Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-11-11

Christian men Of the South. that they shall
| reVolutionize the moral condition of the slaves
IN this regard.
stand up in behalf of two million women
who are without voice, to d clare that there
ought Ia he found i'll Christianity aomew here,
an influence that shall protect their right to
their own persons and that their purity shall
stand on some other ground than the caprice
oil their masters. | demand that the Christian
church. both North and South, shall bear a
testimony in behalf of marriage among the
slaves. which shall make it as inviolabe as
marriage among the whites. 1t is not 20 be
denied that another code of morals prevail.
upon the plantation than that which prevails
IN the plantation house. So long as husband
and wife are marriageable commodities, and
70 be sold apart, to form new connections,
there can be no such thing as sanctity in we'd
lock,
Let it be known in New York tina, man
mas two wives, and there is no church SO
feeble OF conscience that they will not instant
ly eject him; and the civil law will instantly
visit him with penalty But the communi-
Giants OF slave churches not only live with a
second while their first companion is yet alive
but with third, and fourth; nor is it any dis
u,
church and the state wink at it. 1t is part OF
the commercial necessity of the system If
you WILL sell men, you must not be too nice
about their moral virtues
WEDDING. among this unhappy people, is
out name-a mere form, to content their
conscience, or their love Of initiating their
superiors. And every auctioneer in their com.
munity has the over TO put asunder whom
God has joined. And marriage is as movable
as fortune itself, The bankruptcy of their
owner IS the bankruptcyof the marriage rela-
ton IN half the slaves on his plantation.
Neither is there any Gospel that has been
permitted to rebuke these things. There is
no church, that have ever known. in the
south. that bears testimony against them
Neither willthe churches in the North. as
body, take upon themselves the responsibility
OF bearing witness against them.
60 further: declare that there mn be ,
Christian public sentiment, which shall make the
family iuviolnte. Men -ometmes say at 10 rare.
~ the case that families are separated" 1t is
false 1t false There is not \ slave mart
that does not bear testimony, ten thousand times
over, against such assertion. Children are bred
IKE colts And calves, and are dispensed like them
II is In vain to preach Gospel to slaves that
leaves out personal chastity in man and woman,
that leaves this purity subject to anothers control
or that leaves out the sanctty Of the state
and the unity and involabiity Of the family
And yet no Gospel has borne such testimony in
.AVof Oh them as to arouse the conscience Of the
south Ii ministers will mot preach liberty TO
the captive, they ought at least TO preach the in
dispensaele necessity Of household virtue If
they Will not call upon the masters to set their
slaves free, they should At lcas. proclaim Chris
tahi'y that protects woman, childhood, and
household
The moment woman stands self.posed in her
fha
tied together by bonds shat cannot be sundered
during their earthly life; the moment the right
oil parents TO their children is recognized, that
moment there Will be q certain sanctity and pro-
lection CT the eternal and divine rest
ing upon father and mother, aud children, and
slavery will have had its death blow struck. You
cannot make slavery profitable after these three
conditi9ps are secured. The moment you make
slaves serfs they become a difficult legal tender.
and are uncurrent in the market; and fanilies
are >? cumbrous, so difficult to support so expen-
sve, that owners are compelled, from reasons o!
pecuniary interest, to drop the SYSTEM
Therefore, if you will only disseminate the
truths OF tie Gospel, If getting timid priests gu,
OF the way, and lying societies, whose cowardice
ISLANDERS the Gospel which they pretend to diifuse
you bring whole solar nood Of revelation to bear
upon the virtues and practical morals of the slave
you will begin to administer remedy which will
inevitably heal the evil, if God desig ned 10 cure
| it by moral means.
6. Among the means to be employed 70. pro
noting the liberty Of the slave, we mus. no. fai
= incl ade the power Of true Christian prayer
whe.l slavery shall cease, it will be by such in
.,rurs,,, nd influences as shall exhibit God
hand and bs.,, IN the work. Its downfall will
have been ,ch;.vsa SO largely through natura
causes, 30 largely throug 'o"sohs us ofoau as ma
lions, that it will be appare- 10 an men that uee
led on the emancipation, man b. 'os only one eie
ment among the many Therefore, We nave ever
encouragement to direct our prayers vi. oou. ceAs
ing 10 God that he will restrain the wrath :" man
inspire men with wisdom, override all laws, ant
""n'-H ths o"."aer.e Of the globe that thc Poo-
may become RICH that the bond NAV become l, &c
that the Ignorant may become wise, thut the mas.
Ter and slave may respect each other, and that =.
length, We may be an evangelical and Christian
people May God, in his own way and time, speed
the day