this, a large proportion of our slaves, instead of being
instructed orally, would have been taught to read the Scriptures for
themselves.--ED.

[263] Paley's definition is still more simple, "I define," he says,
"slavery to be an obligation to labor for the benefit of the master,
without the contract or consent of the servant." Moral Philosophy, book
iii, ch. 3.

[264] Address, etc., p. 20.

[265] Elements of Moral Science, p. 225.

[266] It need hardly be remarked, that the command to obey magistrates,
as given in Rom. xiii: 1-3, is subject to the limitation stated above.
They are to be obeyed as magistrates; precisely as parents are to be
obeyed as parents, husbands as husbands. The command of obedience is
expressed as generally, in the last two cases, as in the first. A
magistrate beyond the limits of his lawful authority (whatever that may
be), has, in virtue of this text, no more claim to obedience, than a
parent who, on the strength of the passage "Children, obey your parents
in all things," should command his son to obey him as a monarch or a
pope.

[267] Quoted by Pres. Young, p. 45, of the Address, etc.

[268] On the manner in which slaves were acquired, compare Deut. xx: 14.
xxi: 10, 11. Ex. xxii: 3. Neh. v: 4, 5. Gen. xiv: 14. xv: 3. xvii: 23.
Num. xxxi: 18, 35. Deut. xxv: 44, 46.

As to the manner in which they were to be treated, see Lev. xxv: 39-53.
Ex. xx: 10. xxii: 2-8. Deut. xxv: 4-6, etc. etc.

[269] "The word of Christ, (Matt. xix; 9), may be construed by an easy
implication to prohibit polygamy: for if 'whoever putteth away his wife,
and _marrieth_ another committeth adultery' he who marrieth another
_without_ putting away the first, is no less guilty of adultery: because
the adultery does not consist in the repudiation of the first wife,
(for, however unjust and cruel that may be, it is not adultery), but in
entering into a second marriage during the legal existence and
obligation of the first. The several passages in St. Paul's writings,
which speak of marriage, always suppose it to signify the union of one
man with one woman."--PALEY'S Moral Phil., book iii, chap. 6.

[270] Elements of Moral Science, p. 221.

[271] Clarkson and Wilberforce were anxious, to have the slave trade
speedily abolished, lest the force of their arguments should be weakened
by its amelioration.--ED.

[272] If the negro is susceptible of this degree of improvement, he
ought _then_ to be free.--ED.

[273] Abo