African aspires to, either in his own country or as a slave in Christian lands. "Of all the situations in which human beings can be placed, favorable to the salvation of the soul, under faithful efforts on the part of teachers, it is difficult to conceive of one better suited to this end, and, in fact, more successful than the relation of these slaves to their Christian masters." "Suppose a family of them bound to their master by affection and respect. Whatever he can make apparent to their understandings and consciences to be right, he has as much power to enforce upon them as ever falls within the range of moral suasion. So it is, indeed, with pious military and naval commanders and their soldiers and sailors; subordination, attended with respect and love, opens the widest door for persuasion; and if the numbers of pious slaves are an indication, it must be confessed that slave-owners, as a body, have performed their Christian duties to their slaves to a degree which the masters of free apprentices, and the employers of free laborers, have as yet hardly equalled." "Their acquaintance (of these negroes) with the Word of God is, to a great extent, through oral instruction; yet in all that constitutes (says Dr. Adams) Christian excellence and that knowledge of God, which comes directly from him, they have no superiors. A man who has spent a whole life in literary pursuits, and in studying and preaching God's word, listens to these slaves with their comparatively limited acquaintance with the Bible, and feels humble to think that faith and goodness in hitnself should bear no proportion to his knowledge." "Judging of them as you meet them in the streets, see them at work, or at church, or in their prayer-meetings or singing-meetings, or walking on the Sabbath, or holidays, one must see that they are a happy people, their physical condition superior to those of many (Northern) operatives, far superior to the common Irish people in our cities, and immeasurably above thousands in Great Britain." "As responsibility, anxiety about the present and future, are the chief enemies to cheerfulness, and, among mental causes to health, it is obvious that if one can have all his present wants supplied, with no care about short crops, the markets, notes payable, bills due, be relieved from the necessity of planning and contriving, all the hard thinking being done by another, while useful and honorable employment fills his thoughts and hands, he is so far in a situation favorable to great comfort, which will show itself in his whole outer man. Some will say, 'this is the lowest kind of happiness,' yet it is all that the largest portion of the race seek for; and few, except the slaves, obtain it." "God has suffered evil to exist in this world; yet we do not conclude that hell reigns upon earth. We reflect, that perhaps through this very antagonism may lie the path of progress; or, at least, we weigh the good against the evil, and believe in the beneficence of the Creator."* * "NEGROES EXPELLED FROM A CANADIAN TOWNSHIP. - The Detroit (Mich.) Free Press (1860) states, that all the negroes have been summarily expelled from the township of Anderdon, Essex county, in Canada. This township was as thickly popu lated with negroes as any in Canada, but they have lately become so bold in their depredations and crimes that their pre "The subordination of an inferior race of men, receiving food, clothing, shelter, religious instruction, government and protection, for moderate labor, is not only philanthropic, but philosophically necessary and practically indispensable, as supplying the raw material for food, clothing, and commerce necessary to the white laborer, who would desire to be, even in a measure, exempt from servitude to capital, through the irresistible demands of hunger, and as securing capital from the danger of 'blood and bread riots,' which a dense population would certainly ensure, where there is no costly and dangerous standing army to arrest mobaction till the more peaceable expression of the will of a faction, under the lead of demagogues, shall, through the ballot-box, deciding the polls by the votes of a few or by club-law, burden it beyond endurance. "The mission of the planter is to establish these principles practically, as the great truth of this age, by which the irrepressible conflict' between the classes of older countries, so productive of bloodshed and misery, is to be put down as the first step towards the time in which the church, exercising liberty of conscience and diffusing Bible principles, shall bring all the kingdoms of the earth to be kingdoms of our Lord." sence was no longer endurable. Accordingly, the authorities of the township petitioned the grand jury last fall to take action relative to them; and the jury, in consequence, presented them as a nuisance. Their outrages culminated a few weeks since in an attack upon a number of peaceable and defenceless citizens, and now the day of retribution has overtaken them. The whole lot have been summarily driven out of the township. They had been given homes, but they so abused the kindness extended them, that the authorities were obliged to drive them out as they would so many wild beasts." Everything conspired for many years to establish the most rational happiness in young Wyndham's household; mother, father, wife, children, hosts of friends; loyal affectionate servants; health, and wealth; Christian trust in the loving providence of God, as a reconciled father, and hearts elevated every day by benevolence to all the poor and afflicted around them. "For his bounty, there was no winter in it; an autumn 'twas, that grew the more by reaping." But as is usual with every consummation of human felicity apparently arrived at, in this mutable world, a skulking foe was prying his sanguinary eyes into this abode of peace and love. "Death! to the happy thou art terrible, But how the wretched love to think of thee! Who have no friend beside." Death was a most unpopular tyrant at this particular era of industry, contentment, and virtue, in the United States, though he is now so often courted by the suicidal hand. Nobody then ever embraced the grim monster, who was not bereft of his reason, and indeed very few of these unfortunates, these insane people, could be found in our law-abiding, common-sense population for the higher law first fulminated by the Devil, through which he made our mother Eve contemn the wholesome laws eliminated by God himself for her wise governance; had not been preached from the pulpit, from the press, and from the political rostrum; tearing down, in its abandon march, every enclosure of civil and divine legislation; and leaving the human mind drifting about on the broad unsounded ocean of life, without compass or rudder, seated on broken fragments of our formerly renowned great ship of state, at the mercy of every gust of passion, and of the God of this world, who is the Devil. Eternal damnation will be the destiny of that man, who strides into power over the ruin of his country. "Oh, mischief! thou art swift to enter into the thoughts of desperate men!"... "He that may hinder mischief, and yet permits it, is an accomplice.' "Treason and murder ever crept together, As two yoke devils sworn to either's purpose." We are already lost, as a nation, if we have become so wise as to give up the Bible as our chart. Jesus Christ, the great Son of God, came on earth as a man, that by this humility, he might daguerreotype to our finite minds, the will of Jehovah for thirty-three years, before he was crucified to reclaim us to the image of God. He, the divine infallible teacher, always obeyed the civil laws of the land wherein he sojourned; and even worked a miracle to pay the Roman tribute where slavery was rampant. Neither the Bible, nor the Apos tles, nor Jesus Christ, ever condemned the institution. of slavery as a sin. Death, however, as was before remarked, being no respecter of persons, stalked into Mr. Wyndham's family circle; and without one moment's parley, struck down with his sharp scythe, his venerated mother. She who was regarded a mother in Israel, in that old Euhaw Church, where the never to be forgotten Whitfield preached (during his visit to North America, with the great founder of Methodism, John Wesley). She, in whose heart nestled every affection that makes woman |