Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16


tellects or feeble powers; persons ignorant of
the subject on which they presume to speak,
or unable to present the subject in its true
colors before the meetings which they adj
dress. On the contrary, they regard the a.
gents of the league as men of virtue and res
pectability as persons of intelligence and
great abilities. They know that they under
stand the subject on which they speak, and
that they are able to make that subject un-
derstood by others. They know, that both
as speakers and as writers, they are persons
of superior powers men that can both exhi-
bit truth to the understanding, and make it
felt by the heart. They know, that the pre-
sident Of the league, George Thopmson, is a
man of unequalled powers, as we'll as a man
of high character. They know that the Sc
cretary too, if they are acquainted with him,
is a man of virtue and integrity, and of no
ordinary abilities as a speaker. They know
that the agent of the league, Frederick Doug
lass, is a man both of extraordinary talents,
and of a sterling, irreproachable character
that his spirit, his language, his powers, all
combine TO render him an object of intense
interest and of high admiration. The min
listers of Leeds are also aware, that Frederick
Douglass comes TO them accredited by the
favorable testimonies of some of the most
respectable, intelligent, and pure-minded in
dividuals, both in America, in Ireland, and
in Great Britain. 1t was not therefore for
want of satisfactory information with respect
to the general character and the superior tai
ents Of the agents of the Anti-slavery League
it was not for want of a knowledge that
the agents of the league were respectable, in
telligent individuals, disinterested, philan-
I hVaNs, tl,V a.. ..-Naxo &C ,oIa
absented themselves from the meeting on
Thursday evening. What then auas the rea-
son?
We answer the ministers of Leeds were
afraid lest the advocacy of the rights of the
slave, by the agents of the league, should in.
jure the interests of religion should endan-
ger the stability of their religious denomina'
tons, and exert an unfavorable influence upor
the credit and position Of the ministers them
selves. The ministers of Leeds have learn
ed from various sources, that the anti-slaverl
: lecturers charge a great deal of the guilt o
slavery, upon the churches and ministers o
e America. They have learned that they con
d slider the American churches and America
ministers, as the chief supports Of slavery
They have been informed that one OF the az
vocates of the cause of the slave, has pu|
a. lished a work entitled THE american Chu
ches the Butcdrks Of american Sidpery.'-
a. They have learned with dismay, that Wrigh
- and Douglass, and Garrison, are prepared
d risk the existence Of any form of religion tn
i ~justiies slavery, of any church that uphold
I slavery, and of any ministry that connives
slavery. They have learned with dismay
| that Wright. and Douglass, and Garrison, ar
:, bent upon the overthrow of slavery at al
: hazards-that they are prepared TO risk tn
: overthrow of every church, Of every religion
, system, of every religious sect, that stands i
the way Of the full and speedy abolition @
slavery. One of these men, ii. G. Wright
they have learned, has declared himself rea
dy to put bis heel upon any government tha
G gives its sanction to slavery TO put his het
c upon any religion that sanctifies slavery I
put his heel upon every institution that is
e war with the freed ON and rights Of any pc
ton of the human family. They have foun
that in speaking against slavery, those LEI
e turers expose the guilt of the American chu
; ches, and of the American ministeEs--that bt
fore mixed and crowded audiences they NJ
y cover the nakedness Of their slaye-holdin
e religious brethren, and their beloved slav,
holding and strengthening fellow minis
If ters across the Atlantic-that they max
J. known to the people of England the awfI
i fact, that the churches and ministers Of Am,
y IlCd BtutIdly arc V|O-otutCf 3 : anu bhut ia
k of them are actually engaged in the traffic
n s%laves-that Methodist ministers, Bapti,
s ministers, Independent ministers, Presbyt
rian ministers, and Episcopal ministers, al
all implicated in the guilt Of slave-holdinI
= and in all the c~ruelties and denomination
at connected with the slave system. The
= lecturers have attempted to make it plai
OF that before slavery can be abolished in Am
l. RIGA, those slave-holding churches must
I'd thoroughly revolutionised or utterly destrc
ne ed. They have endeavored to make the i
at preston on the minds Of the people Of Ell
is land, that the Methodist, and Baptist,
en- Presbyterian and Independent denominatiC
a Of this country, are in fellowship with
lat slave-holding churches and ministers Of Al
it'll RIGA, and are thus partakers of their Grim
Of They have published it to the world al
cts fact, that the Methodist churches of Engla
md are in fellowship with the slave-holding \
icy thodist churches of America-that the \
ef- thodist Conference places the numbers
RS, the slave-holding Methodists and slave-ho
de, ing ministers of America, upon heir mlnul
de- and reckon them as part OF Their own poo
and hold fellowship with them as truly Chr
OF tan men. They have published 1t 10
90, world that the Methodist ministers OF u
sh- tain, when they have gone over TO AmeTI'
ght have neglected, or refused, in their pub
icy sermons, 10 denounce the slavery Of Amc
vas ca. and to rebuke their slave-holding bre
ent ems They have published it 10 the woT
XThey have charged r. Newton. d. D., with
,,"e ino so. In a tract lately published, entitled ~
oe, Horrible and Astounding Facts, or a Revelation
md a Modern Mystery of lniquity, - it was stated
his when r. Newton went over to America, he ne
in once in his sermons. either denounced slavery
the rebuked the slave-holding Methodists of that Ii
A person, A. Smith, Of Bradford, a member of
Methodist Society, wrote to r. Newton on the
iect, asking him whether the charge was ,ru'
did false. R. Newton sent the following answer,
Oh DEAR SIR,
be- When in America, I did in public Confer