If any one says that the Apostle was afraid to meddle with it, I reply, that there was never anything yet that Paul was afraid to meddle with, if it was right to do so.

He "meddled" with Diana of the Ephesians and her craftsmen; he "meddled" with the "beasts" there; he "meddled" with idolatry on Mars Hill at Athens, I being witness; he has been beaten, stoned, imprisoned, and is now the second time before Nero for his life.

Afraid to "meddle" with slavery! I am ashamed of the man who makes the suggestion.

He who thinks it, has never yet understood him.
"'Now, where in all his teachings has he ever intimated that it is wrong to hold property in man?
Nowhere; I repeat it, nowhere.

But is he ignorant of the nature of slavery?
We all know what has lately happened at Rome, in connection with slavery.