The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-05-05

Church North. This Rev., or very Rev.,
or Right Rev, Kettell, belongs to and
made his appearance in the New York
Conference, which held its session in New
York city few days since, and therein
most cheerfully freed his mind and venti-
lated his brain upon the great question be-
fore the Conference and before the Ameri-
can people-viz: the black man and his
status in this country.
We have from time to time kept our
readers informed as to the opinions -espe-
cially the adverse CONSULTATIVE to us, ex-
pressed throughout the country We have
felt this to be duty. A people should
not only know themselves, but know also
how others regard them. Thus may they
be enabled to repel all approaches to
wrongs attempted upon them, or hurl back
foul aspersions heaped upon them, or pur-
sue the even tenor Of right way, disre-
garding all and every cowardly attempt to
drive them from their path with IMMUNITY.
To hinder US, to drive us, to discourage,
to dishearten, to weaken us, and to utterly
break us down, we had had, we thought,
every species of being, and every kind of
effort that Anglo-American ingenuity could
devise or malignity bring to bear. The
legislative force, the judicial powers, the
venal press, and the yet more venal pas
sions of base men, have all been pressed
into the service. The pulpit and the the
ology of the land, too, have furnished more
than their quota of the work. So far. in
the business of grinding down fellow be-
ing have these last gone that they them
selves have become completely perverted
their own streams so riled and impure
that bitter waters only flow from them.
They intoxicate, they Supply, they bruti-
fy, but, alas! accomplish nothing more.
We had thought, however, that these An
glo-Americans, in thus pressing down the
"nigger," had touched bottom. We find
that we were wholly mistaken We had
felt that these men might continue, each
in his own humor, in the slough made for
him, but that they could get any farther
down was an impossibility. Alas for the
fJlibility Of human reason and human con-
illusions
And these earnest and faithful workers
were at their work Of infamy, and it was
high noon, Sand Satan came also"-came
in the person Of the Rev. Mr.. Kettell, and
in the presence Of them all descended to a
depth SO far below anything we had thought
or conceived Of, that it amazed and bewil-
dered US. 1t even staggers his co-workerS;
it backs down his friends. This descentis
even lower than that Of the arch-angel who
was whirled out Of heaven, for we doubt if
his (Kettell's) friends could have found
him but for his shrieks of "Negro |" "Ne-
grol" as he went down, which rent and pol
luted the very air abont him.
This clerical devil, like his prototype of
old, having but the lust of the world
before his eyes, appeals most fervidly to
the basest passions OF the wicked, anderies
"bravo p to their assent. His very breath
is corrupt-it stinketh in his own nostrils
Hear him before aconference of Christians
81 am man to be turned out of church
because of my connection with negro slave
ry;" slavery is not SINFUL" "the Romans
used to cut their slaves to pieces to Efeed
there fishes on, and the young men of Ath-
ems cut them up for amusement, leaving
them in the streets p
After these elegant and classical allu-
sions, surely we Americans can but agree
to the business and beauty of slave-hold-
ing, and not only whip, but occasionally
"cut up" a" nigger" for amusement. But
hear him shrek again, as he passes on
downward: "The slaves are four millions
Of paupers; they won't work, and can't
taho CdlG VI tHcu1Sclf0S, anu VIC InuSI 10 III
for them" They are lazy and good for
nothing. There are more members of the
Christian church, good Christians, among
the slaves in this country than among any
other people in the world. "They (the
slaves) are barbarians.' "The negro sinks
in morality. He is degraded being.'
These three lost elegancies we have been
much puzzled to string together. But
hear him again: "We Christians have a
right to make the negroes work and raise
cotton" "When we stand mp here and
vote that slavery is sin, we ought to
know what we are talking about" At
this we opine the Conference conclu-
ded that Mr.. Kettell did not know what
he himself was talking about, for the whole
convention burst into laughter. "Breth-
rem" said he, "may laugh, but they had