New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-15
DE- BOW OF PROMISE.

There 10 every reason TO hope that Ethiopia will
not much longer have to stretch out her hands in
vain The missionary spirit at the South il fast
awakening to the work it has to do in that direc-
ton, and it will not be long withheld from snatch
ing brands from the burning of Africsn psganism
and placing them on the altar of American Christi.
anity. The Southern sainte, the severity Of whose
pitty is well known to grow more intense the
nearer it approaches the SUM- are girding up their
oins to free themselves from the reprosch Of leay
ing the conversion Of the world mainly 10 their
Northern brethren Their plan OF salvation is an I'M
provement on that adopted by the American Board
Instead Of sending missionaries to the heather, they
propose bringing the heather to the missionaries.
Instead Of exporting white men to be worked up
into martyrs in Alics, they intend importing black
men into America and making martyrs Of them
here. A most decided improvement in the science
Of maItyrology, As it strikes US. To make the
heather receive the crown Of marty instead Of
bestowing IT, in the course Of their conversion is
an invention which certainly takes away the ~
preach the Patent Office has been thought to
imply on the ingenuity Of our Southern brethren
A simphhcs,ion Of machinery which thus combines
the functions Of the Home and Foreign Missionary
Societies 10 one operation must have come from
what the poet calls d" tie highest heaven OF inven.
ton
We have been led to indulge in these cheerful
articipations BY g correspondence We have Just
had the pleasure Of reading between the Hon.
William L Ysncey Of Aabans, and Professor we
believe be is s Professor, he certainly should be
one both of Religion and Science) and Professor
De Bow, Of New Orleans, well known BY bis Re-
view and bis connexion with the last Cengus It
is true Southern Idyl, much more to the purpose
than that which this ungrsteful city refused to
listen to from the coLtouched Lips Of William
Gilmore Simms, LID, two or three Winters ago.
a genuine Eclosue is it, sang BY two pA.rarchd
shepherds, As they cit watching their black aocks
-''nisras PteHdes'-and seheming how they may
multiply their feecy store. "Arcades cm5o,"-
which We would BY no means translate after
Lord Byrons version, I'd est, blAckguards both :"
e, css'ars, ps,es e. resporaer- pa,sa,
Both, that is, equally fitted to cant on su..ion,
and ready to respond to any letters they may re-
ceive on such . theme. The Alternate song i,
introduced BY an address OF the pastor, Yaucey. to
the editor Of the Alabama paper which fnt re-
corded the competition, and who acted % the
Mexican umpire Of the responsive notes In this
Prole gOmenous efasion be give,h ut.ersnce to
randg sentiments entertained By SWANS, to whom
The charge Of the particular kind Of black cattle
sser which they witch il committed, and which
We viii proceed briefly to relate, dsmountins At
once from our high horse, lest be should throw us
over his bead into the mire
The Hon. Mr.. Yaaeey hath arrived 1t two con-
ciusons: First, that "the Federal laws prohibit.
e ins the African slsve trade and Furnishing it -
- piracy, Are unconstitutional and are 1t war with
the fundamental policy Oft South And. therefore