A Few Questions
Charles C. Burleigh; William H. Burleigh
The Unionist 1833-12-19
Unionist content
Transcription
A FEW QUESTIONS—We do not wish to be impertinent, nor meddle with that which is none of our business—but we wish to ask a few questions, and we do it with a sincere desire to do good, whether we shall, to any extent, effect our object we leave for time to determine.
“Is the holding of our fellow men in bondage a sin?”
“Is it our duty ever to repent of sin, and if so, when? now or at some indefinite future?
Do any clergymen who preach to their hearers the duty of immediate repentence oppose immediate emancipation, the immediate restoration of right to the slave who has long been robbed of his earnings and treated as a brute? and if so where is his consistency?
Has God pronounced a judgment upon him who withholds from the laborer his hire? If so is the slaveholder obnoxious to this judgment?
Can that man who is a habitual robber be a christian?
Is not the slaveholder who refuses to emancipate his slaves a robber of man and of God? Reader, ponder these questions well—and answer them to your conscience and your God.
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With William Burleigh on board as a co-editor, I am not yet in a position to be able to distinguish between the two brothers on the basis of style. However, I would hazard a guess that this is William Burleigh, due to its more religiously-inflected tone.
