Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-05-29

.Agaan.-We publish from the Wash
'ngton Union, to-day, an article under
the head of Conventions at Augusta
and at Louisville" giving, we think,
faithful dellniation Of the practical
bearings and effects of the action of
the churches at the North, by which
those at the South are denied equal
rights in occupying high stations in the
churches and Offices of trust among the
boards of the missionary and other be-
nevolent societies-to wit: The late
General Conference of the M. E.
Church deposed Rev. J. 0. Andrew
from the episcopacy because he was
connected with slavery; and the board
OF missions for the Baptist Church re-
Gently adopted resolution excluding
shareholders from holding any office
within the jurisdiction of said board
1t requires no extraordinary degree of
sagaclty and penetration to see the ul-
innate consequences Of this spirit of
cold-hearted Abolition ostracism-a
spirit of characterization 10 our civil
government, and utterly at variance
with the meek and humble precepts OF
Christianity, as taught in the inspired
writings of the disciples and apostles
Of its illustrious founder. The work
of accommodation will progress in
the churches, from its highest officers,
who have already been mathematical,
until it reaches the private members of
the churches, when the whole southern
neutrality-suspicious., ministry, and all
will be cut off, by one final blow
not from the worship Of their God, &C.
cording to the dictates of their own
consclences,-but from all connexion
with the p5ous and consciensious Abo-
lltlon-tanatics at the north II it is
violation of a mans solemn obligations
to his Maker, in the capacity Of bisp-
op, to hold slaves, we may logically in
fer that the lower orders of ministers,
as well as the private members, are not
less guilty of sin IN this respect. To
sustain this position, we might refer to
the columns of the Abolition papers,
and to the proceedings OF Abolition
meetings, where all Shareholders are
denounced as pirates and robbers.
One would suppose, from the zeal of
the Abolltlonists upon the subject of
slavery, that they have positive COM
mand from God to 60 forth into the
South and unlock the chains of bon
DANCE that bind the poor African to his
master there, and give him equal polit-
ical and social privileges with the white
population. But no: they bring for
ward no sThus saith the Lord, Let the
negroes go, that they may be Free
but pretend to have great scruples of
conscience upon the subject, and say
they must clear their skirts of the blood
of the slave and of his master! We
will not discuss the subject with
The consciences of these zealots in the
cause of emancipation, for they have
never witnessed the acts Of cruelty and
injustice they charge upon the slave
holder, and therefore can have no prac-
lical knowledge of the character of
slavery. Neither will we attempt to
show the analogy between slavery as
It existed in the time of the Apostles |
and as it exists at this time in our own
Suffice it 10 say, that slave
y ever has been the same the world o.
yer, and at all periods of time. If it !
IS SO great sin against God and a.
gainst man, is it not remarkable, that |
The Saviour, who reproved sin on all
occasions, has left no command for the |
abolition of slavery in the days of his
sojourn among men, or, lift is more hi
leouS now, is it not more strange that (
ne did not prophetically denounce it p
And will the Abolitionists say that the !
dictates Of their eonscieasces (!!?) ere
better guides, more infallibly right,
than the teachings of him who 'spake
as never man spake, and under whose
his apostles wrote, That