Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-05-14
From the Pa. Freeman.
American Evangelical Alliance.


we have expressed the opinion that the
effort TO get up an American Branch of the
great Rabbinical Humbug, organized last
year IN London, would prove a failure. This
opinion was formed in view of the inherent
weakness OF the parent organization, the wig
orous assaults made pom it in high quarters,
and the general GOODNESS and distrust mani
Tested towards II by the religious press and
the sects most likely to sympathize with such
a movement. We did not expect, however,
that the American delegates would acquiesce
without a struggle in the judgment which
would consign their pet scheme TO oblivion,
and %dlsaPpoint all their hopes of individual
preterment. Your ecclesiastical Babel bull
ders are as obstinate as they are vain, and for
Intrigue and cunning more than a match for
the shrewdest politicians. That such men
would virtually confess that they had cross
ed the ocean on a %'fool's errand,'' and make
no effort to enbody the conceptions which
had f1oated before their bewildered vision,
was more than could be reasonably expect
ed. We are not surprised, therefore, to find
that, after a long and dreary incubation, these
delegates have succeeded in Matching out the
egg deposited by the London Alliance a bird
which, in the fondness of paternal vanity,
they would fain induce us TO receive as the
white-winged DOVE of Peace and Christian
fellowship, but which We fear will turn out
after all 10 be only a hideous nondescript--
something between "hawk and buzzard."
10 drop the figure, we find in the religious
papers a Constitution which has been adopt-
ed, after numerous secret meetings, by the
American delegates 10 the London Confer
ence, and which those delegates propose as
the basis for an ''.7merican Evangelical ALI
ance." This constitution is to be submitted
for deliberation, modification and adoption,
TO a Conference to be held in New York on
the 9th inst, a week previous to the a%nniver-
sar:eS. The conditions of membership in the
Conference have been fixed by the American
delegates aforesaid, and are Of so stringent a
character as to preclude all discussion of the
question as to the expediency OF forming such
an Alliance as is proposed. They dare no,
trust that question in an open meeting even
OF members of the self-styled evangelical "
denominations-still less TO a body compo-
sed OF all who call themselves Christians and
who may choose TO attend. The members
oil the Conference will consist ercfusiuelv of
the American delegates, Chose modest lndi-
vIduals have taken good care to secure seats
for themselves) and those phO moy be admit
at heir own request, BY THE COMMIT
TEE OF RECEPTION, Rev. Drs. Cox and Peck,
and Rev. Mr.. Wheelock This committee
that they would meet every Tues
a. The Tract House in New York, from
to o'clock, P. NJ, beginning on the 9th
't April Tor the purpose of receiving and ac-
ing upon applications for membership. The
conditions on which these Rev. Inquisitors
"ilI consent to receive members are these (:
/. "The applicant must be personally
'nown or suitably authenticated TO the Com
nittee.
O. He must DO credibly a~itested as "a NOM
'er Of some evangelical Church, il good and
sanding