Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-09

erty, income and personal lab
. OF his master, for a comfortal
y maintenance during any season
infrmitv brought upon him By old ap
the visitation Of God, or his own impr
- denee, however prOtracted that seas,
might be; a claim so sure and defini
- that it could be pursued By an action
law upon the slaves behalf; a claim
60 universally enforced and acquiesced +
% that it. neglect, or the death Of a helple
az slave through destitution, was as con
ks pletely unknown among Us as Gambia
isrn. The South met that claim, whiC
the free lahOring men OF the other Ian,
have SO often had sOrrOwfnl occasion
% argue, amid pallid famine, and with tl
y fearful logic Of instructions and blOOl
6l shed, the claim of " the right 10 labor,
oe and has met it so successfully that sd
&C has secured 10 every African slave caps
Die Of labor, without even one eNccpuo
e among oil her millions, remuncrauv
OF occupation, 40 all times, and amid al
q financial cOnvulsiuns and dcpreSsiOus @
business. That Is, she has found az al
Jr times such occupation for all Of them a
has procured for them, without eXeessiv
he toll, a decent maintenance during Jhel
active years, an adequate and uniailin
= provision for old age, a portion for thei
n widows, and a rearing for thGiT children
The South has so far performed theS
= duties 10 the bodies Of the Africans tina
no community Of them have ever, in .
single instance amid any waf or blight
or drouth, OF dearth, left the tooth @
famine ON its vitals, or so much as seer
Z the wolf, destitution, at its door.
For the culture OF the negTO's mind an,
= character, the South has also done some
thing. She has not, indeed, fallen int.
} - H.s.n1
! Of education are those summed up in the
. arts Of reading and writing-facts which
were not prevalent among those literary
: dictators of the ancient world, the COM
/ patriots Of Pericles and PlatO-nOr has
! she deemed il @ likely mode 10 cOmmU-
nic3te these useful arts TO the ebony
| youth, 10 gather three hundred Of them
{ into one pandemOnium, under a single
Overtas6ed ''schoOl-marm' or uald-patei
negro, and club the seethiug cauldron of
noise, confusion and negro-geu gas, "a
primary school, But thousands and
tens Of thousands has she taught 20 read
and offered the art 10 ten-fOld more, who
declined it from their own Incidence
through the gentle and faithful agency Of
cultivated Young masters and mistresses,
q process prohibited, ! boldly assert, gun
ctmqUe rlRi by no law upon the statute
book Of my STATE, at least But this tut
ton, extensive as il has been, is the
merest atom and mite, In the extensive
( culture which she has given 10 the Afri-
7 can race.
She received them at the hands Of
British and Yankee slave traders, be-
sotted I'm their primeval juugles, for the
( spontaneous fruits Of which they lived III
/ common. she taught the whole Of them
some rudImentS of civilization. She
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gift which, had they been introduced into
/ Northern States as free men. In numbers
SO large, they would not have fully re-
I celved In three centuries. She taught an
7 Of them some arts of useful labor, and as
large a portion of them as any other
/ peasantry learned the mechanical arts
. With the comparatively small eNceD-
ton Of the negroes upon large estates,
belonging 10 nonresident owners, the
South has placed every negro boy and
girl, during his OF her growth, under the
forming influence Of white men and
ladies, by whom they have been taught
some little tincUUres of the cleanIiness,
the decency, the chastity, the truthful
ness, the self-respect, so utterly alien %
their former savage condition, and a
share Of courtesy and good breeding
which would not disgrace any civilized
people.
OF the young uegresse5, who would
otherwise have grown up the besOttet
victims Of brutal passions, the great ma
jOrity have been, at some stage Of their
training, introduced by the South 20 the
uari0rs and chambers of their women.
from whom they have learned TO revere .
and initiate, 10 some degree, that grace
and purity, that sweet humanity and
delicacy of sentiment which glOrify the
Southern lady above all her sex; and .
under her watchfUl and kindly eve has F.
her darll-sEinned sister been taught the .
decencies and domestic arts which make I.
woman a blessing in her home. The .
boys and youths, by the same influence, /
have become the humble, Yet afiectiOnate
companions of their masters, and have (
imbibed some of their intelligence and I.
principle. Herein was the great eduCa- I
tioDaI work of the SHlth, potent and 7
persuasive as it was simple. By her -y-- .
TEN, every man and woman of the supe- .
rior race, Yea, every child, was enlisted in .
the work of the culture of the inferior,
and the whole business of domestic life .
was converted, by interest and affection .
alike, into a schooling OF the mind and .
character.
This culture has been 30 far successful /
that the African race, lately rude s8vages, |
was raised 10 such "a grade that, accord .
ing 10 high military authority in the .
United States, they were fit 10 make .
armies a. efficient as those recruited in F.
the % great, free and enlightened North F.
and in the Judgment of q powerful party .
i'm that country a party which embraces .
the major part of that particular corner .
which has the prescripJive right of know +
ing everything they have been made, +
under Southern tutelage, fully equal To .
the rights and duties of voters and rulers, /
in the most complicated of governments. /
Now, feeling that it does not become q .
subject of that government, one recently .
conquered by the great North, % dispute .
its 1icta on these points, 1 shall Of course F.
assume that they are correct. Here, .
then, is what the South has done f0r the .
development Of the negT0's mind.
Nor has our section neglected that no .
blest and highest interest Of all races, the .
spiritual interest OF the negro. She has F.
ditiused among The blacks pure gospel. .
She gave him the Christian Sabbath, and .
fortified the gift with laws and penalties, .
capable Of being executed in his behalf .
against his own master-laWs so ctlica- .
cious that enforced Sabbath labor was al .
most unknown 10 him. She gave him q
part ia every house of worship built .
throughout her borders for never hayeI 7
heard of one church In all these States
where the slaves were uOtadmitted along
with their masters, be-ide- building
more temples for his exclusive use than T.
the christianity of the North has uuilJ
for Pagans I'm an HindOstan and China
together. She has given him eyangel- /
ical preaching. unmingled with the
poison Of Iniversalism, Nillerism, SOcin- .
ianism. M0umOuism, or with the foreign
and disastrous element of politics. For
nearly all the church members OF TINS
people are connected with the great or
thodox aud evangelical denominations
and having been a preacher TO Africans
for twenty years, I have never yet heard
a sermon addressed 90 them. OF heard OF
the man who had heard it, in which the
subject of abolition or prO-slavery was
obtruded on their attention by "a South
ern minister. IN one word, the South
has so far cared for their souls as To bring
four hundred thousand of them into the
fun communion Of the church, thus max
ing them at least outward and pr0fessed
Cbristians-a ratio as large rs that pre-
vailing among the whites uf the great,
Christian North.
These facts concerning the work Of the
South for the slaves, j give without the
fear of contradiction. The son OF slave
holder. an owner Of slaves by inheritance,
reared and educated among them, lapOF-
ING for them and thel. masters all my
professional life, I know whereof affirm.
livery intelligent citizen Of the south
will substantiate these statements as
within the limits oI moderation, and as
only a part of those which might be made.
when I claim that the South did this
much for the Africans, ! am far nom
boasting. We ought to have done much
more. Instead Of pointing 20 Il with SELF
laudati0n. il becomes us, vita profound
humility towards God To confess our
sbortconings towards our servants. He
has been pleased, in his sovereign and
fearful dispensati0n. 10 lay upon Us
prievous afiiictiOn, and we know he is too
inst 10 do this except for our sins Nhle
/ ann As certain as the sure word of Scrip
ture can make me concerning amy prln-
ciple of social duty, that there was moth
inp sinful la tine relation of master ana
slave irs.lE / can easily believe that our
failure 10 fulfill some Of the duties Of that
righteous relation is among the sins Tor
1shich Gods hand now makes Us smart
And il does not become those who are IN
der His discipline 90 boast Of their good
works. No, verify We have sinned; my
argument is that YOU must do more Tor
the negro than We sinners OF the South