tifies, the same as that which the abolitionists so
earnestly wish to see abolished? Let us see.

_Christianity in supporting _The American system for
Slavery, according to Prof. supporting Slavery,_
Hodge,_

"Enjoins a fair compensation Makes compensation impossible
for labor." by reducing the laborer to a
chattel.

"It insists on the moral It sternly forbids its victim
and intellectual improvement to learn to read even the
of all classes of men." name of his Creator and
Redeemer.

"It condemns all infractions It outlaws the conjugal and
of marital or parental rights." parental relations.

"It requires that free scope It forbids any effort, on the
should be allowed to human part of myriads of the human
improvement." family, to improve their
character, condition, and
prospects.

"It requires that all suitable It inflicts heavy penalties
means should be employed to improve for teaching letters to the
mankind." to the poorest of the poor.

"Wherever it has had free scope, it Wherever it has free scope,
has abolished domestic bondage." it perpetuates domestic
bondage.

_Now it is slavery according to the American system_ that the
abolitionists are set against. _Of the existence of any_ such form of
slavery as is consistent with Prof. Hodge's account of the requisitions
of Christianity, they know nothing. It has never met their notice, and
of course, has never roused their feelings, or called forth their
exertions. What, then, have _they_ to do with the censures and
reproaches which the Princeton professor deals around? Let those who
have leisure and good nature protect the _man of straw_ he is so hot
against. The abolitionists have other business. It is not the figment of
some sickly brain; but that system of oppression which in theory is
corrupting, and in practice destroying both Church and State;--it is
this that they feel pledged to do battle upon, till by the just judgment
of Almighty God it is thrown, dead and damned, into the
bottomless abyss.

3. _How can the South feel itself protect