n by a
Redeemer."

A writer in the Western Luminary, a respectable religious paper in
Lexington, Kentucky, says,

"I proclaim it abroad to the Christian world, that heathenism
is as real in the slave States as it is in the South Sea
Islands, and that our negroes are as justly objects of
attention to the American and other Boards of Foreign
Missions, as the Indians of the Western wilds. What is it
constitutes heathenism? Is it to be destitute of a knowledge
of God; of his holy word; never to have heard scarcely a
sentence of it read through life; to know little or nothing
of the history, character, instruction and mission of Jesus
Christ; to be almost totally devoid of moral knowledge and
feeling, of sentiments of probity, truth and chastity? If
this constitutes heathenism, then are there thousands,
millions, of heathen in our beloved land. There is one topic
to which I will allude, which will serve to establish the
heathenism of this population. I allude to the universal
licentiousness which prevails. It may be said emphatically,
that chastity is no virtue among them; that its violation
neither injures female character in their own estimation, or
that of their master or mistress. No instruction is ever
given; no censure pronounced. I speak not of the world; I
speak of Christian families generally."

Again: I give the words of the son of a Kentucky slaveholder, who
became an abolitionist at Lane Seminary, and has since induced his
father to emancipate his slaves. Hear James A. Thome.

"Licentiousness. I shall not speak of the far South, whose
sons are fast melting away under the UNBLUSHING PROFLIGACY
which prevails. I allude to the slaveholding West. It is well
known that the slave lodgings, I refer now to village slaves,
are exposed to the entrance of strangers every hour of the
night, and that the SLEEPING APARTMENTS OF BOTH SEXES ARE
COMMON.

"It is also a fact, that there is no allowed intercourse
between the families and servants, after the work of the day
is over. The family, assembled for the evening, enjoy a
conversation elevating and instructive. But the poor slaves
are thrust out. No ties of sacred home thrown around them; no
moral instruction to compensate for the toils of the day; no
intercourse as of man with man; and should one of the younger
members o