The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-12-08
For the Examiner.
Concluded from last Week ]


last. and the strong hold OF slavery. Chris
tians. every christian who has ecclesl
.s,ical connection with slavery is RESPONSE
~. 40 tbs extent Of his her influence 10
the existence Of slavery in the land. Ii
the old world-in PaPal, Mohammedan
and heather counties, the people are rlslnt
nm in the spirit of true magnanimlty an'
proclaiming liberty TO the captive. 10 on
own country. more than seventy five yeari
since the statesmen Of our nation as they
upfurled TO the world our political faith,
declared liberty TO be an unallenable right
and thereby slavery wrong. One halt Of
the States of our confederacy have by law
excluded il from their territory. And now,
throughout the South, statesmen, polltlcl,
ans. and political economists are declaring
slavery an evil, a sore upon the body poll.
tic. a deadly Upas, casting its poisonous
civilizations upon all that is lovely and ex-
celIent. And now, when driven from every
hold. as the criminal Of olden time, II finds
safety only by flying 10 the sanctuary, and
laying hold upon the horns OF the altar
And here. a monster conceived by avarice
and brought forth By tyranny, with the
plundered rights OF mankind for It's food,
The tears of orphans for It's drink, nipple
ments of torture for its dress, and the sever
ed affections of husbands snd wives Tor It's
work; il asks of the priest at the altar to
throw over it the mantle OF Patnarchal
usage and Bible sanctlty.
The work Of inlamy has been done by
those who will have "aesh TO roast for the
priests" and "will take it by force. -
i Sam. 2: IS, 10. All the large denom-
instions of the land have them. As sPeci-
neutrality-suspicious., (Old SCHOOL,. tits
well known that that body, in General
Assembly, mel in 1915, aud resolved tf't
slavery is no, sinful. and its practice no bar
70 communion.-See Report Of the
mite. This has been the settled polio.
that body ever since. A ID. ID, and one
of the moderators Of the Assembly, in his
pamphlet on the subject of slavery, says
According to the Bible, man may stand
in the relation Of a master and hold slaves
and yet be a fair and reputable, and con-
sistent professor Of the religion Of the Bl.
ble." That the Hebrews held servants as
perpetual property and transmitted them to
their children-thst Onesimus was slave,
Philemon a STAKEHOLDER, and Paul recog
missed Philemon's right to his slave by send
ing the slave back to him.
| know the case Of another minister in
the same church, and in our State, who,
that he might take another mans wife from
him, (which woman he claimed as his
slave, and said to be so white that she was
freckled,) fastened from house to house on
Sabbath morning to hire the sons Of Pres
bylerian elders to go forthwith and hunt his
slave woman; and being reProved by a
Methodist sister for tempting the young
men 10 90 and desecrate the Sabbath, he
replied: MADAM, it is the preachers mig
gers" Thus, not only a STAKEHOLDER and
a slavebreeder, but "preacher" delivered
to do these things, and to desecrate the Sab
bath. And yet, that man was, and is
preacher in good and regular standing IN
that body.
That there are some excellent spirits in
that body, who, in our State are pleading
the cause OF freedom, is true; but they have
the inconsistency of fellowshiping such III
iquities, and are thereby "Partakers in the
sins"
New School. This body, in their Gen
eral Assembly, got rid Of the responsibility
Of definite action by referring the subject
down to the Presbyteries and Synods. One
of the smaller iudicatories said; Resolved,
as the Great Head Of the Church has re-
cognised the relation of master and slave,
we conscientiously believe that slavery is
not a sin against God" On the floor oil
the last General Assembly, member bold
ly declared that he had bought slGue no
man, and had paid for her in preaching.
True, most, il not all the Individual
churches in the free States, hold no slaves
but they by their ecclesiastical connection
with such men as above described, and by
their cooperation, sustain the effrontery ant
practice Of men who are Shareholders, slave
breeders, and slavetraders.
The Methodsts--South. This body, I
is well known, seeded from the North or
the ground, not only that their laity Nigh
hold their slaves, but also that their Bishops
and travelling MINISTRY might; that there
should be nothing in the restriction Of thei
members, that looked like censure (o
slaveholding and we can now not onl,
point to instances where the members holt
slaves, but boldly traffic in them, SEVERN.
even the mother and the tender infant.
The Church North. or Methodist Epis
copal Church. This body, it is well known
made no efforts to secure the separation
that she might be free from slavery, an
has in her territory ''several slave States
with forty thousand Shareholders and twenty
seven thousand slaves. "*-Pillsbuy. An
she will take more il she can get them
trying. DR.. Fisk, prominent divine j
that church. says: "Ths relation Of naste
and slaUs may, and does in many case
exist under such circumstances as frees III
master from the just charge and guiItof in
morality"
Bishop Heading. one Of the bishops
that body, says:-"The right to hold a sa'
is founded on tlis rule: Therefore, o
things whatsoever ye would men should
to you, do ye even 90 to them; for this
the law aud the prophets" This is Il
teaching Of men ia high places, and th
teaching flows down over thousands belo
them. 1t is well known that the chur'
North Is as really slsveholding as the chur'