The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1851-01-02

the sudden breaking up of the system
of slavery would make the slaves wan
dering vagabonds on the face of the
earth, and could liberate all the slaves
by prayer, could not utter that prayer,
because | could not do it in love for
either the master or the slave. The
British Government made the expert
ment in the West India-and they did
we'll to make it, but it has been ruin
ous to the slaves. We should not sudden
ly emancipate the slave; we should do
all in our power to ameliorate their con-
dition. But there is one thing | could
not do. could not sacrifice the per-
manence, the honor aad the integrity
of these States for all the fugitive slaves
in the land. Our fathers made great
sacrifices for this Union. They ex-
pended a great amount of blood and
treasure to little purpose if the Union of
these States is to be dissolved. Nor is
it necessary to become the friend of the
slave that we should be the enemy of
our country. Slavery has cost great
deal, and may cost US more. Let US
take heed that it do not cost the peace
and prosperity of the happiest land on
which the sun shines. There is an
other thought which occurs to me, and
| will express it, even with the Bible
before me. Do what we will for the
slaves-fght for him until the land is
covered with gore-but we can never
make the negro race like the whites
The God of Heaven has put mark on
them which, as he is great and omnipo-
tent all the nations of the earth cannot
wipe out. am not so little versed in
Gods word as TO believe that we are
wise in entering into a controversy
with God. This mark has been put on
them more than 4, 1000 years ago"
These passages are specimens of the
lofty spirit which pervades the whole
discourse.
Views of the same clear and consti-
tutional character, pervaded by the
same Christian feeling and the same
pure love of country were expressed
by the Rev. DR.. Tying, one of the most
eminent clergymen of the Episcopal
Church, by the Rev. Dr. Hawks, of
the same church, by the Rev Dr. Potts,
the Rev. DR.. krebbs, the Rev. DR.. Cox,
the Rev. Dr. Bellows and others of the
stated preachers of different denomina-
tions in that city. All Of these rebuked
the outrageous conduct of the Parker
school of preachers Of sedition, and up
held the Christian obligation to obey the
constitution in preference TO the "high-
er law which the malcontents plead
as their Justification.
We refer our readers to the excellent
discourse of Mr.. Clapp Of this city, on
our first page, for a view of the same
clear arguments. Here, they are in
consonance with public opinion and
able and powerful preachers of Chris
tian doctrine they will, we hope and
believe, strengthen the hearts of the
patriots who through obloquy, reproach.
and some ingratitude, are maintaining
the faith of compacts, the duty of obe-
dience to law, and the obligations to
maintain, inviolate, the rights to slave
property which the constitution recog-
Missed and is bound to protect.
The religions press is also coming to
the rescue of The constitution and the
Union against these revolutionists. The
N. Y. Observer, the most widely circu-
lated religious publication in the United
States, has written several extremely
cogeIft and earnest articles, maintain
ing the proposition that the surrender
of fugitive slaves under the constitution
is not I" an immortality according either
to the Bible or codes of moral duty but
is, on the contrary, a moral and Chris
tian duty. To give an idea of the force
of the article, we give brief extract:
But you do not pity the poor fugi-
tives who ask for freedom and protec-
ton from the north2 Certainly we pity
them. But we pity still more the mis-
erable sufferers that would groan and
bleed, if law is to be dethroned, and
compacts are to be repudiated, and the
fundamental laws of the country are to
be trifled with and mocked at, and de-
nounced in the name of God"
With such preponderance of right
feeling and right principle on the side
of law and right, duty and order, the
pulpit of the north will soon redeem
itself from the scandals which such men
as Parker would bring upon it; and from
the light of reason and faith the owls
of sedition will shrink back into their
darkness.
Children under seven years
of age should not be confined over six
or seven hours in the house-and that
time should be broken by frequent re-
cesses.
From one to one pound and half of
solid food is sufficient for a person in
ordinary vocation of business. Persons
in sedentary employments should drop
enc third of their food. and they will