You will say, that they had special authority from God to do so, in the words, "Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are around about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids."

We separate from them not in anger, not in malice, not for a selfish purpose, not to do them an injury, not to cease warning, exhorting, reproving them for their crimes, not to leave the perishing bondman to his fateO no!

Look at the use of the Hebrew word "Ebed," the plural of which is here translated "bondmen."

The word rendered bondmen, in this passage, is the same word uniformly rendered servants elsewhere.

We will now ascertain what sanction to slavery is derivable from the terms "bondmen," "inheritance," and "forever.

At an early period, it became an established rule of discipline for the Society to disown any member, who refused to manumit his bondmen.

Arkansas was admitted but the other day, with nothing that deserves to be called an effort to prevent italthough her Constitution attempts to perpetuate slavery, by forbidding the master to emancipate his bondmen without the consent of the Legislature, and the Legislature without the consent of the master.

will;but do not mock the bondman in his misery, by giving him a Bible when he cannot read it.

Less aid to this movement came from John Adams, although he detested slavery to the extent that he never owned a bondman, preferring to hire freemen at extra cost to do his work.

Will they not remember the Southern bondman, in whom the love of freedom is as inherent as in themselves; and will they not, when contending for equal rights, use their mighty forces "to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free?"

It is said that he continually addressed crowded and deeply interested audiences, and that many after hearing him, firmly resolved to exert themselves, until every chain was broken and every bondman freed beneath the waving banner of the British Lion.

From the crack of the rifle and baying of hound, Takes the poor panting bondman his flight; His couch through the day is the cold damp ground, But northward he runs through the night.

Legislatures passed laws facilitating manumission, many southerners emancipated their slaves to give them a better chance to improve their condition, regulations unfavorable to the assembly of Negroes for the dissemination of information almost fell into desuetude, a larger number of masters began to instruct their bondmen, and persons especially interested in these unfortunates found the objects of their piety more accessible.

" After considerable discussion, Friend Hopper urged him to allow his bondman until ten o'clock next morning, to see what could be done among his friends; and he himself gave a written obligation that the man should be delivered up to him at that hour, in case he could not procure five hundred dollars to purchase his freedom.

Yet, believing that slaves could not be enlightened without developing in them a longing for liberty, not a few masters maintained that the more brutish the bondmen the more pliant they become for purposes of exploitation.

When the indenture was executed, he committed his bondman to prison, for safe-keeping, until he was ready to leave the city.

Now haste all bondmen, let us go, And leave this Christian country O; God help us to Victoria's shore, Where we are free and slaves no more.

Now hasten all bondmen, let us go And leave this Christian country O; Haste to the land of the British Queen, Where whips for negroes are not seen.

So Judah humbly beseeches Joseph: "Let thy servant abide in stead of the lad a bondman to my lord."Gen., xliv, 33.