Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-09-03
Beaver Baptist Association.

The following preamble and resolution
were rejected by this body at its late meeting
al Achor, Columbiana Co. Whether the
members of the Association still claim to be
christians, we have not been informed.
"FYhereas, The system of American Sla-
very, contravening as it does the great laws
Of love and righteous ness, and interfering
with the Apostolic commission, Go We in-
to all the world and preach the gospel to ev-
cry creature," and is consequently destruc-
tive to the temporal happiness and eternal
well-being of mankind, therefore
'Resoired, That any countenance of or fell
lowship with the system of slavery, is incom-
patible with our duty as stewards of the man
fold grace of Cod"
Now what is there terrible in the forego-
ing! We can perceive nothing, though per-
haps more acute eyes can discover some in
fdeI spots. 1t presents the antl-slavery ques-
ton in a very simple manner. Does Amer
lean slavery contravene the laws of love and
righteousness does it interfere with the
preaching of the gospel! If so, is it not de-
s~tructive to the temporal and eternal happi-
ness of mani? This is all the preamble as
serts, but it seems the members of the Bap-
list Association did not da re to say it, nor, if
it were equally unpopular to do so, would
they dare % say that Christ is Lord. Per-
haps, however, the great difficulty is in the res
%olution which requires consistent, christian
action, a thing which the religious associ-
atoms of this land regard with but little IA
vor.
The members of this Association were
doubtless right in thinking it necessary for
the safety of their denomination that all its
members hang together; but whether it is
better for northern Baptists to be sustained
by slave-drivers and men-stealers as they now
are, and to sustain them in their turn as they
now do, than to stand alone for truth and
righteousness, is a question which every in
telligent disciple Of Jesus will answer as the
abolitionists have answered.
OF coURsE.-The Indiana Liberty party
papers have for some time past been noting
the course of a notorious colonization agent,
the Rev. B.. T. Kavanaugh, and taking their
estimate of him as correct, he is certainly not
one of the most noble of men. He is enga-
ged at this time in doing what he can TO ban.
ish the colored man from the land of his ma
tivity, yet according to a correspondent Of the
indianapolis Free Press, she lauds the Ma
tional Era excessively, thinks it is doing a
vast amount of good, and says God speed
The Era"
There's a compliment for the DR.. Slave
holders finding no fault with his course, and
Colonizationists applauding it. If We "waii
a little longer perhaps VI shall hear of John
C. Calhoun or George McDufie compliment.
ting him for his philosophical an.i-slavery
and discreet philanthropy.
Very LIKELY.-A transient sojourner in
the National Capital, in a letter to the editor
Of the True Democrat, says,
awe are reminded of a remark uttered tn
other day by an acute, though bitter anti-ab.
clifton lawyer of this city, who has, through
a certain one Of our papers, rendered himself
peculiarly notorious throughout the whole
Union. Though foolish in many things, vel
we respect his judgment in the celebrated
matter of the Brazilian slave case at New
York City. He expressed his opinion thai
any court south of Mason and Dixon's line
would instantly have liberated those slaves
whom the base injustice of the New Yorl
court compelled to trust lately to the efica
cious benevolence of mouarchical Canada
We have known of at least one instance
where a Southern court freed a captive whom
a Northern judge doomed to interminabIt
slavery. Where the question involves tn
liberty of a person who is legally free, We
think his case would be quite as safe in the
hands Of Southern judges.