge, against the slave-holder, that he is a man-stealer, covers the whole question of slavery, especially as it is seen in the Old Testament. The headings in the letter make the subject sufficiently clear. No. Rev. Albert Barnes:
Slavery was denounced as the sum of all villainies, the slave-holder as the worst of tyrants; and no concealment was made of the intention, should political power be secured, of compelling the South to set the negroes free. In the autumn of 1860 came the Presidential election.
A moral mildew mingles with and blasts the economy of nature. It is as if the finger of the everlasting God had written upon the soil of the slave-holder the language of His displeasure. Let, then, the slave-holding states consult their present interest by beginning without delay the work of emancipation.
If it failed, he and every other slave-holder in the South would be financially ruined. "Then I suppose you don't want me to go into the army?" said Rodney, at length. "I didn't say so; I didn't so much as hint at such a thing," replied his father, hastily. "But what's the use of enlisting if I am going to get whipped? I don't see any fun in that."
And we must also remember that the author depicted a number of worthless if not vicious Negroes, and a slave-holder who was as much of a Christian and a gentleman as it was possible for one in his position to be; that she pictured the happy, singing, shuffling "darky" as well as the mother wailing for her child sold "down river."
The abolitionist and the slave-holder are as distinct as were Charles I. and Cromwell, or Catharine de Medicis and Henry of Navarre.
As much as you raise the slaves in our opinion, you deepen the guilt of the slave-holder." This used to dwell much on my mind. I see the thing differently now. You remember your Uncle Enoch, from Madras, who made your first Malay kite. I remember a fable which he told you when he was flying the kite for the first time.
"What would become of them?" said I. "Hire them," said he; "pay them wages; let husbands and wives live together; abolish auction-blocks, and" "But," said I, "some of the very best of men in the world, at the South, are decidedly of the opinion that such emancipation would be the most barbarous thing that could be devised for the slaves." "Are you a slave-holder?" said he.
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.
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