Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-04-08
Anti Glaurrp.

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A Letter TO Right Rev. L. SilIiman Ives,
Bishop Of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the State Of North Carolina,
OCCASIONED BY HIS LATE ADDRESS
! TO THE CONVENTION OF HIS Do
CESE
BY PROTESTANT EPIsCoPALIAN.
(Cntiaued)
In 1882, there was in Charleston a rumor of
an intended servife Instruction and this very
gentleman, then Colonel Hayne, patrolled the
streets one whole night at the head of five COM
panies of soldiers, to prevent the faithful domes
tics from cutting their masters throats. No
less than thirty-fiye " domestcs" were soon after
tried, convicted, and hing, for their intended in-
surrecton and in this Judicial butchery, this
same Colonel Hayne played his part as one of
the judges Governor Hammond, another Ca
rolina sage, addressing the North from the floor
of Congress, lst Of February, 1885, taught the
following c1Oteric doctrine Sir, our slaves
are a peaceful, kndhearted, and afectionate
race satisfied aoith their lot, happy an their
forts, and devoted to their masters. 1t will not
be an easy thing to seduce them from their f.
deity"
An now, sir, for a little pSOteric doctrine rea-
tive to the " devotion" of slaves to their masters
Soon after the hanging of domestics by dozens
in Charleston, pamphlet appeared there, enti-
tied Reflections Occasioned by the Late Dis
turbances in Charleston" attributed to Gen. T.
Pinckney 1t was an essay on the dangers to be
apprehended from the slave population, and the
means Of averting them. Of the house SER
Uants" it is said, " they are the most dangerous;
their intimate acquaintance with all the circum-
stances relating to the interior of the dwellings,
the confidence reposed in them, and the inform
alton they unavoidably obtain from hearing the
conversation and observing the habitual transanc-
tons of their owners, afford them the most ample
means TOR TREACHEROUs BLOoDsHED AND DEvAs-
TATIoN. The success, therefore, of servile con-
spiracies mainly depends on this class for taking
off by midnight murder their unsuspecting own
ers and the late trials, by exhibiting SO large
portion Of this description among the ringlead-
ers of the conspiracy, afford melancholy proof
of their promptltude to become actors in such
scenes. Page IA.
Another pamphlet came out the same year at
Charleston, said to be from the pen of Edwin c.
Holland Esq, and called, Recitation of the
Calumnies circulated against the Southern and
Western States" 1t concluded with the follow
eSOtertC advice Let it never be forgotten,
that our negroes are truly the anarchists and the
domestic enemy the common enemy of civilized
society and the bdrbGrianS who would, if they
could become the DEsTROYERs OF OUR RACE"
We Of the South, says the Maysville (Ten-
nessee) Intelligencer, " are emphatcally sur
rounded by dangerous class ofbeings-dcgrad-
ed, stupid sacagtS-who, if they could but once
entertain the idea that immediate and uncond-
tional death would not be their portion, would
re-enact the St. Domingo tragedy"
Says the Southern Religious Telegraph, "Ha-
tired to the whites, with the exception in some
cases of attachment to the person and family Of
| the master, is nearly universal among the black
population. We have, then, foe cherished in
our own bosoms-a foe willing to draw our LIFE-
BLOOD whenever the opportunity is offeked,'
The shareholders, when thus cautofllg each
other against the intense hatred felt for them by
the slaves, seem never to ask themselves, =" is
there not a cause q
The double doctrine is not confined to the lai-
ty even the CLERGY occasionally condescend to
use it, One of the most astonishing specimens
of the clerical CrOttric to be met with in the
writings of Southern dvines, is furnished by the
Rev. ]. G. THORNTON, President of the Centen-
AIRY College, Clinton, Mississippi. This gentle
man, in a volume entitled an /" Inquiry into the
History of Slavery, lS4l," but, in reality, phil
ippc against Abolitionists, scofhng at the alleg-
ed ignorance of the slaves, thus exclaims, "They
are so ignorant that they are chiefly all in the
South members of three or four denominations,
Protestant Episcopalians Presbyterians Baptists,
Methodlsts among all of whom are coored min
c listers of exalted standing, who would honor any
pulpit i'll Amerca--when those who are not
church members are added to the above it will
make tt! ic0St TWO MILLIONS Of slaves in regular
? attendance On divine worship. PIP. l0S-lIO.
r. To these specimens of the reverend gentleman
veracty, we add one of his refinement Address
sing, in his book, by name, two anti-slavery
e writer's at the North he tells them" Bring for
ward your son, out with your daughter, and eth
er shall have an Angola negro before night -
. p. l40 As the whole number of slaves, Includ-
. ing children, is less than three millions, and at
the least two millions of these are in regular at
tendance on divine worship, it must be COMES
sed that the slaves are the greatest churchgolng
people in the world. Happy are the people
G that are in such a case" But before indulging
in our pious CALCULATIONS, let us attend to the e.
otfric teaching on the subject of slave religion
= In a sermon preached before an association Of
c planters in Georgia, by the Rev. c. c. Jones,
and published at Savannah, 1881, we have the
following confessions The description which
e the Apostle Paul, in his Epstle to the Romans
gives of the heather world, will apply, with very
little abatement, to our negroes. They lie,
baspheme, are slothful, envious, malicious, in
ventors of evil things, dcceivers, covenant break
o ers, implacable, unmerciful. Numbers of the
" negroes do not go to church, and cannot tell
" who Jesus Christ is nor have they ever heard so
e much as the ten commandments read and ex'
e planned, Generally speaking they appear
d to be without hope, and without God in the
6 word-A NATION OF HEATHEN IN OUR VERY
4 MIDST"
The report of the Synod Of South Carolina
g. Georgia, made 9Th December, 1888, and pub
lished at Charleston, makes the following revela,
tons !: a." Who would credit it, that in these year.
of revival and benevolent effort in this Christian
!. republic there are OVER TWO MILLIONS of human