Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-05

| under the shade Of trees, walow anne dus with the
chickens He is not therefore, an object Of dread among
them recolect that while in Mississippi passing
with planter through ofthem and heard an urchn in
kind Of familiar wagsey, crying out, Massa, massa
0hes Is you gooin to buy dat hat ?" It df
fcu to set forth the true condition and state Of feeling Of
children, but by resortng to these fng traits Without null
tpying them in this communication, bound in truth
and cando express the belief that the first eight or ten
years Of life joyous among the negroes of the South
than among the people Of the North.
IL. MARRIAsK.-Through al the States which have
visited far attention is given the marriage Of slaves
than in former times The relation is Of course not sane
toned BY law, but very generally soemnzed by clergy
man. either white black The consent Of the masters is
required, and is almost always gven except when the par
ties at nconvenient distance On the large panta
TONS where the number Of slaves Is great marriage gener
ally takes place between those who belong to the same owner
and this always preferred by the masters many Of whom
object to any Others The weddings Of slaves especially of
domesic and Of those whs conduct themselves we'll are
sometimes held in the family mansion knew case Of ths
kind not long since in Kentucky the guests being invited bv
cards. which would have done dscred to the Young mis-
ess Among Epscopalans the ceremony frequently per
formed in the church In the year s43 while in the n,e-
ror Of Alabama, was riding with planter and his wife when
We passed small Episcopal church, in which, they told me
the marriage Of slaves has been often soemned the parties
and their friends frequently arriving from the more dsan.
plantations horseback marriage once made the rela
tons Of husband and wife, parent and child although often
violated far respected than in days gone BY. They
Of oener aside in the old State as Virginia
and Maryland than in the news for the former are selling and
the latter buying States But In the DID, we have eve.
year miny noble examples Of regard for the domestic
ties Of the negro As late last was at the
house OF Virgins planter whose quarter already
flowing from his aversion to selling, had been rendered still
popuous by the purchase Of slaves who had belonged 10
deceased relative and would otherwise be sent away
Very lately, in Louisville contribution was made chiefly by
savehode 10 purchase negro man, whose wife and child
under the will of their master, about to be sent to
Liberia and, not long before, when grandfather followed
several Of his children and grandchildren the same city
public meeting, presided by savehoder subscribed in
few minutes greater than necessary to purchase
the patriarch, still vigorous old man. and send him with his
children.
H. RELIoIoUs IHsrRucrIoN-In of the slave States
the time and very far back when many slaves were
taught to read The publications made by persons in the
free States have brought that practice to dead and and
led prohihtoy lawsanother effect Of misdrected
benevoence There is not however, any obstacle oral
religious instruction, excep. that many parts of the South
s required that two three white shall Be present
when is delivered that nothing may be said which
might excite discomfort rebellion and this regulation
from Northern interference. Happily, however, it does no
injury to the slaves for every form and degree of nsurrec
ton they, of necessity come out Of the struggle worsted and
this must be the Their emancipation by violence
hold to be impossible event for the whole in
tomorrow, and their unable contend again
them, there and generous hearts enough in the free
States put end to the enough
perceive that such emancipation would bring unueabs
woes upon the emancipated themselves.
But must return to the subject Of religious instruction
In this point the North has many deas only
in reference negroes but their They and
hear Of wandering gamblers duellss and other Of ds
patton and violence, which slavery, be admitted, is but
too we'll fitted to up and they judge Of the whole popu
laon by these specimens which just correct as for the
people Of the Southland many DO ito Judge Of the great
merchants Of Boston and New York BY the pedars who
wander through the South of respectable farmers New
nnyf~-I Paansylv.aia oAie, by ,he who so ho
slave States and let themselves a. overseers.
had known that the people Of Kentucky religious
those Of Ohio, yet must Confess that in going into the
distant South felt in some sense, like going be-
yond the limits Of chstendom, but returned thence with feel
ngs and opinions entirely changed Four denominations of
Protestant christians abound in that region which
excludes every idea OF prevalent ndey with It's crimes and
vices have not the statistics Of these facts before me-
Judge their relative rank in numbers be Baptist Metho-
dists, Prsbyeranr, and Episcopalans prevailing
in this region, another in that Now, all the members
of these churches hold the duty Of giving their slaves
religious instruction and if all do not practice it, they but
place themselves in the inconsistent position Of too many pro-
fesng Christians in the free States who neglect the reli
eous Of their ownchden In the ofhe slave
States quite down the Gulf Of Mexico the colored popua
ton either have churches by themselves M in the galleries
Easements Of those in which their worship In the
small churches Of the country they seated side
and partition, extending nearly up the pulpit 10 many
the separates the white from the black members Of the
gresaon. IN the State Of Mississippi spent the night with
respectable member Of the Methodist conneon who had on
h plantation hundred negroes. He the time engaged
in building church his dwelling house the plan ost
mentioned. The white population Of his neighbohood
sparse that Eve blacks would probably worship
in that little edifce when completed Il would have been
pensve and easy for him 10 have taken his wife and children
with their New England governess to neishboring
church, bu. be felt duty to provide for The spiritual wei
fare Of bis slaves less than bis children member Of
the Presbyterian church. with whom travelled in Alabama,
informed that for several year, he had spent the greater
part Of every Sabbath Ia the religious instruction of his slaves