n slavery, it is hardly fair for the Doctor to advise me to go
back. According to his showing, he ought rather to take my place.
That would be practically carrying out his logic, as respects
"suffering awhile--one for many."

In fact, so eager were they to prostrate themselves before the great
idol of slavery, and, like Balaam, to curse instead of blessing the
people whom God had brought out of bondage, that they in bring up
obsolete passages from the Old Testament to justify their downward
course, overlooked, or would not see, the following verses, which show
very clearly, according to the Doctor's own textbook, that the slaves
have a right to run away, and that it is unscriptural for any one to
send them back.

In the 23rd chapter of Deuteronomy, 15th and 16th verses, it is thus
written:--"Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is
escaped from his master unto thee. He shall dwell with thee, even
among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates,
where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him."

"Hide the outcast. Bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts
dwell with thee. Be thou a covert to them from the face of the
spoiler."--(Isa. xvi. 3, 4.)

The great majority of the American ministers are not content with
uttering sentences similar to the above, or remaining wholly
indifferent to the cries of the poor bondman; but they do all they can
to blast the reputation, and to muzzle the mouths, of the few good men
who dare to beseech the God of mercy "to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens, and let the oppressed go free." These
reverend gentlemen pour a terrible cannonade upon "Jonah," for refusing
to carry God's message against Nineveh, and tell us about the whale in
which he was entombed; while they utterly overlook the existence of the
whales which trouble their republican waters, and know not that they
themselves are the "Jonahs" who threaten to sink their ship of state,
by steering in an unrighteous direction. We are told that the whale
vomited up the runaway prophet. This would not have seemed so strange,
had it been one of the above lukewarm Doctors of Divinity whom he had
swallowed; for even a whale might find such a morsel difficult of
digestion.

"I venerate the man whose heart is warm,
Whose hands are pure; whose doctrines and whose life
Coincident, exhibit lucid proof
That he is honest in the sacred cause."

"But gr