Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-02-20

on our congregations for support; and we
must live" 81 deny the premises" s,id
George, q deny that any man should live.
unless he live honestly" (%Flcar. and cheers.
The Ministers of the American churches rali
that they must live they never made a GREAT.
or mistake, than to say they must live bv
such means rs those by which they still live.
What made it necessary that they should
live by the blood of their fellow man I:
for, was not the food tley cat, were not the
watches in their pockets, and the coats on
their backs nought with the price Of blood 7
(Hcar, hear.) They considered, that if the
Shareholders gave up their slaves, they would
not be paid their salaries. He (Mr. Dour-
lass) did not believe thlt would be the case
%--(hear, hear, hear)--for he knew that the
ministers were better paid where there were
no slaves--whcre freeman were TIE paymls-
tiers. (Helr.) But he wanted to say a few
words with regard to the Congregational de-
nomination, or Independents, as they were
called here. These Were mostly TO be found in
the Northern Stltcs. But the way in which
they were implicated in the crime Of
Slavery was the same as that in which the
Free Church Of Scotland was implicated. 4
large number in the New England States had
taken a good stlnd as to Slavery but the
leading ministers and the Lending papers all
took the side of slavery. And was it not a
singular fact, that the farther they went up,
the higher grades of ecclesiastical officers
were almost invariably to be found the most
ardent defenders of TIE STAKEHOLDER; while
the brethren that were below them, wee on
the side Of humanity and Christianity 1t
was So, even in the days If our Savicur.--
they read of a man that fell among thieves,
half de1d ILot - priost h.rh NV oa.i,"'
cal Jis,ino,i " IS -" ~ 'o'i,S'l'"-
where ,ho r,nn "'' IDir"uS " nlon7 'noIo'I
hv vi,bo,, ra,;aS .it"e l.. 80 ~ P'S''"
mn mn aC,nr. ,.hn aJam5 ~ , tItI a." he,l'e 'Iuno
won, ana lnnLaJ y. 49, "iS a'I u ~
no doubt ,hcrc was , etrntnin ~ his hr"a"t
betwcrn bnn,ri,u al ooe;sss :" "S 'ls",
ever. nrevaiIaJ I'D H. cniio, IL ,L : "o"
of his 'iIInstricns nrodooaHsor. anI H." rTpa
p,nclassi was snrry il I1rned on, Ibot No.
was wilIinr to foIlo;y tho psest r,,hnr thnn
to interfere in Inc cause of humanity Rnt
they read of another who was iourncyinp tho
snme way, not of the school of The priesthood.
but rather a worshipper in what thew boliev.
cd In Il wrong place. Samaritan: and. when
he heard the groans of the poor man. he had
compassion upon him, bound I'D his wounds,
pouring in oil and wine. set him on his own
beast, and took him to an inn rave the host
Nv O-pcHcc, ana tOld MN 10 take care OF hun,
and that whatever he spent more, when he
returned he would repay him. Ssit was G.
ven in Belfast; the people were on the side
of the slave,-there would be no difficulty in
getting from them an expression of their feel
ings in favor of the slave,-Thear7-it was
only in the higher or upper classcs-the class
{" Ciyis "-[alluding to a writer in The Ban
ner that such a difficulty would arise. The
leading Doctors of Divinity in America, and
the Professors in the COLLEGES. were in favor
of Slavery. There was Professor Stewart,
of the Andoyer Seminary, one of the first
Biblical schools in New England-that gem
tleman had committed to him the instruction
Of the ministers of a large portion If the Con-
gregational denominations, and he was an adj
vocata for slavery. The Rev. Dr.. Fisk, who
some time ago, was welcomed by the Meth
odist Church., in Dublin, though they had
shut him Mr.. Dourlass1 out,-this Doctor
Fisk became uneasy, when lie heard it said
that Slavery was a sin, and, not willing to
commit himself on the que ton, wished TO
have the opinion of Doctor Stewart on the
subject. This mln, who would have said that
sheep stealing was a sin, and would have de-
oided so al once, had 10 consult A learned
Doctor as TO whether man stealing was A sin
-rhelr, hcar-1 but. then, they knew that
it was necessary that he should live, and he
could not do so, independent OF his congre.
cation. TLaurhter.7 Doctor Stewart sent
him a reply, in which he referred to the case
of Onesimus, whom he stated Paul had sent
back to Philemon for life. He mr.. Doug