Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-04-15
The aNIissionnrrn view oil Slaycrx.

apologists in the North. is that it brings
within the influence of Christianity race
that would otherwise remain in heather
ism, and gives them the advantages of civ
ilization. benefits cheaply purchased by the
trivial evil of being bought and beaten at tn,
will ofother Christians and civilized beings
The brutalized condition Of the negro in
Africa, his cannibalism, his fetish" fool
cries. his cruelty and amazing ignorance
are paradcd in contrast Within quickness,
intelligence, social tastes, and cultivation
In state of slavery. Without stopping
to comment on the sincerity of those who
urge this argument for slavery. and yet
make the instruction of slaves penitenti-
AIRY offence, we wish to give our readers a
view of this missionary" effort of slavery
that will amuse them, as well as instruct
them. if they admire irony made the We
hiclc of good hard truth. 1t is an extract
from a speech of Eli Thaycr. of Massachu-
setts, recently delivered in congress. Mr..
Thayer made a great sensation by his first
speech in the same vein on Fillibustering,
but this is better:
Now in addition to these moral and in
tellectual sacrifices which our Southern
brethren admit, there are pecuniary sacrili-
ces which you know to be very great: in
decd, had Virginia been FREQ fifty 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 population increase IN proportion as
this missionary spirit is diminished
Laughter. 1t is true, our Southern
brethren impressed with this great idea of
Outstanding 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 sac
rIticed almost everything. / could quote
from Southern men upon this subject
The sagacious statesman who governs the
Old Dominion, in speech few years
ago. said:
"But in all the four cardinal resources
wonderful to tell, dissagreeable 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 commerce has spread
her wings and flown from us, and agricul-
ture has only skinned the surface of moth
erearth. Three out OF the four cardinal vir-
tues have been idle, our young men over
their cigars, yesterday and to day, have
been talking politics, and the negroes have
been left to themselves, until we have all
grown poor together"
But trials, and tribulations, and power
ty have ever beset the pathway of the
saints. In the earliest DAYS they ..wan-
dered about in sheep skins and goat skins.
presented, afflicted, tormented." Even
now, in the nineteenth century the condi-
ton OF our Southern brethren is not much
improved, since they are compelled .to
chase the stump tailed steer ever sedge
patches which outshine the sun, to get n
tough steak and listen to the perpetual
cry of "debts. debts. taxes, taxesm
In this age of material progress, you
have seen the North outstrip you; but with
true Christian patience and Christian de-
votion. you have adhered to the great
work oiregenerating the heather. Laugh
ter. Through evil report and through
good report, reproachel and maligned
abroad by those who did not understand
your motives. and, worst of all, sometimes
abused at home by the ungrateful objects
of your Christian charity. you have still
pressed on towards the mark of your high
calling Now, sir. when was there ever a
class o. men SO devoted and so seIf-sacrif-
cling? Ihavs read the history of the Reform
ers. ofthe ScotchC ovenanters, of the Huruc-
nots, and of the Crusaders; ard tell you,
not in one or all of these have seen any
such heroic self-sacri6ce for the good of
another race. or for the good of other men,
as do see in the history of these slave
States. l have seen Fox's Book of Mar
tyrs, but there is nothing in that to COM
pare at all with the martyrs of the Soutb
l. no CclSuS VI TIC On1tcu OIdtcS Is the
greatest book of martyrs ever printed
Laughter. Other books treat of martyrs as
the census of the Unitei States
treats Of them by counties and States
can sec how a man. impressed with
8 aud and noble sentiment, should perhaps
in excitement or in an emergency, give up his
life in support it. but cannot see how
a mai can sacrifice his friends, his family,
anil his country, for religious idea or an
Here. then, sir, is the position of our
Southern brethren on the subject. But
the worst is yet to be told-the doleful
of the whole matter. They
have made sacrifices. and it seems to me
that they were entities. to the rewards for
them; aud / doubt not that they have Of
ten consoled themselves in contemplating
The rewards in the future which must await
them for such good services in the present.
have no doubt, sir, that oftentimes, see-
Ing they have not treasurcrs laid up on
earth, they supposed they had treasures
laid mp 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 that great EMULATION OF
spirit. was speaking of the institution that
had raised the negro from barbarism to