New-York daily tribune., 1849-09-11

Gfaao Isle,compieie 35 isl a.. 3H - l22
Total.........2l5n 1880 1850. 25sia 224z 304
Maj against Coolidge in .6,Of9. Do. for
him in IN.
The American Board of MIssions-The Slave
Trade, and the New-York Observer.
Our well paid religious neigh5Or exclaims Sept.
T., We sbhor Slavery 60 Nearly forty years since
We pointed out danger from an UNDUE mutipli-
cation of Savehoding States" What would be
DUE multip iplicstion OF thers The law OF South
Carolina, which "coniers upon a few hundred
despotic power over millions Of men - is
bad law it enables wicked men, with legal i'm
punity, to deprive their fellows OF their property,
their dOmesuc eulOyments, and, II may be, their
lives q" If Slavery is ever % be abolished in
our Southern States, truly Christian Shareholders
viii naturally take the lead IN the movement :"
but eccleslastical bodies, and especially mission
ary eccesiastcal bodies have no right directly 10
interfere" "There w ere bad laws In the times
of our Saviour and his Apostles-ss bad as any
which are now IN operation IN any part Of the
earth. There We're stakeholder IN their days,
possessed OF more despOtic powers than belong TO
any STAKEHOLDER IN our country. Did the Apostles
interfere directly with these laws Did they re.
quire Nero 10 sbdicate or the STAKEHOLDER %
emancipate his slaves No. They did MT re-
gard u as receSsdriiy san for n Christian 10 re-
tam any amount ot power which human lars
naight confer upon him. All that they required
was that he should use his power like Christian"
Like a Christian" What, then, is Christs
Christianity What says the law
Matthew VII. 12-" Ti0.oye all things whai.0eo9 ye
r0d ihaf mn should do INTO you do ye ereH 90 INTO
than fo1 SS- THIS Is THE LAW and The PToPhGs.'
Is Christs law the supreme law ia the mind Of
Christian VIII the convenient editors affirm
that it is not If. in Africa, powerful race
should arise, aud land their ships shores,
carrying of our people at the rate OF 100000
year selling them like cattle dividing families
setting aside the tie Of marriage declaring all
attempts to enable their stolen white slaves to
read Gods word penal oiense selling parts OF
white families 10 persons thousand miles distant
from each other and compelling the poor whites
TO work hard for their benefit, by the crack OF
the drivers whip suppose such state OF
things to exist, would the Obserrer issue labored
editorials to induce Boards of Missions TO wink at
IT, for the sake of gain Would he allow the
"cloven foot 80 often seen under holy exterior,
to peep out between the words " We sbhor
Slavery Would he profess to admire Christs
law of doing as we would be done by, and yet
attempt by the mesnest OF special pleading, 70
persuade the blacks that they did right to keep
their white bondsmen in the cruel condition III
which slave-owners keep Africans, ay, and
Americans too that 1t was Not not " necessarily
sin" to raise men and women TOR sale and
slavery, though done in direct defiance OF the law
OF God and man the law proclaimed by Jesus
Christ, and nculcated by every denomination rs
the cardinal rule Of their faith II he abhors
Slavery. and if Christian Shareholders may be ex
pected to take the lead in lessening its evil In
Huences, why should voluntary association OF
ministers, or any one of their number, be threat
ened # they or he shall preach, exhort, propose OF
agree to resolutions, in accordance with the la"
declared by Gods own Son upon the mount The
Obssrrer dictates to the Board OF Foreign Mls-
sions that they should say, " We have no business
with Slavery" Can they or their MISSIONARIES
say 90, at the very moment when Baptist minis
ters are being driven from their pulpits and their
native land in South Carolina, for merely praying
TO God for liberty to all, aud freeing the slaves
they could have sold for geld Why did Ner"
and those like him, persecute the early Christians
Because OF their hatred to Slavery, which Is the
very antipodes Of Bible Christianity.
10 not our domestic slave trade the nations
shame Does it not render us reproach even
at the festive board OF the most despotlc mohalVhs
OF Europel Is it not sin Is it not direct
defiance OF the law of God which we have jest
quoted And are the Board of Foreign Missions
to be taunted by proisssedly religious Bible
quoting newspaper with svarice, fear OF losing
contributions. and told that il they yield now to
the pressure which may be brought to bear upon
them under the present excited state OF puoh'
feeling. they will find, we spprehend that tnen
noble institution rests no longer upon the sure
foundation OF the Word OF God, but upon the waves
OF isnatical and political conmouon' which VIII
soon overwhelm and bury It IN the deep
To meddle with the slsve-trade is ianatieal' Is
IL Ii 90. there are millions OF fanatics III 'his
great Republic. We need scarcely remind the
O6serrsr that abuse, though not argument, Is often
the resource Of those who advocate bad cause
Festus told Paul with loud voice, that ne
was mad fanatic. but, FOR al that, his hesr' mis-
gave him, and he soon added, Almost thou per-
,usdest me to be a Christian To this the soldier
Of the Cross had no objection, except these
bond" Acts xviii and whether the Board dare
venture to except these bonds, will be known
weak