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For I placed my mighty hope in Dim and holy words of faith, "Wander forth the way is open, Ever on the upward path Till thou gain the golden portal, Till its gates unclose to thee. There the earthly and the mortal, Deathless and divine shall be!" Night on morning stole, on stealeth, Never, never stand I still, And the future yet concealeth, What I seek, and what I will!
The contempt thereof causeth among them much discord and debate, manslaughter and murther: euen for their reputation they doe honour their parents, keepe their promises, absteine from adulterie and robberies, punishing by death the least robbery done, holding for a principle, that whosoeuer stealeth a trifle, will, if he see occasion, steale a greater thing.
The Gypsy pulls the bell, when is heard the soft cry of 'Quien es'; the door, unlocked by means of a string, recedes upon its hinges, when in walks the Gitana, the witch-wife of Multan, with a look such as the tiger-cat casts when she stealeth from her jungle into the plain.
Three years after, in 1649, the following law was placed upon the statute-book of the Massachusetts Colony: "If any man stealeth a man, or mankind, he shall surely be put to death."
In the next verse, "He that stealeth a man," &c., the SAME PRINCIPLE is wrought out in still stronger relief. The crime to be punished with death was not the taking of property from its owner, but the doing violence to an immortal nature, blotting out a sacred distinction, making MEN "chattels."
No wonder that God, in a code of laws prepared for such a people at such a time, should uprear on its foreground a blazing beacon to flash terror on slaveholders. "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Ex. xxi. 16.
BELTANE. "That same lord that showed mercy on yonder poor maimed wretch? Know you him?" FRIAR. "In very sooth, and 'tis a potent lord that holdeth me in some esteem, a most Christian knight " BELTANE. "That ravisheth the defenceless! Whose hands be foul with the blood of innocence " FRIAR. "How how? 'Tis a godly lord who giveth bounteously to Holy Church " BELTANE. "Who stealeth from the poor "
And we intreat you to examine, whether the purchasing of a negro, either born here or imported, doth not contribute to a further importation, and, consequently, to the upholding of all the evils above mentioned, and to the promoting of man-stealing, the, only theft which by the Mosaic law was punished with death; He that stealeth a man and selleth him or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
No wonder that God, in a code of laws prepared for such a people at such a time, should light up on its threshold a blazing beacon to flash terror on slaveholders. "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Ex. xxi. 16.
Besides, if his father was a good man, as you say, it could not be but he must also hear from him that to steal was to transgress the law of God, and so to run the hazard of eternal damnation. And also that, 'This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth; for every one that stealeth shall be cut off', &c.
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