The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-05-17
N rlnaber 20.
KETTELLIN A STRANGE
PLACE.

The New York Methodist Conference. .
were in session last week.. and in tor
mcnt upon slavery, as usual The i'm
mediate subject Of discussion was Il ccr-
tain resolution from Eric to change tho
readingot the Discipline, so rs to mako
slaVeholding instead of slavetrading
ground disqualification, The only re.
markablc thing we sec in the discussion,
was II speech by the Rev. George w.
kcttcII, who deserves immortal honor
for his courage and boIdncss in telling
80 much plain truth before such an au.
djtory. The brethren, it is true, rccciv-
cd his suggestion as 30 much nonsense,
unworthy of serious attention, but all
| this malo his effort the more mcritori-
olla in its conception and oXecution.--
We quoto some OF the clear ringing of
this sound Kottell-it is II wondor SO
much good sense on the slavery TOPIC.
ever found expression in the New York
Conference:
All the rhetoric expended about peo-
pie owning tuc bodies and souls Of slaves
was nonsense, The southerners only
owned the right to make their slaves
work, and to convey them from one
place toanother to make them do so.--
At Athens and Rome, the bodies and
souls were owned, but in our day slaves
were treated with kindness, and cruelty
to them was punished severely Slav-
cry, Us it now existed, was not u sim
The question was, whether they should
let loose l,OOO,OO0 Of paupcrs upon the
world lie depicted tho natural dcgra-
duLion Of the negro race, and insisted
that they were best off as at present.
The negro in the West Indies was in
capable Of taking care Of himsclf--
Emancipation had blighted onc-half of
the finest Of the Antilles This was
proved incontestahly. Toussaint rOu-
vcrture disccrncd the evils Of freedom
to the bucks, and established the IA
nous "Rurral Codc,' with the intent to
finally cnslavc all his race. Go where
you would in our own North, and the
negroes were an idle set, If Slavery
had degraded the negro, why didn't
Freedom elevate him? He affirmed
most cmphatcaIIy, that under Gods
Providence, Slavery in America had
p been the only thing which had elevated
, the negro race, and he was n bold man
who would dare deny it! In morals,
health, and civilization, the slaves were
II Elr above the free rcgroos. Many sta
; tistc5 were given to show this. Mr..
= Wesley was often quoted AS having said
f that "American Slavery was the vilest
system under the sun" Mr.. Wesley
must have been blinded by prejudice,
: or he would never have made such re-
mark. Folks said we were cottonized.
1t was blessed thing for us that we
were The wealth flowing to us from
the Southern cotton crop alono kept
aliyo our institutions. The Speaker
here went on to contrast the products
Of the South and Of the North, finding
an enormous ratio i'll favor Of the latter,
| and ending with the conclusion that we
were the ones who were actually de-
irving the most benefit from the institu-
| ton Of Slavery Don't his brother love
a coffee and sugar, and he was sorry to
say, tobacco? Did they ever think Of
aboIishing Slavery by giving up slave
products? 1t was something very cur
ious to see Il brother get up and make
an Anti-Slavcry speech, with Il cotton
shirt on his back, and tobacco in his
mouth [Grcat Iaughter.] If Slavery
was Il relic Of barbarism, twas because
the negroes were barbarians; all this
talk about their being equal with us, he
didn't believe word of Twas ALI
nonsense and sophstry Attempts to
alter Southern Institutions by such talk
:, made him think Of the European rival
villages, Great Barre, and Little Barre
The people in the latter place built lof-
ty stccpIc, with aiwondcrful clock in it,
looking toward the rival village, from
which the resemblance Of human
countcnancc lOomel forth and made IA
cc3 at Great Barre, whenever the clock
struck the hour of the day. This was
what we were engaged in doing-mak-
ing faces ut the South, and he didn't
think it was very dignitied, or that it
would result nmuch in the end. Great
5, mcrrimcnt and confusion.