The Kanzas news., 1858-05-08
Eli Thayer.

The ingenious and able originator of the
New England Emigrant Aid Society, who
startled the Southerners by his former
speech in Congress, in which he proposed
the colonization of Central America, has
again made a shrewd and telling speech in
Congress. sympathizes with the ''chiv
alry," and must have made some of them
open their eyes. He deals in facts. and
ool;skes with sarcasm. Rather 'shard
polish .''ocz9l a9a @
In this speech the ingenious New Eng
lander takes for granted all the professions
that have been made by the defenders of
slavery, such as "Christianizing the negro"
q system '.for the good of the negro" etc.
He comedies all that is thus claimed, and
then proceeds with inimitable irony to show
how MUCH the South has sacrificed for such
laudable objects. He says:
e'Mr. Chairman, these are not the only
authorities on this subject: You and have
heard from the other side, day after day,
quotations from the Bible intending to prove
the same thing and You and L know there
are honest men in the slave States who be
lieYe that this is a fact. I have. seen such
men myself, and have conversed with them.
They have told me that slavery was a curse;
and that the only reason why they held
their slaves day was, that they owed them
certain religious duties, and must keep them
to look after their spiritual welfare. heard
this from gentleman from Kentucky, and
again from a gentleman from Augusta,
Georgia. and believe in my heart that both
these gentlemen were honest in their views.
I am not here to impugn any mans mo-
tives. put this upon the ground that Is
claimed by Southern men and when l lis
tened to the gentleman on the other side
reading honestly from the sacred volume in
defence of this institution, as coming from
God, and as a means for the regeneration of
a heather race in our land, / felt inpelled
to use the language of the Apostle to the
Gentiles which he employed on Mars Hill:
90! Athenians, I perceive that in all things
ye are exceedingly given to religion" Now,
sir, since this Institution has done all it ever
can in this capacity, and since it is now de-
stroyed as converting and regenerating
power, stand here to give its proper place
III SCClcoldStiNSdI ANI 1IO PioSO
it has never yet had
The speaker next proceeds to compare the
effort of the Free States in 'feyangelizing
the heatben," with these tremendous sac
rifces" on the part of the South, in way
quite disparaging TO the former. He re-
Dukes the spirit of glorifcation in the North
because they raise more money for such
purposes, and shows that they really do not
give so much in proportion to sOhat they are
able to do. He says:
ssIt is true, we make more contributions.
The city of Boston gives, for foreign mis-
sions, perhaps more than all the slave States:
and the city of New York perhaps more
than Boston. But what of that? We give
a few cents apiece, and only a few cents, for
foreign missions each year, which amounts
to great sum, because we are great peo-
pie. We send men to heather nations far
over the water, to tell them about their flu
ture destiny. We are careful not to send
our best men ; we keep our Notts and Way
lands, and our Beechers and Cheevers, at
home; but sometimes a Judson escapes
from US before we know what he is. This
is about the extent we submit to self-sacri-
fee for the sake of the heathen.
Is there any cause for exultation in this,
when we see what our Southern brethren
have done and are doing? When have we
ever taken the heather to our hearth stones
and to our bosoms? When have we ever
admitted the heathen to social communion
with ourselves" and our children? When
have we ever taken the heatben to our large
cities to show them the works of art, or to
the watering places to show them fashions
bic society and beautiful scenery Did you
ever see Yankee at the White Sulphur
Springs shedding benign religious infiu
ence over a little congregation of heather
companions? Laughter. We have fine
women in the Northern States, whose bright
example has made attractive the paths of
virtue and religion. Conspicuous among
them in every good work, are the wives Of
our ministers and deacons but not one of
these, within the range of my acquaintance,
would consider herself qualified. either by
nature or by grace, to be chana6ermaid, dry
nurse, and spiritual GdUiser to ten or tDenty
heathens IN her oaca family. But, sir, had
these worthy DANES been noble DANES, had
they come down to us from the blood of
Norman kings, through the bounding pulses
of sundry cavaliers, and then had been
willing to assume these humble offices of
Christian charity, we should have believed
the time, so often prayed for, had already
come, when Kings should be fathers and
queens nursing mothers in the church."
Where then is the ground of this exultation
on the part of the North I tell you that
it cannot be prompted by anything but a
rotund, bulbous, self-righteousness. So
much for the social sacrifices of our South
ern brethren
With sarcasm doubly armed by a huge
dose of facts, he carries this seLf-sacrifcing
spirit to its losses in material matters
s.Now. in addition to these moral and in
tellectual sacrifices which our Southern
I..t ad-.,;G tho-, -.