Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-01-20
For the Kanawha Valley Star.
A Glance into the Future.-No.l.

4. For the kanawha Sa!Ity our
A Glance into the Future.-NO.2 ,.
To Gov. ADAMS, OF S. c.:
+ ave must regenerate Africa" Such
is the morning, task assigned us by the
self-complaisant Deacon Pebiddy Il CO.
The God Of Heaven and Earth, if we
are to trust to their assurances and the
pFecepts of their philosophy, has but lit
tic to do with the matter. 1--WE mas
regenerate Africa" And how? FIRST,
WE must incite the blacks of the South
to rise and cut the threats of their mas
tens; men, women and children. This
is a good beginning. Second, We must
then make them labor and deny them
selves, (as they do in Jamaica, to raise
the means of transferring themselves to
Africa. where, being already well-sprink
led with blood, they are fully prepared to
propagate Yankee civilization and reli-
gion. And what are these? Ipropose
to answer the intcrrogatory hereafter
At present confne myself to the SIM
pie inquiry, Having before us the past
and the present history of Africa, how
ought zee looking to the great problem
of human advancement, moral and men,
tai, civil, political and reliSious-how
ought we to deal with her?
l wish this question could be examin-
ed nationally and impartially. ] Remove
from it the gathered cobwebs of Yankee
scholasticism, polemical and political,
and tell us, in the existing state of things,
what is feasible and what is best TO be
done. + want light; but l cannot ex-
pect to receive it from the mud idols
and oracies of Yankeedom. l See before
me one quarter Of the globe-rich in all
the resources Of wealth, comfort and
happiness-yct covered for unnumbered
ages past, with the dark cloud of ignor-
ance, superstition and brutality. In all
that time, it has never furnished an hours
shelter, a morning or an evening meal to
a solitary laborer in the great life strug-
gle of human progress, civilization and
religion. A terra elousa-its fertile
plains. its noble rivers, its jewelled mines,
its verdant -mountdins-all, all, that in
the common lot of men, could contribute
TO human comfort; and happiness, have
been shut out from the world its occu-
pants, desiring nothing knowing nothing,
contributing nothing Of or to the wants
Of mankind. Shall this state of things
be allowed to remain forever? Mas
sachusetts, through her interpreter,
Deacon PeJiddy. is prepared with an an
swer, "1No, We must regeRerate them ~
We rcgenerate them! God forbid If
the civilization and Christianity of Massa-
chusetts are to be introduced amongst
them, in the name Of Heaven, of Time
and of Eternity, let them remain as they
are! Ignorance is an evil, and brutality
among men is vice but even these are
far more tolerable than the corps like civ
ilization, and cold, studied cunning OF
Yankee religion. But of this hereafter.
! am not bold in postulates but l am
persuaded that no people, no individual
man was ever reformed, or regenerated
while he or they remained the victim of
Incidence. Industry, usefulness, the
lore of labor, are, under the providence
of God, tn. essential elements of human
developement, moral, mental and physi-
cal. Without them no advancement ev-
-er was or ever can be made. habor is
our common lot, an inheritance from the
Divine Providence, secured by formulas
of higher authority than fine and recov-
cry, livery and seizin. To civilize and
Christianize Africa, by means of idle
and profigate Priests, preaching to mass
es as idle and profgate as themselves, is
in the very nature Of things, impossible.
The attempt to do so, presents to view a
picture of human madness and faulty
10 which Hope, itself, instead Of lending
relieving smile, would mould its features
into marble. 1t has been tried and tried
again, and again but all in vain. Dea.
con Pebiddy & Co. have mistaken them.
selves, and their mission. God has moi
bestowed on them the power Of changing
His eternal laws at their option. Africa,
tas it is and has been, can never be Chris
tidpized-no, not even with such Chris
tianity as prevails amongst us. And ]
thank God for it-for of all the calami'
ties that ever befel, or can befal the hu.
man race, the sepulchral form, <whited
and heartless, which now pass under the
Holy name lis the greatest and most grier'
Gus. You have but to lock to the North
for examples and illustrations. II daily
offers to your slaves, in its regenerative
process, temporaland eternal reward fol
rebellion, murder, lust, arson, rapine and
every kindred enormity.. Seward, Wade,
Sumner, Garrison, and thousand other
of its Priests, daily offeru up their prayer
for aIconsummation Of lust and blood SC
defoutly to be wished. Godforbid that the
precepts Of such religion, or the prin.
Fciples from which such precepts spring,
should ever gain footing even in benight'
ed Africa Far better that Cannibalism,
with all It's horrors, should remain forev-
er. The hideous pottase may at leas'