Even the Burra Malum of the Nerbudda said once at Tuticorin -" "Bah!
I told that to the padre-sahib who preached on the Mombassa, and he asked the Burra Malum to put me in irons for a great rudeness.
The issue taken, that slavery is malum in se--a sin in itself--was prosecuted with all the zeal and eloquence they could command.
The argument offered, in justification of those who hold that slavery ismalum in se, is the strongest that can be made.
Now, why this difference, if slavery be malum in se?
But slaveholding is denounced as a malum in se; as essentially unjust and wicked.
Another objects to what is said of those who hold the opinion that slavery is malum in se, and who yet continue to purchase and use its products.
If this be so, then slavery is a question of circumstances, and not a malum in se.
His crime was malum prohibitum, notmalum in se, but it was, nevertheless, a violation of a most necessary law.
The best example of this Graecised metre is the celebrated line-- "Dabunt malum Metelli | Naevio poetae.
Even the Burra Malum of the Nerbudda said once at Tuticorin--" "Bah!
Quam deforme malum ferventi accensa furore Ira sit, iratis Indica monstrat avis,”— “How odious an evil to the violent anger may be Inflamed to fury.
Nor is there any cause for the cry that the Book of Concord did not distinguish between malum culpae, i.
God neither wills, nor approves, nor works, and malum poenae, or the punishments which He wills and works.
Thus the evil of the penalty accords with the evil of the sin--malum poenae with malum culpae.
A much easier and more lively movement would be dabunt malum Metelli Naeuio poetae, that is, the movement given by the old protosyllabic accentuation.
So they next unhesitatingly assumed the ground that war was a malumper se, and wine-drinking also, and all slave-holding, and a host of other things.
In magnum scandalum ignominium et contemptum dicti Capitalis Justiciarii et authoritatis suæ in malum et pernitiosum exemplum omnium aliorum in tali casu delinquentium ac contra pacem dicti domini regis nunc coronam et dignitatem suas &c.
