Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-11-27
Slavery and the Evangelical
Alliance.

. , t"t IAtDF ~ ne -hflcGes{cr Examiner .
"in II perceive by the papers, that a NEE
ting On the Evangelical Alliance has been
held In Manchester. and understand that sew
eril thousands Of "A bill, entitled, "American
Man-stealing and the Alliance were distri.
buted at the meeting. ] wish to call the at
tentlon Of the people Of Manchester TO the
speech Of Rev. Dir. Cox, Of New York, on
that OCCASION. He divides SHAREHOLDERS into
three classes ''OAe of which is guilty Of afro
cities :" the second class are - those who had
slaves, but who would not sell them. nor in
Decd G0y, unless they saw them in distress.
at fear OF being sold into other hands - the
M'rd class was "that Of real Chrisfiaus."-
(bi1ncheStcr Courier, Sept. 10. l546.) A
Christian stakeholder The Rev. Doctor
aim 20 unite the endeared and venerable
name Of Cbris'ian with Shareholder. What is
a stakeholder
"All those who are concerned in bringing
any OF the human race into Slavery, or in re-
tanning them in it; all who keep, sell, or bun
slaves, are HtaH-sisahrS-guiity Of the highest
kim Of theft, and sinners of the first rank"
The Books Of Discipline Of the Ptosbv-
terrain Church in the United States, adopted
in 1911
''Slaveholding is, in crery instance, wrong,
~unrighteous, and oppressive a very great
and crying sin, there being nothing equal to
It on the face Of the earth. "--Rev. Samuel
Hopkins, d.. d. of the United States. I116.l
"iie that holds another man as propsriv,
subjects the whole SUN Of his existence to
oppression, bereaves him of every hone, and
is therefore, more detcstable than the robbcr
and assassin combined. ''-TThomas Dav,
Esq, l7SO, in the Legislature of Kentucky,
,r
or, l. no,T any man IN slavery, IS to be ev-
~ Gay s"'"3 ;! '0OotES nun Of ms liberty
,~ci 5,'".l"i' my years rom mis-
-, ~ It ""I ne dr. s'atielui Tor Il man
, ~ u d Ii"'u' as 70 oe GullIy Of common
~ T. y = i0'Ory' -LHo'' Joha'iah Edwards
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slaves shall be deemed, held, taken, re-
Puled' and Judged IN law TO be chTHeL per-
S0naI' to all ]lnients, constructions, and purpo-
SEES Whatsoever. The Universal Law of
American slavery, and the particular enact
ment oil South Carolina.
Thus, every American slave is a chatiel
personal--a mqn, created in the imape Of
God, turned into a brute, or a thing, and held
and. usedas all ot-hsrzproperty is held and
used and every American Shareholder, what.
ever be his title, character, or standing. in
other respects, herds human beings, for whom
"Ihh btdSto ant CIttDllO tDlUUS,
and claims and uses them as property. The
only idea attached to sE1gehOlders in America.
as essential to that character, is, a man who
holds and useS MS fellow-beiups as propertv.
Can he possibly have any moral rioht to thu +
which he holds as his property (; i. e. the
bodies and souls Of men, lie surely cannot
He is then a man-stealer. No man can hold
a slave in the United States, and not he n
mln-stealer.
Doctor Cox, and his seventy American
brother delerates to the Alliance az he says
were perfectly agreed in their views of slave
holders -. r.. THAT thare yere Cbris,ia,
Shareholders who should not be turned ont of
the Alliance" The doctor comes FAM, jbo.-
sand 9iiKes-ror what purnosel 10 enlist
the feelings of British Christians and minis
tiers, in behalf Of the wretched and imbruted
victims of American religion and republican
ism! No; but to induce them to mite with
the pro-slavery CLERGY and churches in Amer
lea. to associate the name of Christ with man
s~tealers! He told the Shareholders before he
left home, that the resolution to keen them
out of the Alliance meant no,hinr. and that
their honor would he p%prfertIv so3f, in his
keepiur. He has done what he copld IA
guard the honor of American .man.stoalers"
to place those in a respectable nosilion be-
fore the British public. who are guilty Of the
..hiuhest kind of theft - and sinner: or tho
first rank" He blasnhemes the Son of CoJ
by attempting 10 make Him the comn,,ion
Of thieves and rohbersl And sorrv am I n
see that The Rep. DR.. LiarhjV-G9m whom
better thinos mirht have 1een eynecieJ-bas
pledned himself TO sustain DIR, Gov in his
| blasphemous attempt. When these oU;es If
American man.straiers talE Of ,bcir ed r~r
the honor and rlorv of our Divine pe5semor
what can thew meant Tbev insist thot Nmor
lean SHAREHOLDERS and Chris, nav he goynrr,
ed by one and the same sniril-ihat ,bev arc
one with him-members of his bodv2anG
portions of his nature. while tbev boId md
use him as an article of sordid mercbandise