Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-11-13
o. j. C. Marshall's communication shall
receive attention next week.
Northern and Southern NIethOdis.s.

NulLHCln anu OUdtlGlH N|lCllUuloso.
Abolitionists have ever insisted that there
has been no real division in the Methodist
Episcopal Church on the question of slavery
that while there were two in form, in heart
and spirit there was but one. Northern Meth
odists have denied this when they desired 10
appear fair in the eyes of a growing a~nti-sla-
very public sentiment, or wished to quiet the
conscience of some tender brother who was
becoming uneasy with his p%ro-slavery posi-
ton, and have pointed to the division as an
evidence that the skirts of Episcopal Meth
odism were no longer stained with blood
keeping out Of sight as far as possible, the
fact that the church counted, and counted
with pride her four slaveho'ding conferences
While a seeming war was kept up between
the parties, there existed among the leaders
a real friendship and brotherly union which is
daily becoming more and more manifest
We hope the honest and well meaning mem
bers of the NJ. E. Church will speedily see
that it is one in fact and in spirit with the
church south, and that they are all a part of
the great brotherhood of man-thieves that
they recognize as Wesleyan Methodism that
religion which licenses cradle plunderers as
preachers, and ordains man-stealers as Bish-
ops.
A Mississippi correspondent Of the Nash
ellie Christian Advocate writes a letter which
is " big with heavenly union" and which
the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate says
"breathes the right spirit" In order that
our readers may understand, that in the esti-
nation of these Advocates of Methodism,
that is the "right spirit" which would unite
in bonds of fellowship the churches north
and south, we give an extract from the let
ter.
when brethren come to US from the north,
and announce themselves as members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, we never think
of treating them in any other character than
brethren well beloved, and giving them the
very same privileges as though no line of di-
vision had ever been made. Our christian
love is too strong for any conventional lines
to divide us. They may mark our ~jurisdic-
ton, Gas it is best they should in the circum-
%stances) but like the Canadian Methodists
and those from the United States, met at a
camp-meeting during the late war, immedi-
ately on the line, we will embrace each 9TH
err across the line. Or, in the beautiful and
pacific language of DR.. (now Bishop Ham
line, we will 90 to the north and preach Je-
sus to them, and they will come to the south
and preach Jesus to US. | would say to our
northern brethren, if my voice could reach
them, do not condemn your brethren hastily
and 90 to war with them, as did the hasty
spirits among the nine and a half tribes of Is
rael, when they saw from the distance on this
side of Jordan, an altar erected by the two
and a half tribes, who had so faithfully fought
with them the battles of the Lord. Adopt
the more prudent and peaceful counsels, send
chosen men, heads of all your tribes. Let
them 90 through the length and breadth of
our southern Methodism, and sea if it be not
the genuine Wesleyan form of true Christi
anity, which we have so long toiled shoulder
to shoulder to set up in these lands. Let
these chosen men, with the venerable He'd
ding as their chief, examine our book Of Dis
c%ipline, and see if the ancient landmarks be
removed even in the minutest PARTICULAR
Let them survey the wide field of our gene
raj ~itinerant SUPPLEMENTARY go round the
extensive districts of our Presiding Elders,
and our toilsome four weeks circuits, extend
ing to every nook and corner of our popula-
ton. Let them follow our missionaries to
the farthest wigwam of the recently migrated
Cherokee or Choctaw, or wander with him
through the rice, the sugar or cotton planta-
tions of the south, to search for the lost sons
of Africa. Let them share with our devoted
missionaries the 'proud mans scorn," and
the 90 blessing of those who were ready to
perish" Let them turn aside to our quiet
class-rooms, our love-feasts, and our camp
meetings, and mark the cloudy and fiery pill
lar that still directs us'by day and night
Then let them return and report to their breth-
rem north, whether it be not the same divine
fame which used to animate us when we
were one, and ~rejoiced in each others pros
perity. If this be their report, then we are
one,
Nor life, nor death can part"