The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-17
DIR. wAYLAND ANNIHrLATED.
From the Providence Journal.


DR.. Waylsnd is used.up man. The Mis-
sissippi College has TesOlUed upon him. Out
of tenderness to our distinguished fellow-citi-
zen-perhaps, under the circumstances, we ought
to say our late distinguished fellow citizen-we
have suppressed this fact as long as we could :;
but it is in all the papers, and it would be only
affectation in US to try and keep it from the
knowledge of our readers. The following is
the sentence of condemnation:
"ReSolued, That the trustees of Mississippi
College do hereby condemn the teachings of
Dr. Weylsnd, in his Moral Science on the
subject of African Slavery, and that the faculty
of the College be requested to discontinue the
use of Wsyland's Moral Science as a text
book"
Had this terrible resolution been passed at
Andover, or Newton, or at the Theological Sem
mary, it would not have been quite as over.
whelming had Harvard or Yale, Amherst or
Blown, rejected him, he might have recovered :;
but when Mississippi repudiates, 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 College protected
from the communicating influence of the doc
trine 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
such high reputation as Mississippi College
we are sure that all of our readers have heard
Of it, and can readily call to mind the illusiri.
Gus men which it has sent forth in all the de-
partments Of ife-a College which unites 80
much sound learning with so much vital piety,
and which consecrstes both to that patriarchal
institution which is defended in the Old Test.
sment almost as much as polygamy or sggres-
sive war. is Of the highest i'm portance. 1t is
step in the right direction. 1t must be follow
ed up. No man who has at heart the true
interests of the South can have failed to observe
that the same objections that have so Justly
brought upon our unfortunate friend the con-
demnation of Mississippi, apply with equal
force to all the prevailing systems of ethics.
The same unsound views, the same insinuatons
against Slavery-not open assaults, but con-
cesled under the specious garb Of general prop
ositions upon morality-run through the whole
of them. You might almost as safely place
before the rising generation of Mississippi the
Declaration of Independence or the Sermon on
the Mount, as these pestilent, transcendenfal
theories of moral philosophy, which hardly con.
cede to man the right to fog his own niger.
1t is lamentable fact, that not a single work
on the subject takes the Mississippi view of
public faith, or the Southern view of the rela-
tons of the races. Nothing could be more op-
posed to the policy of Mississippi than the au-
dacious attempts that have been made by these
writers-not one of whom, probably, ever own
ed nigger-to instil into the youthful minds
of that State not only false ideas upon Slavery,
bat equally false ideas upon squaring accounts
with set of English abolitionists and aristo-
Gratis. Happily, as yet, no bad effect has been
produced-not niger has been emancipsted,
not dollar of principal or interest has been
paid-but no one can tell what might have
been accomplished, if the Trustees of Missis.
sippi College had not interposed the broad
shield of their authority against such disorgan-
king doctrines.
The South will never be really independent
of Northern fanatacism till it grows its own
philosophers. Mr.. Mann, whose eminently prac-
teal plans made such an impression upon the
Southern Convention, ought to turn his atteu-
ton to this great want. He is now engaged in
getting up line of steamships, half a dozen or
30, OF the size OF the Great Eastern, to run be-
tween Norfolk and Milford Haven, both OF which
belong to that class of ports that might con-
tain the navies of the whole world" bat which
seldom get within their waters more than half
dozen schooners. Mr.. Mann has raised
$4,000 In subscriptions, principally of 500
each, under an indefinite amount in "the
smiles of the ladies'" as he explained in his
speech in the Convention. This leaves only
that triting amount is reached, the ships will
be put under contract in some of the chief
ship-building ports of the South, and the en-
gines and machinery will be made in the South
ern workshops, for this is to be Southern en-
| terprise entirely. The ships will always take
| the Southern route across the Atlantic, and no
Northern passengers or freight will on any
pretence beereceived. This reasonable and
practicable scheme being thus far on the way
the enterprising protector should next turn his
| attention TO the formation of an exclusively
Southern line of teachers and ministers. We
have often thought that the preparation of q
| complete system of Moral Science, South"
might be intrusted to that eminent man Of
God, the Rev. DR.. Ross. There are good
many texts of Scripture, especially in the New
Testament, that need explanation, and no man
could explain them 80 as to bring them within
the true doctrines of Slavery better than he.
Those passages about doing as you would
be done by, loving your neighbor as yourself,
| praying for your enemies, are probably inter
polations or mis-translstions at any rate they
| are mere gliuering generalties, and do not
| apply to niggers. Indeed, the whole of the New
Testament is somewhat radical; and since the
attention of our Southern brethren has been
| directed to the importance of maintaining the
laws, 1t Is regarded as an evident innovs-
| ton upon the good old system that had come
down from the prophets and the pstriarchs.
Sound conservative men in the South will pre-
| fer to fall back upon the elder revelation it
answered well enough for four thousand years ;
and there are passages in it, especially in the
divine command to the Israelities to enslave
the heather, and in the lives of David and
Solomon, that are full of beautiful instruction