The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-12-17
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER II.
The Future of Slavery.

Progress.
published an article a short time
ago upon the subject of " the future of
slavery" in which we undertook to
point out some Of the defects in our
great domestic institution. We then
promised to resume the subject another
time, and we now set about doing so.
Since the preparation Of our last arti.
Gle upon the question Of slavery, we
have received a copy of the Pastoral
Letter from tho Bishops of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church to the clergy
and laiety of the Church in the Confed.
crate States Of America. Delivered be-
fore the General Council, in ST. Paul's
Church, Augusta, Ga, Nov. 22d, 1862"
From the pamphlet whose title page
we have thus given we make the follow.
ing extracts.
The Bishops refer to the moral and
religious improvement of the slaves, as
being "that great work which GoD has
placed at our very door, and which is,
next to her W expansion, the Churchs
greatest work in these Confederate
States. The religious instruction of
the negroes has been thrust upon us in
such a wonderful manner that we must
be blind not to perceive that not only
our spiritual, but our national litc is
wrapped up in their welfare. With
them we stand or fall, and Con will not
permit us to be separated in interest or
in fortune"
In the Same connection they say:
The time has como when the Church
should press more urgently than she
has hitherto done upon her laity, tho
solemn tact, that tho slaves of the
South are not merely 80 much proper.
ty, but arc q sacred trust committed to
us, as q people, to be prepared for tho
work which God may have tor them
to do, in the future. While under this
tutoIage He freely gives to us their Ia.
Dor, but expects us to give back to them
that religious and moral instruction.
which is to elevate them in the scale Of
being. And while intoxicating this
truth, the Church must offer more free
ly hor ministrations for their benefit
and improvement. Her laity must set
the example Of readiness to fulfill their
duty towards these people, and her
clergy must strip themselves Of pride
and tastidiousness and Incidence, and
rush, with tho zeal of martyrs, to this
labor of love. The teachings of the
Church are those which best suit u peo.
pie passing from ignorance to civillza
ton, because while it represses all IA.
naticism, it astens upon the memory
the. great facts of our religion, and
through its objective worship attracts
and enchains thom. So far from rela X
ing, in their case, the forms of the
Church, good will be permanently done
to them just in proportion as we teach
thom through their senses and their af,
sections. If subjected to the teachings
cfa bald spirilualism, they will find
food for their senses and their child.
like fancies in superstitious observances
of their own, leading too often to crime
and RIGHTEOUSNESS.
A word or two here. There can be no
issue joined upon the first part of the
proposition with which the above
extract begins. The slaves "are not
merely so much property" they arc
not cattle-not dumb beasts, to be
merely provided with food and covcr
ing as their only need, but they are all
human beings, having need of religious,
moral, and, in some sort, mental cul.
ture, which they have right to at the
bopIc Of thn master race. Wa helieva