[Footnote G:  Rev. C.C.  Jones, late of Georgia, now Professor in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, made a report before the presbytery of Georgia, in 1833, on the moral condition of the slave population, which report was published under the direction of the presbytery.  In that report Mr. Jones says, “They, the slaves, are shut out from our sympathies and efforts as immortal beings, and are educated and disciplined as creatures of profit, and of profit only, for this world.”  In a sermon preached by Mr. Jones, before two associations of planters, in Georgia, in 1831, speaking of the slaves he says, “They are a nation of HEATHEN in our very midst.”  “What have we done for our poor negroes?  With shame we must confess that we have done NOTHING!” “How can you pray for Christ’s kingdom to come while you are neglecting a people perishing for lack of vision around your very doors.”  “We withhold the Bible from our servants and keep them in ignorance of it, while we will not use the means to have it read and explained to them.”  Jones’ Sermon, pp. 7, 9.

An official report of the Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, adopted at its session in Columbia, S.C., and published in the Charleston Observer of March 22, 1834, speaking of the slaves, says, “There are over two millions of human beings, in the condition of HEATHEN, and, in some respects, in a worse condition!” * * * “From long continued and close observation, we believe that their moral and religious condition is such, as that they may justly be considered the heathen of this Christian country, and will bear comparison with heathen in any country in the world.” * * * “The negroes are destitute of the privileges of the gospel, and ever will be under the present state of things." Report, &c., p. 4.

A writer in the Church Advocate, published in Lexington, Ky., says, “The poor negroes are left in the ways of spiritual darkness, no efforts are being made for their enlightenment, no seed is being sown, nothing but a moral wilderness is seen, over which the soul sickens—­the heart of Christian sympathy bleeds.  Here nothing is presented but a moral waste, as extensive as our influence, as appalling as the valley of death.”

The following is an extract of a letter from Bishop Andrew of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to Messrs. Garrit and Maffit, editors of the “Western Methodist,” then published at Nashville, Tennessee.

“Augusta, Jan. 29, 1835.

“The Christians of the South owe a heavy debt to slaves on their plantations, and the ministers of Christ especially are debtors to the whole slave population.  I fear a cry goes up to heaven on this subject against us; and how, I ask, shall the scores who have left the ministry of the Word, that they may make corn and cotton, and buy and sell, and get gain, meet this cry at the bar of God? and what shall the hundreds of money-making and money-loving masters, who have grown rich by the toil and sweat of their slaves, and left their souls to perish, say when they go with them to the judgment of the great day?”