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

tory in 1881 They merely confomed themselves TO Gods
laws of Naure--not to raise the question pro- one
side where slavery Improbable con, the
other side where its labor could be pohtaby employed
Virginia the first State in the Union to apart
ritory freedom from involuntary servitude She gave
up to freedom and Union and equality of States from the
Ohio to the Mississippi and every free eoored man in Ohio
Indiana Illinois, and Michigan may thank her for his
franchise besides the $4,000 in her gates praise her
But this is half of the result Of slavery upon African
destiny.
There are 32o4,3l3 slave population in the United
States which, for civilization arts arms social and moral
blessings, worth all the prncpates powers and peo-
pies of all Africa, without excepting the Dutch Portu-
guese and English settlements there from the Nile through
Tmbuctoo to the Cape of Good Hope In the very words
would repeat this proposition thousand times to en-
phasize it and show | literally what say that the
descendants Of africa here in bondage in the United
States, are nasse choe eah Of people IN bodily
comfort morality enlightenment Christianity and actual per-
sonal freedom icorh than their mother country entire,
not excepting the Europeans there combined roh The natives
This is boast but fact which challenges comparison
This is enormous result Nothing short OF the power
of God could have effected this prodgious result upon
near four millions of human beings in short time as
that of two centuries. Gods churches in the southern
States of this Union have done this and all by ope-
rating both upon the masters and the slaves The Meho-
dist and Baptist churches have been the great apostles
among these Gentiles And thus add another PROPOSE
ton TO wit that sLauery american slacery an the United
States has been The most cien missionary among the heather
in the last too centuries. Not by going to Africa and
raising affairs there first but by bringing the fathers
here and preparing priests to back to Africa and bear
the Christian torches through the darkness of her night
The black missionary is sent back to black Africa
like to like And the colony of Liberia established by
Shareholders coming directly out of slavery is another
trophy far exceeding that of any known similar moral
enterprise of the age Now, the whole Christian church.
by all its separate and combined human Efforts has not
Chrisanzed otherwise and elsewhere SO many heather
and their descendants and made them free in the same
time and also posted colony of Civilizations to be lamp
and guide to freedom in the very land from whence the
slaves were first saod for this very result which never
designed by man. but must have been by God from the
beginning
Yet is passing strange that at the very moment
when this great work going most bravely the two
great American churches of Chrst-the Methodist and
Bapsshoud have divided amongst themselves by north
and south lines this very subec-one that called
them for redoubed union and effort Not waiting on God
but relying mans WISDOM and not relying even
the best of secondary causes the wisdom and consc
ences of their brethren who resided in the South and
were best informed sectional party anacaliy striking at
which working together for Gods glory with
the churches dipded the churches themselves So it
will be with church, or State or Division and dis
person must whenever begin to build Babels-
become gods and put themselves up in the place of
Proydence And will you permit me to say that il sla-
very be the of the South this matchmaking is
emphaticay the Of the North Hence the disappear
ing of the old faith and practice of the Puritans hence
your Pantheism and your isms" of all sorsyour
cated mans attempts to play Providence. You are in
danger of a confusion of tongues and dispersion
But alas! alas! your unco-righteous cxclaim, The
stripes the burdens the suerings of slavery Doubtless
and have been great; not so great they were
and have been But did you hear of any plan of
Providence for his redemption and reformation
which did through su0rinyay, through blood9
Go the of the great atonement Go to the Son of
Man
'sThe best of men
That eer wore earth about him was sufferer
A soft, meek patient, humble tranquil spirit;
The first true gentleman that ever breathed"
His almighty example was, through suffering, to prove
that mans chief good to come by suDerinyi And
the idolaous heather escape the penalties of su
frng to redeem their race? Go to the apostles and mar
tyrs! Go Calvin and Luther aud the Reformers! Go
to the patriots of revolution Ask all of mans bene
factors well sins victims how the good of any
kind except through sueringhuman suffering, and once
for ALL Divnel The three millions of Chrisanzed slaves
the half million of coloed reementhe rate of 1000 per
freed and civilized in 200 yearsPresident Roberts
and his republic of Liberia recognised by the potent
Christian powers Of earth and seated throne
of African empire conquerng and to conquer on the
very coast of the slave trale--are well worth all
African ancestors who capiyes Of savage wars and
who would have expired without offspring, ana without
bearing fruits meet for repairing race and country,
but for the evil out of which has good enough to
justify the ways of God both to and slaves
The horrors Of the coast trade between Africa and
Brazil were, only years ago, by ways dimn-
ished compared TO what they have Off
cay detailed scenes of wrong and horror, and suffering
respecting its traffic, enough to make all humanity shudder
in every nerve-outrages perpetraed by English and
American captains and crews, in vessels owned from Ball
timore TO Bangor loaded with goods fit for the coast
with the British stamp upon themninetecn out of twenty
two of them owned north of Baltimore Wilmington, Del)
Philadelphia cities New Jersey New York. Boston, Bruins
wick (Me Quacrs, and and proprietor of
an abolition newspaper in the North all implicated in the
traffic in slaves in furnishing its very pabuum the
oaaos do eosta-the fabrics of Old and New England
made expressly suit the markets Of the coast factories,
those vuture eyres of Africa which are the repositories
of cotton cloths of peculiar stripe of gew-gaws of old
muskes gunrowder and Brazilian hell fire, the cachacha
of their sugar cane and of manaces for human victims
who slowed in the "bush first branded on the
abdomen and some elsewhere so many parcels marked
and then packed shpboard the tops of waer-casks
chained and two together in holds of vessels to navi
gate ropc seas where the thermometer stands above blood
heat four feet onl hips to deck four feet from hips to
heels and feet from elbow elbow 70 mar to become
bowling demons fmana the living chained to the dead ana
be relieved only by death dealt in cold blood by the
ket of the lpastes Il Sce of the Kentucky in the
archives of State Washington IN my own correspond
minister with the Department. All this much
more of horror have vouched, whilst J. o STAKEHOLDER
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