Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-03
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ists in peculiar portion OF tue -
North. that when the war was :
forced upon the South by agrees.
ions on the constitutional, rights OF
the Southern people. there were no
instructions among the Southern
negroes. There was no :cpet,uo"
of the frightful scenes enacted oy
the emancipated slaves OF the Wes'
Iodies. The young master shout
dered his musket or buckelcd on
his sword, and his faithful man'
servant accompanied him 20 the
var, kept his arms in order cook
ed his bareback as best he might,
bore him from the field when woGn-
ded, AID nurscd him with tender
ness and skill. Walter scoott or
G. P. r. James never threw more
glamour around the Knights Squire,
than was really practiced in the
Confederate army, by the Squ're's
African representative. Nor was
this influence more beautifully |
exemplified in var and among the
men-the Southern ch'Valry
than it was in both peace and war
in religion and among the women.
There was hardly a plantation on
which provision was not made tor
suitable and practical religions in
struction and observanccs. Nota-
bIy 10 this respect, was the exam
pie of the Protestant Episcopal
Bishop of South Carolina, VINO
was hardly surpassed anywhere
by his spiritual care of the saves.
in which he was reverently and COR
daily aided by their masters
Among our Roman Catholic fellow
citizens 10 Louisiana it was patent
to tue world that tho soul OF the
poor negro slave was recogn'zea
bv the priest a. the spiritual peer
Of the rich white owners that SER
wants aud master k: cit at the same
altar-often receiving theble*sed
cucharis: kneeling side by side
and in case Of death the slave and
the master received tue same sanc :
flying and saving sacrements.
Such non Catholic or nor: prelat'
ical writer's as James and Scott
could not have gazed upon SUCH
scenes, if exhibited efore them
without exclaiming that this wa:
the true chivalric spirit aud vel
entitled the people to the epithe
applied to them whether honestly o
sarcastica,ly. What is true OF tn
Two denominations Of Christian
specially referred to, is moreover
true Of all others.
1t is necessary that we shout
take this cursory glance at q pect
liar state of society-at the result
of the Southern system OF labe
called slavery. TO explain why
was that the predictions OF a RAP
decline in the cultivation OF cote
in the Southern States in cons
quence Of emancipation, were n
fulfilled, Why ? because 'Southe
chivalry' had not raised horde
barbarious. A slave who had n
been taught to read printed pa
was fully able to read the hear
If not instructed in book Learnt
he was taught to discriminate
tween good and evil. He not G
" honored bravery but he revel
virtue. He had not only inst'l'
into him his duties to his mas
and his family, but also hisrelig''
obligations. God to him was
ever-present Fartherly Provlden
Spiritually such an humble w
shipper at the altar of his Rede'
or was UNNECESSARILY raised alb
your pretentious modern scien
who, thought it is his speciality
unable to tell you the origin
yellow fever. and yet has the
sumtion to deny the existence
the Deity. - r.. s..
In such state of society as
have briefly ske,cLed, the ira
ton from slavery to freedom
only q change from one servant
labor to another. The Chris
virtues which had been ms
ed into the slave by his Chris
master, saved him from the frs
full atrocities of emauciTa alton
the West Indies.
The Economist naturally tax
duly economical view OF this q
ton, but evidently treats it witt
honest desire to present true
luton of the question and We
its article entire in another colu
But the moral causes for the
versation among tho freedmen