, 1860-05-12

t.treAted them as class of felous treat the coin
:. of the realm, clipping their golden edges and
"sweating them out Of their sterling ralue, and
"then circulated the base counterfeit without
"sign that it was not genuine" One instance
Of mutilation is thus noted By Dr. Keith in the
new edition Of his Sc Evidences Of Prophecy;"
9t L ss & H.
America, thts paragraph tsantte4."
In the same manner, from tract Of the Rev.
Leigh Richmond, still circulated By the Society
YVES struck ont sentence about "the price
"which sordid unfeeling ararice has affixed to
" the bed Of poor negro slave" Of the for
geries, slight perhapsin seeming, but immensely
quote two; one from tract entitled ~ The
African Seryant," where Ferse in the original
runB-
That wandered on lie SHORE;
Who never saw more"
Aare.issued from the pro-slavcry print Of the
Tract Society, it reads:
II helpless negro bor
N<n took M f..m my parent. arms,
Inever saw them more"
Another more elaborate forgery occurs in the
reprint Of the following passage from Gurney's
Habitual Exercise Of Love Toward Gods"
I'd sfsys y hss r. .sss
gd< Whete .he odous ..te whs permits to sa ~,
maiketsb!e ehattels r ~'''
How could the African Save Trade be held
part and parcel Of Evangelical Christianity If 1t
were indeed inconsistent with s'habitual love
toward God:" To reconcile the inconsistency,
the managers Of the Society carefully expunge
the pertinent reflection of this latter sentence,
md substitute this unmeaning passage:
"Whers thetoEtuses otthe 1aqult,uon?, Where every
sysem oppression and wronx BY Which he who has u:
power revels in luxury ut the expense Of s fellow men,.
It would be easy to refer to similar mutiIa"
tons in Mather's Essays to do Good" Har,;
ris's Mammon,'' "Aemoirs Of Marie Lundie,'
"Life OF Isabella Graham" Ac.. 6c.; bit
enough has been quoted to show the spirit by
which the managers have been governed, and
the method they have taken to accomplish their
purpose.
While slarery anl the slaye.trade are thus
evangelical religion, and the habitual exercise
OF lore toward God, the managers have never,
in their zeal for evangelical religion, failed in
bearing testimony against the race-course, the
theatre, and the circus; against drinking wine,
and selling rum; against gambling and Sunday
tobacco, as ''benumbing to Christians NOR
al sense" by this sin OF omission, rs we'll
us by tue sin of commission, unaueston-
ably the society e1erted far wider mud
more direct influence in behalf of Slavery,
than could possibly hare been done had it open.
~ StAfCi3 IL u SElAtS u tfAEs4 E0Hl-
mentlng on every phase Of the system, and eu-
logizing each separate feature. They might
hnre published in vain tracts entitled "The
"Saintly Slaveholder;" "The Goodly Slave
"hunter;' " The Pious Slave.breeder;" "The
Conscientious Pirate; - 1.-THE Holy kidnap-
"Good Adulterer;'' The Father Of the Plan
"tation;" continuing through the various rela.
tions Of master and Stare, or touching upon the
rights and duties incident to the system. They
might hare gi.cn us "The sinfutness CT teach
"ing s1aves to read the Bible = " Concubinnge
"who|e duty Of fslayes-obedience;" "The Ten
Commandments not applicable 10 slayes;"
"Loye thy neighbor not intended for matters"
and 80 on to the end Of the chapter. Such
tracts, however elaborated, would hare done
les. to uphold slavery and the slave trade than
maintaining that The supporters Of these enor-
mites arc Evangelical Christians" and that
good faith towards Christian brothers forbade
even censure of their crimes.
The 1abors Of the managers are telling at
home and abroad Their influence is evident
at the South, where slavery is rampart in Church
and State, where men are bred rs oxen are for
the eha1nbles, where wOman's virtue is a mar
ketab!e commodity, and the children are sold
like pigs where white fathers stockth plans:.-
tion,.with young molattoes, and grow rich on tho
bones and muscles Of their own offspring where
u
four millions Of mortal souls than in any Popish
country, where averice md lust trampe out the
! life Of a race-darlening their souls, outraging
! their persons, and converting them from gene
ration to generation into mere chattles. Aud it
is not less evident in Africa, which our fathers
for time freed from the Eilliany Of the slave-
| trade, but where the devil is again unchnined
doing his damned work, fraught with tears aud
agony, amid the frantic applause of thousands
at the South, whom the Tract Society greet as
Evangelical Christians
We recommend 10 those members Of the So
ciety who would like to know what their mana.
| gers hare accomplished during the last two
years, since they violated the instructions given
| them in 1859, d painfully. instructive paper in
| the .Nsto.Engldnder for February, By The Rev.
| VIM. De Loss Love Of Wisconsin, on "The Re-
opening Of the African Slate "Trade." The fear
tul testimony he cites is gathered from witnes:
SOS on the spot. The Rev Mr. Bushnell and
| Walker, Of the Gaboon Mission, agree in the
statement that all the missionaries on the coast
| Of Africa, from the whole Christian world, are
not equal in number Ito the slayeships from the
sport Of ::Nsw-York alone that yearly
"visit tue coast for slaves. One city furnishes
"dom does missionaries" Mr.. Gaulden Of Geor-
"gia. in the Democratic Convention at Charles-
ton during the present month, said:
Ipe4tnt The African saye trade Interest Of that re-
pea e.
r.is.f'no'y. anda true ehrtxaan." [Arpfause-1
| Mr.. Gaulden in this but expresses a similar
sentiment to that Of DR.. Nehemiah (South, ,Side)
| Adams, whose continuance in the management
Of the Tract Society is guaranty for its utmost
fidelity to the slavetrading interest. That rev.
| erend divine, with holy unction, even inyokes
benson on the internal traffic. According to
this Evangelical Christian it requires neither
strong faith nor fancy to suppose that the
"work might still 80 on in the form Of an inter
"chauge OF the blacks between Africa and the
"Southern States. The South has learned to
abe tue protector and the friend Of tue Afri-
| "cau."
Thanks to the teachings Of Dr.. Adams and bis
associates, neither faith nor fancy is now re.
quired to convince us that the work is going
brarely on. The very interchange prayed for
| would stem to hare como 10 pass, for ship
chartered to convey blacks to Africa is said 10
hare returned with a cargo Of slaves. i mis-
sionary Of the American Board writes that
sells now on the African coast freighted with
slaves" and that t' at least sixty OF seventy of
these are destined for the American States,t
And the letters Of other missionaries on The
western coast say that the slave trade has great
ly increased within the last twelve months.
Its but Just to the Society a large, to the
thousanns Of members scattered throughout the
land, to say that their position on the slavery
question is entirely misrepresented By the man.
ayers. The Society in1s51 unanimously resolved
that the moral evlls aud yices which slavery is
"known to promote, and which are condemnedin
"Sczipture, and so much deplored by evangelical
"Christians, undoubtedly Do fall tc:fhin tAe p,or.
"inef Tie Socity, and land ought to t discuss.
"<iSn a. tsasvpaland CA1ttiaa manner Tha.
resolution the managers insoently refuse to obev
Their mercantile supporters in tits city sustain
them in their disobedienoe, and have introduced
into the meetings the gag-rule and kindred yio-
lence that hare la!ter1y disgraced its anniversa-
ries. For tbs present, nothing is left for those
who hold to the resolutions Of the Society hut
to protest against their violation; for until The
life-members in the countrr are enabled to vote
By proxy, the Tract Society will probably con.
tinue, RS at present, the guardian Of zlaveryiand
the slave trade.
T. Brown County Ind. Gold Mines,
We saw yesterday German who had been
at work for some weeks in the Brown county
gold diggings, and learned from him that there
is gold to be had there, but NOT abundant enough
to pay for digging, except On ala1ger scale than
poor men can afford. Capitalists, able to nut a
large amount into the construction Of suitable
bitches and machinery, he thinks. could make it
pay, for the gold is more abundant than it is in
any Of the old mines in North Carolina or
Georgia, and quite equal to some Of the Cali
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