Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-03-31

IS holders, | cannot reconcile your course
n this matter to my views ofthe consider
n ton which is due from man to man.
l. ! regret that | was so long in seein
1t your answer to what you are pleased ,
l. designate my tkind-hcdrted and intercs
= ting letter. It is not two weeks since
}, found its way to my hands and then it az
Q Ipeared in the form Of a second printed ed
d ton. | am not surprised that it was $
d long in reaching me, though regret it,
J. The wonder is that it CAM at all. Pa
0 pers, such as the "Friend of Man, r--par
don me for considering this title a gros
+ nisnou'er--such papers, say, have n,
: general circulation il tAis country
: Whatever moral influence such pubica
r tons may exert in your country, her,
. they are imperative. And the thousand:
. of dollars which are expended to array
: moral power against slavery, are doing
nothing where, it seems to me, it can alone
DO made to exert an influence against it,
in the south. Unless it is intended to dis.
member the south from the Union, by yio-
ating the pledges Of the constitution on
the subject, the vituperations against slave.
ry and shareholders Of the south, in which
abolitionists are INDUCING themselves in
the north, have, and can have no tendon.
Icy to dispose those who alone have any
control over the business towards the G.
manci patton aimed at. But to return. |
regretted that was so long in receiving
your letter; and was exceedingly surpri.
sed that it was in public form. This
was at war with all | had conceived of your
disposition and character. In you / ex-
Pected to find the courtesy of christian
gentleman, and the unstoopiDg dignity Of
well-taught magnamity. But your letter
has come; and though |, who should, in
reason, have been the first, am, perhaps,
the fifty thousandth reader Of it, rejoice
in being enabled by il at last, to learn the
result of my well-intended application to
you for aid in planting the Gospel standard
in the city of New Orleans.
! readily grant that you would not be
obliged, nor even at liberty to assist in
erecting heather temple in New Or
leans: but | am not at all prepared to
grant that the religion of the south sane
tons any thing lohatever, in the code of
existing laws or in the institutions of Lou
lslana, which is Incompatible with the doc
trlnes or precepts of the Bible; or that
"the religion preached in the south is moi
the Dhole Of the true religion" | am my
self identified with the religion oft south
and | appeal to Heaven that have for al
most twenty-seven years, been preaching
the wtote ofhe true religion, to the best OF
my understanding. tits true that pro- essors
OF religion in the south may, as profes.
sors OF religion in the north do, sometimes
sanction things which are incongruous to
the pure Gospel OF Christ; but this no
more convicts the religion of the south
than 1t does the religion Of the north of ei-
Their heathenism or imperfection. Ii men
shall hold themselves excused from assis-
ing in building churches, till all who pro-
Tess religion are orthodox in opinion and
upright in practice, they may appropriate
heir money otherwise till the day of doom.
but ! will not affect to misunderstood
you You mean to say, suppose, that Z
he religion ofthe south sanctions slavery; I
" at least, that it does not denounce 1t as I
1t does, however, Just as the |
saviour and his apostles did, when they q
reached the whole of the true religion, {
n countries where slavery prevailed. 1t In
avs down 81 enlorces the same principles, I
'rges the same precepts, denounces the a
anne threatnings, and presents the same S
which those masters Of the Il
rue religion did in similar circumstances. s
condemns slavery as clearly and as |
trongly as any one or all those ever did; \
nd 1t goes no farther towards sanctioning q
he abuses Of slavery than they did. 1t is Il
his sort of religion for which sanctuary C,
. New Orleans is contemplated, and for n
id in the providing Of which took the b
berty of soliciting you; and it is, more h
yer, such religion as that which you q
ave assumed the responsibility Of pro- s,
ouncing heathenism in its character Il
Would You sir, have met the requistion q
{ St. Paul, to aid in propagating tho rell- W
ion which he taught in Rome, at Ephe- pl
US, or at Colosse, by such an excuse as 81
lat by which you would vindicate your ct
efusal to contribute to the erection Of Ct
Iethodist Church in the city Of New Or hi
'ansG And yet, assure you, the Cos W
81 it's intended to preach in that church is in
J extenso and in detail, the same Gospel
hich that apostle published to those cities. d.
! leave the theological seminary at Co III
Imbia, South Carolina, to determine III
neither they will not to refund you with ri
Iterest, tho donation you made to that he
Istitution, and which you now regret. tn
'ere ! one Of its Trustees, it should not on
} my FAULT that source Of your sorrows nj
ere not soon dried up. shall not even II