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VOL. 9. NO. 9. 



CONCORD, N. H., SEPTEMBER 30, 1847. 



WHOLE NO. 105. 



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From Ihe Congregational Journal. 

 Thoughts on Slavery at the South. 



No. IV. 



*' For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are 

 your ways my ways, satlh the Lord." 



In my foregoing lettei's 1 have adverted lo a 

 few of llie many fads tliat have fallen iimler 

 'hiy own ohservatioii, which 1 have ihoiight cal- 

 culated to give eiicoiiiagenieiit and hope to in- 

 telligent chri;$lians and |ihilaiilhro|iists, who are 

 capahle of taking enlarged and I'oniprehensive 

 views of ihis exciting suhject ; and who are la- 

 boring wiih a sincere desire to acconiplish the 

 highe.-it good of the slave, and nltimately the sal- 

 vation of his race ; and though the stihject and 

 the liict.« are alike t.vhaustlcss, 1 shall conclude 

 what I have U) say for the present, hy reverting 

 lo a ff.w geneiiil liicls, connec'ed with the provi- 

 dences ol' Uod, and seeming to have a direct 

 beating on this suhject. 



And now, if we will hut hreak away from our 

 own litlleness, and view the grand scale upon 

 which (idd ticcomplishes his plans iind purposes 

 in reforming aiul elevating the nations ol' the 

 earth, may not the christian find, even amid the 

 darkness and forehodings that have so long en- 

 veloped this snlijcci, something to cheer his spir- 

 its, iind animate his hopes .' How wonderful and 

 comprehensive aie God's purposes, ;is now he- 

 ing developed on this very suhject ! To onr 

 shores is the tiile of emigration selling in from 

 the papal world, with a strength and power un- 

 paralleled : augmented every year hy famine and 

 pestilence, and other causes, on the other side ol 

 the water; thus poming in upon us millions of 

 vassals Irom the old world, to olitain a knowledge 

 of onr language, our laws, of true liherly, and a 

 pure Christianity, — and, at the same time, sup- 

 planting our own slaves, rendering their services 

 less iind less valuahle eveiy year, iherehy weak- 

 ening and cutting the cords that have so long 

 bound them to their masters ; thus creating an- 

 other tide that is setting hack towaids AlVicii, — 

 •carrying out to thatdaik land, filled with the 

 hahitations of cruelly, those who came here 

 slaves, hut now redeemed, enlighlened, christian 

 freemen — going hack lo proclaim, in our own 

 language, light and liberty to all Aliica ; herehy 

 L'iiing a prominency and importance to our 

 <iiunti-y, our language and laws .-lud institutions, 

 that no otiier countiy in the world possessei!. 



It is in fact elevating this great lepuhlic into a 

 kind of umpire between two continents of slaves 



— to decide upon their destiny — making it the 

 very centre of power and influence, to instruct, 

 elevate and christianize the popiila'tion of half 

 the glohe — the slitves of papal Kiirope, and the 

 sfttves of pagan .Ifrlcit. What fearful respon.^i- 

 hilities rest upon our country and the church ! 

 responsihilities, too, which God has seen lit to 

 impose upon us, and of which we cannot rid our- 

 selves, if we would. What wisdom and virtue 

 will he needed in the couiiimIs of the nation ! 

 What hnliness, faith and prayer in the church, 

 if we would he prepared to meet them ! Three 

 millions of instruments placed in our hands, to 

 sharpen, polish and prepare for the suhjngation 

 of a continent to the Prince of I'etice! how over- 

 whelming the thought! " Who is sufficient for 

 ihese things.^" Nor let us suppose that this is 

 the work of a day or a year. In working out his 

 stupenilotis prohlems for the redemption of men 

 ami nations, God takes his own time, nor must 

 we become imiiatient and restive, though his 

 chariot wheels may seem to move slow. " A 

 thousand years with the Lord is as one day." 

 Had we been permitted, at the dawn of creation, 

 to look out upon that wild, unsightly chaos, 

 " without foriri and void," we might have liecomo 

 impatient for God to relieve our nice sensibilities, 

 hy doing up his work in a single day ; but he 

 took si.x, and the morning stars sang just as 

 sweetly, as though he had finished it in the 

 twinkling of an eye. 



For four thousand years, God was preparing 

 his people hy severe discipline, and the world by 

 heavy jndguients, for the coming of tlie Kedeem- 

 er ; and nearly two thousand more have passed 

 juvay before Africa is'seen stretching out her hand 

 to God. Had this work been committed to us, 

 with powers to accomplish it, hut no additional 

 wisdom, we no doubt woidd have hurried it 

 ilii-ough in a much shorter lime ; hut the proha- 

 hilily is, that it woidd not have been perfect be- 

 fore God — a screw would have fallen out some- 

 where, and the whole thing have to he done over 

 again. 



Like the impetuous young man, on entering 

 the work of the holy miuislry: with ardent spirit 

 and buoyant hopes, he has no idea of waiting the 

 slow moven)enis of his elder brethren, in con- 

 verting this worhl to God— they are behind the 

 age : they are wanting in faith, zeal and courage ; 

 he is going to .do up the thing in his own way, 

 ami in his own lilbtime ; he has no thought of 

 leaving any thing else for the next generation to 

 do, but to chant the triumphs of his victorious 

 arm. IJiit by the time he has left Jericho, and 

 and foiii:ht a few hallles with iIk' beasts of Ejihe- 

 sus, and contended with prim-i|iali!ies and pow- 

 er.s and wickedness in high places; and whire 

 he had looked for an unconditional surrender, 

 at the flourishing of his intimt blade, has hadthe 

 morlification to receive from the enemy " liirty 

 stripes save one" ; then, inileed, does he begin 

 to find, that sin is something more than an error 

 of judgment ; and sometiiing more powerful 

 than moral suasion is necessary to convert a 

 soul to God. Anil when convinced of his own 

 iinpotoncy. he comes finally to the same conclu- 

 sion that Paul did, " of myself 1 Can do noth- 

 ing," and thinks it wiser and better to tiill in with 

 the leadings of Divine providence, and become 

 a co-worker with Christ, than attempt to wrest 

 the reins from his hand ; that it is wiser and bet- 

 ter to remain in the ship ami obey orders, and 

 pull at the rupe.s, than attemjitto seize the helm, 

 or contiol the storm. 



Thus it is, when God is working these great 

 changes and revolutions among men and na- 

 tions, carrying oOl his glorious and eternal pur- 

 poses of mercy— as now being developed to- 

 wards the African race— there are no short cuts, 

 or patent rights, by which to hasten the work, or 

 to turn it out of its legitimate channel. All the 

 christian graces are to'he brought into retpiisi- 



tion and constant exercise ; faith, hope, charity, 

 prayer and supplication, patient discussion and 

 laborious efforts are all, all needed for the con- 

 flict. Yes, this very suliject of .>.lavery has got 

 to he discussed, but the weapons of this warfare 

 must he changed, and the discussion conducted 

 in that spirit of love ami christian forbearance, 

 that our southern hrethren can take a part in it, 

 and he mtide to fiie\ that we are all one. 



The eyes of the North, and the South too, have 

 undoubtedly to he opened by argumentation, to 

 behold many points and liicts connected with this 

 suhject, which they now see only "as through a 

 glass darkly." England iind the North have yet 

 to feel, that they are not guiltless in the sin of 

 slavery ; and that it ill becomes them, after em- 

 ploying their ships and their capital in filling the 

 whole i?onthern country with slaves, just to 

 pocket the money, wash the blood from the decks 

 of their ships, turn round tiiid anathematize every 

 Southern man for the awfiil sin of slavery — as if 

 a man, who tied a millstone around his fellow's 

 neck and pushed him into the sea, had an un- 

 doubted rigiit to curse him because he could not 

 swim as buoyiint as liimself; or the man who 

 would liesmear his guest with filth, and then shut 

 the door in his face, as being quite unworthy a 

 seat at his table. No — let this subject be dis- 

 cussed, till the world shall understand on whom 

 the sin of slavery rests — and then " let him who 

 is without sin cast the first stone." Let it be 

 discussed, too, till the whole South are made to 

 see, as some of them begin to see, that by edu- 

 cating and christianizing their shives, they can 

 turn this seeming cmse into a blessing to the 

 slave and to Aliica, and cause it to redound to 

 the honor and glory of all the South. Yes, they 

 have here in the South the grand lever for rais- 

 ing Aliica ; let the foot of it he placed at Libe- 

 ria ; let christians, iiud patriots, and philanthro- 

 [jists, throw their weight upon this end of it, mak- 

 ing the liihle the fiilcrum, and ere long Africa, 

 with her sable millions, will be seen emerging 

 from the long night of cruel tyranny and harhar- 

 ism, unto the pure sun-light of christian civiliza- 

 tion ; annexing herself by indis.soluble bonds of 

 grateful atiiiclion 'to this, her sister, patron-repub- 

 lic ; and with her churches and schools, her col- 

 leges and legislative halls, her poets and her 

 orators, tiike a proud and enviable position among 

 the enlightened and civilized nations of the earth. 

 The Lord hasten it in his time, and to him be 

 the glorv. E. N. SAWTELL. 



New-Orleans, 1847. 



Prepare for Seeding 'Down. 



We would not liiive our readers forget that the 

 latter piirt of summer and the lijre [lart of au- 

 tumn are the best times for sowing seeds. Use 

 all the summer miinme now, before it wastes, and 

 trust to next winter and spring to give a supply 

 fijr next year's planting. 



Many have low grounds that cannot be worked 

 in the (()re ptut of the season. These are natur- 

 ally their best lands lor grass. They have been 

 Iniig neolecti'd, because they lie too low to be 

 planted, and it wiis not generally suspected, a 

 fiiw years back, tliiit such hinds, may be turned 

 over" in the fill, and put into a good train for a 

 good harvest of hay the next year. 



It has become quite a common practice to sow 

 on the fresh turned green sward fiirrow, without 

 first going through a course of planting and sow- 

 ing grain. 



We know of none who have tried this mode 

 of seeding who have fliiled in it, in case they ob- 

 served the re(|uisite rules. i\lany have attempted 

 to renovate old fields in this way, without the use 

 of manure. Nothing generally can be expected 

 liom attempts of this kind. Old [lasture grounds 

 are made belter hy ploughing, and throwing on 

 a little seed without manuring, but they coitie in- 



