Every person who has read the Bible, and who has a proper understanding of its leading moral precepts, feels, in his own conscience, that it is the only original and complete anti-slavery text-book. In a crude state of society--in a barbarous age--when men were in a manner destitute of wholesome laws, either human or divine, it is possible that a mild form of slavery may have been tolerated, and even regulated, as an institution clothed with the importance of temporary recognition; but the Deity never approved it, and, for the very reason that it is impossible for him to do wrong, he never will, never can approve it. The worst system of servitude of which we have any account in the Bible--and, by the way, it furnishes no account of anything so bad as slavery (the evil-one and his hot home alone excepted)--was far less rigorous and atrocious than that now established in the Southern States of this Confederacy. Even that system, however, the worst, which seems to have been practiced to a considerable extent by those venerable old fogies, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, was one of the monstrous inventions of Satan that God "winked" at; and, to the mind of the biblical scholar, nothing can be more evident than that He determined of old, that it should, in due time, be abolished. To say that the Bible sanctions slavery is to say that the sun loves darkness; to say that one man was created to domineer over another is to call in question the justice, mercy, and goodness of God. We will now listen to a limited number of the PRECEPTS AND SAYINGS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof." "Let the oppressed go free." "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." "Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor." "The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning." "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways." "Do justice to the afflicted and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked." "Execute judgment and justice; take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God." "Therefore thus saith the Lord; ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth." "He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." "Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard." "He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker."