St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-08-05

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1 IA Is there any cause for exultation in this
4 when we see whatsour Southern brethren
have done andrsre doing? When have We
ever taken theaheathen to our hearth stones
and to our bosoins? When have we ev ve1
admitted the iheathen to social communion
with ourselves and children? When have
we ever taken the heeatheni4 to our large
cities Is show them thh works sof art, torf to
the watering places to show, them fashion
able society ana Beautiful ;scenery? g 1pid
you ever see Yankee At the White Sui
slpher Springs shedding benign religious ?lhi
influence oyera little congregation Of heaa--
then companionsI AM JlL4a Laughter IS w havc
ini;:s women in the sNortheinl States, whose
bright examples have made attractive. The
paths Of virtue and religion, oaspicuons
among them IN every good work, are the
wives If our ministers and deacons;b but not
one Of these within the range Of my ac-s
quai1tance, would conside er herself qualified,
either by nature or by grace, to de cha1,6er-
nsoid, dry nurse, ;ond spiritual odvs;ser to
te'S or hee"ty Aeathsns i M Aer }S' SIR tans'y.
But, sill, had these worthy danes been no.
lie DANES, had they come down. to Us from
| the blood OF Norman kings, through the,
bounding r;.'ses Of sundry chivalriies, iie, and
then had beer willing ITO assume these hum
bic Offices q Christian charity, we should:
bave 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 Ell x
ultation on the part Of the North? I tell
you it cannot be prompted by.,anyythiing but
a rotund, dubious, self righteousness So
much for the social sacrifices Of our: South
crn brethren ',5s4 ssl5 ox.".s<I @...s.s. =.
With sarcasm! doubly armed by a. huge
dose OF facts, he carries this Sc! cling
&s'Now, in addition to these moral and
| intellectual sacrifices which our Southern
brethern admit, there are pecuniarye sacri-
fees which you know to- be very great; :;
Indeed had Virginia been free fifty years
ago, had she been exempt from this great
. tendency to christianize the: African 5race,
she would have been worth more this da7
than all the Atlantic States south Of New
Jersey" And should she by chance be-
come free, you will see her wealth and
population increase in proportion as this
missionary spirit is diminished, ia Laugh:
teri 1t is: true our, Southern brethren
:! impressed with this great idea Of Christi
anlzmln i ing the he African race, having for their
only ambition to present the souls Of their
y negroes, without spot on blenaish before
} the throne Of the Eternal, having ;racriif
ced almost everything. I could Squote
from Southern men upon this st1bjGct.:----
The sagacious statesman who governs ths
Old Dominiou, in a speech a3ewsyear age
sald;3 ST taas 1&@ .S3>5z4a.rt 1s tgsz, s.,.r,
"But;in all the four cardinal resources
wonderful to tell, ,disagreeable. to tell
y shameful ro. announce--but one source oi
:. all four, in time past, has been employed
! to produce wealth. W 1 have had to work
in manufacturing, and commerce has
}spread its wings and Aown - from us, and
agriculture has only skinned the. surface
Of mother earth. Three out fof the foul
cardinal virtues have been idle; Jour young
men over their cigars and tody TALKING
politics, and the. negroes have been left tt
themselves, until ne have grown poor to-
gcther.' ''S>-3 &5s. " z4aas&:S %:55 . y l~1',
spirit to its losses ii material matters; :;
4 But trials, and tribulations, aid poverty
have ever beset the pathway of Tic: saints
IN the earliest days they wandered abon,a1
q 4 sheep skins and goat-skins, persecuted
/ afflicted, and ,tormented, Even now, II
. 1.-THE nineteenth century, the condition o.
) our Southern brethren is not much iimpro
; we'd, since they are compelled to ctasetht
!: stlnmp-tailed steer over sedge-patche!
/ which outshine4 the sun, to get<a ,beefsteal
d andto listen to the perpetual cry Of debts
debts 4 tas ttazes ,a!:t taxes' s.s %$@.s5
! In this age Of material progress, you
: have soen the North outstrip you; but
:, with true Christian patience and devotion
you have adhered tothe great wprk Of re
generating the heather Through seyi
Ereport. and good report, reproached ant
: naligned abroad BY those who did not un
! derstand your motives, and worst. of all
sometimes abused at home blythe migrate