New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-29

evangelical Christians who belong and support the Anne
rican Tract Society
The Society will not venture the denial of the truth ofhe
assertions II would surely not aver that Amer
can children do belong to their parents ltwould be
put 10 confusion by the solemn Judicial armance of the
validity Of bequest of mother TO person. and OF her
Urtorn children another IL would be confuted by the
sale of children at auction and in particular ola sale report
ed within the few last days of child three years old bring
ing $500 under the hammer while Southern paper NVcr
with pride TO the high price OF human flesh as evidence OF
agricultural prosperity Your Society, SIR eNpungeu
Mary not because they untrue but because
they are now true here they were in the West Indies
and it's the policy of the Society to cover up and conceal
whatever reflects odium the peculiar institution.
Your Committee tell in their last Report that they
-haye never lost sight of their responsibilities TO those Of
tender years y and seems they issue The ChbFs Pdir
Of which great numbers are circulated Yet the RESPONSE
bies To children resting the Committee permit them
to expunge expression likely to remind us that there are
hundreds of thousands of children in land who
articles of merchandise These very responsibilities
are seems perfectly compatible with entire silence re-
spectng the ignorance and degradation of this great multi
tude of tender years" The Committee know that III
some of our States free mother finer complexion be
dark BY law liable to onherb bare back should
she be caught teaching her little ones to read your ChbFs
Paper yet n0ta word OF remonsance escapes the Amer
lean Tract Society In the very last number OF me
Chlds Paper read that there are between 10000 and
10000 children the City of New DIRK who never enter
a church or school, and who cannot read the Bible.
Here are heathen at home home what Is Is
cared for" indeed And is it nothing to your So
ciey that there are in country about HAF MILLION
q
ing the Bible These little heather have souls as nper-
ishabe destnies momentous as the white heather in
Newly ork Must this half million be cared for All!
that is point of disagreement among Evangelical thrls-
ans and hence the Society must not even recognize the
existence OF children who do not belong to their parents
Permit me now TO ask attention to the very differ
en course pursued by the Society in regard to the traffic III
the bones aud news the mind and soul OF immortal MAN,
and the traffic in intoxicating drinks Between ~ ana 81
of your tracts are devoted 10 the subject of Incompetence
in all relations 1t curious to observe the desire OF
your writers avail themselves OF the arguments ana Nus
ratons furnished by Slavery, and at the same time Their
extreme caution i'll avoiding all reference 10 american sl
very Where even by Implication, censure is cast on
human bondage, il Is human bondage III 0hcF cOul
tr;es than our own In Tract No 800, to the Of
the distiler that he cannot sacrifice his property
science is made to suppose you were now III
.Bt0.H and the owner of a large establishment to lit out
with handle cuffs tor the coast OF cg anu
could not change your business without consideabic pc
'cuiary sacrifice, would you make the sacrnce or would
syou keep your fires and hammers gong In relnol7tra
ting against the cruelty OF the taiic III rum TehAe
IL man lives only TO make descent on me peaceful
.abodes of hfrica aud tear away parents from Their
.weeung children, and husbands from Their wives anu
honns where is the man that will deem this moral busi
ness ." Other men VIII prey on unonendIlS ilTtcG anu
hear human sinews acros. the ocean to be sold nave
won ript to do il ~ (NO. 3O5l Once more speaking oil
the duty of rescung the drunkard, 1t IS asked: W nat
would YOU not do to pull neghbor out OF the water %"
out OF the fire, or 10 deliver nm from axe ne caPVy
NO 422l SO il seems the Society Is at liberty TO mold up
a. crrl and immoral the traffic N human ilcsh IN Africa
Uraz1 and Algiers but not i'll our ORR fod-hat DeIS
..,,oiuf of disagreement among Evangelical Christians
And now Su ask you, on what evangelical prlhc!pIe
III t Sor;etv cond,nn the torign slave tradel l. it
because an act Of Congress orbids Inc society mas
uct vet | believe Ike Of It's patrons, elevated me
lower above the higher law and made the national statute
hook the standard of right and wrong. Nor indeed can
tIe adv ocato, of the supremacy OF the lower law m'u
that an Of Congress can render immoral inc CONQUER ol
Africans Agcrncs and Brazlans when tiet conduct Is
i'm conformity with the laws Ol Their respective countries
l. if Them in reference TO the higher law the VIII OF pd
revealed in his blessed Gospel that the t0e1SH traffic IS
condemned! Ii so, then ask TO what DIVINE precep Is II
ynosrdl Buving and selling and the exchange of com
dcned i'm Gods word Why then, Sr ask IN ali serious
ness is it immoral for an African to SELL or Br'z.
ian TO buy and women, than apes and parrots! Is It
because men and women are not by inc nshel ID" to
iecs of commerce. Before You reply III the afrmalVe'
remember that laws framed for the most part ye'a-
eca Christians expressly declare vast nultudes OF men
and women TO be mere catels, vendOle articles. Shd
Henry Clay the floor OF the Senate yndcatnS prop
.eriv" Now every Slave sold in Africa TO brazilian
merchant IS property by the African law ami Is granted
barganed sold and delivered by title as valid as that
ever r. ca yed bv Mr. Clay 10 OF his slaves. Aglin
then ask @hy Is the sale and purchase OF man in Air'
ca most undoubtedly hcnous crime while the immoral
ity of the sale and purchase III Virginia OF eowcoun
hyman and perhaps fellow Christian, is such an abruse
that the American Tract Society will not venture to
aproachts dscuss0n Canitbe that your Society silent
ON this traffic because II IS sanctioned by human law
This can hardly be, since the Soceys un>armg IN It's lie
nuncaoms of the traffic in ram, notwithstanding the pow
ers that be- ordained they of God have taken the
traffic under their peculiar guardianship. Very reyeren
ly does your tract speak Oi
Stale debauch forth issuing from the sites
That Iw has licensed" (No. 2i0)
You are silent slavery because as you say on no 9th
or subec probably ae evangelical Christians more at va
france" think sir, you greatly overrate the evangelical
patrons and advocates OF slavery doubt whether you
can find one hundred evangelical Christians out OF the slave
States unconnected in any way with slavery shareholders
and cotton who will publicly avow that American Slave
nv is righteous institution, and the slave code IN accord
ance with the spirit and precepts OF the Gospel ol Chrs
Surely surely Sir should make most extravaganza and
reckless estimate were to compute the evangelical cham
MONS of slavebreedng. slave trading and slavecachng
at tvte of the evangccals who in their practice repud
ate total abstinence from intoxicating drinks Neverthe
less ON this last point OF evangelical disagreement the
society expresses itself without fear and without reserve
But some of friends, you may say insist that the
Ribe sanctions slavery and what can do And some
of vour friends also insist that the Bible sanctions moder
ate drinking and the sale OF intoxicating drinks ana what
do You do Why you tell Us tine great laws oil m9fs are
indeed unchanged, but the degrees OF light and know
.ledre which men possess may be very different. we
should deem it right to apply our laws ana knowledge
in Judging of the laws of Sparta which authorized THEFT
nor our views of the marriage relation 10 condemn the
conduct of Abraham David and Jacob Mans conduct
is 10 be estimated by the light he has To the plea that
the Bible does not prohibit the traffic 1t Is answered,
Where is there formal prohibition OF piracy or DiSmy,
or kidnapping or suicide ducllng, or the sale Of OBJ
scene books and paintings lhe truth Is, that
the Bible has lain down great principles OF conduct which
ON all these subjects could be easily applied which are ap,
piled and when under the guidance OF equal honesty may
be as easily applied to the subject OF which am speaking
(No. 305D
oassa Slavery assai its supporters and you think
thar the Society by discussing the subject would alee
multudes of its best friends Similar dccacy or you
nease prudence has been observed towards the adYo-
oos moderate drinking Our next opposition Is from
band clothed in uhiprOiessors oi our molly reion-en
listed soldiers of the CHURCH engaged 10 every good work
of bneyolencC they come 10 lniercede Tor le AoNSIE
noAorate and oppose enterprise What can
be the meaning OF tins o. where hes tlS astonishing
yytchery! What has put the CHURCH TO SLEEP what
has made her aRgya the call TO come i"rth nom he el
brace Of her deadest foe ~ .No. 24O Were the inquiry
- ,,bot vtcbery has made the CHURCH blind, and