The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-15
Fsou. tie Neap York Churehmaa.
The Slavery Problem.


Without taking an extreme theory and af-
forwards putting down facts to fit, according
to modern usage, we begin by saying that,
from the inherent characteristics of the negro
race, we deduce the fact that the black man
is intended by God to be the servant Of the
white man, as much as children are intended
by nature to he subject to and dependent on
their natural guardians; that The natives of
Africa are no more able by q spontaneous eff
fort, to raise themselves from their debased,
social, moral and religious condition, than a
newly-born infant is capable of supplying
itself with food and raiment without the
care of its parents; that every Christian man
must recognize the responsibility which Gods
Providence has laid upon the superior race, to
provide for the wants. both temporal and
eternal, of the inferior one that to accom-
plish this end the white race must exercise a
certain amount Of control and authority over
the black and that, as natural sequence,
negro slavery, in some form or other, is part
of the harmonious system, established by
God, in His good pleasure, for mans govern
ance.
We assume, what We suppose no sensible,
| not to say Christian man, can deny-that
there can be no civilization, no progress, nc
| improvement in any race Of men, without la
| Dor; and that, if this is true of mankind at
large, it is doubly true Of the negro, who by
| his physical and mental conformation, is less
| inclined to labor than any other race of men
| All experience proves this to be a fact The
British experiment of the emancipation o.
the negro slaves in the West Indies-that
| tribute paid by the British nation and Gov
eminent to the fanatieal sentiDentality of the
/ Exeter Hall faction-which under monarch
ical government, has produced the results
| toward which the despotism of Democracy II
our own country is now hurrying us, proves
| it beyond doubt There, in the most fruit
full country in the world, where nature pours
out her stores with the most lavish bounty
/ where man has but to stretch forth his hand
and gather abundantly all that is requisite fol
the sustenance of his body, and where We
should suppose the negro race, living undel
free institutions, and in all respects placed OF
| an equal social footing with the white race
would be the most fayorably situated for a.
tanning the highest degree Of civilization o
which they are capable, what do we find ?
We find that the present generation, thos'
born free, who have never been compelled Il
work, and who consequently have worked a
little as they possibly could, have fallen oil
very materially from the standard of civiliza
ton attained by their slave fathers; that they
are rapidly degenerating into condition o
barbarism, and that, in few years, if left Il
| themselves, they viii not be far above the so
cial average Of their race in Africa.
Il 1t Is doubtless our duty as
I Christian people to bring this degraded an
brutalized race under the influence of Chris
tianity and within the pale of the Church
eve,a an spite Of Themselves. The theory @
abstract right to liberty is at once proves
false by the facts which can be brought +
bear upon it. 1t is altogether useless to sa
that the negro has right to liberty, when
can be conclusively demonstrated that he
physically unadapted for it. God has give
no rights to man that he has not adapted ma
for exercising, and the fact of the negro be
ing, in consequence of his fallen and misers
Bile condition, thus unadapted, proves that h
is incapable of enjoying liberty.