New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-25
A CONTRAST.
From The DAILY Rieamond Di,rs.et.

In a speech delivered by the Rev. bIr. Stiles, the
former pastor of the United Presby tenan Church OF
this ciy before the General Assembly OF that Church,
on certain Slavery resolutions before that body, be re-
marked that the most commanding expR scion ever
given of sn enlightened anti slavery sentiment
presented by England in sacrificing tweaty millions
of pounds sterling for freedom in the West Indies.
Mr. Stiles proceeds 10 examine the character ald his
tory of this sacrifice in way calculated TO produce
yery COZ Siderable abatement OF the admiration gen.
eraily felt for British self-devotion 10 the abolition
cause The twenty million :, he marks, came from
he very richest treasury in tie world only the inter-
est has been paid the principal never viii be tl the
ere AT Brifish cebt is cancelled; and self instead OF
benevolent principles was probably the ruling motive
az action A friend of Mr.. Stiles travelling in En-
Gland at the time of he preparatory public agitation
Of the subject Informed him that one argument which
told oHtI Ifuly in pcrsuading The English people 10
adout tlis measure wGs the widely published doctrine
thb since free labor 50 far superior 10 sa'e LABOR,
by his ope ration West India sugar would be purchased
in ENGLAND at penny pound below its present cost,
so thsi England would receive one hundred millions
Of POUNDS sterling In return for hertwenty millions OF
pounds. -.
Mr. Stiles states the striking fact that near two hun
dred and ffy thousand slaves are computed TO have
been freed III tbs country, mainly al the Souihi ana
assuming the erage value Of each TO be one hundred
roupds sterling here is more than FIVE AID IwESIr
nIIrIoNs OF POUNDS sTEELING, contributed 10 ne
carss Of putting array Slagery Prom ne Lntcd ofafes
be- fke SHAREHOLDERS Of the South. "Ihis immense
IL
"out OF interest ouly, put principal also not by
rich public treasury, but by families VINO hved Dy
"tbe slaves they sulTeudereti not before the puOhc
"e,e but IL the rtiiTemtnf Of private lie; NOS uncer
ale cheering yOite OF Uulyersal praise, nor unueL
CIRCUMSTANCES which provided tie slightest hope OF
"p,cuIiaTy emo uneut. al,
Mr. Siles next shows that the men who dwell SCUM
of Mason aid Dixons lire have cone more 10 convert
~ . h, sthen than the whole world beside. The sum
total Of the member p Of al the beaihen churches IN
lie word Is estimated BY those best informed on tue
fulieoi az something Ike two hundled thousand. NJ
Sls states that 10 say nothing u he numerous negro
ufbtrs Of q e chuIohes in tue State Of MaTylald,
nor Of The Preeb, terian, Episcopal, or Luihsf -
clurches nor of certain brancbes Of the METHODIST
and Baptist denonina'ions, the Methodist ChuFch
South number l3l Geo conn un ants, and ne >oulelh
Bsrfist Church $50 coo, making io-e'her z14,vG1
fer lsrrtr number Of converted heaihen than al lls
FItc Sol churches in the world na'e ye, eonIeI.et
10 Cl!is tisniiy " 1t our Northern brethren welSh
ellis singular fact TLese very bethrea o.. SCUM
rror v nom ihey ihem-elves have been IA ng on -
h harf ard 20 lorg FOR The cruel oppression Of tee
@. lr,fn s1d whom forsoo'h, from year 70 year
..fIev have beer 30 anxious 70 persGzce providence
IN fhrlst out OF fhe Church, a. not worthy s'al
In, H. H. 1HTsE are the rerg men Vhom thatVtry
upr.yiaeuce has made The hCnored insuumenis, III
sense a. least Of Coirg 1l0re J0r me sa.raf9
"ofdc ieefhen rora AGA a' re CA'eA "''"a''
Tie nm, contributed by the Sou,h in the emineiPs-
49,; ~ slaves /. greater than q g whole amount eJE-
i.r , ,l tte benevolent soce'ies Of the Anefic IN
~ - a. the vsrious objects OF Christian ceraiiy
So. ,rss.r-s A tsb'e showing that the sum total
- iots of tie An ercan Church i0r IeAsiols
-. fr~fur's 20 freutr-fre mtH0ns g. naf4Ita
49,, r,cl' 'ionsrri tre hundred ar Jty-'ereH
Sors willie he sun total Of moneys sulTe---sst TO