The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-05-17

might have given Us, "The sinfulness oil
teaching slaves to read the Bible;1 tsDoncu-
binage right when the master demands it;o
g The whole duty OF slaves - obedience n
1.-THE Ten Commandments not applicable 10
slaves" Glove thy neighbor not Intended for
masters" and 80 on to the and Of the ehap~
ter. Such tracts, however elaborated, woald
have done less to uphold Slavery and the
slave trade than has been done by practically
and persistently maintaining that the sup.
porters OF these enormitiss are Evangelical
and that good faith toward
Christian brothers forbade even csnsure OF
their crimes.
The labors Of the Managers are telling ut
home and abroad. Their influence 10 evident
Ut the South, where Slavery il rampant in
Church and State, where men are bred ~
oxen are for the shamblss, whore womanss
virtue 10 . marketable commodity, and chill
dren are sold Like pigs, where white fathers
stock the plantation with young mulattoes,
and grow rich on the bones and muscles Of
their own offspring, where the Bible is seal
cd book more inaccessible TO four millions OF
immortal souls than in any Popish country.
where avsrice and iust trample out the life OF
race - darkening their souls, outraging
their persons, and converting them from gen.
GRAFTON to generation into mere chattels.
And il is not less evident in Africa, which
our fathers for time freed from the vilainy
OF the slave trade, but where the devil is
again unclaimed, doing his damned work,
fraught with tears and agony, amid the fran
tic applause Of thousands at the South, whom
the Tract Society greet as Evangelical Chris.
tians. 80
We recommend to those members of the
Society who would like to know what their
members have accomplished during the last
two years, since they violated the instruo-
tons given them in 1859, psinfu Y inetruc-
tive paper in The New -Englander for Febru-
airy, by the Rev. VIM. De Loss Love, OF Wis
consin, on sThe Reopening of the African
Siave-Trade' The fearful testimony he
cites 10 gathered from witnesses on the spot.
The Rev. Messrs. Bashheii aud Walker, Ut the
Gaboon Mission, agree In the statement that
ell the missionaries on the coast of Africa,
from the whole Christian world, are not equal
in number s'to the slave ships from the port
OF Ne~ York alone that yearly visit the coast
for slaves. One city furnishes more slave
ships for Africa than all Christsndom does
missionaries.r Mr. Gaulden, OF Georgia, in
the Dem oorstic Convention at Charleston,
during the present month, said;
81 Represents the African slsvs-trade inter-
est of that region. [Applause.l am proud
OF the position occupy in tina. respect.
believe that the african slape-tradsr u a
true missionary and a true Christian."-
Applause.
MIR. Gaulden in this but expresses q similar
sentiment to that of DIR. Nehemiah (South.
Side) Adams, whose continuance In the man
agement OF the Tract Society 10 a guaranty
for iss utmost fidelity TO the slave-trsding
interest. That reverend divine, with holy
unction, even invokes = BENSON on the Infer
nal trafhc. According 10 this Evangelical
Christian sit requires neither strong faith
nor FANCY TO suppose that she work might
stil 20 ON in the form Of % interchange OF
the blacks between Africa and the Southern
States. The South has learned to be the
protector and the friend Of the African"
Thanks to the teachings Of DIR. Adams and
his associates, neither faith nor fancy is nov
required TO convince us that the work is go
ing braveiy on. The very Interchange pray
ed for would seem to have come TO pass, for
= ship chartered to convey blacks to Africa ia
said 60 have returned with cargo OF slaves.
A missionary Of the American Board writes
that "there cannot be less than one hundred
vessels now on the African coast freighted
with Slaves" and that sat least sixty or sew
enty of these are destined for she American
/ States" And she letters OF other missiona
ries on the western coast say that the slave
| trade has greatly. Increased within the last
twelve months.
Ii is but just 20 the Society at large, TO the
thousands OF members scattered ttroughou,
the land, to say that their position on ihs
Slavery question is entirely misrspresentec
by the Managers. The Society in 1857 unan.
imousiy resolved that ''she moral evils and
vices which Slavery is known to promote, AMI
which are condemned in Scripture, and .,
much deplored by evangelical Christians
undoubtedly do fall within the province o
the Society, and can and ought TO be discuss
cd 10 fraternal and Christian manner. -
That resolution the Managers insoiently 70
fuse to obey. Their mercantile supporter
in this city sustain them in their dlsobedi
ence, and have introduced into the meeting
the gag rule and kindred violence that hav
lately disgraced it's anniversaries. For th
present, nothing IL left for those who hold Z
the resolutions OF the Society, but to protes
against their violation; for until the life
members in the country are enabled to vot
. by proxy, the Tract Society will probabl
continue, as at present, the guardian 0
Slavery and the Slave Trade.