Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-11-04
A Missionary Enterprise.

The Yacht Wanderer has again started on q
voyage in the cause of Christianity Our read
ers will recolect that it is not long since this
vessel landed cargo Of benighted Africans on
the coast of Georgia, and as a reward for this
pious labor was seized and sold under the laws
of the United States, which mildly characterize
as piracy such attempts to bring under the IN
fuence of Gospel institutions ebony-colored
heather. Mr.. Lamar, the owner OF this yacht,
bid her in at the auction at a very low figure,
by discouragiug with his fist any opposition bid
ding. He purposed thereafter to obey the stat
ute, sitting the voice of the higher law OF con-
science which impelled him to rescue from their
idolatrous homes the sable sons OF Ethiopia. For
awhile he remained true to this purpose, even
processes to be still true to it, though we can
but believe that it is a mere pretence to escape
if possible, the unrighteous penalties pronounced
agrinst piratical expeditions upon the high seas
But fortunately, by convenient dodge, excusa-
BILE on the ground that the end justihes the
means, the Captain whom he had put in charge
of the ship stole her and sailed away, escaping
the pursuit of her owner, and the Government
officials who had been charged with the especial
duty of watching the movements of the suspl-
clous craft. Strange as it may seem. Doctor
james Buchanan, whose piety, like his whlskey,
is supposed to be of the first quality, made some
feeble endeavors to stop this expedition, assu-
ming that it was In violation Of law, without
stopping to consider that the law itself was
against reason, contrary to all Southern theories
respecting the advancement of the African race
in civilization, morality and religion, and there
fore unconstitutional But the Wanderer cs-
capped, notwithstanding these precautions, and
has gone to the coast of Africa for a cargo of
slaves.
With what solcitude will the angels watch
over that bark as the breezes of proptious
Heaven watt it on its mission of love and saliva
ton How will it be followed in its way over
the perilous sea by the prayers of all good
Christian Shareholders Into what nsignii-
canoe does the American Board of Foreign Mis-
sons sink in comparison with the grand, glori-
GUS enterprise of stealing negroes How much
easier and surer is it to bring the heather to the
Gospel than to carry the Gospel to the heat hen
And besides the greater certainty of saving the
souls Of these poor African sinners, there is an
infinite saving in the matter of expense The
business is not only profitable in gathering souls
into the Storehouse Of the Lord, but it is remark
ably remunerative as IA speculation. Thus two
birds are killed with one stone. But it would
be uncharitable and wicked and wrong to sup
pose that Captain Martin is moved at all in this
mission, by any love Of filthy lucre, He prob
ably has not thought what his cargo Of slaves
will bring in the shambes of Georgia, ON his
return What he is doing is all for the glory of
God, and the upbuilding of His Kingdom. III
Captain Martin supposed that he could convert
these heather as well on the coast of Africa as
in this country, he would not be caught snatch
ing q single mothers son of them from their
homes. He must be too humane man forthat,
else we should not see him thus periling his life
in this benevolent cause. And when he arrives
on the coast of Africa he will be careful to Sc
lect young, healthy, well-bullt, vgorous-looking
negroes, because such will be more likely to
have souls worth saving, and, according to the
historian Of the Wing party, would probably
be more " prolific than broken-down and de-
crept old men and women, who wouldn t be
likely to possess very valuable souls, at least
not as the worlds people reckon value. And
he will ship a cargo as numerous, and perhaps
more so, than can be conveniently packed under
the matches OF his yacht, because the more souls
he can thus save the better; and it would be
the extreme of cruelty to leave single heather
in that country, while one could be slowed
away in any corner of the vessel. They will be
kept on short commons all the way home. not
so much to save the expense, as because low
diet is conducive to religious frame Of mind
Many OF them will die on the passage. aad be
thrown overheard to the sharks, in spite of the
doctor and the medicine chest, but it is NOT Inv
any means certain that their souls will be there
by lost, inasmuch as they may be regarded as
within the pale of that Divine institution COM
monty denomnated Slavery, which is supposed
to be considerably more saving in its baptism,
than any other Zion.
And when the cargo of the Wanderer is lnnded
on the free, civilized and Christian shores If
Georgia, or some other equally humane Southern
State, an edifying spectacle will be presented.
The Shareholders, who are remarkable for all tbe
plous virtues, among which stands conspicuons
their love Tor stout, healthy, young, vigorous,
black sinners, will then be seen gathering at the
auction block. Capt. Martin agent will bring
tho subject y before the meeting, and with
his hammer raised, will cry out How mnch
am | offered for the opportunity of teaching tins
freshly-importsd African morals, civilization
virtue and Christianity " The competition
Will here be 50 smart. that 5000, $500. s4oO
perhaps as high as $500, will be maid bv
these Shareholders in their eagerness to snatch
these brands from the burning. These heather
Will then be taken home by their new masters
ana teachers where, like Paul, through album
liant iaoors, through stripes above measure in
WEAKNESS and panfulness, in watchings often
In hunger and thirst, in HASTINGS frequent tbro,
prisons and through death they will he bro,abt
oy their Christian masters to the kingdom Of
God. Is it strange, after such glorious vision
OF the saving results of the African Slave T,ado
that H. Mckinley Orlnsby, the historian of the
Wing Party, should, from the outgusbinr of
his gratefully pous heart, bless it as an :. in.
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strumentality,' " like the art of printing. or
the mariners compass, g in the hands of Prov.
idence' for the conversion of the world
The steamer New World sunk in the Hudson