The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-13


norance superstition and passions and preudice Its
ploson would be fuller of horrors than fire and conclusion
could bring fathers and mothers, and husbands and
wives and whole families Of kindred if sleeping in
curity and the very least apprehension of that explo
sion keeps them from sleeping they should be al
lowed by brethren TO sleep in security The threat of that
security makes the aggression really epR lcar without
the fire and the swordnot ,iou the Aorrors This the
case What is the remedy You propose diversion
Heaven defend us Is that the best your philanthropy
and patriotism suggest diversion into what2
diversion of the mob with the missiles and fiery darts thus
threatening peace nto mutual effort with the South
to plan the good of the African raceP Don't you per
ceive sir the of the efues the pan2 What
then Why sir just let property alone and make your
people OBEY the laws and respect rights Of property Go
work home in the North, correct the evil there
Teach them that they much at least TO their
race the Ariean Teach them that they are
sponsble for SIN, if slavery be moral crime Teach
them that the mode they not polite towards their
own end Teach them that the FIRST duty owing
to the Stare than the master of the slave and if they
would have unite in any mutual effort with them they
show themselves the friends Of masters well as of
saues that if they would be instrumental in doing good
the latter they win the hearts and confidence of
the former If they do good 10 boh let alone
ust lei alone 1t is safer for that they should either
good for evil interfere with any other species of
property rather than with this subject of slavery. So
come to its questions
You ask first "What idea have you of the destiny of the
slave population in the United States 2" Monochrome in
the world but speculative idea. And why speculate?
To what end To see MS you propose, whether t'e can
and fall into the 'ways of God to man n Why sir
the fanatics think already they have optics keener than we
have and more they imagine that their called and elected
part is to play Providence whole people! Now sir
don't let initiate their example by ingoriousy trying
to become Little Providences to the African race For
mercy's sake let leave little God Almighty him
self | say this most revereny. Don't you believe in
special Providence If SO, do you not believe you
doubt that God regardeh both this people and oar
race in their contact with each other and in the destiny
which He alone foreknoweh and ordaineth2 How have
an idea of their destiny am very finite and thousand
years is day with God can't take His heliocentric
view of human destiny History lies like harlo and
can't clearly look back. But may much better
judge rghteously in this matter by looking back and
blocking upespecialy by the latter mode of looking
than by vany attempting to what is not to be seen
through the unopened vista of the future dare not fore
tell to myself what will be the terminus Of the STATELY step
pings" of the Almighty on the grand journey of His
providence to any portion of the human think
He acts individuals for the eternal respoas-
billy Of persons think see He acts nations cases
tribes races for the temporal responsibility Of people think
see something huge to be incomprehensbe to me in
the dark background of the past yelled by the lapse of ages
see the Reformation of the Christian church and the epoch
of the discovery and settlement of new worlds am told
of the mighty engincry of mind and matter set in motion
by these events and of the human activity and the neces
ty of human wants besoten in the womb of total revo
ton earth Before this the world in night cramped
in its old theatres in the midst of thick darkness Those
who held the ark of the set free by the glo
rious light of the liberty of the Gospel and that light
give the praise and the honor and the glory and the will
forever, Of all the liberty earth which and their chill
dren have enjoyed. The of light of freedom Of
liberty of the law of life of equality of doing others
as they would have them do to them, sent to New
World and blessed be God that world North Ameri-
cal Here the heather Africa then a dry nurse
oflionsn Why the Indians here cnslaved? Why
did Old England and New England cross the ocean 1900
miles in ships of the and bring the negro here to be
slave great expense and risk whilst the coppcrcoored
savage of the aquine and straight hair left
roam2 don't know. Was Africa under curse? Her
lands waste paceszaharahs Temples to the living
God had all crumbled into dust-sulphur and salt and
bitter ashes, strewn upon her SOIL orrd rites
celebrated her temples and human sacrifices burnt
upon her affairs Barbarian and savage and horrd
her and pestence and wild beasts and poisonous
penis insects infested her earth and her air and her
Head and chiefs kings and kings masters
of the most oct and absolute siages who lived and
moved and breatled by the eiH alone of tribal dcspot
who welded torture and the power Of Life and death by
license unlimited and unrelcntng Did the saving of the
lives of capves taken in who would have been slain
bu for the cewres which purchased them in the slave
trade add to the of the captivcs2 1t is idle
that the trade afterwards begat the in which captives
were taken Wars did exist constantly and universally
before, and wars which extcrmnaed cnptves The trade
wars saged thousands Of tires. DID removing them, with
all the horrors of the middle passage from the tord
of Africa temperate climate discomfort them? Did
the unbindng the bands of their African bondage and
putting upon them the easier yoke of Virginia plantation
make them any the less free Did the unbinding them
bringing them to land of law and civilization make
them any slaves? Did their migration from a
lspd of Egyptian darkness to a land of Gospel light
plunge them sill deeper into ignorance and superstition
and fit them less to pursue and enjoy the human happ
ness of which they were capabe2 Lose of domination
love of gold lust of every sort may have beel the beset
ting sins of the raerstey were English and Yankees
but can't where the original wrong to the Africans
was or, rather, how they were worsted If any, God
doubtless put upon the spoilers who should be spoiled
But what of it, Here they brought, bought and
Sold and here they have for centuries served slaves
And that it the design of Providence that they should
be- for some wise end, have doubt than that the
Great AM 1t repeatedly to subject the Jews TO cap
tivity and bondage. And what has come of it? Gods
angels and ministcrstime climate and the Christian
Churchhave been work, and the result is wonderful
body except those Demigods and Little Providcnces
who think the Almighty operates TOO slow Two centu-
res have set free descendants Of Ethiopian parents
who would never known light liberty but for that
curse we call slavery 10 the United States made them
Christians civilized moral agents, many Of them of Gospel
truth (See table II of census of 1909
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