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They will assume an equality with the master, neglect their work, and resist discipline. This might be the effect of injudicious instruction-of instruction that did not recog nize their condition in society, and inculcate the duties appropriate to it. But let us "rightly divide the word, and the evil apprehended at once vanishes. What saith the Scripture? Ministers are commanded to "exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things: not answering again: not purloining, but showing all good fidelity: that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." Again:"Servants be obedient unto them that are your masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness, as unto Christ; not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men; knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free." The passage in Colossians, is similar. We bring forward two more. "Servants be subject to your masters with all fear: not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy if a man, for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if when you be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? But if when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God."

"Let as many servants as are under the yoke, count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed: And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort."

Such are the commands to servants, as comprehensive of their duties as any master could desire. We even see the Apostle Paul using his influence to secure obedience to these commands in a particular instance. The "unprofitable" Onesimus he restores to his master, though he had escaped from him to the distance of several hundred miles.He restores him a "brother beloved." His letter to Philemon for beauty and excellency is above all praise.

We now ask, will the authority of masters be weakened by instructions of this sort?-No, never. That authority is strengthened by considerations drawn from eternity. If insubordination ensues, it will be the fault of the master, and not of the instruction. The master is the master still. Religious instruction, while it softens down the severity of discipline, by elevating the moral principles of master and servant, does not supercede the necessity of it. Otherwise, men would be made perfect in this life. Our view is, that religious instruction should be accompanied with a proper and efficient discipline.— Should the master relax his discipline, whether he gives religious instruction or not, his servants will become disorderly and unprofitable. We desire the sentiments now expressed to be pondered and adopted by all who wish well to the cause of religion among servants. What parent considers the religious instruction of his children, as having a tendency to make them more wicked and disorderly? Or, what judicious parent will relax his discipline, because he gives religious instruction? Will not the very fact of giving that instruction, prompt him to perfect and maintain discipline? We are to act towards our servants, on the same principles that we act towards our children.

Will they not, however, embrace the seasons of religious worship, for originating and executing plans of insubordination?

We answer, by no means, if the religious teacher is faithful in his supervision of his charge, and is assisted in the public meetings by the planters, for whose servants he la bors. The presence of white men in their religious assemblies, precludes such a thing. Wherever such plans have been originated in religious meetings, it was because the white community was unfaithful to the negroes, and to themselves: They should have been present in those meetings. To leave the negroes to themselves in their religious affairs, is placing them in the way of temptation.

But why are men so tenacious of religious assemblies? Are not the negroes privileged by some to assemble for feasting and merriment, for particular kinds of labor, and at places of trade? We hear of no objections against such assemblies. If we are competent to the management of the latter, we certainly are of the former.

4. The religious instruction of the negroes will do no good; it will only make them worse men and worse hypocrites.

What is the Gospel? Is it not the grace of God that bringeth salvation;-teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself & peculiar people, zealous of good works?" This is the Gospel.-These are the things which we are to teach and exhort. And is it under such teaching and exhortation, that men will increase in crime and hypocrisy ?Why should the Gospel produce an effect upon negroes contrary to that which it is designed to produce, and which it actually produces on all other men, and on some whose condition is worse than theirs?

From what people did we, with all our piety and morality and intelligence spring?From a people, we were about to say, once as degraded as negroes. And what has lifted

us so far above our progenitors? The Gospel, and nothing but the Gospel. Is there, then, no redeeming power in the Gospel for the Africans? We believe that there is, because they are men, endowed with reason and conscience as are other men, because past history declares it, because we know it from our own personal observation; which is sup ported by that of others. We would point all who doubt of the salutary effects of attempts to christianize Africans, to the present condition of the Hottentots and other tribes, under the care of the London Missionary Society at the Cape of Good Hope. Yea the Hotten

tots!

And what is the moral degradation of any people to the power of the Holy Ghost? The immortal mind may be darkened and polluted by ignorance and sin; but the immortal mind is there, and that precious jewel may be cleansed of its defilements, filled with light and purity, and fitted for the highest and most honorable uses, both in this world and in that which is to come.

The objection is not supported by a solitary fact. Wherever negroes have really enjoyed, for any reasonable time, the privileges of the Gospel, in point of general morality and order, they are in advance of those who have not enjoyed them. Is it not conceded, that a truly pious servant gives less trouble, and is more profitable, than one who is not? Is there one planter in a thousand who does not desire such servants? Is it not true, that the most pious servants exert the happiest influence in promoting honesty and good order on plantations and in neighborhoods?

That there are a number of nominal Christians amongst them, we do not deny. But why is it so? Are they made hypocrites by faithful instruction? No. The abounding of spurious religion, results from a deficiency of faithful instruction, and a too hasty admission into the Church, after a profession of conversion? A reformation on our part, in regard to these two particulars, would produce a very happy effect upon the purity and permanency to their religious character.

The fact that many are hypocrites, proves to no inconsiderable extent, that there are advantages connected with a profession of religion; and where shall we look mainly for these advantages, if not to that higher estimation in which they are held by all persons? One or two irregularities in their meetings, or one or two defections, are sufficient to prejudice the minds of many against the religious instruction of the negroes. Because they remain impenitent and pervert the Gospel, therefore are they unworthy of it? Who, then would be worthy, if God should deal with us according to this rule?

Suppose we adinit the objection to be true in its fullest extent, and what then? Does it annul our duty? Far from it. Let them harden themselves and grow worse under the means of grace; whether they will hear or forbear, we are to throw the responsibility of their salvation upon their own shoulders, and to clear our garments of their blood. And who are we-in what age, and in what country of the world do we live, that we should question the excellency of the Gospel-the propriety of preaching it to the poor?

The objections, now briefly considered, we do not deem of sufficient weight to deter us from the conclusion to which we have already come, that it is our duty to impart the Gospel to our colored population.

We cannot close this report, extended beyond our expectations by the interest of the subject, without asking ourselves, nay, the Church of Christ, in the slave-holding States, why is not this duty felt; and why has it not been performed?

Why is there such general apathy to the perishing condition of two millions of heathen? Why is it, that so much feeling may be awakened, touching their civil condition-and so little, touching their religious condition? The latter is infinitely to be esteemed above the former, and proportionably attended to.

Are not ministers of the Gospel to be blamed? Why have they not looked into the destitute condition of this people, and, as they have had opportunity, labored for their salvation, esteeming them as part of their charge? Why have they not urged upon masters, their duties to their servants? Are ministers not set to watch for souls, and carry the Gospel in every way they can to the destitute ?

Are not Christian masters to be blamed? Why have they not seriously undertaken to do something for their ignorant, degraded servants, who are every day toiling to supply them with the comforts of life?

The guilt lies upon both Ministers and people, and it has been accumulating ever since the introduction of negroes into this country. We who profess to know what is the value of the soul, what is the love and preciousness of the Saviour, we are to take the lead; the world never will. What a multitude of souls have perished through our neglect! What a multitude are now perishing, and will perish ere we reach them with the good news of salvation! What a multitude of masters have already met with the awful charge at the Bar of God, of having practically despised the eternal interests of the souls of their servants.This charge lies upon masters on every hand; and we tremble lest they may meet it unprepared.

Our whole country groans under the sin of neglect of the salvation of these people. If we continue in this neglect, as God hath now spoken to us, as the true light now shinet, we shall have no cloak for our sin.

We shall manifest a fearful deficiency in the spirit of the religion which we profess,

That spirit is one of love of obedience. "If ye love me, keep my commandments." "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." "Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal.". "Preach the Gospel to every creature." We are weighed in the balances and found wanting. Do we not see our brother have need, and do we not shut up the bowels of our compassion from him? What avail our numerous works of benevolence?Our Missionaries dwelling in foreign countries, and penetrating to the most destitute settlements of our own? Our Bibles and our Tracts, that all must receive and read? Our Sunday schools, and Seamens, Friend, and Prison Dicipline, and Temperance, and numer ous other Societies? The very means which we use in contributing to these works, coine of the labors of our perishing servants; and no provision is made for them! We are inconsistent. And our Saviour will say to us, "These ye ought to have done, and not have left the other undone." If servants have immortal souls, we must treat them accordingly. To clothe them when they are naked-to feed them when they are hungry-to minister to them when they are sick, does not embrace all our duty. If we do no more, we treat them as the brutes that perish. We must rise higher, and be careful to minister to the necessities of their souls.

On the principles of self-interest and love of country the duty should be discharged. He who neglects it, loses sight of his own best interests for time and eternity, and of the peace and prosperity of his country. But we take our stand in the discharge of this duty on Christian principles-on conscience enlightened by the Word of God, and quickened by the Holy Spirit. Here is the foundation—and if such a foundation exists in the Church of Christ in the slave-holding States, the duty will be felt, and a discharge of it attempted.-We believe that such a foundation exists, and we look and appeal with confidence to the Church, to awake to effort in all her members.

The negroes are cast at the door of the Southern Church. They form her great field of Missions, and we cannot allow the claims of any heathen in the world upon us, to be paramount to theirs; and we make the declaration, that unless we occupy this field, we need not expect the blessing of God to any extent upon our Zion, for we shall be living in known neglect of duty, and neglect of such duty as must be exceedingly displeasing to Him.

The time is short: What we do we must do quickly. We shall soon be in our graves, returning to the dust side by side with our servants. We shall soon be before the Bar of God, where the artificial distinctions of this world will not be recognized. God is no respecter of persons. Every man shall be judged according to his work. Let us, therefore, in the strength of our God and Saviour, renounce our ignorance, and our indisposition, and extend the privileges of the Gospel to this neglected, dying people, or we shall not meet them in peace at the last day.

MR. RIVES AND COLONIZATION.

WILLIAM C. RIVES, a distinguished citizen of Virginia, and recently minister of the United States to France, addressed to a friend on the 20th of August last, a letter of which the following extract appears in the Richmond Enquirer of September 9th.

Extract of a letter to H. A. G. Esq.-Aug. 30th, 1834.

"I am no Abolitionist, and never have been one. In common with every American patriot, I have deplored the existence of slavery in our country, and would rejoice to see any safe and feasible remedy adopted, if such could be devised, to mitigate or to remove the evil. But I would never give my sanction to any remedy which would disregard the rights of property to the slave owner; which I consider as held under the same guarantees of the law and the Constitution, that protect every other right of property. I did not approve of any of the schemes which were proposed in the Legislature, at the time the subject was under consideration in that body; but, on the contrary, saw insuperable objections to all of them. The policy I have favored, as both the most safe and practicable, is that of the COLONIZATION SCHEME, which by gradually draining the country of its free colored population, and of slaves who should be voluntarily manumitted by their masters, would at the same time, promote the interests of the slave owners themselves, by removing a great source of corruption and disaffection among the slaves, and by keeping down the aggregate number of slaves, would place the problem of an ultimate extinction of slavery, at some remote period of our future history, more within the power of auspicious contin gencies which the course of events might present."

"These are the views I have always entertained, and repeatedly expressed. They are, far as I can recollect, the views expressed by me in my correspondence with my friends

while I was in France. Alive as I was, during my residence abroad, to every thing which affected the feelings and interests of my country, I could not but be deeply moved by the horrid catastrophe which occurred in Southampton, in the summer of 1831. I saw that public attention had been every where in our State, awakened to the great question which that event had forced on the reflection of even the most careless and unthinking. Under these circumstances. I have no doubt that, in my communications with my friends, I expressed in strong terms, my sense of the evil of slavery in our country, and an anxious desi re, if any remedy for it could be devised, to see some safe and prudent measure adopted to lessen, if not remove it. I felt, at the same time, all the delicacy an ddifficulty of the subject, which I well recollect to have expressed, and to have declared my conscious inability, at the distance I was from the scene of deliberation, and deprived of an interchange of opinion with others, to judge what ought to be done. My general views, however, were those which I have stated above-they are the views I now entertain; and I feel satisfied, that there was nothing either in my letter to Mr. Ritchie, or to any other of my correspondents, inconsistent with the explanation here given of those views,"

INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. JOHNSON CLEAVELAND, a highly respectable citizen and Magistrate of Loudon county, Va. died at his residence on the 24th of August last, having made provision in his last will and testament that it should be optional with his slaves whether to emigrate to Liberia, or to choose for themselves among his near kindred, a master, and that they should be allowed two years for deciding.

AUXILIARY SOCIETIES.

The subjoined letter brings the pleasing intelligence of the institution of an Auxiliary Colonization Society at Kinderhook Academy, N. York: KINDERHOOK ACADEMY, Aug. 26, 1834. DEAR SIR:

It is with pleasure I can inform you of the recent organization of an Auxiliary Colonization Society in this Academy. It has commenced under very auspicious circumstances, embracing about twenty members; and the hope is cherished, that from a peaceful beginning, it will go on, conciliating the good will of persons who may entertain different views from those of the Society; and, by diffusing correct information on the subject of Colonization among the students, and giving a fixedness to their principles and a noble and salutary channel to the zeal and enthusiasm with which they enter the world; be the means of ultimately doing some good in the cause of human liberty and happiness. The Preamble to our Constitution reads thus:

WHEREAS the wretched condition of the People of Colour in this country calls for immediate amelioration, and the kind sympathies and cordial support of every benevolent and Christian heart in any work that is calculated to effect so desirable an

tion Society has recommended itself to the world, by the benign influence it has exerted upon this class of our fellow-beings; by the disinterestedness and expanded benefi cence of its scheme; its enlightening and Christianizing action upon Africa; its fully emancipation; and the dignity and elevation developed tendency to create a spirit of the Negro character is deriving from its sweet and healing influences

Therefore be it Resolved, That we form ourselves into a Society for aiding in the advancement of so grateful and laudable an object, and adopt the following articles for its furtherance.

One article in our Constitution is nearly to this effect: That the Society shall aid the Parent Institution, not only by the contribu its influence in forming other Societies.tion of money, but also by the exertion of The necessity of the latter clause of that article, was foreseen by many: It would be necessary that something should be done to counteract, or rather to forestal, the influence which the gratuitous publications, emitted from the Oneida Institute" and other places, might possibly create; and therefore the article was made, so that it might furnish ground for future exertion in the shape of circulars, etc.

I am authorized to write for the "Repository," which, from the commencement of the present volume, you will please send, if you can, directed to "The Secretary of the Kinderhook Academy Colonization Society." The Money will be remitted, for the same, by the Hon. A. Vanderpool, M. C. together with as much more as is realized from the Society.

With the greatest respect,
CHAS. J. SCOTT.
Sec'y of K. A. C. S.
Rev. R. R. GURLEY.

To the Sec'y of Am.
Colonization Society,

It is with peculiar pleasure that we

end; and WHEREAS the Americ in Colonizz-transfer to the columns of the Repos

itory, from the Fredericksburg Arena proportioned to the wealth, intelligence, and of the 22d of August, the well written public spirit, of the community around us.That so little has been done, can be attribuand comprehensive though brief Re-ted only to a deplorable, but not unaccounport of the Managers of the Frede- table apathy pervading and benumbing the ricksburg and Falmouth Female Aux- public mind, towards the Colonization scheme: an apathy, traceable at once to ig iliary Colonization Society. Their norance of what the society has done, and eloquent appeal in behalf of the cause misapprehension of what it designs to do.in which they are engaged will not, Some of its adversaries charge it, with aimit is hoped, be heard in vain, in a State ing secretly at Abolition; others, with a deadso much interested as Virginia is inly and unpardonable hostility to Abolition.— Leaving these inconsistent objections to be the success of the Colonizing Scheme, refuted, as well by their mutual contradicand where female benevolence is so tion, as by their inherent and oft established deservedly influential. The deter- falsehood, the Board will simply declare, that mination of the ladies of Fredericks- the object of the Colonization Society is, To settle, in Africa, such free persons of colour as burg and Falmouth to direct their ef- may freely consent to go thither; and that the forts to the encouragement of female chief end of this removal is, To improve the education at the Colony is calculated condition of the emigrants. Two secondary to produce the most important bene- advantages are indeed expected: relief to America; civilization, christianity and free fits to Liberia, and will, we trust, government, to Africa: but these objects, so find many imitators among our fair vast in the eye of the statesman and philancountry women throughout the union. thropist, are yet immeasurably subordinate to the first, in the wishes of the Colorization Report of the Board of Managers of the Fred- Society. ericksburg and Fulmouth Female Colonization Society, presented July 4th, 1834. The receipts of the Society, from the 20th of July, 1833, to the 4th of July, 1834, were $129 28 63 57

Balance on hand 30th July, 1833,

were

$194 85

For outfit and passage to Norfolk of two

Colonists,

27 37

in

But not even the unjust ascription of improper motives has so much averted public favour from this cause, as ignorance and unbelief of its actual and probable success. vain has the Colony lived down the croakings of those prophate, who averred its speedy and total failure to be inevitable: in vain has it advanced in population, wealth and the The receipts accrued from the subscrip-known to Ilistory: in vain have its advantauseful arts, beyond all former colonies tions of members, and the donations of friends. Among both of these classes, theges, and its successful progress, been heraldladies in the country have been conspicuous ed forth by its white friends, by deputies for zeal and liberality. The disbursements of our coloured people, sent out to exine its real condition; aud by the colonists themselves, in a touching and persuasive appeal to their brethren here. The public ear has been deaf, the public mind has been drugged so as to hear not, or understand not, the truth so repeatedly and impressively told: and at moment, ninety-nine hundredths of the Virginia people know none of the material facts relative to the colony. That it posses. ses 5 or 6000 square miles of land so fertile, in a climate so congenial to the black man's The two colonists above mentioned were constitution, as to be capable of sustaining Sally, a woman freed by Mr. William Berry, a million of inhabitants, with power to exof Orange, and Melinda, a girl liberated by tend its dominion peaceably, almost at pleaMr. John Morton, late of Fredericksburg sure, over the surrounding wilds-that it has with a direct view to their settlement in Af-three towns, one of which contains 220 rica. They sailed in November last, on board dwelling houses, several Churches for Christhe ship Jupiler, from Norfolk, among 51 cmi- tian worship, several schools, a newspaper grants. That vessel, having safely deposit-press, prosperous warehouses of merchaned its freight in Liberia, returned, more than four months ago, to our own shores.

Cash sent to the Parent Society at Washington,

Balance on hand,

167 00

$194 37

48

$194 85

this

dize, and wharves and a port enlivened by an active commerce--that it numbers already The outfit of those two colonists, and the three thousand inhabitants-that it enjoys a remittance of that small sum to the Ameri- government on the American model, with can Colonization Society, constilate all the jury trial and a well disciplined militia, these fruits of our little association during the past best bulwalks of Liberty--that it has done year. With chagrin and regret we acknowl- much, and bids fair to do much more, toedge a result so unworthy of our caus-sowards extirpating the African slave trade-incommensurate with the results of other that the surrounding native tribes are similar associations--and so incalculably dis- peaceably and amicably disposed--that two

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