Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-01

From tie .3nti-S larery Standard
The Evangelical Alliance and the BTU
ish Religious Press.

formed - I'V1 urpllpll Alliance Is ItDNhN''
Inv he 8ritish Telirious press, for its weak
n o and treacberv In the question of Ameri-
can slavery. The London Patriot, the or
ran oc the nrthodox Disseuters, has very en-
nhaiirallv ovpresscd This rebuke, as our
readers arn nofbans already aware. declaring
,La, tho Alliance. first nv their laint-hcarted
censure of slaveholdinG, and next by their
| withdrawal from even this position, had " tri-
! 0ad with the subject Of Slavery" and had
made fools OF themselves,'' (adopting this
latter expression from language used by Sir
Cullinr Smith, chairman of the Alliance')
and conlessine that it "cannot understand
how any Auti-Slavorv man can remain a
member Of this s]o-calied ~EYangeiicai All
ancc." Tie oriao3or papers in America VIII
doubtless be careful not to enlighten their
readers as to this state Of the public NINA
abroad they will, too, be slow to let them
know of the terrible rebulio which not only
the journals, but a host Of the best men OF
British orthodoxy, administered to the ALI
aHce, in the great meeting of September lltll,
at Exeter Hall, atwhich Rev. JouN BURNETT,
- whose name,'' says the Pairiot, "ls a Sc
curity for candor and impartidlity," presided.
The London Inquirer, an upright and IN
dependent journal, one of the principal Or
gans of the Unitarian Dissenters, thus speaks
Of the course Of the Alliance on this SUBJECT
The question merges in that, whether Sla-
very is or is not Il crimC,-whether 1t Is or Is
not consistent with Christianity-wlih Its
precepts fairly applied, its spirit properly car
ricd out. The Evangelical Alliance pro
fcsses to he an assembly Of Christians. Had
any notorious criminal, or proilTate present.
ed himself for admission, he would unques-
tiOuably have been told that he had no bust
ness there, although the rules contain no
specific reference to his conduct; what Is
coutended is, simply, that no offence against
Christian morals is more certain than slave
holding,-tiat the encouragement or indul-
gonce Of no crime is more injurious to Chris
tlmity than that Of aiavehoiding; and, there
D fore, that a Christian assembly, which saw
any danger Of Shareholders or their friends
/ intruding into it, is bound to take measures
It for keeping itself uncontammatod
: We regret 10 be called upon to give the
opinion that the resolution first sanctioned by
n the Evangelical Alliance, in relation to Sla-
very, namely, the words--' And in respect,
: especially, to the system Of Slavery, and ev-
cry other form of oppression, in any country
the Alliance are unanimous in dePIorlng
them, as in many ways obstructing the pro-
gross OF the Gospel, and express their con-
hdence, that no branch VIII admit to meni-
bershiP SHAREHOLDERS, who, by their own lani!,
continue IN mat Posllioh' retaining tleir lei
loW-men IN slavery, from regard 10 their own
interests, can be accounted no bettcr tlan
d mean compromise, and an unprlnclpIed sup
preston OF the truth upon the subject; ana
that the withdrawal OF even TINS, when found
to be offensive to the AmcTlcans' was a sac
rihce ct the moral influence OF Christianity
to a show OF union, for which no Justihca-
ton can possibly be offered
The London AoncoHjormiSi, another jour