Year: 1861




grinding against each other like the upper
and neither mill stones-with labor cheap
ened and displaced by new mechanical in.
ventions, bursting more asunder the bonds
of brotherhood, amid these intricate perils
we have ever given them our sympathy and
our prayers, and have never sought to wea-
ken the foundations of their social order.
God grant them complete success in the
solution of all their perplexities We too
have our responsibilities and our trials :
but they are all bound up in this one in
stituton, which has been the object ofsuch
unrighteous assault through five and twen-
ty years. If we are true to ourselves we
shall, at this critical juncture, stand by it
and work out some destiny.


The duty is bound upon us again as the
constituted guardians Of tie aaUes them
selves. Our lot is not more implicated in
theirs than is their lot in ours; in our mu-
tual relations we survive or perish togeth
er.


The worst foes of the black race are
those who have intermeddled on their be-
half. We know better than others that
every attribute of the character fits them
for dependence and scrvitude. By nature
the most affectionate and loyal of all races
beneath the sun, they are also the most
helpless and no calamity can befall them
greater than the loss of that protection
they enjoy under this patriarchal system.
Indeed the experiment has been grandly
tried of precpitating them upon freedom
which they know not how to enjoy; and
the dismal results are before US in statistics
that astonish the world. With the fairest
portions Of the earth in their possession,
and with the advantage Of long discipline
as cultivators of The soil, their constitu-
tional Incidence has converted the most
beautiful islands of the sea into bowling
waste.


1t is not too much to say that if the
South should at this moment, surrender
every slave, the wisdom OF the entire world
united in solemn council, could not solve
the question of their disposal. Transpor-
tatiou to Africa, even if it were feasible,
would be but the most refined cruelty /;
they would perish of starvation before they
could have time to relapse into their prlmi-
tive barbarism. Their residence here III
the presence of the vigorous Saxon race,
would be but tho signal Tor their rapid ex-
termination before they had time to waste
away through listlessness, filth and vice
Freedom would be their doom and equal
ly from both they call upon us, theirp prov,
idental guardians, to be protected.
know this argument will be scotted abroad
a. the hypocritical cover thrown over oui
cupidity aud selishness but every South
! ern master KNOWS IJs UruTn anu leeis IL
power. My servant whether born in my
house or bought with my money, stands t(
me in the relation of a child. Thougi
providentially owing me service, which
providentially, am bound to exact, he i
nevertheless, my brolher and my friend
and am to him guardian and father
lie leans upon me for protection, for coun
sci and for blessing; and so long as tn
relation continues no power: but the pow
er of Almighty God, shall come betweel
him and me. We're there no argumen
but this, it binds upon us the providentlo
duty of preserving the relation that W
may save him from doom worse tina


death


1t is a duty which We owe, further to III
ctcilisea uOyM. 1t il a remarkable fact th;
. during these thirty years OF unceaslng war
fare against slavery, and while lyip
, spirit has inhamcd the world against u
that world has grown more and more d'
pendent upon it Tor sustcnance and wealtl
Every tyro knows that al branches
: industry fall back upon the soil. W
. must come, every enc of us, to the boso


of this great mother for pourishment.
y the happy partnership which has grow
up in providence between the tribes OF til
l confederacy, our industry has been co
n ccutrated upon agriculture. To the Nor
c we have cheerfully resigned all the pr Of
n arising from manufactures and commer(
a Those profits they have, for the most pa
n fairly earned, and VIC have never begru
-? ged them. We have sent them our Sug
d and bought it back when refined;
II have sent them our cotton and bought
l. back when spun into thread or woven il
- cloth. Almost every article we use, fr(
ID the shoe latchct 10 the most elaborate a
}! costly article of luxury, they have ma
" and we have bought; and both sectic
or have thriven by the partnership, as
se neople ever thrivcd before since the Fl