The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-31
Missionaries for Port Royal.

) the Treasury that Mr.. Pierce, the govern
ment agent, is directed to give all suitable
support and aid to any person commissioned
or employed for the religious instruction OF
the aboring population within the lines OF
our troops in South Carolina. Under this
general direction missionaries from several
denominations, Baptist, Reformed PreSbyte-
ran, and Unitarian, have already entered the
field Our own Church ought not to be last
in this good work. Our missionary Board
has already given attention to this subject
aud our Missionary Secretary is In correspon-
dence with the government In relation to 1t.
When premnaries shall have been settled
our bishops will we feel assured, do their
part. We have received the following inter.
esting letter from DR.. Foy, who went to Port
Royal as our readers may remember, merely
on tour Of observation, He is expected home
In week or two :
Having received polite invitation from
an official source. and with the cordial appro-
baton Of the trustees and stewards of my
! Church, | consented to make u tour OF IN
spection among the colored people Ia South
Carolina who have SO recently and so strange
ly emerged from slavery to a state OF freedom
4 more wonderful transition the world has
never witnessed. People nave been brought
| from the house Of bondage By the outstretch-
cd arm Of Jehovah, aud nations have fought
for liberty and gained it. Thousands Of men
women and children have used their individual
powers OF l0com0ti0n, having heard or dream
! cd OF certain iOaenaolc rights, and follow
lug the most blessed of all the stars in the
! armament, have escaped forever from the
drivers lash and the still more dreadful block
of the auctioneer. Vastly different is the
case OF the people | propose to visit. No
hcaven-scnt Moses has led them forth ; their
hands are not red with the blood OF their OPP
prcssors /; tley did not run away from their
native land ; their masters ran away fran
them
Strange! Consider them as merely things,
Or regard them as human beings, unaccount-
ably mysterious South Cardinals laws
brand them all as chattels, each bearing a
marketable value, even as a docile donkey or
a traiLed orangoutapg. Here are many mil
lions Of dollars from which the possessors
bavc run away. The chivalry, even of the
| Palmetto state, were not wont to run away
from money. But the scene is even moro
remarkable if we consider these quondam
slaves as human beings. In that case their
money value was none the less, and then were
superadded those feelings Of atfectionate re-
gard and ATTACHMENT which are the boast oil the
true Southerner. Who has not heard Of the
negro love for his master and who ever
dreamed that the master did love the negro
equally well ? Why, o why, when the
negro would not run away from him. did he
run away from the negro or wherefore doth
the stakeholder fee when no man pursu.th.
OBJECT OF MY VISIT
Having been a citizen of these United
States for half a century, | have had, during
all that time, the right, guaranteed to me by
the Constitution, Of treading the sacred soil
of South Carolina, and of baskiDg under the
shade of her palmettos whenever pleased
1t has not been convenient for me to exercise
that right lor the last ten or twelve years
The United States government, | have been
gravely told, could not protect me there, not
so much on account of weakness on her part
as on account OF some supposed strength Of
sentiment on mine. But now matters are
changed. South Carolina no longer acknow-
lodges the Constitution nor the government to
which owe allegiance, and Uncle Sam, as if
to make amends for his imbeciity in time
past, takes the first opportunity to invite me
to 60 thither at his expense. in one of his
ships, to be provided for aod protected by his
guns while there, and to be returned IN the
same way whenever ii shall suit my pleasure
Ut course accept the invitation, and hail it
as the olive branch Of perpetual amity between
the government and my humble self hereafter
Then, too, in that region there are certain
kinsmen Of mine whom have never seen in
the flesh, but whose names are in the book Of
life, far above mine own, many OF them,
doubt net. am told they have had weary
time OF it in their pilgrimage. should kno,o
ho,c to speak pord an season to him that is
pea'y. My soul yearns to see disciple who
has been faithful to Christ while Invested of
every natural right, one who has thanked God
while Invested Of every natural right, one who
has thanked God three times day for food,
while obliged to make a solitary peck Of corn
suffice for whole week. From an actual in.
specton Of their state and condition | may be
eDabled to answer questions on nv return,
and to suggest means for their improvement
, to those who ore DESTROYS to do them good.