Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-19
From the Providence Journal
DR.. WAYLAND ANNIHILATED,

Or. Wayland is used up man. The Missis-
sippi College has reSOlred upon Kim. Out of ten.
derness to our distinguished fellow citzen-perhaps
under the circumstances, we ought to say our late
distinguished fellow ctizcn, have suppressed this
TACT us long could; but it is all in the papers
and it would be only afiectation in us to try and
keep 1t from the knowledge of our readers. The
following is the sentence of condemnation
Resolved, That the trustees of Mississippi
College do hereby condemn the teachings of DR..
Wayland in his Moral Science on the subject of
Africa slavery, and that the Faculty of the Col
ege be requested TO discontinue the use Of Way
lands Moral Science as n Textbook"
Had this terrible resolution been passed at An
dover, or Newton, or at he Theological Seminary
it would have been quite overwhelming had
Harvard or Yale, Amherst or Brown. rejected him
he might have recovered but when Mississippi
1epudtdteS, there is an end Of the matter. The
doors of the treasury are not guarded with more
jealous fidelity against the holders of the State
securities than are the youth Of Mississippi Coll
eye protected from the contaminating influence OF
the doctrine that you should do unto others even
as you would that others should do unto you.
! This measure on the part Of an institution OF
sush nigh reputation as Mississippi College-we
are sure that all of our readers have heard of il
and can readily call to mind the illustrous men
which it sent forth in all the departments of life
a College which unites so much sound learning
with so much vital pety, and which consecrates
| Dolh W iuat phtTlhTchal institution winch is de-
Tended in the Old Testament almost as much as
polygamy or aggressive war, is of the highest
importance. 1t is a step in the right direction -
! 1t mnst be followed up. No man who has at
! heart the true interests of the South can have
| failGd to observe that the same objections that
have so justly brought upon our unfortunate
friend the condemnation Of Mississippi, apply
with equal force to all the prevailing systems of
ethics. The same unsound views, the Same insin-
uahons against savery-not open assaults, hut
concealed under the spccious garb Of general prop
ositions upon mOraty-run through the whole OF
them. You might almost as safely place before
the rising generation of Mississippi the Declara-
ton OF independence OF the Sermon on the Mount
as these pestient transcendental theories of moral
philosophy, which hardly concede to q man the
right to fog his own niger. 1t is lamenta6e
act that not single work the subject takes the
Mississippi view Of public faith, or the Southern
view OF the relations of the Nothing could be
more opposed to the policy of Mississippi than the
audacious attempts that have been made by these
writers-not one Of whom, probably ever owned
a Niger = 10 instill into the youthful minds
oil that State not only false ideas of Slave
ry but equally false ideas upon squaring ac-
counts with set of English aholitionists and
arstocrats. Happily, as yet no bad effect has been
Iproduced-not a niger has been emancipated. not
a dollar OF principal or interest has been paid
hut no one can tell what night have been accom-.
plshed If the Trustees of Mississippi College had
not interposed the broad shield Of their authority
against such disorganizing doctrines.
The South will never be really independent of
Northern fanatacism till il grows its own philoso'
pliers. Mr.. Mann, whose eminently practical
plans made such an impression upon the Southern
Convention, ought to turn his attention to this