When coming to touch a humanity-chord -
And preach the acceptable year of the Lord!
Set free the scourged bondman, now branded and sore,
And write him a freeman, a man evermore,
Around whom a family closely may draw.
—Or if the Good Gospel be Slavery Law,
The clergy, for aught that to reason appears,
Might honestly prosper as Slave Auctioneers!
Why not? Disrespect is intended for such clergymen only as put Southern Slavery on Bible grounds. They might sell books, shoes, horses, by public outcry, and feel no shame of sin. If the Gospel endorses colored people as property, why should the clergy scruple to be Slave-Auctioneers? Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, might do a thriving business in that line, down South. Doubtless he is popular in that region, and would be largely patronized!