Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-11

tenders OF slavery, although at first they were
really anti-slavery churches. He declared
that had he not received spiritual instruction
from other sources, he should have been an
atheist. He then adverted TO some recent
proceedings Of the Evangelical Alliance
That body met in London a few weeks ago,
when the question Of American slavery came
before them. The Rev. DR.. Smythe, a slave
holder, Of South Carolina, was there; the
Rev. DR.. Cox, moderator of a slaveholdinr
General Assembly, and others Interested in
the maintenance of slavery were also there.
The Rev. DIR. Hinton moved that slavehold-
ers should not be admitted. The question
was debated, DR.. Wardlaw, Mr.. Hines and
W.T.. Nelson ably sustaining the position
The discussion caused angry feelings on the
part OF the American deputation, about sixty
IN number; and they succeeded in getting
Mr.. Hinton to withdraw his proposition, and
refer the whole subject 10 a large committee.
On this committee were most of the Ameri-
can deputation. They sat several days du-
ring their sittings, special prayers were of
fered up in their behalf; and at length they
decided that all Shareholders should be exclu-
ded who were such by their own fault or for
their own interest. This was a loop-hole
through which every Shareholder might have
escaped, for they all say it is for the interest
of the slave to remain in his present position /;
but the Shareholders considered even this
modified resolution offensive it was, there
fore, rescinded, and the Alliance dissolved
He compared the American delegation TO the
Pharisees of old, who, it is said, devoured
widows houses, and for a pretence made long
prayers. Tn conference prayed, "Lord,
what wilt thou have us 10 do" when God
had told them TO break every yoke and let the
oppressed go free; instead of praying for di-
roction tb,op eborlJ bo,o Nr,,oI Co. lzro.t,,
for that was what they needed. IL the Evan
gelical Alliance had denounced slavery as a
crime
Mr.. Horror They did so.' (Shouls of
'order.O
Mr.. DOUGLASS declared they did not. They
excluded Quakers. Plymouth brethren and
Unitarians, and they welcomed to their COM
munion the man-stealer. cloud Applause.)
Like certain persons of old, they strained at
gnats and swallowed camels. Mr.. Douglass
condemned, in similar strong terms, the con-
duct of the Free Church of Scotland in well
coming men-stealers to its fellowship, and
after bearing his testimony to the invaluable
eXertions made by the Wesieyans for the alb
clifton of slavery in the British Colonies, ex-
horted them to still further and more extend
ed labors. He concluded by expressing the
pleasure he had in visiting Sunderland, the
first sh!p-building port in the world, having
been himself for some years brought up as a
caulker in a ship-building yard at Baltimore.
The Mayor then invited Mr.. Horton to
come upon the platform, with which invita-
ton the reverend gentleman complied. He
at once offered his hand to Mr.. Douglass,
which was accepted, whilst he cordially well
coined him to Sunderland. (Applause.)-
lie congratulated him as a free man in a free
country, and one well worthy of the freedom
which he possesses. They had all heen de-
lighted with his manliness, courage, power
full eloquence and lofty feelings and he was
sure that he had listened to him with the grea-
test possible satisfaction. He hoped that no
man would be better pleased than Mr.. Doug
lass himself to hear 4 word or two of explain
alton in reference to some subjects on which
he had touched. And first, with respect to
the Evangelical Alliance. In drawing up
the paragraphs which state the objects of that
body, especial mention is made of their de-
sire to put down slavery and every form Of
oppression and wrong. The latter words
were introduced to meet the case OF East In.
dia serfdom, which looks very like slavery.
His principal object in rising, however, was
to assure Mr.. Douglass that the British Wes-
leyan Methodists have no fellowship whatev-
er with the slaveholding Methodists in A.
merica. (Applause.) He agreed in all the
observations which had been made on the
gross hypocrisy of those professors of reli-
gion who hold property in men. If the class
leader who presumed to claim such a man as
MIR. Douglass came TO this country, and pre-
scented to him Mr.. Horton any credentials
which he might possess, he would disowr
him, and that man would be disowned by the
Wesleyan Methodists throughout the length
and breadth of this country. TApplause.
He wished Mr.. Douglass also to understand
that the British Conference has, on many oc
c%asions, protested and demonstrated, in thei1
official addresses, against American slavery
and when American bishops had come to thi:
country they had embraced the opportunit,
of instilling right principles into their minds
Mr.. Douglass had adverted TO the effort
made by the Wesleyan Methodists, in con
nection with other denominations, to destro,
slavery in the British possessions they stiI
retained the same views and principles, am
were prepared to exert all their moral iniu
ence for the destruction of slavery in Ameri
lea. CApplause. Mr.. Douglass would II
doubt be aware that within the last year {
two, a separation has taken place hetwee
the Methodists in the free and slave States
the sound and the unsound portions of tn
body the former having given a practice
protest against the slaveholding propensitie
and practices of the Methodists in the soutl
ern States. At the same time he felt grieve
and humbled that any man in this part of I'll
world who is a STAKEHOLDER, should bear II
same designation as himself. Inconclusiol
he did honor to the Society of Friends, VIII
uniformly kept clear of all contact with tn
vile and abominable system, in which re
pect they deserve the admiration of the Chris
tian world. [Applause.]
Mr.. DOUGLASS re-aflirmed his first STATE
ment that the WESLEYAN MetholiStS in IN
country hold intercourse with the Wesleya
Methodists in the United States who ar
Shareholders. He also maintained that tn
Evangelical Alliance, instead of dischargin
its duty on this question, had shrunk from i
and that no moral separation had taken plac
between the Methodists of the northern an
southern States of America. The Wesley
ans in this country had also received int
their pulpils the Rev. Jas. CangheY. VIII