138:. Apart from providing news, Meredith used the paper as a vehicle for clear and principled editorials on issues of the day. Although a native Pennsylvanian, Meredith adapted to his adopted region as a slave owner for most of his adult life, a fact he never revealed in his public writing. While silent on his ownership of slaves, Meredith used the pages of the Biblical Recorder to defend slavery on biblical grounds and wrote forcefully against the abolition movement. In an 1847 proslavery pamphlet drawn from materials published in the Biblical Recorder, Meredith argued "that slaveholding is, per se, wholly inoffensive; that the relation of master and slave is as accordant with the general precepts of the gospel, as that of parent and child, or of husband and wife; and that, therefore, all charges of a criminal nature founded on this relation, and alleged against Southern Christians, are unreasonable and unjust.” He strongly opposed, "
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