Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-03-19
COMMUNICATIONS.
Proceedings at gainesville.
Eobr,,r, - 10 T.

Wednesday evening 10 hear Father Kepp's
argument defending the Constitution. re-
piled to him the next Saturday night. BY
the way somebody got ont printed notices Of
a meeting for the next Monday evening at
the Court House 10 review Mr.. kinney's ser.
mon. The next Sunday eve, Mr.. II. spoke
upon persecution. As reported 10y some one,
he said that the church of Christ had always
beer prosecuted, and that her safety depend
ed upon the protection Of the civil mower, and
what these prosecutors wanted was to drag
the President from his chair and destroy the
courts, and then persecution would rage as
much as in SAILS time and even now there
were ladies', (for he would call them ladies
ont Of couresy.) that thirsted for the blood
Of the Saints! He read the printed notice of
TIE contemplated meeting, emitting the time;
said that The writer must be a skeptic, The
printer mean, and if any professor attended,
no ought TO be disciplined.
Monday evening came, and a large con-
course assembled at the Court House to hear
General Paine review the sermon, which lie
did in a very eloquent manner. He was par
ticularly severe upon Mr.. X. for his abuse of
the ladies of this county. While the NJ. T..
Church was sustaining "the sum of all viii
Ianies," these ladies were helping the poor
fugitives from the Southern prison. house 10
their refuge in Canada. and had been pre-
pairing and collecting together some half a
dozen boxes Of clothing, which had been sent
there for these poor broken-hearted men. wo-
men and children, to make them comfortable
through the long, cold, and dreary winter of
that inhospiiable cline. After a unanimous
vote Of thanks TO Gen. Paine, and a vote that
the doings of the meeting be published, they
adjourned 10 meet in the free chufch on
Wednesday evening.
On that evening | continued the review.-
in the history of the General Conference !
Mr.. Kinney left the church endeavorinr 10
advance gradual emancipation 10 the Slave :
States. | explained the difference between
gradualism and immediatism showed the :,
unity Of the NJ. L. Church all over the Unit. i"
ed States, and exposed the unfairnpss, 10 say :
the least, of Mr.. Kinney's course in passing ."
over in silence all the pro-slavery acts of the .
Gen. Conference from 1886 10 1914 inclu. '
sive. proved from the discussions of IA ="
that the northern preachers in the Conference "
opposed slavery. not from sympathy for the
slave or hatred Of slavery as sinful in itself,
but merely from expediency-slavery being
unr opular in the North, and anti-slaverv
members were leaving them-and that all
their opposition to a slaveholding Bishop
was from expediency. ] examined the Dis.
cipline upon slavery, and inquired ii the NJ.
E. Church North had kept four thousand
horse thieves who had twenty.seven thousand
stolen horses, would they not be Justly charge.
nblo with tolerating horse-stealing also
exposed The fragrant inconsistency of Disci-
pline in its despotic severity against lrining
offences, and yet doing nothing at all to pu-
Tify the church of its man-stealing, cradle
plundering, woman-whipping, soul-destroy-
Ing members The Sd question in part Cd,
section I'd, is /" How shall talking in the con-
gregation before and after service be cured"
Answer, "Preach in concert against it, and
Danish the vile practice out of every Metho-
dist congregation. Let none stop until he
has carried his point" But were the ereach.
ers directed to preach against the ibom ina
lion of slaveholding9 No such thing =
Their members may practice it to any extent
and as long as they live with i,npunily.-
CHI. 9, Sec. 2, question 9th. Ans, 2. IF
they do not amend, let him who has the
charge Of the circuit erciude them, showing
that they are laid aside for a breach Of our
rule Of Discipline" Chat is Tor neglecting
10 attend class meeting, and not for immerni
eonduct.) Are they excluded for the practice
of - the sum of all villanies !" Never, hut
are embraced as dear brethren in Christ =
And part I'd, sec.. ID, que ton ed. " Is there
any exception to the rule let the men and
women sit apartl Answer. There is no ex.
ception-let them sit apart in all our church.
es." Question. Is there any exception 10
the rule 10 exclude all who are guilty of the
vile and odious practice Of slaveholding in the
church Answer. We have no such rule
let them all remain as dear brethren in the
great NJ. E. Church of the United States.
In The discussions in General Conference
in IA, Mr.. Hamblsine of Ohio, said /" that
every officer in the church, from the highest
down to the class leader. can be removed
Wih or tOithOut a cause" In all cases Of
discipline Of private members. the preacher
in chargs can negative the whole class, and
bring the ease before the Quarterly Confe-
renee. which is composed entirely Of Office
holders. mos4 OF them absolutely depending
upon the mere vii; Of the preacher in charge
for their Office. ieonpsIed the Discipline OF
fhs NJ E. Church with the Wesleyan, show
sa THAI ihe one wss pro-slavery and the 9th.