Biistdiantkatz. REPORT TO THE EVANGELIOAL ALLIANOE. BY HENRY B. SMITH, D. D [CONTINUED.] The triumph of National Unity has also se• cured the Abolition of Slavery. By the sure • logic of history, as the slave power culminated in se cession. and secession in rebellion, so the national instinct culminated in the vindication of the national supremacy, and that supremacy, es tablished by victory, buried secession and slavery in a cimmon grave. Peaoe meant abolition. The war was made strong by an idea; and that idea was a moral principle. We fought fat national unity, not for its own sake alone--though that were as defensible, to say the least, loamy modern European war ; .not even for the sake of empire, though that has been the moving cause and rea son of the most bloody contests of history; but also because we believed and knew that the pres ervation of the national unity was essential to the progress of freedom. Slavers was the , one great hinderance to the realization of the essen tial idea of dur Republic, and the , success of the Republic was the doom of slavery. Secession, olve us the legal right of abolishing slavery in all the revolted states. When, by force of arms, we prevented the establishment of a slave repub lic within our borders, we also acquired the right, ai a war m msure, of extendinc , the bounds of freedom. Such was the logic of war; it Made' the impossible possible. In giving us unity and peace, it also gave us liberty through all our borders. President Lincoln, though 'he had said, " I am naturally anti-slavery; if' slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," hesitated, as Pres ident, on constitutional grounds, to issue the Proclamation of Emancipation, until it became plainly necessary. By that proclamation, on Jan. Ist, 1863, 3,405,915 slaves 'were emancipa ted. An amendment to the ' Ooristitution, de clared on Dec. 18th, 1865, by the Secretary of State, to be duly ratified, provides, that " neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude,. except for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." The civil rights of the emancipated have been d'u'ly protected by subsequent legislation. ' Auk' in the plan of reconstruction, now in progress under the r3straint of a temporary military guardianship, it is expressly provided that none are to be ex cluded from ballot on account of their color. Practically, the choice was between aiming the negro with the ballot, or keeping a standing army at the South to secure the civil rights of freedmen. On the 31st of June last, in. Wash ington itself, negro suffrage was carried into ef fect, without disturbance. The work of the registration of the whole Southern population is now going on; and when that is consummated,. and these States are all restored to their harmo nious relations with the General Government, we shall witness the unexampled and sublime spec tacle of a whole race, long oppressed, elevated at once to the rights of freetneh. The one great anomaly will then he eliminated from our politi , t cal system. It will be the victory, not only of the nation, but of humanity itself, and of Chris tian civilization. Under God's blessing we may then, a purified and regenerated nation, reap the fruit of our costly sacrifices. God has saved us from ourselves. He has not destroyed us, be cause we trusted in Him, and eared for those for whom He cares. In the hour of our viotory He also quelled in us the spirit of revenge. He has 13d us forth with a high hand and an outstretched arm, and, in giving us new trust in Him, has also given us new confidence in the power and per petuity of our Republic, founded in the doctrine of human rights, and thus adapted to promote and speed human welfare : " Vital in every part, "It can but by annihilating die." Our most solemn national trust has respect to that down-trodden, yet patient, African race, so long held in cruel bondage. We neither ignore, nor deny, the magnitude and the difficulty of the new problem in human history, with which we a e now brought face to face. Can an inferior a nd long oppressed race, be thus suddenly brought to a condition of civil and political equality, wlthout endangering the social fabric ? This is nu untried question. It is the one we must meet and solve. In this dim and perilous way, our light must come from faith rather than from ex perience : but this is also the condition of all civil and moral progress, for progress implies trust in the future rather than in, the past. The prime necessity in respect to the four _millions of negroes, thus suddenly invested with new rights and duties, is that they be educated into com plete fitness for their new position. And this work must be speedily accomplished. For the immediate exigency, the national Government has made some provision, in an exceptional way, by establishing the Freedmen's Bureau, under the intelligent and able management of Major-Gen eral 0. 0. Howard, This Bureau protects the freedmen in their civil rights; gives rations to the needy, both white and black ; and has a cer tain supervigion over the schools for the negroei. It expended last year over four millions of dollars, issuing some thirteen and a half millions of ra tions, and giving hospital treatment to 170,000 persons. For the present year, the estimate of extra rations, in consequence of the failure of crops, is over two millions. The last Report of this Bureau (Jane) in respect to Freedmen's Schools, at the South, gives the number of teach ers as 1,744, and of pupils 95,987. Of the 1,200 schools reported at the beginning of the year, 333 were already self-supporting, and 290 were partially supported by the freedmen ; of the teachers, 458 were colored and 972 white. There were also 17 Industrial Schools with 1,279 pupils. ' 575 Sunday - schools , with 52,409 pupils; and 11 Normal Schools (for teachers) with tiBl pupils. The funds for the support of these schools come from private charity. Two large associations are especially engaged in this work : the American Missionary Association, and the American Freedmen's Union Commissions- The receipts of the Association last year were $253,- UUU it has 508 missionaries and teachers among the freedmen; scholars 38,719; in Sabbath schools 18,010. This. Association imparts relig bus as well as secular instruction. The Ameri- THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1867. can Freedmen's Commission, of which Chief Justice Chase is the President, was formed by a union of various societies, and it has some three thousand branches and auxiliaries in this coun try, and in France, Switzerland, Germany and England. It has established 301 schools, taught by 773 teachers and having 40,744 pupils; last year it distributed supplies to the amount of half a million of dollars; its money receipts were $280,768. The whole number of freedmen, who have learned to read and write, during the past two years, cannot be less than 200,000; the whole number of teachers is about 2,000. This is a great advance; but there are probably no less than a million who need instruction. .other societies,* besides those named, are laboring in the same work; most of the religious denomina tions have made some special provision for this object, the whole amount of which can' only be conjectured. The interest of Mr. Peabody's no ble fund, of more than a million of dollars, also aids in part in the same work. The call for in creased. effort , is urgent, for the need is vital. The Southern , States have never been able `to carry out any general system of' public instruction, so that the work' has to be done from the very foundation. And it now seems probable •that the whole South will at last obtain the blessing of general education indirectly through the freed men themselves. The progress of the pupils in these schools is eminently gratifYing. Many of them have had some of the very best and• most self-denying teachers in the land, who have gone to them from the North with a truly'miSsionary spirit. As to the desire and the capacity of the negro 'for education, there can, be no reasonable doubt.t The training of the coming generation will produce decisive results. Several colleges are already started-for giving still higher instruc tion. The Lincoln University (at Oxford, Pa.) has just been endowed with four professorships (by W. E Dodge, J. C. Baldwin and. others), and had 90 students the past year, a large part of whom will go into the sacred ministry„ Ar rangements are Making ,for the training of col ored preachers in the different denominations at the South; and the conviction of the Southern people, in most of the churches, is rapidly tend ing to the conclusion (still resisted by some,) 'that color shOuld not be a bar to the sacred office. There will soon be rivalry among the different churches for receiving this race to their , respect ive folds. Black men 'already act on juries throughout the South. Anfl Southern politi cians are already showing eagerness to gain the negro vote. Competition may confer the boon which selfishness might withhold. These social, political, religious and educational influences are at work upon this great problem. And it is our firm trnst, that • the same Divine Providence which broke the fetters of the slaves, will exalt them to the dignity of freemen; and that the freedom of the Gospel will purify and confirm all their other rights. There need be no fear of a Christianized negro population. In such a juncture and crisis of the national life, as that through which we have been passing in this decisive olympiad of our history,' all the great powers of society are aroused to their full activity, for all its interests, political, social, moral and religious are at stake. Not only was the State imperilled, but also the Church. Not only were our republican institutions tested, but also our American Christianity. The question here was, whether the special form which Chris tianity has put on in the growth of our Repub lie would be able to meet the shock and stress of civil war, and come out strong and triumphant? .Could the Church meet the emergency as well as the State ? This question was not on the surface of the conflict, but it was at work in the very heart of our life. And, in general, we may say, with devout thanksgiving to the Great Head of the Church, that He has led us, and caress for us, and bound anew the chaplet of victory upon the brow of his contesting bride. Our American Christianity, with whatever there is distinctive in it, has not become disintegrated,. nor has it succumbed, but it has rather been an effectual aid to the State in the saving of the land; it has held up full high advanced the great moral is sues of the strife; it has helped to swell, beyond all previous measure, the sum and volume of philanthropic labors and contributions for the re lief of the sick, the suffering and the dying : while at the same time it has largely increased its collections for its own special objects, strength ened and compacted its organizations, remained steadfast in its faith and order, and is left, at the close of the war, more strong for its vast future work, and making larger preparations for that work, than ever before. And in all this we re coguize and adore the good hand of our God upon us. The War of the Revolution left the churches, eight years back, enfeebled and dis tracted, for 'they were then entering upon the untried career of separation from the state. Our distinctive _American Christianity has been built up on the basis of that separation,and now, after a sterner trial than ever before, we are more than ever convinced, that for the churches of our land this is the way of safety and of growth. There was here no precedent and, no analogy. Those accustomed to the compact, external unity of a state-church might easily hope or fear, that our many external divisions were signs of inter nal weakness, and that we should be disintegra ted by the violence of the civil commotion and strife. Of this fear we were not ourselves con scious; and the progress of events has shown that the ecclesiastical tendencies, in the midst of our civil strife, have looked in the direction of re-union rather than of increased subdivisions. The special and determining characteristic of * The African Civilization Society is an associa tion of colored persons in New York, acting on the principle that the blacks can best train the blacks. It has 19 schools, 32 teachers and 1,367 scholars in Md., Va., etc. t One freedwoman, Nashville, Tenn., Frances E. W. Harper, is noted for her poetic gifts ; she re cently published a little poem, in which she writes of Freedom, that " White robed and pure her feet shall move O'er rifts of ruin deep and wide, Her hands shall span with lasting love The chasm rent by hate and pride" In 1860 there were reported 468,000 colored church members at the South : Methodists, 215,- 000 ; Baptists, 175,000 ; Presbyterians, 18,000; Cumberland Presbyterians, 20,000; Campbelite Bap tists, 10,000; Episcopal, 7,000; all others about 20,000. 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