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AUNTPIILLIS'S CABIN; OR, IV'UTH E1LFE AS IT IS. z H I H z z wI H C TI O 0 BY MRS MARY H. EASTMAN. bilabelp hip : )( pipco'f, di'ahlbo & C0. YYi s :f t I AUNT.PHILLIS'S CABIN; ',y ORS v ,z F . ?a j . - t SOUTHERN LIFE AS IT IS. a. K f I ' I, yyY 1 y'k 3 ' t; 1 t c ' > . [[ ; j BY I ' 3 e : %Y _z mdeiTso' r 4 MRS. MARY H. EASTMAN. RCN t ! ; +F rZ t} e " J 1 r1 ; ] Y " r S1}u ' ) +$ TENTH THOUSAND. :? r 4r 'f t 7? r r k }°}! , S y{ A; _ a -k; "A PHILADELPHIA: IJIPPIN~COTT, GRAMBO & 00. ,i tiL, 1852, r Fl w / .¢ i 1 r a +-'s / ' . r Er! 4 d 4 i PREFACE. 'f A WRITER on Slavery has no difficulty in tracing back its origin. There is also the ;advantage of finding it, with its con- ~E tinued history, f and the laws given by God to govern his own in- e Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by stitution, in the Holy Bible. Neither profane history, tradition, g,,t GRAMBO & Co. .r LIPPINCOTT, r nor philosophical research are required to prove its origin or in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. existence; 13~ though they, as all things must,. come forward to sub- stantiate the truth of the Scriptures. God, who created the human race, willed they should be holy like himself. Sin was committed, and the curse of sin, death, was induced: other punish- ments were denounced for the perpetration of particular crimes -the shedding of man's blood for murder, and the curse of 3x slavery. The mysterious reasons that here influenced the mind of the Creator it is not ours to declare. Yet may we learn enough from his revealed word on this and every other subject A to confirm his power, truth, and justice. There is no Christian duty more insisted upon in Scripture than reverence and obedience to parents. "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." The relation of child to parent resembles closely that of man to his Creator. He who loves and honors his God will assuredly love and honor his parents. Though it is evidently the duty of 4 every parent so to live as to secure the respect and + ~+ affection of his child, yet there is nothing in the Scriptures to 4 11 , F tip .'t # .f I tr4f ai S \t , PREFACE. 13 6 12 PREFACE. F r i { } x filial act which is recorded, authorize a child treating disrespect a parent, though he be it is not to be supposed he had been e a righteous man. Had Y unworthy in the greatest degree. he been one after God's own heart, he f would not have been guilty of such 1 a sin. What I The human mind, naturally rebellious, requires every com- must that child be, who would openly dishonor and F ten com- expose an erring pa- .Y mand and incentive to submission. .The first of the rent, borne down with the mandments, insisting on the duty owing to the Creator, and the weight of years, and honored by ' t all God as Noah had been! fifth, on that belonging to our parents, are the sources of The very act of disrespect to Noah, the chosen of God, implies wilful contempt of God himself. r order and good arrangement in the minor relations of life; and, Ham tr . was not r : a young man either: he on obedience to them depends the comfort of society. had not the excuse of the impe- tuosity of youth, nor its thoughtlessness-he Reverence to age, and especially where it is found in the per- was himself an old man; and there is every reason to Y- son of those who by the will of God were the authors of their believe he had led a life at _ f less variance with God's laws. being, is insisted upon in the Jewish covenant-not indeed When he committed so gross and M violent a sin, it may be, that the curse of God, which ft{1 required now;- but as the Jews were called from among the had lain r ' r }1 S tranquil long, was heathen nations of the earth to be the peculiar people of God, roused and uttered against him: a curse 15 not 7- conditional, not implied-now, as then, f they were to show such evidences of this law in their hearts, by a mandate of the ;Yf 9 Eternal. :n their conduct, that other nations might look on and say, "Ye are 1 Y Among the curses threatened i{ i the children of the Lord your God." by the Levites upon Mount i{ Qy. ' 'ff Ebal, was the one found . u an aged father, in the 16th verse of the 27th chapter t after an act of a child dishonoring of x It as s zc of the Deuteronomy : " Cursed be he that that the prophecy entailing slavery as a curse on a portion setteth light by his father or his mother." By the law of Moses, human race was uttered. Nor could it have been from any this sin was punished with death: "Of the son which will feeling of resentment or revenge that the curse was made known not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother," "all the by the lips of a servant of God; for this servant of God was a men of his city shall stone him with stones that he die." (Deut. parent, and with what sorrow would any parent, yea, the worst xxi. 21.) God in his wis- dom instituted this severe law of parents, utter a malediction which insured such punishment in early times; and it must con- vince us that there were and misery on a portion of his posterity ! Even the blessing which reasons in the Divine mind for insisting . on could not have consoled him the ordinance exacting the most perfect submission sy, was promised to his other children and re- iyy 4 the Spirit of God: verence to an earthly parent. ftiN for the sad necessity. He might not resist 3 fr AAP Lr "When, after though with perfect submission he obeyed its dictates, yet with the deluge," says Josephus, "the earth was settled in its former condition, what regret! The heart of any Christian parent wild answer Noah set about its cultivation; and when he had planted this appeal ! it with vines, and when the fruit was a t ripe, and he We may well imagine some of the reasons for the will of God had gathered the grapes in the season, and the wine was ready in thus punishing Ham and his descendants. Prior to the~un.- for use, he offered a sacrifice and feasted, and, being 2 It t I 14 PREFAC-. PREFACE, ~jtj peopled principally inebriated, fell asleep, and lay in an unseemly manner._- When by the descendants of Ham; and for how many ages have Ham saw this, he came laughing, and showed him to his the better parts of that country lain under the dominion of the Romans, brothers." Does not this exhibit the impression of the Jews as then of the Saracens, and now of the an Turks ! In what wickedness, ignorance, illf regards the character of Ham ? Could a man capable of such barbarity, slavery, misery, live most of the inhabitants ! act deserve the blessing of a just and holy God ? And of the poor negroes, how many hundreds every year are tI "The fact of Noah's transgression is recorded by the inspired sold and bought like beasts in the market, and conveyed from historian with that perfect impartiality which is peculiar to the one quarter of the world to do the "U work of beasts in another !" Scriptures, as an instance and evidence of human frailty and im- But does this curse authorize the slave-trade ? God forbid. perfection. Ham appears to have been a bad man, and probably He commanded the Jews to enslave the he rejoiced to find his father in so unbecoming a situation, that, heathen around them, saying, "they should be their bondmen by exposing him, he might retaliate for the reproofs which he had forever ;" but he has . given no such command to other nations. received from his parental authority. And perhaps Canaan first The threatenings and reproofs discovered his situation, and told it to Ham. The conduct of uttered against Israel, throughout the old Testament, on the subject of slavery, refer to their Ham in exposing his father to his brethren, and their behaviour oppressing and keeping in slavery their own countrymen. Never is li in turning away from the sight of his disgrace, form a striking there the slightest impu- tation of sin, as far as I can see, conveyed against contrast."-Scott's Com. them for hold- ing in bondage the children of heathen nations. We are told in Gen. ix. 22, " And Ham, the father of-Ca- Yet do the Scriptures evidently permit slavery, even to the naan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren present time. The curse on the serpent, without;" and in, the 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th verses we read, ("And the Lord God said .unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art "And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son cursed above all cattle and above every beast tI had done unto him; and he said, Cursed be Canaan, a servant of of the field," E uttered more than sixteen hundred years before the curse servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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