Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-15
COMMUNICATIONS.
PrC-Slavcry Ne .hOdiSm.
"MURDER WILL OUT"

iend the NJ. +. Church against the attach
' of anti-slavery men, who declare her to b
, pro-s!avery. He announced that if he di
I not satisfy the people that the church wa
= anti-slayery, he would then debate the que.
ton with "any competent person."
The people were not satisfied, and on tn
following evening was replied to by ]. w
Walker, Of Cleveland, who, in reviewing tn,
lecture Of the previous day, showed tina
what little was said on the subject was en-
tirely contradicteI by facts. Friend Walk
er, in examining the discipline Of the NJ. +
e., proved that it allowed and justified The
International slave trade, and the holding oil
slaves to any possible extent. That it new.
erhad condemned slavery as sin, but acknowl.
edged the righto of property in man. That all
the parade about the extirpation Of the evil Of
slavery was a farce, intended to blind and
deceive. That they proposed TO do rothing
that could possibly, even in untold genera
tons, tend to the emancipation Of the slaves,
but must necessarily increase the curse, and
perpetuate its existence.
Those clauses that make the laws of the
state regulate the action of the church recei-
we'd no mercy at his hands; the time-serving
priestly sycophancy of that church, looked
supremacy contemplate.
The action of her grand councils, or, as she
calls them, her General Conferences, were
then examined, when it was shown that her
whole influence had been given to the side
of slavery. That they had repeatedly de-
clared tina, they were opposed to abolition
ism, to all anli-slAvery movements whatever.
That they denounced the friends Of the slave,
while not a word was ever uttered in behalf
of the perishing bondman. The speaker re-
marked that when the General Conference,
in 1886, declared that they chad no wish or
intention to interfere in the civil and political
relation ~eXistin! between master and %slave,''
they gave utterance to a GREAT TRUTH, for
this had been, and still was the settled policy
Of that church. She has no wish but to see
the chains frightened and the fetter made fas-
ter.
The action Of her Annual Conferences, the
recorded sayings and sentiments of her lead
ing priests underwent review, and were fully
shown to be on the side of the oppressor.-
The speaker then e%nquired what has been the
usage of the church ! She has daily been
adding to the number of her slaves; size has
yearly increased the number of her man-steal-
ing communicates she has cherished the
viper, and II has fattened under her fostering
care. While she has as far as in her Law,
martyred those who dared TO decl are that her
man-stealing, woman-whipping, cradle-plun-
dering practice was of the devil.
At the close of the meeting, the Grew"
Parker announced that on a subsequent eve
ming he would reply.
At the time appointed, he edited his audi
ence until the last possible particle of pa
thence had expired, and many had left the
house. Such an exhibition of low priestly
cunning, base canting hypocrisy, and double
dealing, | have rarely listened to. | hazard
nothing when | say that the lecture was three
hours evasion. 1t must have been a studied
attempt to mislead and deceive. One would
suppose that every thing the man had though,
Of for a year was jumbled into what he was
pleased 10 call a "reply." At one time he
would be engaged in demolishing, as he sup.
posed, s.. S. Foster 4; then in combating Or
ange Scott; then he would spend a long time
in reading a reply from his 'own pen'' to
Luther Lee-whom he was pleased to call
the greatest logician in the country-which
reply, Of course, left Lee forever in the shade;
then he would examine the Wesleyan Disci-
pline for near an hour, although told that the
book he was reading from was not the disci.
pine. Now he would warn friend w, for
selling the g brotherhood of Thieves" and
then tell US how he felt for sinners, and Ion.
ged to see a revival of religion. Then he
would try to work on the sympathies of his
dupes by talking about their mother, and
would they leave their mother, and would
they speak evil of their mother" and such
like hypocritical slang; read extracts from
Asbury to show that the NJ. Il. Church was
arti-slavery, and finally found fault because
friend w. did not open his meeting with
prayer.
At the close friend w. stated that he came
there to discuss one question, viz: is the
NJ. Il. Church anti-slavery Z" and did not
feel free to waste his own and the peoples
time in discussing "everything." That he
should speak the next afternoon and evening,
ard if his opponent needed it he might have
Eternity to reply in.
In the afternoon friend w. spoke on the
parable of the man who fell among thieves,
distinctly stating that that lecture was no
part Of the discussion.
He proved beyond all controversy that the
conduct of the priesthood had been of the