The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-10

been shipped to jamaica other colony of British
ossesson and put to raising cotton
staple Southern products But worst of this is that
the poor negro will be nVegled into slavery under the
name of apprentice, or some such delusion Hon Col
Prince, of the Canadian Parliament proposes to Danish
mem to one of the Manatoulin Islands way up in the
frozen regions where thew would all SOM feeze n
snow what estimate is placed upon runaway slaves
up IN Canana, will give the language of the speaker
himself
He said: 'He wished to move a rider to the measure
The black people who infested the land the greatest
curses to the Province The lives people of the
were made wretched by the nundation of these animals
and many of the largest farmers of county of had
been compelled to leave their beautiful farms because of
the Pestilential swarthy swarms. What were these
wretches lit orY Nothing They cooked our victuas and
shampooned us but who would not rather that these
ties should be performed By white men? The blacks were
worthless useless thrfess of beings; they were too
indolent lazy and ignorant to work They men
they were baboons and detestable they that
less some method we've adopted to prevent their influx
into this country by the underground railroad the people
force" ~ W - 'F
Thus you see, freenegroism is the same every where
This picture Of Canada free negroes accord pretty well
WIN Iree negroes in Maryland, in Jamaica in Hay in
Mex'co in Central America and, indeed every In
land, in the cities and villages they our VIC
uaiS sampoon US shave and do such like jobs but
win Co Prince, would ask, there enough needy
whites among US to do such things? In the country in
stead of cooking vctuals they generally manage to
steGt a tiring out of our earnings.
,, But said in the start that the negros friend
me language have used and the have present
ed in the estimation of some forfeit NV claims rs
ther friend Degraded and miserable as / have des-
clDeu our Tree negro population to be, stand up in
their defence, and say here it no fault of theirs 1t
the fault of the State And as Nathan said to David
when charging him with moral crime in the eyes of
God so say to the State of Marylana-"hou art the
man Slavery is the true condition of the negro
race 1t is the only condition in which they can be usenI
moral and happy Slavery is just essential to the ne
gro race as freedom the white race And YOU might
reasonably expect to make good slaves of our wLte
population as to make good reemen of the Africans
Slavery has existed in all of the world and with
& a., in some form or other 1t is in
ance with the necessities Of society and sanctioned
by the eternal fiat of omniscence We can neither do
away with the necessities growing social COM
hand. IKE he cd or
on the other hand We must take mankind as they are
ana not deal with them as angels devils neither can
we admt the principle of equality between the negro and
white race.
1t follows then that the negro being inferior should be
subordinate to the will of the superior He cannot be the
equal ofhe white man; but his very being depends upon
slavery to the white man. his equal in all the civil So
ca and industrial pursuits oflife His being can only
be perpetuaed in this country by slavery or by equality
Inc latter relation being absurdity the becomes
essential TO his existence The Indian race were neither
e49a 10 US nor were they our slaves they gone
Like April snow in the noon, they melt away
ana swift we follow as they towards the setting day
nature never lifted them to be EQUALS and we nre-
erred the negro for slaves See the result for every slave
prougnt TO TINS country we now have ten On the
hhu the millions OF Indians in possession country
when first settled have nearly disappeared But they had
western forest to retreat to;where would our free ne
Groes go to when the storm of the white mans rage shall
burst upon him Those who wish the determination of
the negro race should favor their freedom thos whose
minus can penetrate beneath the surface of the negro
problem, and whose religion consists in good will to man
ana reverence to Gods eternal lawsshould favor their
slavery.
1t is remarkable that Almighty God has sgnalized
the institution OF Slavery in many instances with his
appreciation favor When Hagar fed from bar mis-
ress Sarah, because her chastsemens the angel Of
the Lord said return TO thy mistress submit tyself
'nder her hand" Hagar was bona-fde slave of Abra
nam IN all respects as any of our slaves to u.s.
Again the Almighty sanctifes the institution of slavery
IN the case Of Joseph to the lives the Egypt
ans and OF the lsraelites Had Slavery been a moral
wrong, would God have it to carry out his benign
purpose Did God ever sanction sin in any age of the
hare not fond great faim no not in Israefgg Gg
as where why as in this slaveholdng century Paul
lore our act OF 1880 was passed All the Apostles speak of
Slavery as one of the cardinal relations of life and in the
sg category as husbands and wives parents and
chnarer, government and citizen Where's wrong
Not in the Bible, in the things Where the9
No where-excep in the 'hgher aw' that seeks
TO abolish nero slavery, in order substitute white
slavery to capital, as is now the in Europe
might consider my task completed-yes, l wish
could now take my seat But stern dutv-painful dis
agreeablca duty the discharge which NAV bring upon
me remuneration and persecution from certain quarters
still remains to be performed cannot finch from II II
Is task not self imposed, assumed not courted by
me- 1T has been thrust upon me by agency outside of
the State of Mary land and unless am willing Ia have
my name cast out as evil, motives impugned my re
ligIon scohed at and my character vilfed, l cannot
see how to escape the performance of this duty.
Mr. PreSident-On the Sd and 4th days of November
last Convention Delegates from the Eastern shore
counties met in Cambridge to devise better
regulation and control of the negro population of that
Shore They quietly and prudently suggested such rem
dies as they thought the required
luy retired to their homes was member of that Con
yentiOn, and took humble share in its deliberations
The papers of our State published proceedings
y,
ment on the matter
To my surprise, nay, to my sorrow and regret, the
ChISada idr0cdte and Journal published New York
and one of the lit not he leading paper Methodist
Episcopal Church came out in along editorial
umns on 18th November denouncing the dongs that
oone!.oh IN the most earnest and bitter terms. After
publishing the preamble and resolutions it sayst 1.-THE
Convention is the second re action within twenty years
the necessary progress of society in Maryland
NO insult could he more cutting than this by the word
society equality between free negroes and white
citizens is clearly impie1. Agan"This movement is
precisely similar to the of ls42 successfully
sisted sisted by Bnop Waugh the Rev Robert Emory and
OF is+2 called forth vehement storm from the ministry
of the Methodist Church" acknowledgements were cir
cuated signed and forwarded from Baltimore to Annapo
s by Bishop Waugh and the Rev Robert Emory. Agar
meetings were held in the Light street and Exc
street Methodist Churches and speeches
delivered by the Rev Robert Emory in opposition
measures of the Shareholders" Agan-tIn 1912 as in
1893 the Shareholders resored to the most desperate al
legations respecting the free negroes; do not believe
mat their statements were true then, do believe
that they are truenow" That is telling plainly thai
we lie After throwing the lash freely and plying the
spur to the members OF the Methodist Church it recon
mends to all coed MehodstS in Maryland to keen their
eye on this matter They will certainly do that with
out commanding them, for the Methodists Maryland
tired ffree-negrosm as any others in the state
The Editor of the Adroraie fourishes the ecclesiastical
cow-hde over the members of the Methodist Church in
Maryland, and tells them what he intends do
they required do by this foreign outside Theocratc
power He says: 'We have proposed to speak in due
lme on the subject Of slavery before the session of the
to stand still and remble with and terror till the
Organ speaks in 1S6O But he does not stop here he
they did in 1S42' Does the editor mean that all fire..
negroes brethren lie certainly must for the ac
tion of the Cambridge Convention included all without
exception. We think the Methodists of Maryland viii
hardly submit to this degradation. Tie editor further
the civil power of the State in these words
Methodists are not Methods politicians bit they oc
hare politicians understand - lDiH OhiS question
toh as Christians and ctti>enS - hur back into the
teeth OF the editor OF that journal this insnuatOn upoI
the loyalty and devotion of the Methodist people Mary
and to the civil authorities of the State. am Metho
dist myself have been member of that church for q
years past, and it Is the first time have learned
civil allegiance is to be subordinate ecclesiastical
ton.
The members of the Methodist Church in Maryland are
in the main, quiet, peaceable, law-abidng, devoted
Christians They are good citizens any other por
ton of population They to the Church
of their choice and have done much any
nomination to promote the glory of God amongst men
and hasten the advent of the kingdom grace in thu
world say this much for the members, can also say
much for prosecuted minority of the ministers of tn,
Philadelphia Conference-men who are struggling hart
to retain their church connections without violating
of their civil obligations due to the State But nebe
the members the minority of the ministers have
any peace any quiet repose from this eternal ding
dong on the negro question.
would ask, have not the Northern Conferences th
Church has not the General Conference, have th
Northern papers of the Church. agtated this negro
on long enough? They divided the Church in 1S44
by that act became pioneers to the other religious denomi
nations who havefoowed their example They have
much to weaken the Confederacy do they intend per
severe till they can their standard of negro equality
upon the ruins Of powerful and happy Union
say: these be thy trophies and this thy mission,
q cirH po,csr ~
MethOdism.
cause have enjoyed blessings in that Church
and because have a santed mother who worshippet
n in that Church and has gone to heaven. Let tina
. Church in Maryland drop this negro question and con
. form her rules and polity to the civil AUTHORITY
of the State; then she will be peace then she will pros
? per and become blessing to all
What religious moral end does this Church expect
accomplish upon the race in country could
succeed in freeing all the slaveS Does not the negr
membership in the Philadelphia Conference. speak vol
umes on this point? This Conference lies partly in Penn
sylvania and includes eight Eastern Shore coune
OF Maryland-one free State the other slave State
By the minutes of that Conference they hav
only two members in the South Philadelphia Dis
trct In the Snow Hill District, they have 3S06 neg
members Comment is unnecessary. In Easton District
there are 5000 negro members Would they
free that they may sink down the miserable condition
of free negroes in Philadelphia? Take off the negr
the discipline and moral restraints of slavery, and the
J. have invariably back into vice Incidence and heath
enism. Our own free negroes in Maryland furnish
II elusive proofs this point; but the condition of Jamac
and Hayti stand out warning such mad
d ness and folly.
Sir for the last few years much has been
Maryland lest the Pope of Rome, through the mnisr
II and membership of that Church. would controlin
influence the civil affairs of country am OF
posed to all ecclesiastical domination over the civil powe
/ of the State whether the claim up the
the Pope Of the Methodist Church in New York or an
e other religious denomination in country. Maryan
is sovereign State, and is entitled manage her ow
l. interests in her own Nor am aware that she
sought the intervention of any religious body
edged her ncapacy for selfgovernmen Until that tn
l. would respectfully ask-what right the New Yor
% Adrocdteor other AdrOcdte outside of the Staeha
to medde with any question of municipal police that
e present itself to eur people for their decision?
n But this is not the first time, by many that Ney
% York Methodists have sought influence in State
of During the last year hundred Mniser
the Black River