Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-12-28

number Of cnmmunican,s among them, in
proportion to the whites. is frequently as
'onlshing; for example, in cases known Ia
me, one hundred and fifty blacks TO fifty
whites, two hundred to twenty, four hun
dfed to one hundred.
In Virginia, The whole number of com.
munican,s in the Baptist churches is stalled
tonne, by Bsp,is, pastor, TO he forty-five
thousand blacks and fifty thousand whites.
10 Sdsannsh, Georgia, in a population OF
several thousand blacks more than one-,hird
are church members. Three colored pes
tors, with salaries from eigh, hundred TO q
,houssnd dollars, are supported by subscrip
lions and pew rents among their own mem
hers. NJ ore than one.lhrd OF the whole num-
Der Of COMMITMENTS reported by The synod
Of South Caroline, are colored people. OF
the three hundred and eigh.y-four thousand
in thai State, one-seven,h, or more than fifty
thousand, ere professors Of religion. In
1858, fifteen thousand dollars were c,nlribu-
ted by five Thousand slaves, in Charleston,
TO benevolen. objects. These statistics,
which are a fair sample, might easily be
multiplied, bu! il is unnecessary. Religion
has esincd wonderful ascendancy among
this people.
or al: the situations in which human be-
ings can be placed favorable 10 the salvation
Of The soul, under faithful efforts on The par,
Of teachers, i, is Difficult. to conceive of one
better suited 10 This end, end in fac, more
successful than the relation Of these slaves
to their Christian masters.
And elsewhere, he says.
''The feeling involun,srilv arose within
me a, the South, and especially in the re-
liRious meetings Of The slaves, Would that
al Africa were here! Could villages and
tribes Of Africans be by any means induced
to emigrate to this land, and be placed I'M
der The influence which the slaves enjoy,
Ethiopia would stretch out her hands 10 God
sooner then the most sanguine inter prefers
Of prophecy now dare to hope. !. is deep
ly affecting to hear The slaves give thsnks in
their prayers -. they have not been lef.
like The heather who know no, God but are
raised, as j, were, to heaven in their Chris
ian privileges"
After enumeraling these and other "favor-
slavery" DR.. Adams declares:
"Thus far ! am constrained 10 say, that
the relief which my feelings have experen-
ced in going to The South and seeing the
slaves 8, home. is very great. Whatever
else may he true Of their condition, to what
ever perils or souows, from causes not yet
spoken Of, they NAV be subjected, feel like
one who has visited friend who is sick
and reported to be destitute and extremely
miserable, but. hes found him comfortable
and happy. The sickness is there, bn. the
pa,ien, is no, only comfortable, bu. happy,
If The ordinary proofs Of il are 10 be taken.
We may wonder ,ha. he should be; we may
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colored people of Savannah, Columbia, and
Richmond are moi, as a whole, happy peo-
pie, ] have never seen any,"
We presume that this picture of Southern
slavery, by one Of The signers Of the clergy
mems anil Nebraska remonstrance, will be
viewed with general establishment, and none
the less so, since The reverend doctor adheres
TO the opinion Tho, the Nebraska bill and The
repeal Of .he Missouri compromise are mea-
sures capsule Of no defence, and shows that
he has viewed The subjec. in ell it's aspects
by enume'atIng the revolving features as we'll
IS the favorable appearances Of slavery
Dr.. Adams speaks Of the slave auctions, the
separation Of negro families, the sexual i'm
morality end other evils, bu, he has some
thing TO say in psllia.ion Of them all-some-
thing 10 make the reader think ,ha, they are
no, such great evils ss they have been re-
presented 10 be. He criicizes s.UncIe Tom,"
and cbsrscterizes j, as deceptive and unjust.
The sn'i.slsvery English who actively gym.
psshize and Cooperate with American abo-
1i,ionlsts, he admonishes 10 mind their own
business. And he bids the anli-sIavery peo-
pie of the Northern States, before extending
their benevolence elsewhere, to supply food,
raimen', shelter, means Of cleanliness, and
Christian teachers to the poor of their own
cities, $40 the degree in which the slaves Of
the South enjoy those blessings" In short,
the whole volume has evidently been writ
ten under the influence Of on extraordinary
Ievultion Of feelings. and with all the ardor
of new converl.-N Y. CON-
ToLERATIoN.-Two spirited and firm let
tiers have been addressed to Louis Napoleon
by English Christians, requesting that reli.
gious liberty might be granted to his Pro-
,es,snt subjects ss well as'ahe Cath Ollie =
Queen Victoria has also addressed him an
AUTOGRAPH letter on the same subject. No