The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-06

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:, . .peech delivered BY Rev. xr. Stiles
~. s,-,,sr pastor Of the United Presbyterian
r ~. 81 this city, before the General As
.ambly Of that Church. on certain slavery
rs..Iutions before that body. he remarked
that thu most commanding expression ever
eiven of an enlightened anti-slavery sent
ment. was presented by England, in sacrin-
cling twenty millions Of pounds sterling tor
freedom in the West Indies. MIR. stiles pro-
ceeds to examine the character and history
of this sacrifice 10 way calculated to pro-
duce very considerable abatement OF the
admiration generally felt for British seif-de-
votion to the abolition cause. The twenty
millions, he remarks, came from the very
richest treasury in the world; only the inte e.
rest has been paid, the principal never VII,
be till the great British debt is cancelled; ana
self instead Of benevolent principle, was pro
badly the ruling motive of action. A FRIEND
of Mr.. Stiles, travelling in England at the
time Of the preparatory public agitation OF
the subject, informed him that one argument
which told powerfully in persuading the
Englishpeople to adopt this measure, was the
widely published doctrine that, since free Ia
Dor was 80 far superior to slave labor, by
this operation West India sugar would be
purchased In England at apenny pound be.
low its present cost 80 that England would
receive one hundred millions of pounds ster'
ling in return for her twenty millions OF
pounds.
In contrast with the benevolence OF sell.
interest, Mr.. Stiles states the striking fact
that near two hundred and fifty thousand
slaves are computed to have been freed in
this ,untry, mainly at the South; and assa.
ming the average value of each to be one
hundred pounds sterling, here is more than
FIVE AND TWENTY MILLIONS OF POUNDS sTER-
LING, contributed to the cause OF putting
away slavery from the United States By the
SHAREHOLDERS of the South. 'This immense
sum-" remarks Mr.. Stiles, 'has been actu-
ally paid out, not interest only, but principal
also; not by rich public treasury, but by
families who lived by the slaves they sur
rendered. not before the public eye, but in
the retirement of private life; not under the
cheering voice of universal praise, nor un-
der circumstances which provided the slight
| est hope of pecuniary emolument.
Z Mr. Stiles next shows that the men who
dwell south of Mason and Dixon's line, have
done more to convert the heather than the
whole world besides. The sum total of the
membership of all the heather churches in
the world, is estimated by those best inform
ed on the subject, at something like two hun
bred thousand. Mr.. Stiles states that, to say
nothing Of the numerous negro members of
all the churches in the State of Maryland,
nor of the Presbyterian, Episcopal or Lu-
theran Churches, nor of certain branches of
the Methodist and Baptist denominations,
the Methodist Church South numbers 13l 900
communicates, and Southern Baptist Church
10000, making together $4,000, a far larger
number of converted heather than all the
free soil churches in the world have yet con.
verted to Christianity! "Let our Northern
brethren weigh this singular fact. These
very brethren of the South, upon whom they
themselves have been laying on SO hard and
so long for their cruel oppression of the
bondsmen, and whom, forsooth, from year
to year, they have been SO anxious to per-
suade Providence to thrust out of the Church,
a. not worthy standing in it, THESE are
the rery men whom that very Providence has
made the honored instruments, in one sense
at least, of doing more for the sazration of
tile heather scorld than all the Church mili.
tant besides
The sum contributed by the South in the
emancipation of slaves, is greater than the
whole amount contributed by all the bene-
VIOLENT societies of the American Church, to
the various objects of Christian liberality,
Mr.. Stiles presents table, showing that the
sum total of contributions of the American
Church, for religious purposes, amounts to
tTenty Jfre millions, sac hundred and sizty
eight thousand, ,fpe hundred and fifty seren
dollars, whilst the sum total of moneys sur.
rendered, to advance the cause of enamel
patton, amounts to nearly ONE HUNDRED AND
TwENTYFIyE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
Such facts as these need no comment
What sublime contrast do these quiet and
mighty deeds of charity present to the fana.
teal soords of Old and New England! Fa.
n.ticism may shut its eyes to such facts; the
may never be permitted to reach the great
mass of those whe have honest but ignorant
prejudices against slavery; yet they are none
the less truth, because the blind cannot see
them. and they may we'll sustain the hearts
Of Southern men in the contest before them,
with an inspiring consciousness of duty per-
formed.
CONGRESS.
The next session of Congress bids fair to
be the stormiest which has ever taken place
since the foundation of the government. The
best friends of the country look forward to
it with feelings of apprehension, little short
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