New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-28

,-.a..n D, ,s.,, o,,n derrada,ion They were found
~ :. st.te OF degrs daton, and bringing them iuto
Sis ma onI, ,ra proped their condition because 6y
~. ,'~yr SronrM ~nder the influence of Christ;-
1,T, They were not idolaters here. II they were
DEGRADED here they were more 30 in Africa IL Slavery
degr .ded them, il also educated them. The officers
OF Liberia, judicial executive, and legislative were
men who had been educated in this country by their
matters and sent there. II Slavery reduced cultivated
men into bondage and degraded them, he would op-
pose il with all his heart. He did not approve the
system and he wished it wa done away with He
wanted theee evils TO be remedied fast it was
possible 10 remedy them The progress Of Christianity
would destroy the inequality Of races"
When the progress Of Christianity, operating
though the disciplinary system Of Slavery, has at
last destroyed the inequality Of the races"-by
which time, We imagine natural process, which
may, perhaps outrun q little the progress Of
Christianity" will have rendered the body Of the
slaves nearly a. white as their masters-then is 10
come into operation grand providential process,
ALREADY fOreSet by the prophetic eye of Dr. -ker,
whereby the slaves will be restored to their ber.
ties. They are TO rise in insurrection, cut their
masters thrOats, or threaten to cut them, and by
force OF arms vndcate their rights and regain their
freedom-Or, perhaps, should they prove the strong
err reduce their late masters to Slavery. "When
tuc OOulutTu TIC IltF. LII. IdIhbI,
at the close Of the first days debate, in reply to
gentleman who had asked, eff you had paid one
d" thousand dollars for me do you think it would be
light to hold me i'll Slavery without my consent ~
"When the Southern blacks acquire sufficient in
"telleet 10 enable them TO rule the South, then l
say let them set the power to do so, and Tree
" themselves by the sword"
Such is the process employed by the Rev. DR..
Parker, in On assembly Of educated and intelligent
clergymen, and in the face Of the whole religious
world, for proving that Slavery is n,-but on the
contrary On innocent and benevolent arrangement of
Providence for the elevation Of the negro race CO.
operation and participation in which 10, prima facie,
not only innocent but even benevolent though the
reverend Doctor does confess that savehOlding, like
marriage, paternity guardianship and the domestic
relations generally is sometimes liable to abuse.
There rs, however, one cor0llary to this appa'
renty 30 beautiful development Oftae civiziog and
elevating operation of DIR. Parker's christianity,
which sadly interferes with the sweet, quietistic
sefcomplacency on the subject of Slavery and
elayeholdiDg, which otherwise it is so well caIcu-
lated to inspire. DR.. Parkers warm Christian
sympathy for the negroes carries him, we fear little
too far. Sympathy for the negroes ia an admirable
thing; but can we ought we to lay wholly out of
sight the interests and the elevation OF our own
white race, What, let as ask, is the inevitable
consequence to us, of thus giving with Dr. Parker,
the reins to our humanity, and out of our lofty
Christian ardor for the civilization and the saliva
ton Of the negroes, conserving to place ourselves
and to keep ourselves in the position Of slave
holders7
Not to refer low to the dangers to which We
shall be exposed when the negroes come finally to
burst the cbyrsalis shell Of Slavery and to cone
out full blown butterflies of AeedOm with stings as
we'll as wipgs-for that contamination is still so
distant that the Rev. DR.. Parker will probably
think that II is not necessary for Ms to trouble our
g!res much on that scOre--but without looking
forward TO that final reckoning what fearful
price are we not now daily called upon to pay for
thus undertaking to act as saveholding civilizers
Nd Cb<stiasissrs a. tt'e negroes IL may per-
sps be disooyerable by the leen telescope eye OF
taith doy disciplined penetrate the thickest fogs
and the darkest c0uds-such an eye as only DR..
Parker and comparatively gifted few can
boast of-.hat the negroes are moving on, how
ever imperceptibly, under the guiding hand of
the shareholders, toward civilization and freedom;
but. meanwhile, it takes but half an eyetO see, it
becomes every day more aud more obvious that
eve. the whites, through the desolating influences
of our position as Shareholders, are fast relaPsng
into barbarism. When we look at Washington,
when we look at Kansas, and see bloody violence
acting decency and right and law at defiance when
we turn to the General Assembly of the Presby
ternn Church and find simultaneously admiuis
tered there opiates to the public conscience like
the speeches of the Rev. Dr. Parker how can
we help regarding with some misg'vpgs' and
with some suspicious as to the correctness of Dr.
Parket's philosophy, a system which, whether or
not it civilizes the negroes, beyond all question
makes at once barbsrians and shameless sophists
of u.s.
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