Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-30

NOW, IN addition to these moral and intel
| lectual sacrifices which our Southern breth-
rem admit, there are pecuniary sacrifices
which you know to be very great indeed,
had Virginia been free fifty years ago. had she
| been exempt from this great tendency to
Chrstianize the African roce, she would have
been worth more this day than are all the At
| lantic States South OF New JERSEY. And
should she by any chance become free you
/ Will see her wealth and population increase in
| proportion as this missionary spirit is dimin-
| ished. (Lgughter.) 1t is true, our Southern
| brethren, impressed with this great idea of
| ChristanzIng 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 al
most everything. could quote from South
ern men upon this subject. The sagaclous
statesman who governs the Old Dominion,
In speech two years ago, said:
but in all the four cardinal to
tell, dsagreeable tn tell shameful but
Of all four inme past has been employed to pro
duce wealth We have had no work in manufacturing,
and commerce has spread its wings and hJwn from
and agriculture has only skim ed the surface Of moth
er earth. Three out of the four cardinal virtues have
been idle; young men, over their cigars and oddy
have been talking politics. and the negroes have been left
to themselves until we have all grown poor together"
But trials, and tribulations, and poverty,
have ever beset the pathway Of the saints. In
the earliest days, they " wandered about in
sheep-skins and goat skins, prosecuted, af-
ficted, tormented" Even now, in the nine
teenth century, the condition of our Southern
brethren is not much improved, since they are
compelled ito chase the stump tailed steer
over sedge patches which outshine the sun, to
get tough steak" and to listen to the per.
petual cry of debts debts =" "taxes
taxes %
In this age of material progress, you have
seen the North outstrip you but. with true
! Christian patience and Christian devotion,
you have adhered to the great work of regen-
Grating the heather. (Laughter.) Now, sir,
when was there ever class of men so devot-
ed and SO self sacrificing l have read the
history of the Apostles have read the his
tory of the Reformers. of the Scotch Govern
anters, of the Huguenots, and of the Crusad-
ers; and l tell you, not in one or all of these
have | seen any such heroic self-sacrifce for
the good of another race, or for the good of
other men, as l do see in the history of these
slave States. have read Foxs Book of
Martyrs, but there is nothing in that TO COM
pare at all with the martyrs of the South.
The censas Of the United States is the great
est book of martyrs ever printed. (Laughter.)
Other books treat of martyrs as individuals
the census of the United States treats of them
u
with grand and noble sentiment should
perhaps, in excitement or in an emergency,
give up his life in support of it but cannot
see how a man can sacrifice his friends, his
family, and his country, for a religious idea or
an abstraction
Here, then, sir; is the position of our
southern brethren upon this subject. But the
worst is yet to be told the doleful conclusion
of the whole matter. Thay have made sacri-
fees, and it seems to me that they were emit
tied TO the rewards for them and l doubt
not that they have often consoled themselves
in contemplating the rewa,ds in the future
which must await them for such good servi-
ces in the present. l have no doubt sir,
that oftentimes, seeing they have not trea-
sures laid up on earth, they supposed they
had treasures laid up in heaven. Daughter
But just at that time when they seemed to be
almost in the fruition of their labors, when
the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Anderson)
in great exultation of spirit, was speaking of
the institution that had raised the negro from
barbarism to Christianity and civilization, and
when the gentlemen from Indiana Mr..
Hughes) had caught the inspiration and said,
that although the body of the African might
| be toiling under the lash, " his soul was free,
| and could converse on the sublimest princi-
pies of science and philosophy, when faith
had almost become sight-just then, sir, out
comes the Supreme Court with the decision
that that A NEGRO HAS NO SOUL. daughter
Angels and ministers of grace defend us !"
All these treasures that were supposed to
have been laid up " where neither moth nor
break through nor steal" have been, by the
decision OF tho Supreme Court, scattered to
the four winds of heaven. More than two
centuries of prayers and tears, of heroic self
sacrifice and Christian devotion, of faith and
hope, OF temporal and spiritual agony, have
come to this flame and impotent conclusion"
daughter
The moral dignity of the grandest missionary
enterprise of this age is annihiated AS a
northern man, stand here a disinterested
spectator Of these events. If do not ike
the decision Of the court, l have a higher law
Inc negro himself can appeal to the court of
Heaven; but what refuge has the Southern
churchs Renewed laughter. None what
ever. This decision is blow direct and ter.
rlble, falling with crushing violence upon our
southern brethren. This Supreme Court, with
cruel and relentless hostility, has prosecuted
the southern church as the dragon of the
Apocalypse pursued the woman into the will
derness hseeking Ito devour her Offspring
What motives could have impeled the court
to This act have no doubt patriotic move
tive. l am not here to impugn the motives Of
any man. or any set of men, much less of the
highest judicial tribunal in this land. No
doubt, sir, their motives are patriotic, for they
had witnessed the devastation of this terrible
religious fanaticism through the South. They
had seen the ravages of this disastrous mis-
sionary monomania, and they determined that
there must be an end of it and how could
they SO efFectually end it as by annihila,ing
at once the object OF its aims and aspirations
That, sir, they have done. Here, then, end
eth the moral posoer of the institution of slave
ry.
come now to the consideration of the
event which just as surely has doomed to de.
strucion the political potoer Of that institution
i mean the repeal of the Missouri compro.
mise measure in the passage OF the Kanzas-
Nebraska bill. That act, sir, will show to
you'll it ever was committed by the slave
power--to have been suicidal act. What
need was there for repeating that compromise,
or OF admitting slavery into Kanzass Was
not the South sure enough of the territory az
1t was before l think-and this il nv hon.
est conviction-that had it not been for that
act, Kanzas would have been inevitably
slave State. We of the North had no partie.
ular interest in that territory. 1t was put
down in our Biographies as the great Ameri-
can desert. We had not considered il Of
much Importance but we relied on the law
to keep slavery out of it, and to preserve it to
freedom. We of the North have had too
high an idea of the power of the general gov
eminent and OF iaio, either for freedom or
against freedom. Sir, this general govern
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