Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-03-12
IDOMI1ESIFIO.
From the Petersburg Liteligencer.
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE


The New York Observer one Of the Oldest ablest and
best sustained religious periodicals. in country. has
recently brought editorial, in defence OF the liner
atty Of Southern Shareholders, against The unsalnS
boasiing of Northern and Blush would be pn''a".
psts The article reflects no less credit "Pol -
- :, 49, MN ,bose whose liberality and Christian
ii ;,r i v;,dcates 1t shows most concluSIvely, that
Stockholders in the United States have actually made
greater sacrifice The liberation Of slaves, than the f20
600 900. bv which Great Britain, emanc pated the
grnes the West Indies fifteen years ago: and The au
datory camor If which has yet ceased It's reverber
atoms either home foreign shores In the belief
that yonr readers will be interested in he para
graphs referred 10, you at liberty to transfer them
your columns. Yours. l..
'.Some fifteen ago. the British Parliament voted
100000 900, or nearly One Hundred Millions If Dol.
lars for Ih- emancipation Of the negroes in the West In
dies This act is the great b1as of Engshmen; and is
urged by them evidence Of deeper and ruer anti
slavery feeling Than exhibited by any OIL her PEG
pie, in any other country on the globe We have taken
the liberty deny the justice of this claim. We have
asserted that, whether tested by the of pecunla
ry sacrifice by other and better tests there has been
manifested in The SlaveholJng States of the American
Union deeper and praiseworihy anIislavery feel
ing than that exhibited in Great Britain; aud in part
proof Of our assertion have said Tho Of
1910 shows that there are, the result of voluntary
Emancipation in Saveholdlng States, 25,O0O free
blacks whuse value slaves, the moderate estimate
of $500 EACH would be more than $l00,000,000."
''N md disposition III some quarters 10 dttfact
from the merit which this statement would
fer upon Southern bre:hern. 1t objected that some
of these 81 100 free blacks born free, being de-
Scendants of parents who emancpaed many years
ag; and that fairness all such persons should be de
Quoted 1t is undoubtedly that many, if not most
of the 2l5000 free blacks in the South born free
but in calculation intended to illustrate the compare
vevalue and merit of the antisavery sacrifice made by
Britain and America, why should they be deducted?
If the parents had not been emancipated the children
would have been slaves and why in making the award
Of comparative merit TO Britain ard America, should A
suffer because she earlier and prompt in
her benefcence? ii A. gives 10000 a charitable in
stluon, and b. at The same time puts $4,000 at inter
est and when it has doubled by accumulation gives 500
900 the institution, is b. greater benefactor
the institution than Az If all the negroes of the South
had been retained in bondage till 1910, and 25,000 of
them had then been emancpated, would that sacrifice
antslavery feeling have been meroIious than that
which Southern shareholders have actually made If
1t would, then as the slaves are continually Increasing
the longer the Shareholders delay emancipation tie
greater will be the of their anti-savery merit.
''Nha the actual nnmber of emancipaons at the
South has beea it is impossible to say. If in the free
black population taken by ITSELF the number of dea tbs
exceeds the number IF births, maintain and as
we know to be the fact in large districts Of coun
try the Fl 600 free SouIhera blacks the census Of
1910. would indicate that there had been more than
Il 900 voluntary emancipatlons We do not believe
however, that the deaths exceed the births in the free
black population in The South We believe that there is
small excess Of births. and that The number of actual
patons has been, therefore, somewhat less than
2l5 ,OOO
sin estimating the moral worth ofour charities, how
ever, the Bible teaches TO take other things into
consideration, besides their numerical and pecuniary
mount w hen our Saviour persons casting money
into the treasury he said that the pour widow who
in two mites had given than all the res for they
cast in of their abundance but she Of her poverty
all that she had Apply this to the case before US
The British people are the richest people the EARTH
and they their go 900 600 of the richest treas
ury in the world The $1,000 900 sacrificed by our
Southern Shareholders the sacrifice in many cases
of all that they had least of all that gave them con-
sequence in society: thousands Of undetermined men re-
ducing themselves by their deeds of emancipation from
affiuence TO comparative poverty.
'Ihe Bible applies still another rule and another test
to deeds Of charity. 'When thou duest thine aims
do not sound trumpet before thee, the hypocres DO
in the synagognes and in the Streets that they may have
glory Of men, But when hun doest thine aims let not
thy left hand know what thy right hand doelh." Now
who continually rumpelng 10 the world the praises
of their own philanthropy, and claiming for themselves
all the an-slavery gory.-the people who paid the
f2O,OOO.OOO or the shareholders, who by their vol
untafy emancipalions sacrificed the 500 600 900? 1t
is fifteen years since Britain emancipaled her negroes
and Exeter Hall and Fnsbury Chapel and other halls
and chapels lnnumerabe throughout the ned Kingdom
are still ringing and shaking with the Qualifications of the
British people by British orators. But who knows the
names of the WbeOrces and ClaIkSons of Southern
States We are compelled even TO 90 to the to
find out what they have done. We find there indeed
overwhelming evidence that great and glorious work
has been accomplished but who did it, nobody knows
Such charity, to eye has the Bible marks Of true
charity"