Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-11

tended that because a man six thousand
years ago awoke from drunken fit, with his
brain reellng under the influence Of wine
and cursed one Of his sons, who happened to
discover his nakedness, it was no good rea-
son why he should be held as a slave. That
he considered he was under no obligation to
work without wages, and quoted Jer. %, Is
" Wo unto him that buildeth his house by
righteousness, and his chambers by wrong,
that nseth his neighbours service without
wages, and giveth him not for his work.
But W. told him that we considered the
curse of Noah binding at the present time
upon all the descendants of Ham, and as to
the passage by jeremiah we did not consi-
der it applicable to the negro, and many of
us were disposed to think it an interpolation.
We have two or three abolitionists in our
church who were disposed to give us some
trouble during our proceedings. When the
slave was baptized, (whether it was inten-
tional on the part Of the administra;or | do
not know,) 1t so happened that his face was
not put under the water, and these abolition
brethren, like technical lawyers, wished 10
take advantage of this, declaring that as he
was not wholly buried in the water, he con-
sequently had not got the remission of his
sins, and was not, therefore, legally a men,
Der of the church /; and this being the case,
we had no right to deal with him. They
also read from the Millennial Harbinger
of February, 1899, page sc and %, where
you denounced slavery as "that largest and
blacklist blot upon our national escutcheon-
that many.headed monster, that Pandora's
box, that bitter root, that blasting and blight
ing curse, that deadly Upas, whose breath
p~ollutes and poisons everything within its
influence" But even if slavery was not
injurious to ourselves, and the condition of
the slave was ten times as happy as it now
is, it is enough for us to know that we have
no right to hold them against their consent"
They even dared to insinuate that yourself,
living in a slave State, contiguous to that
:" deadly UpaS" had become poisoned and
polluted with its influence" But after pray
erfully considering the case, we proceeded,
by a vote OF the church, to excommunicate
the slave, and delivered him "OUer 10 Satan,"
according to your direction in the Harbinger of
May, 1916, p. 1913, when you say, "The disci-
pline of the church is the only discipline un-
der which Christian slaves can be placed by
their Christian masters. If they will not
faithfully serve their Christian masters who
partake of the benefit of their labors, then are
they, after proper instruction and admoni-
ton, to be separated from the church, and to
be put under whatever other discipline a
Christian master, under the e~risting laWs Of
the Stale, may igfict."
On the next " Lords day." the master and
owner of the slave, brother Griper, of Gri.
persburgh, Kentucky, arrived in pursuit Of
his property. The fellow got notice of his
arrival, and endeavored to make his escape
to Canada but as soon as we had concluded
our worship, by attending the Lords supper
(Which we are all p%unctual to do upon every
first day the brethren started in pursuit, and
finally caught him and delivered him up tt
his master, agreeable to the provision Of the
, second section Of the fourth article of our glori
= Gus Constitution, which says " No person
held to service or labor in one State unde
the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall
: in consequence of any law or regulation
therein, be discharged from such service o
labor, but shall be delivered up on the CLAIM
of the party to whom such service or labo
may be DUE"
We are now considering whether it is no
our duty to excommunicate those brethre
who are abolitionists. We find in the Mil
> %lennial Harbinger of May, ls45, page 23s
: that you say, ".7s a Christian, no man ca
IL be an Abolitionist." Also, in the same no
page 1875, you say, "That a time may com
when, in the judgment Of The slaveholdin
States, free labor will appear incompatible
more honorable and more profitable, ! thin
is almost certain. But till that day arrives
n which, in my opinion, would arrive niue
more speedily if the South were permitted
follow its oton policies, without any Joreig
interference, let all Christian men mir
their ODn business" Now if these position
are correct, (and who can doubt them,) sur
10 ly every abOlitionist ought, unless he repent
% to be put out of the church.
10 If understand you in your late writing
s. against the Odd Fellows and Sons of Ten
E. perance, it is your opinion that no member
the church ought 10 join any society Out
re- the church for the sake of lettering or reform
ing the world. This | think is true with r
S, gard TO the above-named Societies, and mar
others. But do not think you intend Il
mia L. Ia .ninaEcal L. IL aHHliaalian