Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-03-08

have generally consented to their views. The Uni
tarlan ministers, in body very early after the agi
taton commenced, proclaimed slavery to be ga mo
raj and social evil, offensive to God and oppressiv
to man, and ought to cease as soon as possible.
i This opinion has been reiterated in addresses a
come, and directed abroad and is nculeated stea
Oily and consistently The last instance is the ex
preston of their 'detestation" for the late fugi
tive slave act, and pledge to aid its repeal Th
Freewill Baptists cry, 'that slavery is system
murderous in its nature, tendency, and its actua
results system of robbery the most aggravated
-robbmg man of all his rights, personal, civil ant
domestlc-his rights, corporal and intellectual-h
rights, temporal, spiritual and eternal" The Ne
thodlst Church, in consequence of an attempt t.
depose Bishop Andrew, for holding slaves, deriv
ed with his wife IN marriage, was rent asunder, anC
churches, North and South, formed. Since
then, the Northern church has excluded the South
from all the common property of the Association
furnishing miniature in the Church, of the me-
lancholy transactions going on in the State The
American Baptist Missionary Society adopted ''a
resolution to exclude slavhoders from employment
as Missionaries" This led to disruption in that
society. The New School of Presbyterians, at their
Convention, 1876. declared slavery to be intrin-
slcaly unrghteous, opposed to the law of God, and
precepts of the Gospel" A large body of Univer-
salist ministers have concurred in public declara-
ton of the same character. The Old Church of
Presbyterians, and the American Missionary So
clety, have been greatly agitated but have sup
pressed, thus far, deliberate expression. Books
might be filled with the declarations of local synods,
conferences, conventions and assemblies of church
men.
The great controlling demand of the abolitionsts,
OF "No Communion with Shareholders has not
yet been adopted butno one can mistake the alarm
ing signs, which tend to this result. .
LITERATURE.
We have thus seen the condition of Church and
State. The literature of the country is equally un-
friendly. The abolitonists proper boast of associ-
ates of high ability. Their reports are prepared
with great care, and display remarkable eloquence
and vigor. The brilliant mind of Claiming, the
striking rhetoric of John Quincy Adams, the prac
teal ability of Wayland, the graceful oratory of
Sumner; the eruditon of Barnes, the profound
and impressive thought of Dewey-to say nothing
of Phillips, JAY, Bacon Whittier, Bowditch, Sc
ward, and host of others-have given wide
spread to their rooted aversion to slavery. Of
Channing's works. hundreds of thousands have
been circulated. The writings of Dewey are in the
hands of every scholar. The seeds thus
matured and ripened by the constant culture, en-
ployed by newspapers and in the periodical litera-
ture.
We have before noticed the prodigious opera
ons of the Society, in the circulation of their OPT
MONS. An extract or two from these publications
will show the impression they communicate of sla-
very. We take from the most eminent and autho
rtatve of these writers "A slave country, says
Dr. Charming, "reeks with Righteousness. 1t is
tainted with deader pestilence than the plague.
criminal connections, many master has children
born into slavery. Of these, most, presume, re-
ceive protection, perhaps indulgence, during the
life of their fathers, but at their death, not few
are left to the chances of cruel bondage. Still
more, to be feared that there cases in which
the master puts his own children under the lash of
the overseer, or else sells them, to undergo the
miseries of bondage. If my impressions on this
point are true, country, calling itself en-
lightened and christian, is detiled with of the
greatest enomites on earth. We send missiona-
ries to heather lands Among the pollutions of
heathenism, know nothing worse than this J.
Q. Adams, in formal and public address, deliver
ed the 4th day of July, declared, that since $780,
slavery, slaUe-holding, and sla0e breeding, and
sLave-tradigg, have formed the WhoIe foundation of
the policy of the Federal Government, and of tile
Stare e-hotding States, at home and abroad
Daniel o. Connell Theobald Mathew, and 20,
600 others, addressed their countrymen in Amer-
ca, ''that slavery is sin against God and man
All who are not for, must be against it. None can
be neutral We entreat you to take the part of JUS
tice, religion end liberty 1t is in vain that Anne
rcan citizens attempt to conceal their and their
country's degradation under this withering curse
These are favorable specimens of the treatment
we experience.
FOREIGN AID AND COMFORT.
This movement at home meets with aid and en-
couragement abroad. The abolitionists of Great
Batain, in a single generation, overthrow West In
dia slavery. In 1918, the Duke of Wellington
threatened to bring the encouragement given to
the slave trade by France before the Congress of
Vienna. The French provisional government abo-
hshed, in 1848, slavery in her colonies giving to
the colonists but two months for preparation. Den
mark and Sweden, have followed the same career.
Near one million three hundred thousand slaves,
in the West Indies, have been liberated against
their masters under this European agitation.
The ministers of the church are the principal
agents ofthis work. World conventions, Evange-
ical alliances, formal addresses by hundreds ofI
ministers, and tens of thousands of people, to
churches and communities in this country, calling
for activity in prosecuting their work, contrbu
tons of money, expressions of anxiety and interest
there, for measures conducted here, are the impor
tant and efficient means employed to testify that
interest, The British government formally de-
clares It's anxiety to promote abolition Thomas
b. Macauley, Lord Palmerston and Geo. Thomp
son, have arraigned at the bar of Europe the inst
tuons and practices of the Southern people; while,
the warning of the illustrious Peel is thus given
t"There have been mighty convulsions in Europe.
Their mighty heavings are already felt on the 9TH
er side of the Atlantic. Look at Martinique These
are useful lessons, by which Brazil, Cuba, and the
United States will do well to take timely warn
ing. My belief is that the events which have just
happened in Europe must precipitate the time for
the final extinction of this slavery and of the slave