Morning Star

Horace Mann On Slavery.—Horace Mann evidently is a free spoken man and is not particularly given to reverential ejaculations. He delivered the first lecture of the Anti-Slavery course at Boston, and said:

"Jesus Christ himself cannot, South of Mason and Dixon, have a hearing unless he submits to a sort of Missouri Compromise and adapts his teaching to his latitude. Thus, when the slaveholders find no comfort in the New Testament, they turn to the old book for aid but here they meet with but little encouragement. They can there read of the first great abolitionist, "Moses," who ran two millions of slaves at one jump, gathering them out of Egypt and taking them to the promised land. He, indeed, was a slave runner, and should he now alive, to be the conductor of the underground railroad. This same incident, also, said he, furnishes an example of and in what manner slave hunters should be served. Look at the fate of Pharaoh, and you find how the God of Hosts executed his justice upon them. Thus he held that the Old Testament, so often alluded to by slave advocates, gives no comfort."