The Kanzas news., 1858-05-08

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 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,
afflicted, tormented.' Even now, in the
nineteenth century, the condition of our
Southern bre thren is not much improved,
since they are compelled 'to chase the stump
tailed steer over sedge- patches which out
shine the sun, to get tough steak, and to
listen to the perpetual 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 re-
generating the heather. Laughter. T.
Through evil report and through good re-
port, reproached and maligned abroad by
those who did not understand your motives,
and, worst of all, sometimes abused at home
by the ungrateful objects of our Christian
charity, You have still pressed on towards
the mark of your high calling. Now, sir,
when was there ever class of men so de-
voted and SO self-sacri6cing? I have read
the history of the Apostles have read
the history of the Reformers, of the Scotch
Covenanters, of the Huguenots, and of the
Crusaders and tell you not in one or all
of these have I seen any such heroic self
sacrifice for the good of another race, or for
the good of other men, as do see in the
history of these slave States. I have seen
Fox's Book of Martyrs. but there is nothing
in that to compare at all with the martyrs
of the South. The census of the United
States treats of them by counties and by
States. / can see how man, impressed
with a grand and noble sentiment, should
perhaps, in excitement or in an emergency,
give up his life in support of it; but l can
not see how man can sacrifice his friends,
his family. and his country, for religious
idea or an abstraction"
How admirably pungent is his introduc
ton of the decision of the Supreme Court
in the Dred Scott case:
"Here then, sir, is the position of our
Southern brethren upon this subject. But
the worst is yet to be told-the doleful con-
clusion of the whole matter. They have
made sacrifices, and it seems to me that
they were entitled to the rewards for them !;
and doubt not that they have often con-
soled themselves In contemplating the re-
wards in the future which must await them
for such good services in the present. I
have no doubt, sir, that oftentimes, seeing
they have not treasures laid up on earth,
they supposed they had treasures laid up in
heaven. Laughter.] 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 in
stitution that had raised the negro from bar
barism to Christianity and civilization, and
when the gentleman from Indiana Mr..
Hughes) had caught the inspiration, and
said that although the body of the African
might be toiling under the lash, s'his souL
was free, and could converse on the sub
limest principles of science and philosophy"
when faith had almost become sight-just
then, sir, out comes the Supreme Court
with the decision that
A NEGRO HAS NO SOUL! laugh
ter.
Angels and ministers of grace, defend
usi' All these treasures that were sup
posed to have been laid up where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves do not break through and steal,'
have been invaded by the decision of the
Supreme Court, and 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 1ame and impotent conclusion -
Laughter. The moral dignity of the
grandest missionary enterprise of this age
is annihilated.
AS Northern man, stand here disin-
terested spectator of these events. If I do
not like the decision of the court, have
higher law. The negro himself can appeal
to the court of heaven, but what refuge has
the Southern church? Renewed laughter.
None whatever This decision is a blow,
direct and terrible, 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 wilderness,
seeking to devour her offspring. Much
laughter. ]"
Let the e'institution'' beware. 1t could
cope with serious argumentative opposition,
which really dignity its claim to notice too
much; but such exquisite sarcasm, backed
by such an avalanche of facts, will be the
death of it.