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William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves., Lecture VI: the abstract principle of slavery discussed on Scripture grounds, and misrepresentations of the principle examined. (search)
ioned by the Scriptures the Roman government Dr. Wayland's Scripture argument examined and refuted the positions of Dr. Channing and Prof. Whewell examined and refuted. the inquiry, if the institution of domestic slavery existing amongst us agr, misconceptions, if not gross misrepresentations, of the fundamental ideas of domestic slavery, we may place those of Dr. Channing and Prof. Whewell. The latter, in his Elements of morality states that slavery converts a person into a thing — a subed as a man. He is reduced to the level of a brute; that is, as he explains it, he is divested of his moral nature. Dr. Channing, the great apostle of Unitarianism in America, says, The very idea of a slave is that he belongs to another: that he ias a brute, and not as an accountable man. The blind passivity of a corpse, or the mechanical obedience of a tool, which Channing and Whewell regard as constituting the essential idea of slavery, seems never to have entered the minds of the apostles.
William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves., Lecture XIII: the duty of masters to slaves. (search)
re than the parent is required to give to his child) whatever he might wish, but whatever justice and equity claim for him, that is, whatever is right or good in itself; or, if you please, accord to him all his natural and acquired rights, as a slave. For this is precisely that, and no more, to which the master would be entitled on a change of relations. We now meet the question-What are the rights of the slave? The duties of the master are reciprocal of these. Those who believe, witt Channing, that the relation they sustain as masters assumes that their slaves have no rights, we may consider are beyond the reach of reason. If the master owes any duties to his slave, it is because the rights of the slave entitle him to the benefit of the faithful performance of these duties on the part of his master. No point is more fully settled in Scripture than this: masters are held to a strict accountability to God for the faithful performance of certain duties to their slaves. The Bible