Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-09-08

you ever see Yankee at the White Sui
phur Springs shedding benign leii
gious influence over little congregation
Of heather companions? Laughter.
We have pious womsn n in the Northern
States, whose bright example has made
attractive the paths Of virtue and reli
gion. Conspicuous among them, IN ev-
cry good work, are the wives OF our min-
isters and deacons; but not one of these
within the range of my acquaintance,
wonld consider herself qualified, either
by nature or by grace, to be chamber
m lid, dry nurse, and spiritual adviser,
to ten or twenty heathens in her own
family. But, sir, had these vo thy
dunes been noble DANES; had they come
down to us from the blood of the Nor
man Kings, through the bounding pull
ses of sundry cavaliers. and then had
been willing TO assume these humble Of
/ fees of Christian charity, we should
have believed the time, so often prayed
for, had aleady come, when kings
should be fathers and queens nursing
mothers in the church," Where, then,
is the ground for this exulIation On the
part OF the North? l tell you that it
cannot be prompted By anything but a
rotund, bulbuous, self righteousness =
So much, then, for the social sacrifices
of our Southern brethren.
What other sacrifices have they made
to regenerate this race? Great moral
and intellectual sacrifices. | will read
what Southern men say on this subject:
/ Julge Tucker, of Virginia, said in
1901:
''I say nothing Of the baneful effects
of Slavery on our moral character, be-
cause you know have long been sensi
ole Of this point
The Presbyterian Synod of South Car
DINA and Georgia said, in their report
of 1884:
"Those only who have the manage
ment Of these servants know what the
hardening effect of it is upon their own
feelings towards them"
Judge Summers, of Virginia, said, in
a speech in 1889, in almost the same
words:
A slave population produces the most
perniciJus effects upon the manners, hab--
It's, and character, of those among whom
it exists
Judge Nichols, Of Kentucky, in a
speech in 1887. said
"The deliberate convictions of my
most matured consideration are, that the
institution of Slavery is a most serious
injury to the habits, manners, and NOR
ais. of our white population; that it leads
tosloth, Incidence, dissipation, and vice. F"
So said Mr.. jefferson:
"The man must be prodigy who can
retain his manners and morals uncontam
mated" I'm the midst of Slavery
John Randolph, on the floor Congress,
said:
"Where are the trophies OF this infer
nal traffic? The handcuff, the mana
Gle, the blood stained cowhide! What
man is worse received in society for be-
ing a hard master? Who denies the
hand of sister or daughter to such mon
sters?"
might quote a hundred other South
ern authorities of the same kind, show
ing the banelul effect Of this institution
upon the neral and intellectual charac
ter Of the South. l might also quote
rom the United States census. l have
the papers here, but time will not allow.
Now, in addition to these moral and
intellectual sacrifices which our South
ern brethren admit, there are pecuniary
sacrifices which you know 10 be very
great; indeed, had Virginia been free fif-
ty years ago, had she been exempt from
this great tendency to christianize the
African race, she would have been worth
more this day than are all the Atlantic
States south of New Jersey. And
should she by any chance become free,
you will see her wealth and her popula-
ton increase in proportion as this mis-.
sionary spirits diminished. Laughter.
1t is true, our Southern brethren, i'm
pressed with this great idea of christian
izing the African race, having for their
only ambition to present the souls of
their negroes, without spot or blemish,
before the throne of the Eternal, have
sacrificed almost everything. | could
quote from Southern men upon this sub
ject. The sagacious statesman who gov
erns the Old Dominica, in speech
few years ago, said:
"But in all the four cardinal resour-
ces-wonderful to tell. disagreeable to
tell, shameful to announce-but one
source of all four, in time past, has been
employed to produce wealth. We have
had no work in manufacturing. and COM
merce has spread its wings and flown
from us, and agriculture has only skim
med the surface ofmother earth. Three
out of the four cardinal virtues have been
idle; our young men, over their cigars
and toddy, have been talking politics,
and the negroes have been left to them
selves. until we have all grown poor to-
gether."
But trials, and tribulations, and pow
erty. have ever beset the pathway of the
saints. In the earliest days, they war
dered about in sheep skins and goat