New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-10


hammer Of the Managers that seals their faie 'ia'
whenever slave woman is logged. it is the hand
OF the Managers that wields the lash; that When
ever u negro lie burned BY mobs-and such burn
ings are becoming common--it is the torch OF the
Managers that lights the pyre. Ii is seif-e'ident
that every soul whether of master or Of slave, that
lives in ignorance and crime. and dies in darkness,
in consequence Of the unchecked evils and vices OF
Slavery, which the Society declines to condemn,
thus lives snd dies by the voluntary consent and
approval Of the Mana gers and their supporters,
who. in the name of Evan geIica Christianity, have
become the aiders and abettors of Southern Slavery
81 il now exists.
The South are naturally delighted unanimously
and enthusiastically delighted, with the accession OF
such an ally. And The Journal Of Commerce de-
clares that if the proxy bill should be passed BY
the State enabling the distant members Of the So
ciety to vote. the Managers could now bring to
their aid through their colporteurs " the entire
" Southern States, however remote" The Mana
gers, accommodating Themselves with apt facility
10 their new position, proclaim, or allow 1t to be
proclaimed in their behalf, by The Journal Of Com
mercs and The Christian httNigeneu, that If the
proxy bill shall pass they will be compelled to
employ their many agents in the unnecessary
"work Of collecting proxies" and that the future
control OF the institution " would be aud must be
' determined by secret and concealed methods.
SO long as the Slave Power at the South can keep
the Tract Society in this position, and un-
der the management of men with such
convenient principles and easy consciences, they
can sord to add Literally to it's treasury, assured
that their gifts will be expended in the employment
of agents, each of whom, in the name of Evan
gelica Christianity, speaking for the American
Troct Society, appearing simply as a soul-ioving
Christian, in the spirit and after the manner OF
his Savior" report for 1888, p. 35). will har-
monte the evils and vices of Slavery with the
teachings of the Bible, and impress upon the slaves
that their masters are saints; that their only hope
of salvation is in obedience ~ their WILL and that,
in the words Of DR.. Nehemiah Adams, "Of all
1.-THE situations in which human beings can be
placed favorable to the salvation of the soul,
"urder faithful efforts the part of teachers. it
sis difficult to conceive of one better suited to this
'tion Of these slaves to their Christian masters"
Leaving the question of Slavery, on which the
Tract Society is for the present so clearly deter
mined, let us ask what is to be its position toward
the African slaye-trade, the reopening of which is
the great fact in our national history since the
last anniversary of the Society Still accounted
piracy by the law, the slsve-trade is this day prac-
tically treated as legitimate traffic. The slave
traders of the Echo are acquitted; the kidnapped
Africans who survived the middle passage are
bought and sold and worked on Southern pauta-
tons; Mississippi planters issue a proclamation
offering brides for new mportations; The Journa!
of Commerce reproduces it, with illdissembled de-
light, sddng remarks placing these panders to
piracy and abettors Of murder on the same level
with men and women Of the North, who fearing
God before men, go to prison rather than be guilty
of inhumanty to fugltives from Slavery, and The
Charleston Mercury openly announces that further
prosecution of slaye-traders is idle, expensive and
- vain Such is the existing morality Of the
South, where the Tract SOciety's agents abound.
Are the Managers prepared to assume the moral
responsibility of the African slaVe-trade in addi-
ion to that Of American Slavery and the American
laye-tradel
They some years since gave it an indirect sane
ton by Il mutilation of Gurney's work on the
q" Habitual Exercise of Love to God" The author
had asked If this love had always prevailed
" among protesting Christians, where would have
:" been the African slaye-trade where the Odous
" system which permits to man a property in
" his felow-msn, and converts rational beings
d" into marketable chattels," This passage, recast
in the mold Of the Society reads thus:
Hhere the tortuys,of II, iuqrioa-where every system
Of oppression and wrong which he who has the eye
in luxury and at the expense Of his fellow
DIR Adams, not content with negative approval
Of the save-trade goes almost into raptures in his
- South Side View" in anticipating its renewal, re-
marking: such have been the marvellous acts of
80 Divine Grace TO the Africans in bringing them,
&" through the cupidity and sinfulness of men, to
4" this country, and saving a great multitude of
them, that requires neither strong faith nor fancy
" 10 suppose that this cork might STILL go on in the
- interchange of the blacks between Africa and the
" Southern States" His prayer is granted. The
blessed work of kidnapping has begun, and Is 60
ing on. The trade against which Fox and Pitt,
and Clarkson and Wilberforce, Macaulay and
Broughsm. go long thundered-the trade that was
supposed, 50 far as any claim to responsibility
went, to be- dead aud damned-the trade
that the Federal Government denounced as piracy,
coDdemnng the trader to the gallows-the trade in
regard to whose Internal ylainies the sentiments Of
the American people were akin to that of the untu-
tOred sailor, who bluntly remarked that /" if the