Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29
Correspondence IF the II. ). AandQrd.)
The CampbeIli.eS.
CoLuMBus, o., Sept. 81, lsl7.

CoLCHibSs' Cs Stpt 90 on
DEAR FRIEND Il have Just read in the
Standard of the 23d ult. a notice of the very
suitable reception given by our Scotch friends
to the Rev. Alexander Campbell. Nothing
that ] have seen lately has given me more
satisfaction. 1t throws me back to the time
Of my residence in the slave State Of Missou-
ri, where | met frequently with Mr.. C.'s
most deuOted followers, who style themselves,
par excellence, "ChriStians," sometimes also
''RefOrmers." Not much Of observation or
insight was necessary in order to discover
that these titles were Il scandal even to COM
man sense so | invariably used the more APP
propriate term, ''Cainpbeilite," when spei-
king Of the body. These 'Chrisiinns" kept
their slaves, male and female, old and Young,
huddied together in one room. at night-a
misunderstanding, dirty "cibin,' at some lit
tie distance from the comfortable mansion in
habi,ed by themselves. They gave them no
religious or other instruction.. They spoke
to theInRs if they wtre dogs. They clothed
them, until grown, and even then, in rags,
thus precludlng this little chance of giving
them s~eli-respect. The most they would ad-
init was, that Slavery was a social and polit-
icdl, never a morGi, evil. 1t was for them
selves alone they cared-never for the slave,
except to keep him well enough to get "A GER
tain amount of labor out of him. | never
shall forget the determined bitterness with
which ] was repeatedly told, I'VE vjH neper
consent 10 hGerate our saares, and hare them
remain as hb0rerS tcih us. If the North
would bug them, and send them 10 Liberia,
or any where out of the country, we should
he glad" Years ago, when | was in Mas
sachusetts, and heard Elliott Cresson pro-
pound his insinudting salvo, "Colonization,"
- ,,r.l e,r,,nl ma, ~. l,i,- .1,r,Ll .-.J
and exceedingly inefficient. AS | brcame
better instructed on the subject of Slavery, it
appeared rather in the light Of a pleasant
hoax. judy, then, how entirely my eyes
were opened to the depraviry which Original
ted and suSrains the scheme, when ! found
that men Of the character ! have Just desert
bed. men whose souls had shmnk to parch-
ment. who spoke with The tones of hardened
selfnshuess against all the best interests Of
the slave, were more apt to hand me the
"Colonization Herald" than those Of a bet
ter stamp. The ignorant Catholic repeats in
blind faith a number of ayes and paternosters,
or puts money into the hands of his confess
sor, believing in the efficacy of the SAINT 10
cleanse him from sin. The Shareholder hires
an editor to inform him weekly that he caH-
not do right under existing circumstances
The value of the excuse, so often made by
Southerners, that they cannot !iberate theiT
slaves because they have it not in their pow
er TO send them out of the State, as the law
obliges, is tested in Missouri, where no such
law exists. The slaves remain slaves THE
eXcuse-"It would not be fair to other slave
: holders in the acknowledgements make
their servants di>conlented." But, to return
two Of The most popular CampbelIite preach
ers labored in the neighborhood where ! re-
sided /; the one quite young, the other forty
five, perhaps, having a family Of grown-uI
daughters and | have facts 10 relate, con
corning both these men, on the truth o
which you may implicitly rely. A coloret
lad, of fifteen or sixteen, was hired out IN
family where the younger Of these men board
ed. One day this servant of the Lold de
clared that sixty dollars had been stolen from
an unlocked box which he kept under thu
bed, and he avOwed his conviction that The
cOTored lad had taken it,. Whereupon a con
suilation was held with the master of thu
house, and it was decided TO frighten The laC
into confession. So, at midnight, the minis
ter, The doctor, (he who kept the house. AM
the school-master, (who was called in TO as
, sist.) sat in solemn c~onclave on the judg
ment.seat. They told the lad that he ha,
A.. stolen the money, and they were about t
, hang him; but that if he would confess tn
2 theft, he should not suffer. The lad protest
b ed his innocence; so they adjusted The rope
and asked what message he would leave fc
his mother. Tell her" said he, ~ did nc
] take the money, end has have gone "her