The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-01-15
IT., aCunIsT,ANIz1No INrluENcE OF


TuE "CHRIsTrANIzrNG" Influence OF
eaAvERY.-The following Ordinance in.
relation to negroes, which passed the May-
or and Board Of Aldermen Of Memphis,
Tenn, Dec. Q, We find in tie Eagle Of
that city:
Be il ordained Iy tie Board Of Aayor
and Aidcrm n ofhe city Of Memphis, That
it shall be unlawful hereafter to teach let
ters to negroes in Sabbath Schools or
elsewhere within the limits Of the corpor-
alton, and that the Mayor cause the Su-
perintendent Of negro Sabbath Schools,
&c, to be notified of the passage of this
Ordinance, and for every violation thereof
the party so offending shall be taken be-
fore the Recorder and upon conviction be
fined not less than $50, nor exceeding
$500, for each and every offence.
3 SEC. g Be ii further Ordained. DE-,
That no night meetings for religious or
other purposes, Of negroes, shall be al
lowed between sun down, and sunrise,
except with the written permit of the
Mayor, under the supervision of Police
force. detailed for the purpose of attend
ing such meeting and that any person
addressing such meeting of negroes. or
permitting it to be held on his lot, or
premises. shall be fined. upon conviction
thereof before the Recorder. $50 for each
and every offence.
SEC. 8. BE Il further Ordained, Dec,
Thatit shall be unlawful for any negro
to preach in this city, and that any one
so offending, the owner thereof shall be
fined $50 for each and every offence.
THOMAS B. CARROLL, Mayor.
Attest L. r. RICHARDS, City Register.
We do not wish even to seem to exult
over the misfortunes Of our Southern fell
low-citizens. but when we remember the
bitterness with which all slavery haters
have been assailed by the propagandists,
"union- -salvationists, who, not from the
stump alone but from the pulpit also have
hurled their anathemas against the Sab
olitionists;" for by such name are we
all called, we who propose to stiAe the
curse by confning it to its present limits
as well as those who would attack it in
spite Of laws and constitutions-whenw we
call to mind the sanctimonious air Of
those who proclaim ed us infdels because
we dared to interfere with the great work
Of Providence, the divine plan of the Gre
ator, who designed by means of slavery,
its naturalization and its extension to
Christianize the heather of a frica and to
carry his kingdom Of light 10 the nations
which now sit II darkness, we cannot help
but call attention to the pregnant fact that
stands aboyS; to the fact that in addition
to the general law prohibiting the teach
iing otsfaves, we have now this special or
Sksnce making it an offence punishable
with b eavy fine to teach them in the Sab
bath School or permit them to hold re-
igious meetings. Tempcrizng partizans
win defend the whole thing. In the first
place they defend slavery on the ground
that though in itself an evil, good will
come out of it /. e. Do evil that good
may come; and in the second place they
will defend the secondary act of addition
al guard against instruction 10 the slave,
on the ground that slavery cannot be per-
petuated in order that good may come,
without this additional restriction upon
the liberty to learn what they declare
Providence designs to teach in permit
ting slavery to exist in this country at all.
Into such circle of reasoning, into such
contradictions are they led, who scale
over this putrid sore of sin which from
the extremities of the body polite is creep
ing with its poisonous taiut insidiously up
to the seat of vitality, and injecting into
the pure blood Of liberty which gave fresh
ness and beauty to our infant republic,
the black and foul sludge which turks in
the carcass of slavery. But meantime
they are Christianizing the slaves max,
ing them missionaries We hope and
trust they may not be missionaries of ven-
geance.-Pins. Gazette.