The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-11-26

| NJ NcD YORK, IN the Strh Month, 1872,
The proIrssors of Christianity in die Unite
States"
We acknowledge the receipt of ncatl
printed pamphlet, with the above imposing
title, with "Notce to Editors" requesting
them to publish the Address. AZ the rcndc
will readily guess, the subject embraced
the everlasting one of SLAVERY" the "pccu
liar institution Of the South" tho awful hon
rors of which nrc ever present to tho mind
Of somc of our Northern friends, md col,
tinually impclling them to the commission u
nets which, if not within tho legal meaning
of tho statutes providing for the puni-hmcn
Of robbery and crime, are u violation Of IN
principles of honesty and fair dealing .ha
should ever obtain between individuals an,
communities. II rurrorts tn hc n "rrariN
argument On the subject of Slavery, ~ \,
written in The spirit Of tho Gospel" Sui v.
sumcs that The institution il uitcrl, t,c"',D
cilrahlc with the teachings and 1as"s ~
Christianity, and n variance with : Yr.yNN
estimation rt thc relationship c>i>i3aG X
tween man and hi, Maker. L. >hAy., i " q,
in>iiions appeal, claaAci III ~" sn,i $50
ccrous Sa'h aud intended H. r,>',&i' ,s,>>s j.,
morbid and Interpretations H,I'~ ~ NJ
snmed to prevail IN some s.>;l,n~ II ,ur -.
lisl,cnch country. We understand tha. NJ,
nv copies Nave been sent tr the South, ana
We have no dcuh. the compliment will h'
properly appreciated Ivy those for whose
hands the ~ork was designed
| The Society Of Friends" embraces =
/ large .n! respectable class Ni people, noted
| for sohricty industry, and thrift In the cit,
| ot New York, the modern Sodom from
tho "poor Southern slave" is room for tn,
exercise of an almost unhounded philan,hro
! w. Within lis limits the children Of squat,
poverty intrs, the streets by day. and robbie
ry. vapinc and murder stalk abroad vt night
Thousands Of wrctchcd children grow up il
ignorance and vice, candidates for the pris
on and the warehouses thousands of ie
males. yearly, are driven By sheer starving
want, to hopeless, helpless prostitution.
Thousands upon thousands of dollars are
raised every year in that moral olgotha fol-
the benefit Of the heather in the distant ia
lands Of tho earth, thousands Of dollars yearly
are squandercd in aiding fugitive slaves to
escape from their rightful owners, and to
disseminate documents and papers calculat.
cd to result in discord, bitterness, and sec.
tional feuds. Yet the men who contribute
largely to those mis-called objects of phi
lanthropy, can walk abroad amid the wretch
cdness, iniquty, and misery that exists in
their own ncighborhoods, and meets them on
the street corners everywhere, without their
moral sensibilities receiving the least shock.
They have any amount of sympathy for the
sleek, wcll-clad slave Of the South, any
amount for the man-eating inhabitant of New
Zealand, but none for the heather within
their own gate. No human effort, perhaps,
could remove the misery and crime which
prevails in the great city of New York, but
one half the means and energy expended in
behalf of distant sections would "snatch
many brand from the burning" and relieve
the philanthropists from the very cquvocal
position they now occupy.
Tho Address before us assumes that the
anti-slavery people arc jointly responsible
for the "sin and iniquty" of the institution,
and thus their meddling interference with the
subject. BE that as it mny, they occupy a
bad position at present, and must consent to
be regarded rs falsc-p hianthropists, blind
zealots, men willing to do positive evil that
an imaginary good may come of it, until they
purge their own premises, their own local..
ties, of the rank offences which smell to
heaven. There may be evils attendant upon
the institution of slavery; but in no slave
State in this Union can be found one tenth
the amount of poverty, wrctchcdncss, and
crime that exists in the single city of New
York. Perhaps the Religious Society of
Friends" never thought of this important
fact, and if not, We trust they will speedily
take it into account, and give us their views
upon it in the next edition of their address
to Professors of Christianity in the United
States"
~" Franklin Pierce is the youngest man
who has ever been elected President of the
United STATES. lie is 4S years of age
Washington, John Adams, jefferson, Madi-
son, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Van
Buren, were each S.; Jackson, G.; Harrison,
6S; Taylor GG; and Polk, 40.
~" f.. $. TEMPLE, formerly of Knoxville,