New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-30
ANOTHER CANoNuCAL CHAMPION.

The Reverend Mr.. w. G.. Dana, OF Charleston
in the State of South Carolina, was recently in
vited to attend the annual meeting OF the Southern
Aid Society in Boston, and in neat note declined
the honorable invitation This, certainly, prepos-
sessed us in favor of the writer. We can easily
imagine how, as q Southern genteman-we trust
there is nothing violently arrogant in presuming
ourselves, merely for the purpose of illustration,
to be a Southern gentleman-we should grieve at
learning that in n6del, goddess, and crazy Boston,
Society had been formed for the expectation per
frst-class steamer, of pure religion to Southern
regions. Of course, living in those hot ATTITUDES,
we should be sensitive to insult. We should not
RELISH we think, enterprise, however benevolent
in IT'S origin, which placed us upon level with
Hottentots and South Sea Islanders. Unless
Southern philosophers, politicians, and preachers
are entirely mistaken and misnformed, it is South
Carolina that should send missionaries to Boston;
since in South Carolina only is the Christian Re-
Igion preserved in it's primitive purity-since there
best are understood the morals of Moses and the
sacred legacies of Paul. IL we may trust the
Scriptura exegesis Of Fuller, ID. d., & Co., Bos-
ton, owning no negroes, maintaining no patriarchal
institutions, falling equally from the Faith as de-
livered from Mount Sinai and Nazareth, blind to
the black mans divine inheritance OF Ivnaoso, .rd
reckless of his right to be charitably enslaved, is
urely entitled, in her sin against humanity to the
prayers OF South Carolina. The offer of missionary
men and money proceeding from the very SodOm
of Sodomite New-EnglaDd, must therefore affect
a heightened and thoroughbred Southern
cclesiastic very much as if Timbuctoo
should manifest sudden interest in the conversion
Of the Slave States, or, as if the Digger Indians
hOuld hold Convention to consider the ways and
means of beguiling the people of Charleston into
the fold of the Church. We do not wonder, there
fore, that this reverend gentleman of the Southern
Persuasion, in declining to lend his private grace and
goodness to the Boston Platform, should be little
waspsh, and should inform his oficous correspond
ents that South Carolina does not particularly need
the aid of this wonderful Society Hebcgs leave to
inform them that the South is not quite out of the
article of " true religion" yet. 81 would have
"you to know" he says, substantially, +" that we
do not consider ourselves to be small-becr Chris
tians, by any manner of means" He denies the
vi INC Doutu tliHtl Ill upIlgulut55, VI
in " HONOR" or in nObleness," or in I" beneyo-
I" lence." He has his fling at the Five Points, but
spares sundry clerical dehnquents. He does not
say, in so many words, Physician, heal myself"
but his hOmily has very much the SAVIOR of that re-
buke. Clearly, until the Southern Aid Society
shall establish its claim to Southern consideration
by investing the proceeds of two three collections
in good sold Scriptural slaves, it cannot hope for
the cooperation of Southern clergmen. There are
but two ways of winning the regenerated hearts of
the Church South. Buy negroes, if you can; suffer
yourselves to be owned if you are too poor to be
owners
Meanwhile, we are sorry to find that the Rev.
Mr.. Dana should be compelled to defend Slavery
by an appeal to the Apostle Paul; because it is a
simple historical fact, not to be overturned by
whole Convection of Doctors of Divinity. that of
Slavery, American Slavery, of the buying and sell
ing OF men, of the breeding of men for bar.
gam and sale, of the breeding of women for prosti-
tuition, and of the whole train of mean desires
which Slavery generates, ST. Paul knew nothing
specifically. Of that human depravity which finds
lis most normal concrete in American Slavery, he
knew much, and against il he launched the thunder.
bolts OF his wonderful eloquence; but he could no
more denOnnce our Slavery as such, than he
could denounce the cOunterfeting of bank
notes BY the Photographic process, or an assault
upon an American Senator with n gutta -percba
cane. IT is certainly singular that while Southern
divines continue TO sustain Slavery as sreeminen.ly
a social necessity. they should make no distinction
between the times of the Patriarchs and our own.
1t is possible that Slavery in the days of Abraham
did not necessarily Involve oppression and injustice
even in rare and Individual cases; but il is abso
lutey certain that Slavery as it exists in Amer.
ca involves, under circumstances which must
often recur, the most fragrant oppression and
injustice. There was Slavery in the Roman En-.
pre, and there is Slavery in the United states but
be must be pretty shallow scholar who does not
know what the commonest study of Archaeology
would teach him, that the Slavery of the Romans
was not at oil Like the Slavery Of the Americans.