Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-22


slaves is, Of all things the thing which the mast
ers most fear. And here is another adrot sophsm
of the Shareholders and their allies. They seize
upon whatever good God has brought out Of their
evil, upon Whatever incidental, or accidental ben /.
fit may have accrued to the slave in spite Of siaU'-
~, such as their poor pittance Of civilization
slavery aiming, as hoy very we'll know, with its
utmost power to prevent all intc gent civilization
Of the slavos and their Christianity such as it is
being in large proportion Of those who pretend
to be christians except In namc-and Who'll are a
small proportion Of tho wholc--a mere ianatical,
scmi-icish iargon, as can bo shown from the rec
ords of Somhsrn missionaries among thcmi aud
for the few who are Christians indeed have they
to thank slavery Christianity for it! is Christi
anity Of the qualities of slavery! true, slavery
does not object to Christianity Of its own tea CHI
ing--sce South Carolina Catechism ll-thcy
seize upon these incidental benefits to the slave,
which slavery has not been able to prevent, aud
magnifyng them thousand fold, and coycrty
implying, and expecting you to believe, that
slavery was instituted in tho intention Of its
slave trading founders, and is charitably oontn-
ucd, for no other purpose except in order to the
good which they pretend it has ccompishcd they
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barism as the fair standard Of comparison; but
ai"ays lorBe' u sId'e "h't Is nevertheless uNe'
that this very excess Of barbarism on the western
coast of Africa is the effect of the slave trade and
of the pious slavery which promotes it; while in
the interior beyond the reach OF that influence the
Negroes are more civilized than the majority of
southern slaves.
Such, after two hundred and fifty vcars. is the
grand result Of nbiIontbropic civilization. and
such the population which. though robbed Of the
product of their labor, robbed of their children,
| robbed of their wives and husbands such a. they
are permitted to have, compelled though chris
tians to live in the grossest violation of the pre-
copts of Christianity, robbed almost of tho very
organof thought, subjected to petty tyraut. even
when their master is not one. liable to the lash
for every fault and to instant death for disrcs-
pcctiul wurd-this u the remarkable people which
the Bishop says " the happicst class Of laborcrs
in the world" iii were true thnt slavery has
imbrutcd or keeps So inbrutcd, men, as to make
them tho hnppicst Of laborcrs under such circum-
Stances certainly it IL a moro accurscd thing than
has ever hal credit for But the constant al
Ncrt'scmcnt. IN southern newspapers Of runaway
slaves and of blood hounds TO hunt them, now
th"i pretty large number Of them at least have
not arrived at that pitch of degradation. II b. q
singular and incredible hct that many Christian
MINI tors tiho clergy will pardon iho rcmlfk, IT
moan many con lder'ng the fact To- bc spoken of,
ANA u"i IN relation {" .hcrr whole uHwhcD who,
ono would tuIpo. %, would have the yory hghcl
standard or humanily,nt Icas, for chiist1u. that
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for his family For, doe. the Bishop know any
class Of men here SO under the the slavery of
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