The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-03-03
VOL. VII.
LUXURIOUS.

has bought lot on English Hill.D ON ,.t NV
he proposes to erect palace in the sn,;. .u
he has recently purchased of Mr.. Cortrs;"g
pair OF handsome horses, which he drives be a
coach costing $500; and @dashes abort W
CITY in as fine style the President or AM, 'ns
his Secretaries" guy Oh
Ii will strike some philanthropists 40 ~.
little singular, that DR.. Bailey should nd JUt
in such foolish, not to say criminal ey,.ose
gance. Ii he were to spend his immensa y;
come in works of beneyolence, instead oS Gu su'
lowing the vulgar example set by the h,. WI
less, upstart aristocracy Of the Atlantic c;,;"
his fame would thereby suffer no abaten,os'1
The money he has spent and proposes to srona
in folly, according to the writer we bavs n~N
ted, would give freedom to more slaves ~ ~
all the editorials he has ever written s
we hold that no man who has a lust coroa "H
ton of his duty, can feel justified in liv;no z
luxuriously, and thereby contribute 10 dons.9o
still more the tastes and habits of soc;a,"
Men whose wealth, talents, and position s,or.:.
their every act with influence, ought 10 cnIs
vate simplicity, plainness and an apnearsno.
of frugality in their style of living The ann.
the extravaganza and foles Of the weaI,Sss
classes of Europe, which obtains in soma =
our cities, is debauching the moral Sense %
the whole people.
To live in certain style is supposed n CON
fer responsibility at the same time i :,
sagely presumed the means by which that stvIa
is maintained, does in no way affect The -
spectability thus conferred.
1t is hence, that such EXAMPLES as vo o..
considering encourage all sorts of gambia
operations, and speoulations, and emhe7vIae
ments, and 30 on. Ii is seen that money q,
the appearance of money, is Indispensable h .
respectable position in society. And the az
piring young man-and not the young only--
eagerly listens to any scheme which mau give
him the means of securing the place he c6yets
in the social and fashionable world The
chances of success he does not scrutnixe too
closely, for the reason that failure, in his est.
nation, will not sink him below the common
level he now occupies He is in a mood to
embark in any enterprise, however desperate
or criminal provided only his morbid fancy
can discern @ chance to realize a sum alto.
gether above the reward of patient and home.
ly industry. But we had no idea of extend
ing our remarks, even to the present length
and we stop here-Roehester DAILY Union
Feb r.
The sermon is good, but the text is apocry
phal. We are tolerably well acquainted with
DR.. Bailey, and we do not think the world is
likely to suffer from his luxurious habits. The
reports set afoat by Washington letter. writers
about his coming money and spending it 50 e1.
travagantly, are entitled to about as much
credit as Washington rumors generally They
are ridiculously exaggerated. However, our
brethren of the press seem to receive them as
gospel and proceed to make profitable use
of them. Some, like the Rochester Union, use
them as text for severe homilies against lux.
ury and aristocratic extravaganza: others read
in them the important lesson that, after all
does pay sometimes-Job does
not always serve God for nought. We wish
they could convince people generally of this
it would strongly tend to swell the tribe of
Meantime, as a matter Of fact the National
Era is no charity concern-has never sucked
pap from an eleemosynary fund-has never
drawn cent from Government patronage. 1t
is fair business concern, asks support from
nobody who does not think it full worthy of
support, renders to every one Of its subscr-
bers q just equivalent for what he pays liber-
ally remunerates all whose brains contribute
to enrich its columns and yields reasonable
income, which its proprietor intends to use in
a reasonable way, without asking the Public
to appoint a committee to aid him in his pr
vate disbursements.
SOUTHERN SLAVERY, MISSIONARY INsTE
rUTroN.-Mr Hooker of Philadelphia is about
the world with new work on
Slavery, considered as a Missionary lnstitu-
ton. Extracts are published in the Washing
ton Union, taken from the Literary World
They are quite refreshing compared with the
stuff of our magazine writer's In re-
DIV to the Ladies of Great Britain.
Mr. Hooker is a Northern man, Of course
The great idea of his book is, that Slavery
is Missionary Institution-the most efficient
Of all missionary agencies. What would have
been the slaves, had they remained in Atrl'
ca! he triumphantly asks. Savages. What
are they here Fifty thousand of them mem
bers of Christ's body GAS many as all the
missionary societies and boards of missions IN
our whole country can reckon up converted
from heathenism. Aye more than double that
number can be claimed as converts by each oil
the several churches of our country" More
than half million of the slaves of our South
he is certain, care regular members Of Chris
tan congregations" But he dlates as be
advances:
Foreign missionary zeal, at great cost and
personal sacrifice has rescued from heather
ism about the tenth part Of the number that
Southern Slavery has added to the Christian
church; at the same time that of the dead and
the living, it has rescued from heathenism not
fewer than hundred times the whole number
of foreign converts J"
We have not read the work, but we presume
he follows up these speculative notions with
some corresponding practical recommends
tons. We suppose his plan is something like
this. Let the present missionary boards ofthe
country stop their missions abroad, aud recall
their missionaries. Let them memorial'e
Congress to repeal the act prohibiting the slave
trade. Let them then appropriate their am
pie funds to the purchase Of negroes in Africa
and for their conveyance to our shores tor the
purpose of handing them over to our Southern
Shareholders who shall be constituted MISSIONS
ries, and receive premium for every negro 'ne'
may convert into a church COMMUNICATE We
submit that this scheme, in point OF ECONOMY
and efficiency, would put to shame the Pre'eo'
inefficient system, Of sending mssionares "
the heather, instead of bringing the hea'"'"
to the missionaries.
Mr.. Hookers views may herald new si''
when the South shall become one vast ms
sionary gymnasium, where, under the sE"i',
act;cs or slaveholders the heather of the wofiu