Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-03
THE AMERICAN BOARD.

A meeting has recently been held at Sy-
raeuse, y. V, by the friends Of Foreign Mis-
sions. The position Of the American Board
was q subjeet which received a considerable
share Of the attention Of the Convention, and
81 is hoped the developments made in the ad-
dress which was adopted, and the speeches
delivered on that &C occasion, will open the minds
81 many TO the true character of the Board,
and enable then to see it as a pro-slavcry,
nnti-ehriStian organization. We wish wa had
room for morS copjous extracts than we can
give. The address thus treats Of
Tus petition OF TIL AMERICAN BOARD.
" o do not overstate the position. Net on
" was the ground taken in the proceedings
Of the American Board at Brooklyn, that slave
holding, as such, ia not to be treated in the
matter Of religious instruction, admonition and
discipline; as are drunkenness, falsehood,
gaming, and the like-but the principle was
declared to be equally applicable to all kim
drsd social wrongs. The report adopted on
that occasion Up. y says;
"But slavery is not the only social wrong
70 be met in the progress of the missionary
work, and TO which tire principles which are
sdopted in prosecuting that work must prob
ably be applied. There are the castles of In
sia, deeply and inveterately inwrought in the
very texture Of society, causing to the mass
oi tho people hereditary and deep degradation,
leading TO the most inhuman and con,emptu-
Gus feelings and conduct in social life, and
presenting most formidable barriers to every
species Of improvement. There are also The
entertained eraetiorH, made in the form of
revenue, or Of military or other service, con-
Rected with a species Of feudalism, prevailing
in many u~nenlightened communities, which
are most unrightcous in their character and
paalyzing in their influence, and cause un-
limited distress to individuals and families.
Theirs are also those various form, and degrees
Of oppression, whether Of law or of usage, pre-
vailing under the arbitrary governments which
bear sway over the larger part Of ths cerih's
surface"
A subsequent paragraph (p. 10y places war
and polygamy in the same list. And now,
for the admission of these denominations in the
church, in the persons of supposed converts,
niher than to remonsirate against and require
their previous abandonment, tho report dis
%tinctly pleads, for il, not as allowable merely,
bat as tho scriptural and best way Of proceed
Ing. 1t says, (P. y:
"Should it be found, IS the result, Of cx-
perience, that souls among tho heather are
in fact regensrated by the Holy Spirit before
they are freed from all participation in these
social and moral evils, and that convincing
evidence can be given that they are so regen-
erated--then, may not the master and the
slave, the ruler and the subject, giving such
evidence Of spiritual renovation, BIO all gath
cred into the same fold of Christi And may
they not all there and in this manner, under
proper teaching, learn the great lesson, ESQ
difficult for partially sanctifed men to learn,)
that in Christ Jesus there is neither Jew nor
Greek, neither bond nor free; but that all are
one in Him And may they not, under these
influences, have effectudlly n~urtured in them
those feelings of brotherly love, and that re-
gard for each others rights and welfare, in
which alone is found the remedy for all such
evils1 Under such influences may not the
master be prepared to break The bonds Of the
slave, and the oppressive ruler led to dispense
Justice TO the subject, and the proud BrGhmin
fraternally to embrace the man of low caste ;
and each to do it cheerfully, because it is hui
name and right, and because they are all chill
dren Of the great househoH Of God? By such
Influences, mainly, is not the great moral trans
formation TO be wrought in the master and the
ruler, in the bondman and the oppressed, all
important 10 both, and the only sure guaranty
for permanent improvement in the social char
acter and condition Of eitheri"
There can be ne mistake then, in respect
to the nature or the extent Of the Boards po-
sition. i: covers all the ground, that we al
lege. And accordingly we find, by a state
10 the report, n. IT. that all that is here plead