The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-30

The Wcyk KS Of pho ADtt-sInv~yy SOclety-Thc
Hsro,sm Of the Leaders.
Tn The shape of wo annual reports bound to-
geiher, the American AntiSlaver, Society have
just issued on account of their own labors for
two years together W q n story o The terrible
doiI es ard ssyinss h. save power" during
that period The account for the last of these
years makes the receipts amount to $l8,5l2, of
which it appears the Standard newspaper, the
organ of the Society received $6,6l7, and of
SS,5s2 more we have only the vague general
statement that it was expended in donations"
This is for the Central Society in New York the
whole receipts. including those of the Massachu-
setts, Pennsylvania ard Western auxiliaries,
amounting 10 $35,s67. For the previous year
he whole receipts were S38, 162-ind'cating
somt what of a falling off in the supply of the
sinews OF war. II is rather strange that with 81
large sum of money in their hands, the Execu-
i've Committee were not able to publish till now
the report Of tie previous year, ending May |,
1857, numbering ony 100 pages, and the repori
OF last year, ending May l, 1858. When that
ending May /, 1869, will come out, Heaven only
Knows
The volume now before us, containing 1876 pages
ip al pre-. nts pile Of stale sturf already
published in the newspaper accounts Of the acts
nrd sunerpgs Of he aboliti0n'ss, OF white 'refti
gees" from the South, of fugitive slaves, Of slave
Instructions, of the Presidential campaign of
1885, OF the foreign slave trade, aud of the action
of Northern aud Western States, of State sover-
IL IN in If ho ch,rro nd IF fho Traa
Society. both which last are handled without
gloves. They harp upon the old strings of bleed
ing Kansas aud bred Scott, and expasate with
admire alton on the beroism of some OF their dupes
who, by circu'a'ing their nceDdiary tracts, have
rendered III, m, ives obnoxious to the laws or to
the popular frenzy of the South. But they
take very gos d care not to be caught in such
predicament themselves. From the first page of
ttie volume we extract the folio wing racy, pas.
sage
Nobody ever yet asked that on repeated question
"Why you go to ine ooaly from any
stroog desire ~ send the anti slavery adyO
late away the limits Of the DC. ni.
sud into region whence tue probability Of wou
he exec. dney small the benevolent people who have
en habit of using the question triumphant and
unarswerabe argument wouid If their implied advice
"es taken feel on parting v'io tn. man ~bo .ooS it,
clerical brother about to depart mission to the Feee
lslapds-' that be would be served up roasted soon
after his arrival" The expectation 10 case, more
over, would be accompanied with q most hearty
prayer that euch reception should await the aDoli-
lion emissay When the state OF public opinion at
the North shall warrant the Indulgence Of hope that the
time approaches when anti slavery missionary effort
home may be pr TIC mlied, the viii open FOR
t,ts who conceive cir oath of duty lies in nat d.
,ec, take up the G, ,ss and 60 down among the
heather and the savages OF the Southern States But as
yet the WORK of Inversion we're I'm pned at the
nna cpf q 6nraI fnP Q.rtk,
eade except 10 those who ambitious OF sudden crown
Of Dsriyrdom.
We were always at loss to know why the
anti-slavery propagan lists were not sent to "the
heather" of the South, instead of wasting their
sweet breath in the Norib, where no nigger
slavery exists, and where there is no
desire to revive it, just for the same
reason that We have sometimes expressed
our establishment that the evangelizing folk of
the anniversaries have been sending their mis-
sionaries to the ends of the earth in search of
beatben sinners, while at their own doors at
home were far greater Christian sinners, and far
more in need of conversion. From $35, 900 to
$3s 900 are annually spent in beating the air of
the North, and in supporting anti-slavery publ
cations which are never read in the South (for
the report informs us that the very possession
Of such literature beyond Mason and Dixon's
line would subject the unfortunate and foolish
individual to prosecution and severe punishment).
Now, it is in the South, if anywhere, that anti
slavery propagandism is needed. But there, as
yet, the propaganda have not sent a man. The
Apostles of Christianity did not remain among
q o I'D Nhvso Int fha
heather to the risk and loss of their lives. Many
modern missionaries, particularly those of the
Catholic church, have braved every danger in
foreign and barbarous Chimes But the anti
slavery apostles have great regard for
whole skin-they can neither get any one to
60 South, nor will they venture themselves
"among the savages Of the Southern States"
They are not ambitious for crown Of martyr
dom such glory has no attractions for them
they prefer to fight the enemy at long range
where there is little risk There is no danger of
their Sealing their testimony with their blood"
Now, we are told that "the blood of the martyrs
is the seed Of the church," and if the abolition
apostles we're really sincere, they would carry
their moral war into the South, and if some two
or three hundred of them were roasted, or hanged
as high as Haman, then both the North and the
South might believe in them. 1t is idle for
Beecher and Cheever, Garrison and Phillips, to be
talking against slavery to white niggers and black
in New York and Massachusetts,, where Sambo has
far more freedom than be wants or knows how
to use. Let them go on grand crusade to "the
heather and the sayaQes of the SOuth''-a cru-
SADIE either of preaching or of arms-like that
Of the Christians Of the middle ages against the
Turks in Palestine. That is the practical way
to do the business. Here, in the North, these
men denounce slavery as the sum Of all vii
laDy," and tell us that no other sin or crime