The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-07 00:00:00

DR. Gr72'HRIE AND THE SLAVE TRADE

An American paper, the Presbyterian, which pro-
fesses to be a religious journal of the highest ortho-
doxy, has attacked Dr. Guthrie's speech delivered
lately at the meeting in Edinburgh, sympathising
with Dr. Cheever. The rev. doctor has written an
indignant rejoinder, in which he stigmatises many
of the charges in the Presbyterian as " untrue and
contemptible." He proceeds to rebut some of the
statements which he is accused of making :
" You state that I ' spoke of the American eagle
as polluted with blood.' Now, that may or may not
be the case ; but I never used these words, nor said,
indeed, a word, good or bad, about your eagle. You*
state also that I wished the next negro insurrectiod
to succeed, though they might have to fight to the
knees in the blood of the white man.' How can I
deny that ? for in your, article are not the offensive
words, fight to the knees in the blood of the white
man' set within inverted commas, the usual sign of a
quotation and the pledge of accuracy ? Alas .for
the credit of inverted commas and certain religious
newspapers ! There is not a word of truth in
your statement. The wronged and down-trodc'ea
negro may or may not be justified in doing for
his personal what your own fathers did for
their national liberty; though a man, he is black,
and notwithstanding that an old-fashioned book
called the Bible, says that God made of one blood
all the families of the earth, he may no more have
rights than the cow he is sold with; yet I never
used the words, nor spoke of blood, either on black
men's knees or on American eagles. You say I was
' bloodthirsty.' A horrid charge to bring against
any minister of the Gospel. If you mean, by apply-
ing this abusive language to me, that I delight in the
shedding of human blood, or would have recourse to
arms rather than suffer any wrong, I deny your
charge, and appeal for my veracity to those who
know me, and know how I abhor the cruelties in-
separable from war. Perhaps you mean something
else. Perhaps you mean that I would regard the
slaves, if they had a fair prospect of success, as jus-
tified in rising to recover their freedom, and as a last

resource, meeting arms with arms in the battle for
liberty. If so, I plead guilty to the charge; guilty,
I must add, as were our Wallace and your Wash-
ington. Washington and his compatriots thought
not liberty only, but independence even worth fight-
ing for. In the days of the struggle which you yearly
commemorate ministers preached up resistance;
pulpits, as well as drums, sounded to arms. You
laud the men who did the fight, and were ready to
fight to the knees in tho blood of the white man,'
merely for the right to tax themselves, and have
you the assurance to hold up your hands in horror
at the bare idea of poor Africans, ground to the dust,
doing the same to save themselves, their wives, their
children, from bleeding under the brutal lash, and
being sold like cattle to the highest bidder ? Though
a violent termination to slavery is not one that any
reflecting and right-thinking man would wish, the
system, as one of cruelty, of immorality, of robbery,
and of murder, is accursed both of God and man. It
is the plague•spot of your state ; the plague-spot of
your churches; and should its end, which God for-
bid, be one of violence, on the heads of those who
are not straining every nerve to bring it to a
speedy and bloodless termination, will lie the
guilt of all the fearful crimes that shall accom
pany its dying struggles. When these come,
and the slaves are fighting for their rights, your
disasters may recall the fearful words of Jefferson,
What attribute of Jehovah would allow him to
take part with us P' "

CO U .P 1 TR Y 111 A RICETS.

MANCHESTER-Arßu. 5.

We had a thin attendance of buyers this morning, and
prices for wheat and flour were at no advance upon the
quotations of Thursday last, with very little doing. Oats
and oatmeal brought fully former rates, and were in steady
request. Beans and Indian corn were in fair request,
without alteration in price.

RTPONm-Aritir, 5.
There was a fair supply of grain to-day. Farmers asked
high prices, which checked sales, and the whole offered was
not sold. Other articles firm.

WAKEFIELD—APRIL 5.
A fair supply of grain. Wheat was firm, at last week's
prices, and a fair business done in best red. Other articles
continuo firm.
Wheat, per qr. of 8 bushels 601 b., Essex, Suffolk, and
Kent, white, old, 48s to ols ; new, 48s to 51s; ditto, red,
old, 42s to 445; now, 42s to 445; Lincolnshire and York-
shire white, new, 45s to 50s ; red, 41s to 445.

EXETER—APRIL 5.
The business to-day was firm at the following prices :--
Wheat, white .. fis 3d to Gs 6d I Barley.. 4s Od to Os Od
Ditto red Os 3d to Os 6d Oats . . . 3s Od to 3s 31
Flour, fine, 34s to 355; seconds, 32s to 33s per sack.
CATTLE.

The attendance was good, and they market was moderately
supplied with fat stock. Trade dull, at prices tending
downwards.

A small supply of pork carcases, at previous rates.
Fat beef,p score,9s6d to lOs6d Ewes, per lb ....61d to 71
Perk carcases, do 9s Od to lOs Wethers, d 0...... 7d to 714
Sheep, per lb.
Rough fat, 41d per lb.