, 1855-05-19


than the Spaniards and their slaves
o! there is China-half the population Of
the globe-just fronting us across that
peaceful sea. Her poor living on rats and
a pittance of red rice; her rich horading
millions, in senseless idolatry, or indulgiRg
in the luXuries of birds nests and roasted
ice: Massed together, they must migrate
Where can they go? They must come to
our shores. They must come, even did
God forbid them. But will hasten their
coming. They can live in the EXTREMIST
South. 1t is their latitude-their side of
the ocean. They can cultivate cotton, rice.
sugar, tea, and the Silk-worm. Their skill,
their manipulation, is unrivaled. Their
conmonest gong we can neither make nor
explain. They are law-abiding people
without casts-accustOmed to rise by merit
to highest distinctions and capable, of the
noblest training, when their idolatry, which
is waxcd old as q garment, shall be folded
up as vesture, and changed for that whose
years shall not fail The English embas-
sadOr assures US that the Chinese nego-
tiator Of the late treaty was a splendid
gentleman and a diplomatist fit to move in
any court of Europe. Shem, then, can
mingle with Japheth in America. ..r0.
The Chinese come. God will bing them.
lie will fulfil Benton's noble thought
The railroad must complete the voyage Of
Columbus. The statne of the Genoese, on
some peak of the Rocky Mountains, high
above the flying cars, must point to the
West, saying-there is the East; there is
India and Cathay. '' @
Let us then, North and South, bring our
minds to comprehend tioo IDEAS and submit
to their irresistible power. Let the North
cru Philauthropist learn from the Bible
that the relation Of master and slave is not
sin per Sc Let him learn that God nowhere
says it is sin. Let him learn that sin is
the transgression of the law and where
there is no law there is no sin and that
the golden rule may exist in the relations Of
slavery. Let him learn that slavery is
simply an evil, in certain circumstances II
Let him learn that equality is only the high
est form Of social life-that sH5jscIiOn to
even sLarery, mag, in gireR ooRdi-
tiSRS, be, for time better than freedom, to
the slave, OF. any complexion. Let him
learn that slareyAke all erils, has its c0rres-
pOadi'lg and great good; that the Southern
slave, though degraded onpared DifA his
master, is elerated and ennOJled compared toith
has brethren IN Africa. Let the Northern
man learn these thing. and be wise to cult
vate the spirit that win harmonic with his
brethren of the South, who are lovers of
liberty as truly as himself. And let the
Southern christians-nay, the Southern
man Of every grade-comprehend that God
neter intended the relations of master and
sLaeeto Be perpetual. Let him give up che
theory of V6ltaire, that the negro is of a
Lot him yield the semi
of Agassiz, that God created
different races, Of the same species, inI
swarms like bees, for Asia, Europe, Africa,
America, and the islands of the sea. Let
him believe that slavery, although not sin,
is degraded condition; the evil, the curse
on the South; yet having, blessings, in its
time TO the South and to the Union. Let
him know that slavery is to pass away in
the fullness of Providence. Let the South
believe this, prepare to obey the hand that
moves their destiny. ~. .r-..- p. .,
Ham will be ever lower than Shem, will
be ever lower than Japheth. All will rise
in the christian grandeur to be revealed.
Ham will be lower than Shem, because he
was sent to Central Africa. Man south Of
the equator-in Asia, Australia, Oceanica,
America, especially. Africa-is inferior to
his Northern brother. The Messing was
upon Shem, in his magnificent Asia. The
greater 6icSsiAS was upon Japheth, in his
maA-developing Europe. Both blessings
will be combined in America, north of Re
zone, in commingling light and life. / see
it all in the first symbolicaf altar Of Noah,
and the mound at the base of Ararat 10
The father of all living men bows before
the incense Of sacrifice, streaming up and
mingling with the rays Of the rising SUM-
His noble family, and all flesh saved, arc
grooped round about him. There is Ham
at the foot Of the green hilloek, standing
in his antedeluvian rakish recklessness, near
the long-necked giraffe, type of his Africa.
His magnificent wife, seated on the grass,
her little feet nesting in the tame lions
name, her long black hair flowing ever
crimson drapery, and covered with gems
from mines before the food Higher up is
Shem, leaning bis arm ever that mouse
colored hore, bis Arab steed His wife, in
pure white linen, feeds the elephant, and
plays with his little probocis-the mother
of Terah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph,
David, and Christ. And yet she looks up
and bows in mild humility to her ia
pheth, seated amid plumed birds, in robes
like the sky. Her noble lord, meanwhile,
high above all, stands, with folded arms,
following that eagle which wheels up to-
wards Ararat, displaying his breast, gilt
tering with stars aud stripes of scarlet and
silver, radiant heraldry, traced by the hand
of God. Now he purifes his eye in the
sun, and now be spreads his broad wings
in sympolic light to the West, until lost to
the prophetic eye of Japheth, under the
bow of splendors set that day in the cloud
Gods convenant with man! Oh, may the
bow Of covenant between us be here to-day