[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9
Sin,—You say that slavery is the crime of crimes, venial under no conditions, and that the man who defends it even in the abstract partakes in its guilt. Isn't this rather hard on St. Paul, who sent Onesimus back to his master, and explicitly instructs masters as to their duties to their slaves ? How do you account for St. Paul giving advice as to the manner of practising the crime of crimes and himself abetting
its commission P—I am, Sir, &c., SELIM.
[" A hit—a palpable hit." Nevertheless we are impenitent and must say with the German Professor of Divinity whom an orthodox English divine had confuted, as he thought, with a Pauline quotation : " Ah, Paul was a very clever man, but it is not very often that I agree mit him." Some American Abolitionists held it their duty to obey the Fugitive Slave law and give up runaways, but who can deny that disobedience was the nobler way P—ED. Spectator.]
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