Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-22
A Noble Clergyman.

At the recent meeting of the Rhode Island
ALti-Slavery Society, a member withdrew
f ON that body on the ground that it treated
the Unit irians as Christians! G. M. Bur
leigh was present, and in a letter to the
Pennsylvania Freeman, he reports a speech
which that Withdrawal called forth. We
know the author of the speech well. He is a
clear-headed, undetermined man, and tho
orthodox in his opinions, as tole art and
liberal as any hereto we know. Here is the
report of what he said:
Rev. MIR. Cheney, one of tho most promi-
nent aud fearless Free Will Baptist preaclI-
ers in tile State, followed in an eloquent de-
tense Of the tolerant basis of the Society. lie
was not a member of il, but he cordially
sympathized with its object, and liked its toll
erance of all opinions and creeds among its
members. He was glad the Society knew
nothing of sectarian clans and names; that
Cnitarians, Uuiversalists, Methodists, Qua-
kers, Baptists, and r%eligionists of every other
shade and name, could there come together
as brothers, and, forgetting their sectarian
teuds, work together as brothers for the re-
demption of Man. No Anti-Slavery Society
ought TO know any religious creed or faith.
The Old Organization Anti-Slavery Society
had built on the right foundation in this re-
spect. al may be called a Garrisonian,"
said Mr.. c., but without accepting the
name, l wish TO God that | had as clear a
head and as true a heart as Garrison. have
watched him and read him through his
whole public life, and while on many points
OF belief / differ from him, l know he has
never swerved from his duty to the slave no
threats or prosecutions, or seductive allure
ments, have ever turned him from his fidelity
to this cause, and for that | honor him.
Whatever are his views of the Bible, or the
Sabbath, or of Christ, he has as good a right
10 hold them as has DIR. Wayland to hold his.
l am told by my brother clergymen that be
rejects the plenary inspiration of that book.
Suppose he does assume the right to judge
for himself what is and what is not inspired
in that book. He but follows the example Of
some OF the most eminent t~heologians of the
church. DIR. Adam Clarke rejected Solo
mons song from the sacred canon Martin
Luther discarded the book of james. Other
theologians object to other portions of the
book, but who ~denouuces them as infidelf
Yet they assume the right to Judge for them
selves what is inspiration in the Bible aud
what not; the same thing is charged -npsrs
MIR. Garrison. Though not a member of the
Society, and though l believe hat at present
1 can work better for the cause ~unconnected
with it, ] would not have it given up until
the wall of the bondman is no more heard,
and the song Of jubilee shall rise in its stead
throughout the land. To cease your efforts
now, is to confess your great principle OF
: Immediate Emancipation and your mea-
sures Of reform to be wrong. There is i'm
minent danger of the extension of slavery
over New Mexico and California by some
such trick as brought Texas into the Union.
Northern eyes are too full of gold dust to be
on the watch for the plots and schemes Of
slavery. Nothing will save us from that
curse but the agitation Of the country, by the
anti-slavery movement. Where else can we
look for safety? To the Liberty Party p
Where is it? Where, too, is the Free Soil
Party which was formed by forty thousand
Freemen at Buffalo? Dead or asleep. The
Churches? They are the bulwarks of slave
ny. Albert Barnes has truly said they are
responsible for every hour OF its continuance.
The equality of the human race is still de-
MED by them. We have in all the land our
negro pews and negro schools still. Our OIL
ly hope is AGITATION. Silent truth never
will convert the world. Truth must he spo-
ken to do its work. No matter whether it is
spoken by orthodox or heterodox lips. TO
borrow the beautiful greeting sung by the
Hutchinsons, am with you once again.
+. with you to say Don't give up the ship
Never talter! Never relax your Efforts
Never lower your standard or cease your de-
mands for the entire abolition Of slavery, ill
we have an anti-slayery Congress, an anti.
slavery Press, an anti-slavery Literature, an
anti-slavery Supreme Court, an anti-sla.
very Pulpit and Church; until every slave il
free, and every man is respected as a man in
our whole country" e