New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-16
SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAN BOARD

Murder will out, says the proyerb, and guilty
conscience cannot be put to rest. So it is with
guilty institution. It is mover safe, and all the
deitnses that cunning, or power, or self-interest
can set about it, avail nothing in the end Peace
such an institution can have only in the darkness
and silence of utter despotism and even there ma
tuTe and all the spontaneous energies of mans
heart are still against it, and break il up with
volcanic fury and ruin. In Russia, even, Slavery
is not safe, for where all other redress and every
form of discussion is denied, the rage of brutal
insurrectiOn, blazing chateaus and propretors
roasting in cauldrons, or fayed alive at midnight,
attest the dread law Of compensation. In this
country, at least in apart Of it, speech and the
press are free; and thus Slavery is measurably
saved from its direr horrors; and the inyincible
necessity of protesting against great wrong is
peacefully, though effectively, satisfied.
But this does not content those who defend and
profit by this institution. They desire that the
world should pass by the iniquities of Slavery in
silence. and leave them in peace to fog their
women and imprison school mistreSses who teach
children to read the Bible. But this is impossi-
Bile. Their desire can never be allowed. IL is
contrary to the nature of things Such silence
cannot be hoped for. On the contrary, they will
find new voices to warn and upbraid them at
every turn, and even in joyous banquets where all
smiles, this intrusive specter will come to haunt
them. Time was when old andrespectabe AssO-
Citations excluded and tabootd the agtating sub
ject. That time has passed never TO return.
One of these old and respectable Associations
lie the American Board of Missions, aud if Sav-
cry could hope to escape the sting of animadyer
sion any where it is there. But such hope is vain.
AS our readers will see by reference TO the report
in this paper, large part of Thursdays pro-
ceedDgs in that body were occupied with this
ubiquitous and absorbing topic. 1t came up in
reference to one Of tho Missions of the Society,
which has an indirect connection with tue patri.
arcbsl institution. 1t seems that the ChOctaw
nation have contract with the Board, according
to which missionaries instruct In the public
schools Of the nation; which schools are under
the control Of the Indians and supported by
grants from the United States. Now the Chloe
taw Council, the legislature of the tribe, have
lately passed laws forbidding any slave or slave
child TO be teuebt TO read or write; and declaring
that all "sbolitiOnists and violators of this law
are 10 be expelled the nation. The missionaries
at once resolved that under such regulations they
could not have anything to do with the schools.
The Prudential Committee and the majority of
the Committee Of Reference approved this action;
and Dr.. Dwight, Chairman, reported resolutions
accordingly to the meeting on Thursday and sus-
tanned them in an able, impsssioned and powerful
argument, displaying the wickedness of prevent
ing men from reading the Bible.
HerupOn, as we learn from our reporter, a
Yankee minister named Read, settled at Rich
mond, Va, arose in dudgeon, and in the presence
Of the congregation valiantly declared that the
Board have no right to dictate who shall be the
school. teachers of the Choctaws--a proposition
which nobody had pretended; after which he
went on to bless her about Slavery, in q style
which would have done no discredit even to those
Georgia ststesmeu who mean some day to call