Remarks On Bishop Hopkins Letter On the Bible View of Slavery
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But, says Coleridge, " feeling is sometimes the deeper reason. " 4. The Bishop justifies or excuses the forced labor of the slave, by what lie alleges as the analogous case of the labor of the poor free man, forced upon him by his poverty. Does the Bishop indeed mean to say that the two cases are analogous ? The necessity of labor in the case of the slave, comes of the act of a fellow-man, who, by original violence, holds power over his neighbor and uses it for a selfish end. In the case of the... poor free man. The necessity comes of the act of God. However the divine hand may ajj'ict any one for fatherly discipline, yet the maxim of the law is, " the act of God wrongs no man. " The act of God by lightning, may destroy my house, or by disease may lake from me a limb, and I am 9 thereby afflicted and called on to bow meekly my head to my heavenly Father's will. But is this case like that of a fellow-man who, for a selfish purpose, or in malice, masters me and deprives me of my property or the fruits of my labor ?
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