Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-22

Governor Hammond, another Carolina
sage, addressing the North from the floor Of
Congress, February lst, 1896, taught the fol-
lowing e%roteric doctrine:
"Sir, our slaves are a peaceful, kind hear
ted, and ailectionate race, ltisfed with their
lot. happy in their comforts and devoted 10
their masters. 1t will not be an easy thing
TO seduce them from their fidelity"
Now, for a little e%Soteric doctrine relative
TO the "devotion'' of slaves to their masters.
Soon after the hanging of domestics by do
Zens in Charleston, a pamphlet appeared
there entitled "Refections Occasioned by
the Late Disturbance in Charleston," attribu-
ted to Gen. Il. Pinckney. 1t was an essay
on the dangers to be apprehended from the
slave population, and the means Of averting
them. OF the 'hOu9e servants" it is said,
"They are the most dangerous their init.
mate acquaintance with all the circumstances
relating to the interior of the dwellings, the
confidence reposed in them, and the Informal
ton they unavoidably obtain from hearing the
conversation and observing the habitual trans
actions Of their owners, afford them the most
ample means for heacherotis diminished and de-
raStafion. The success, therefore, of servile
conspiracies mainly depends on this class for
taking off by midnight murder their unsus-
pecting owners and the late trials, by ex-
hibiting so large a portion of this description
among the ringleaders of the conspiracy, aE
ford a melancholy proof of their promptitude
TO become actors in such scenes."-Pdge II.
Another pamphlet came out the same year
at Charleston, said to be from the pen of Ed
win G. Holland, Esq, and called "A Refu-
tation of the Calumnies circulated against the
Southern and Western States" 1t conclu-
ded with the following e%SOteric advice:
"Let us never forget that our negroes are
truly the Jacobins of the country that they
are the anarchists and the domestic cnemv ;
the common enemy Of civilized society and
the barJarianS who would, if they could, be.
come the DEsTRoYERs OF OUR RACE"
Says the Maysville (Tennessec) I%ntelli-
gencer-
1--WE of the South are emphatically sur
rounded by a dangerous class Of beings-de-
Srdded, stupid Sayages-who, If they could
but once entertain the idea that immediate
and unconditional death would not be their
portion, wonld react the St. Domingo TRACE
dy."
Says the Southern Religious Telegraph
"Hatred to the whites, with the exception
in some cases of attachment to the person ant
family Of the master, Is universal among the
uldIh pOPuiutiOhs " hdNOs hlChs a Cltl
ished in our own bosoms-a foe willing tc
draw our LIFE-BLooD whenever the opportu.
nifty is offered"
The Shareholders, when thus cautioning
each other against the intense hatred felt for
them by the slaves, seem never to ask them
selves sis there no ~cause?'
The double doctrine is not confined to the
laity; even the CLERGY occasionally condo
scend TO use it. One of the most astonishing
specimens of the clerical ~erOferic to be met
with in the writings of southern divines, is
furnished by the Rev. J. C.. Thornton, pres,
ident of the Centenary College, Clinton
Mississippi. This gentleman, in a volume
entitled, "An Inquiry into the History o.
Slavery, lS4l," but, in reality, a philippe
against Abolitionists, scoiiing at the alleged
, ignorance Of the slaves, thus exclaims,-
I "They are so ignorant that they are chief
. ly all in the South members of three or fou
denominations, Protestant Episcopalians
Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists; a
mong all Of whom are coloured ministers o
: exalted standing, who would honour any pull
. pit in America-when those who are no
church-members are added 10 the above,
will make at least TWO MILLIONS of slaves i
> regular attendance on divine worship."-PI
. kl08-ll0.
To these specimens of the reverend ger
tleman's veracity, we add one of his refine
ment. Addressing in his book, by nam,
, two anti-slaveTy writers at the North, he tell
y them,-
"Bring forward your son, out with you
daughter, and either shall have an Angola nj
h gro before night."-P. l40.
,e As the whole number of slaves, includin
- children, is less than three millions, and
g. the least TWO millions of these are in reguli
re attendance on divine worship, it must be col
s. fessed that the slaves are the greatest churcI
going people in the world "Happy are Il
T. people that are in such a case"
ID But before INDUCING in our pious gratul
tions, let us attend to the eSOteric teaching
is the subject of slave religion. In a sermc
preached before an association of planters,
~ Georgia, by the Rev. G. c. Jones, and pu
i. lished at Savannah, 1881, we have the fC
~. lowing confessions:
ne "The description which the Apostle Par
O. in his Epistle to the Romans, gives of t
III heather world, will apply, with very lii
abatement, 10 our negroes. They lie, bla
en- pheme, are slothful, e%nvious, malicious,
IT. %ventors of evil things, deceivers, covena
breakers, implacable, and unmerciful. Nur
IS bers of the negroes do not 90 to church, al
cannot tell who Jesus Christ is, nor ha
they ever heard so much as the ten col
mandments read and explained. = y =
Generally speaking, they appear to be wit
II, out hope, and without God in the world
al NATION OF HEATHEN IN OUR VERY MIDST
he The report of the Synod Of South Caro-
rs ma and Georgia, made 9th December, 1873
as and published at Charleston, makes the f
nd lowing revelations:
in "Who would credit it, that in these yes
of revival and benevolent effort, in this Chr
pc tian republic, there are Orer fUo millions
Q human beings in the condition of heGfh'
and, in some respects, in a worse conditic
~ From long continued and close observation
oH we believe that their moral and religious CT