Religions Doughfaces

It is really sickening to behold the base servility of politiciar.s in every tiiing relaling to slavery. Kut it excites our disgust and contempt s'.ill more to see grave and reveiend clel-gymen nnd largo ï'eligious associations with which they nre connected, bowing down to the Slave Power, and humbly prostraling tliemselves before its tlnone. The occasions of this contemptible sclf-degredation, too, nre of'ten of the most trivio] character, nnd reuder tho meanness of the act itself stil! more striking. The kiest instance of this kind we find narrnled in the National Era. Tho Cheraw (S. V.) Gazetie brought to pub!ic notice the following extract from a book entiiled "Jacob and lus Sons ; or the second part of a Conversaron between Mary and her Mother, " published by the American Sunday School Union : ''Whnt is a slave. mother?' asked Mary. 'Is it aservantí' 11 'Yes," replied her mother ; ' slaves re servants, fpr they work for tlieir nmsters, and wail on them ; but they aro not hired servants.but are bought and soW, like beasls and have nothing but what their masters ohoose to give them. They are obliged to work very hard : and sometimes their masters use them cruelly, beat them, and starve them, and kil! tliem; for they have noboiiy to help them. - Some times they are chaired together,and driven about like beasts.' " In consequence of this important discovery, the Charleston Mercury uniteil with the Gazette in recommending all southern men to withdraw from the Society all further countenance and support. This awful demonstration of the Press called out the Board of Managers of the S. C. Sunday School Union, who publiïhed in the Mercury a statement showing that this book had been in print twer.ty years: Ihat nobody bad complained ofit befoie: that the book was issued when the subject of Slavery was but little agilated: that the Committee of Publicationof the National Society at Philadelphia, upon a repre.sentation of the case, had dropped the book from tlieir catalogue, and had requested a Vice President in Charleston to getall the copies in their depository in that city, and r&turn them to Philadelphia ; that he found but one copy, and only nine copies had ever come to the depository. The statement of the Board concludes thus : "Thusthe Parent Society has given the most substantial evidence of its disposition to circuíate and publish no work that is excepiionable in its character and spirit to the American pullic. - Therefore, "Resolved, That the confidence of this board in the American Sunday School Union is undiminished; and that the recent action of their Committee of Publilication is sufficient pledge that nothing will at any time hereafter be issued from the press under their control calculated to awaken searian feelings or sectional jealousy. ' B. Lanneau, President. " Wilmam B. Heriot, Ree Sec'y. "N. B. The Carolina Baptist, Cheraw Gazette, and other papers which have taken any notice of the work referred to, will please copy. Now this whole affair isa very small one, of no great consequence in itself ; but who ever read of any thing more contemptible than the auxious and truckling servility of the managers of the Sunday School Union?