New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-18

States, do rot end subjects At tie South. There
is more faith and less Fidelity there than here.
Psuperism, also, isl. Ievented by Slavery. 1t re-
lieves the land fron the plague of the detestsSle
immigrants, w.Ao, according to Dr.. Adams, intro
duce lostbsome evils, compared with which 1.-THE
presence of respectable colored population
is sereeable. In connection With this topic, the
Doctor gives several very broad hints thstthe best
thing the Irish can do is to seek for admission
into the privileges Of Slavery.
But il was the religious condition OF the slaves
that most strongly challenged lis admiration and
envy. This 10 so high and palmy as to call forth
the surprise of every visitor. Our own laboring
classes are not fit to hold candle to the blacks
in the matter of religious experience. Even at
the South, piety is far more common among the
slaves than their masters. More than one-third
of the whole number of com nunicants reported
by the Synods of South Carolina are solored peo-
pie. DR.. Adams went to their prayer meetings.
They met in TIE choir part of the gallery, in the
evening, once week. white brother presided, IS
the law requires, and resd portion Of Scripture;
but the slaves conducted the meeting. They came
in with their everyday d. esses and each, a. he en-
tered, pr0etrateO himself III prayer. Ouc VI uicui
stood up before the deck and repeated hymn, two
lines at time. AT the singing of the last stanza in
each hymn they all rose; and they invariably re-
peated the last two lines of a hymn. They prayed
without being called upon. Such prayers l never
heard. There was nothing during the week that
anticipated with go much pleasure as the return Of
that PRAYER meeting. Earnestness in manner, over
flowing love to God, compassion for their fellow-m
everywhere, gratitude uDbounded to Christ for his
great love wherewith he loved them, deep and
touching sense of unworthiness, supplcations for
mercy and for grace to keep them from sin, all ex-
pressed in original, but frequently ungrammatlca
yet sometimes beautiful and affecting terms, charsc-
terized all their prayers 80 Lord we PROSTATE our.
selves before thee the sinful hands and knees of
our poor miserable bodies and souls" 80 Lord,
NAV our hearts all be sot right tonight; may thy
blessed Spirit shine away all our doubts and fears.
1t was touching TO hear one man say; " Bless our
dear masters and brothers who come here TO read the
Bible TO US, and pay much attention 10 u.s. though
we amt that sort of people as can onterper thy word
in all its cOlors and forms q my heavenly ta-
Their" said an old man, 81 am thy dear child.
know / love thee. Thou art my God, my portion,
and nothing else. my Father, have no home in
this world my home is very far off. long to see it.
Jesus is there; Thou art there angels, good men
there. l am coming home. l am one day nearer
10 it,
One man prayed in so loud avoice that he could
have been heard distinctly across the Connecticut
River in any partofits course on still night. Still
bis prayer twas musical and wholly inoensive."
Sometimes says the Doctor, "the ordinary low
responses of fellow wOrshipers in the Methodist
prayer meetings would be excited by sersphic ex-
pressons in the prayer of slave brother to such
a pitch as to raise involuntary shoutings from the
whole meeting in which almost wished to join,
for the thoughts expressed were so awakening
and elevatiDg that, or ever was aware, my soul
made me like the chariots of Amminadib."
As to the prevalence of RIGHTEOUSNESS among
the slaves, Dr. Adams intimates that North
ern minds have been greatly prejudiced by the
repetition of fabulous narratives. After
reading all that has ever been written re-
spectng the sale and purchase of yellow
girls and the extent to which the sin alluded
to prevails at the South, you may obtain from any
experienced policeman in one of our cities dis
closures which will give exercise to virtuous ab-
horrence and Indignation as great as the statistics
of sin and misery elsewhere can excite, unless,
indeed, wickedness at home fails to exert the en-
chantment which belongs to other mems sins.
What if there were some way in which this ini-
putty in the free States proclaimed itself as it
does, through the complexion at the SOUTH"
Apart from the admirable social fruits of slavery,
DR.. Adams does not fail to sdduce the authority
of the Bible in Its support. When the Hebrew
nation was organized by the Most High, he found
among the people masters and slaves. But he
did not purge out the institution by positive en-
actments; he did not cause the dead bodies Of
the shareholders to fall in the wilderness; but
made slavery the subject of legislation, and pro-
tected the parties concerned 10 performing its
duties. So also the New Testament, though it
breathes a spirit fatal to oppression, counsels no
measures against it, teaches that the relation of
slavery 10 not sinful in ITSELF no where assals the
institution and instructs and exhorts masters in
regard to their duties as Shareholders The case
of Philemon, fugitive slave, "whO is sent back
to servitude with an inspired epistle in his hand
is touching exemplifcaHon Of the tenderness Of
the Lord toward the "principle of ownership"
in human beings.
That small epistle to Philemon, that one chapter,
that little piece of parchment, that note OF apo-
ogy-that this should have fallen into the sacred
canon and not the episte to Lsodcea, is curious and
interesting 10 those who regard the providence OF
God in the canon OF Scripture. That little writing is
like a small firm beach where storms have beaten,
but have left il pure and white. II is the least Of
all seeds in Pauls epistles. 1t is curiosity Of
inspiration, solitary diom in language, Stone
henee in country warm stream in the sea; il be-
gins with loving salutatons ends with affectionste
Christian messages, aud sends back servant to his
master and 10 system Of Slavery under which this
fugitive could if his master required be put to DEATH
But DR.. Adams's whole tissue of rhetoric on
this point is liable to the objection made to a
Similar attempt by President of one Of the
New.EDgand colleges, which, by-the-by, we IN