Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-04-29

and morals, OF our white population
that il leads. To sloth. Incidence, dissi.
patton. and vice
So said Mr.. jefferson:
"1'hc man must be prodigy who
can retain his manners and morals un.
contaminated" in the midst of Sla'
very. l
John Randolph, on the floor of Con
grcss. said:
Where are the trophies of this in.
'fcrnal traffic? The handcuff, tn,
'manacle, the blood-stained cowhidc,-
w hat man is worse received in socie.
'ty for being a hard master? Whc
denies the hand OF sister or daughtel
TO such monsters?"
Knight quote hundred other South.
ern authorities Of the same kind, show.
ing the banclul effect of this institution
upon the moral and intellectual char.
acter of the South. might also quote
from the United States census. hav,
the papers here, but time will not al
low
Now, in addition TO these moral ant
intellectual sacrifices which our South
ern brethren admit, there are pecunia
ry sacrifices which YOU know to l.,
very great; indeed, had Virginia beer
Free fifty years ago. had she been cx
empt from this great tendency to chris
tianizc 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 hel
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 THEN
negroes, without spot or blcmish. be
fore the throne OF the Eternal. have
sacrificed almost every thing. Icould
quote from Southern incn upon thi,
subject
The sagacious statesman who gov.
erns the Old Dominion, in speech 9
few years ago, said:
but in all the four cardinal rcsour
'ccs-wonderful to tell. disagrecabl,
to tell, shameful to announcc-but one
source of all four, in time past, ha:
been employed to produce wealth.
We have had no work in manufactur.
ing, and commerce has spread it
wings and flown from us, and agricul
'ture has only skinned the surface ol
mother earth. Three out Of the foul
cardinal virtues have been idle; oul
young men, over their cigars and tod
'dy, have been talking politics, and
the negroes have been left to them
selves, until we have all grown poor
together "
But trials, and tribulations, and
poverty, have ever bcset the pathwa,
of the saints. In the earliest days
they wandered about in shcep-skin'
and goatskins. prosecuted, afilited
tormcnted." Even now, in the nine
teenth century, the condition of oul
Southern brethren is not much i'm
proved, since they are compelled at,
chase the stump-tailed steer over sedg'
patches which outshinc the sun, to ge
u tough steak" and to listen to th'
perpetual cry of debts dcbts," taxes
taxes!"
In this age of material progress, yol
have seen the North outstrip you; but
with true Christian patience and Chris
dcvion, YOU have adhered to the grea
work of rcgncrating the hcathcn.-
Laughter. Through evil report ane
through good report, rcproached anc
maligned abroad by those who did no
understand your motives, and, wors
of all, sometimes abused at home b,
the ungrateiul objects of your Chris
tian charity. you have still pressed OIL
towards the mark Of your high calling
Now, sir, when was there ever clas
OF men so devoted and so sclf-sacrif
cling? l have read the history of tn,
Apostles; | have read the history o
the Reformcrs, of the Scotch Covenan
ters, of the Hugucnots, and Of th'
Crusaders; and | tell you, not in on
or all of these have | seen any sucl
heroic sclf-sacrifce for the good of an
other race, or for the good of othc
men, as do sec in the history of thcs
Slave States. have seen Fox's Bool
of Martyrs, but there is nothing in tina
to compare at all with the martyrs 0
the South. The census of the Cnitci
States is the greatest book Of martyr
ever printed. Laughter Otho
books treat Of martyrs as individuals
the census Of the United States treat
OF them by counties and by States.
can see how a man, impressed with
grand and noble sentiment, should per
haps, in excitement or in an emergcn
cy, give up his life in support Of il
/ but | can not see how man can sacri
I flee his friends. his family, and hi
country, for a religious idea or an alb
stractlon.
Here, then, sir, is the position G
our Southern brethren upon this sub
ject. But the wors; is yet to be told
the doleful conclusion of the Who'll
matter. They have made sacrifices
and it seems to me that they were en-
titled to the rewards for them; and
doubt not that they have often consol
ell themselves in contemplating the re
wards in the future which must AVA
them for such good services in th
present. / have no doubt, sir. tha
oftentimes, seeing they have not treas
ures laid up on earth. they suppose
they had treasures laid up in Hcavcr
Laughter. But just at that tim
when they seemed to be almost in th
fruition of their labors, when the ger
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