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91 "He that stealeth, or selleth, or holdeth a man shall surely be put to death."

God has thundered forth His mighty voice, as "the voice of many waters," against this wicked traffic.

"For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes."—Amos ii., 6. God's retributive justice will not always remain silent, but ere long will be manifested in behalf of multiplied thousands of His redeemed children, sold for silver and gold, even by professed Christians. They are like the condemned miserable wretches alluded to by the Prophet, "The oppressors of God's sheep, the destroyers of men; whose possessors slay them and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich." Many of the American slaveholders are rich at the expense of the blood bones, and muscles of the Slaves. The Slaveholders plead divine authority for capturing fugitive Slaves from the case of Hagar; no two things are more opposite than these. Hagar was a wife by the consent of Sarah, whose influence was supreme over her as well as Abraham, and Abraham sent her away, therefore she did not run away; if she had been a Slave this would have freed her—(we don't admit she was a Slave)—instead of selling her child he gave it to her; many Slaveholders sell their own