The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-12-17

author Of the Pastoral Letter from
which We havn made the foregoing ex.
tract, or the Council OF Bishops who
adopted it, any of them, hold to the
belief that the negro Is capable of such
a degree Of advancement rs will ever
quality him to act in any other than a
sphere of servitude to the controlling
race. What degree Of progress the re-
mote future may develop in the African
must be left to coming centuries to de.
termine; but that he can never over.
step the bounds Of n rigid subordina-
ton to the white man, is a plain de-
cision of nature which a child may
read. And he has poorly interpreted
the finger Of progress in the discovo-
ries, inventions, and tendency of the
mOderns, who has MOI read in all these
things the demolition Of the walls that
have so long separated tho several ia,
miles of mankind, and the gradual but
inevitable growth Of relations of com.
mercial, social, and religious commu.
nifty amongst them. We therefore
hold it to DO a truth, to us self evident,
that either Africa and the Africans are
to remain in utter exclusion; or else
coming within the radius Of civiliza.
ton they must occupy that subordin-
ate rank to which nature assigns them.
Natural order and social harmony both
require that the negro should DO Il ser.
want in the great household of the
human family.
The Bishops further say:
1t is likewise the duty of the Church
to press upon the masters of the coun .
try their obligation, as Christian mon,
30 to arrange this in t~itution as not to
neces.itate the violation of those sacred
relations which God has created and
which man cannot, consistently with
Christian duty, annul. The systems of
labor which prevail in Europe ard
which are, IN many respects, more Sc
we're than ours, are 50 arranged az to
prevent all necessity for tho separation
ofparcnts and children and ofhusbands
and wives, and II very little care upon
our part, would rid The system upon
which We are about to plant our nation.
al life, OF these unchristian features. 1t
belongs, especially, to the Episcopal
Church to urge u proper teaching upon
this subject, for in her told and in her
congregations are found IL very large
proportion OF the great shareholders OF
the country. We %rojoice to be enabled
to say that the public sentiment if
rapidly becoming sound upon this sub
Ject, and that the Legislatures of seve-
raj OF the Confederate States have al
ready taken steps towards this consum.
nation. Hitherto have we been hin.
dered by the pressure of abclitionism
now that we have thrown off from lis
that hateful and infidel pestilence, we
should prove to the world that we are
faithful to our trust and the Church
should lead the hosts of the Lord in
this work Of justice and OF mercy.
1t will be q matter of much satisfao,
ton to every man of humane feelings
in the bounds of the Confoderacy, to OBJ.
serve that this large and influential body
of Christians have taken such a high
position upon this momentous subject
Our domestic institution is defective
and all must admit it. Tho defects
have not been removed because of the
abolition pressure" heretofore. But
the time has now come, whom christian.
ity and common sense call upon US to
"rid the system upon which we are
about to plant our national lifo," of
these defects and unchristian fea.