[5]. “Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.”—Jesus Christ. Matt. vii. 12.
[6]. “Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee. He shall dwell with thee; even among you in that place which he shall choose, in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best; thou shalt not oppress him.”—Deut. xxiii. 15, 16.
[7]. “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”—Lev. xix. 18; Matt. xix. 19.
[8]. “Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness; the people in whose heart is my law: fear yet not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.”—Isaiah li. 7, 8.
[9]. “Ye that love the Lord, hate evil.”—Ps. xcvii. 10. “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.”—Prov. viii. 13.
[10]. “Who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a man? * * * And forgettest the Lord thy Maker, * * * and has feared continually every day, because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?”—Isa. li. 12, 13, 14.
[11]. “We ought to obey God rather than men.”—Acts v. 29.
[12]. “The captive exile hasteth that he maybe loosed,” &c.—Isa. li. 15.
[13]. Haynau.
[14]. Editor of the Glasgow Courier. Poor Motherwell! I have it from a mutual friend that he sympathised with the cause of Freedom, while paid to write against it.