New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-20

test, and failed, and now God rolled thee mIicu1
toward u.s. and eaid, "Now, let o ses what yoQ3
Christianity is made Of" 1t was q very solemn
consideration. He did not doubt the result. because
we had got to give up our own national life or tak9
care OF these men: we nad 70 combat combat the sducat
it's power would show itsek. A tree torn up by tie
roots left roots behind. and if 1t were an ailanthuS
tree, every ono Of them would sprout. Thi1
was world Of dsagreeabls things from
birth TO death. There were 90 many
men who were wondering when we should
prospect Of 1t from statistics. GLaughter.l The
negro was continental fact and you could not GET
round it, or over it, under it. The only question
was whether you would DO brute and treat blm
like brute. or be man and treat him like man.
Men talked about our being responsible for the ne.
gro here. But God alone was. They who said %
we're born fools. Some said he was born TO be q
slave, let him be one. Very well; then carry him
back but not let him hang between Freedom
and Slavery. But there WAS no such thing q
man or q race fit for Slavery. Slavery was no
more ordained by the Bible than poygamy.
And the Hebrew servnude recognized mans
own fundamental right to himself. lie would
be very glad to match the men who thought
the African fit only for Slavery, against black mon,
aud if he could DOT beat half these infoel grumbles
he would agree that the Africans should 90 into
Slavery, for they would deserve 1t; they would NOT
have to half exert themselves to do II. But men
said that we proposed 70 rank the negro along sAA
of us in sOcety. We did no such thing. We mere}
ly proposed to give them chance. Az race they
were not equal 10 the white race But was the
robin the less bird because 1t was not as large e
a dove, He was q man, and Of him Christ thought
when he died. For this GRAND desplsed race God
lad humbed this nation till it was ready to let big
people 90. lie had been asked: "W0uld You have
a black man tor a Governor r. lie did not thinh
that was our next AMI immediate danger. Let u
give to the coored m,n his natural rights. We had
not our own choice in this. God came In the midst
OF tho plaques and torments Of war, and brought
liberty to those men. They were coming out Of the
house of bondage. He sorry that there were
rany who would fam make bis liberty more g.ievi
Gus TO him than his thrslldom bad been. In time
they would 20 toward the sun, away from the in4
clement North and our more Indictment hearts. But
we must heed their necessity now, and apply ID
them the laws of Christian manhood aud the laws
of political mani God. We had long been prayings
4" Thy will be DONE" Part Of IL was done. How
did we like it We are ready for 1t. II the ChurcH
OF the North sbirked its duty now IT would make
infdels of us. IL would be as empty as the temple
was when Christ drove out the monsy-chaDgen
The destiny OF the negro affected ours. We were
bound up in the same bundle. North and South
both were blocked, yet the African element kept
the whole country boiling Ike pot
Our history was 10 be dependent upon them. Let
us apply 10 them our faith in humanity, and Chris4
tanity aud civil liberty, aud if we must 80 down,
90 down with our fiax flying. Such an era had
never been before. He believed 20 thoroughly ID
Christianity aud republican institutions, that be
would say, give liberty TO each and every one Of
them: give /. TO every serf and bondnan everyt
where. There was never good thing learned ID
he'll. As TO teaching slaves how TO be free, it waa
ike teaching souls in he'll how 10 win heaven. Ley
us co,he and teach them, educate and send them %
be teachers 10 their own kind. Let US face our
duty and perform it, and God would open the way
for all the rest.
The Rev. DIR. Jones pronounced the benedicsion,
and the meeting adjourned.