No wonder that
strong anti-slavery men turn infidels when they hear Christian men
defending American slavery from the Bible. No wonder that they say, "The
times demand, and we must have, an anti-slavery constitution, an
anti-slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery God." Mr. Moderator, will the
gentleman answer my question,--Do you mean to approve all the atrocities
of American slavery, on the ground that the Bible countenances them?'
"I was never more calm in my life. I replied, 'Mr. Chairman, taking for
my warrant an inspired piece of advice as to the best way of answering a
man according to his folly, it would be just, should I reply to the
gentleman's question, Yes, I do. But the gentleman, I perceive, is too
much excited to hear me.'
"He had flung himself round in his seat, put his elbow on the back of
it, and his hand through his hair; he then flung himself round in the
opposite direction, and put his arm and hand as before, and he blew his
nose with a sound like a trombone.
"I then said, 'Mr. Chairman, if all that the gentleman meant to ask was,
Do you find any countenance under any circumstances, for the relation of
master and slave in the divine legation of Moses,--and this was all
which, as a fair man, not carried away by a gust of passion, he should
have asked me,--my answer was correct and proper.
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