The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-04-13

Mr.. T. has mA0e announcer epceeC" anu !"
ike his first "sui generis. In speaking
slavery in moral and religious point Of view,
shows how great have been the sacrihces
Shareholders:
1t is true, says be, We make more cOntribu
lions. The city Of Boston gives, for ioreig
missions, perhaps more than oil the slave state
and the city of New York perhaps more tha
Boston. But what OF that! We give a fe
cents apiece, and only few cents, for forelg
missions each year, which amounts 70 gres
sum, because We are a great people. We sen
| men to heather nations far over the water,
tell them about their future destiny. We ar
careful not to send our best men; We keep ou
Notts and Wsylands, and our Beechers an
Cheeyers at home; but sometimes Judso
! escapes from US before we know what he is.-
This is about the extent we submit to sell -sacr
fee for the sake Of the heather.
Is there any cause for exultation In tnia
when we see what our Southern brethren hav
done and are doing? When have We ever t.
ken the heather 20 our hearth stones and to ou
bosoms. When have We ever admitted tn
1 heatben to social communion with ourselves AMI
our children? When have We ever taken tn,
heathen to our large cities to show them th'
| works of art, or 70 the watering places TO ehov
then, fashionable society and beautiful scenery
Did YOU ever see Yankee at the White Sui.
phuf Springs she iding . benign religious in
Auence over little congregation Of heatherr
companions? Laughter. We have hne wo
men in the Northern States, whose bright ex'
ample has made attractive the paths Of virtue
and religion Conspicuous among them in ev.
| ery good work, are the wives OF our ministers
| and deacons; but not one OF these within the
range of my acquaintance, would CONSIDER her'
self qualified, either by nature or by grace, 70
i ar,sSe nanlf f1fe u
ser to ten or txemty heatkens in hsr osCa a'nily.
| 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
Wiling TO assume these humble Offices Of Chris
tian charity. we should have believed the time,
so often prayed for. had already come, when
| "Kinps 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 1t cannot be prompted
by anything but q rotund, bulbous, sef-right-
business So much for the social sacrifices OF
our Southern brethren.
Mr.. 7. has something to say Of the pecuniary
sacrifices of Southern Martyrs, and the manner
in which the Supreme Court knocked the moral.
ity out Of the Negro question:
Now, in addition to these moral and intellec-
tual sacrifices which our Southern brethren ad-
nit, 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 chrlst'anIze the Al
rican race. she would have been worth more this
day than are all the Atlantic States south ofNew
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 Christianizing 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 almost
everything. l could quote from Southern meu
upon this subject. The sagacious statesman who
governs the Old Dominion, in q speech few
years ago, said:
derful to tell, dissgreeable 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 its wings and flown from
US, and agriculture has only skinned the sur
face of mother earth. 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 to-
gether."
But trials, and tribulations, and poverty, have
ever beset the pathway OF the saints. In the
earliest days, they wandered about 10 sheep
skins, and goat skins, prosecuted, afflicted, tor
mented." Even now, in the nineteenth 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 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 ad-
hered to the great work Of reseberating the
heather. L.aughter.] Through evil report and
through good report, 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 your christian
charity, you have still pressed on towards the
mark Of your high calling. Now sir, wter We,
there ever class Of men SO devoted and 90 seE
sacrificing? / have read the history Of tie
Apostles; I have read the history Of the Re-
formers, Of the Scotch Covenanters, of the HUI
cuenots, and of the Crusaders; and tell you,
not in one or all Of these have seen any such
heroic self sacrifice for the goQd Of another race
or for the good Of other men, as do see in the
history of these slave States. have seen Fox's
Book Of Martyrs, but there 10 nothing in that TO
compare 1t all with the martyrs of the South.
Tbe census Of the United States 10 the greatest
book of martyrs ever printed. Laughter. Other
books treat Of martyrs as individuals; the census
Of the United States treats Of them by counties
and by States. lean see how man, impressed
with q grand and noble sentiment should per.
haps, in excitement or in an emergency, give up
his life in support of it; but ! cannot see how
man can sacrifice his friends, his family, and
bis country, for . religious idea or an abstrac-
ton.
Here, then, sir, 10 the position of our South.
arm brethren upon this subject But the worst
il vet to be told--the doleiul conclusion Of the
whole matter. They have made sacrifices, and
it seems to me that they we're entitled to the re-
wards for them; and doubt not that they have
often 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, seeing they have
not treasures laid up on earth, they supposed
they had treasures laid up in heaven. Laugh
teri 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
insiitu,ion that had raised the negro from bar
barism to Christianity aud civilization, and when
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 sublmest principles Of science and phi
losophy"-when faith had almost become sight
Just then, sir. out comes the Supreme Court
with the decision that
| ANEGRO HAS NO SOUL! Laughter.
..Ansels and ministers Of grace defend US!
| All these treasures that were supposed to have
been laid up ''where neither moth NOR rust dOt
corrupt, and where thieves do not break through
nor steal" have been invaded by the decision o
the Supreme Court, and scattered to the fou
winds of heaven More than two centuries o
prayers and tears, Of heroic sslf-sacri6ce ant
Christian devotion, Of faith and hope, of tempo
raj aud spiritual agony, have come to this SLANT
and impotent conclusion" Laughter. Th'
moral dignity ofthe grandest missionary enter
prise of this age is annihllsted.
As Northern man, stand he:e disinter
ested spectator Of these events. II do no
like the decision of the court, ! have highe
Law. The negro himself can appeal to the cour
Of heaven but what refuge has the Southern
church! [Renewed laughter. None whatever
THIS decision il blow. direct and terrible, fall