Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-17
W LIBERIA
Missions and Murder

AFRICA bringing news of great HOSTILE,
0e'ween the natives and ~colonists. and al
so OF a skirmish between the two
The Journal of Commerce of Wednes,
q morning, among other items from
mat country, contains a letter from q 8
Drown, giving an account OF a battle be.
tween himself, associates, and the natives
depicting human butchery and slauobter
OF the most horrifying kind, by b;msell
INC associates, With the indifference and
lhoaghllessness only betting a heather
savage. The whole letter is written with
an air OF triumph. He speaks of cuttino
them down "like mowers cutting down
grass ;'ot pouring a stream of lead down
upon them from the window, as fast as
Two boys could load the muskets." Of
throwing buck. shot into their bnvels
hearts. and brains, like a tornado :" of"ta.
Rlng deliberate aim at ffties who stood in
inh:k groups !" of 'his having the best
ehance OF any to fire Into the group ;"of
their being blood aud brains in every di.
fectlon; !" of ''blood standing in puddIes -
0: "plcking up their fingers by the wav
SIDE ) OF the blood pouring forth freeIy:h
OF "peppering their hams with buck-shot.n
He speaks, also, of having had shot from
MIN a nice tube out of his watch-key. and
spoiled it and this he seems to nnt in
competition with slaughtering human be-
lngs. All this he speaks of with as Grim.
NAL indifference, as though he had been
IN battle with a horde of wild hogs. W.
regard itas glorying in his shame; it ex-
ceeds anything We ever heard of from a
protested Christian. We ~ronounc il
deliberate murder.
G.. S. Brown, for Rev. or brother we
cannot call him, is a professed christian
mInlster-a missionary sent out and sup
ported by the Methodist E. Church oftbis
country. He was partially educated for
that mission at CaZenovia, in this State.
by the Methodist E. Church, under whose
auspices he labors. But what must have
been the character of his education. or
What must now be his knowledge of the
government of God, or the kingdom Of
Jesus Christ, which it is the business of
his servants to establish in the world,
which will allow him, sent to teach these
heathen the kingdom of God, to take
deliberate aim at ffties ofthem,' and "pour
a stream OF lead down upon them like a
tornado" and engage in such a scene as
he describes in his letter, sending these
poor heather, whose souls ne was sent 10
seek TO save, into eternity in all their
heathenism by scores. Better, far better
would 1t have been for G. S. Brown, with
all his associates, to have been killed by
them at the onset, before an attack, than
to have. been guilty of the curse he took:
aud better, too, would it have been for the
heather themselves, for the mission and
for the cause of Christ, than it now will
and he will find it so at the Judgment,
when he and they will stand before God
If the Methodist E. Church ofthis country
approves of such a deed in one of her
missionaries, we. as a member, must wash
our hands from any participancy in it;
and also We would inquire, can people
give to the missionary cause, to support
such deeds?
Is this the way to christianize Africa2-
to associate musket, powder and ball, with
missions and missionaries? So it appears
10 be with this mission. We have often
said, and the above bears US out in that
assertion, that to associate missions with
colonization, as is the case with the Libe-
ria mission, would operate against the
propagation of the gospel in Africa
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