Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-05


.Seminury-Iniolcrance Of The Stare Porer-
Heala Of The City Sc.
CINCINNATI, June 20, 1851.
To Me Editor QfIRe Bugie Father Mathew
arrived here last week aud took up his resi-
dence at Archbishop PurceIs house, who
is now absent, OIL visit to Rome. lie
made his first appearance in public last Sun
day making an address ai the close of the
morning service, in the Cathedral which was
densely crowded, many hundreds of our citi-
zens being obliged for want of room to 90
away without seeing or hearing him. The
Father remained in the Cathedral most of
the day administering the Pledge to hun
drcds who flocked there for the purpose, and
nj night 1l00 had taken it. Since that /
am informed, his rooms have been crowded
by persons anxious to take the pledge and
up TO ycstarday 2G00 had taken il. Most of
them are Catholics, and Irish Catholics,
among whom his influence is chiefly exerlcd
and 10y whom Git is but fair to say) tits much
needed. These who tuke the pledge under
him are nearly all of n different clnss from
those who crowded to hear John B. Cough
whose lectures were given in tic various
Protestant Churches When tic full returns
of the vote OH the License question shall
have come in and Father Mathew has left
us, may make some remarks on the pres
cnt state of the Temperance Reform aud
the measures needed to carry it forward.
The corner stone of new Thological
School under the control of the Baplists was
laid with the customary services last week
nj Fairmont about mile fom the city, on
the West. In one of my letters more Than
year ago referred TO the causes which led
to the founding Of this institution, and they
afford a pretty good Illustration of the I'M
reasonable eXactions and arrogance Of the
Slave Power in the Church. The lnsiitu-
ton at Covington, KY, was built up for the
benefit of Baptist Churches, in the West
both North and South of the Ohio River,
though nne-tentlls of the labor and means
contributed to its completion were given in
Ohio and Indiana,-the Kentucky Baptsts
taking very little interest in it. When ii had
been year or two in operation few OF the
leading Kentucky Bapiists finding it in
crease in'importance and resources, its prop
erty having greatly increased in value, dis
covered that the Professors leaned too much
toward abolition and determined to get con-
troll of it. The charter provided that the
Directors should he residents of the various
Western.Sta;es, with majority in no one
state and il was first necessary to get this al
tered. An application was quietly made to
the Kentucky Legislature, aud an alteration
to the charter obtained, providing that ma
jority Of The Trustees should be citizens of
Kentucky. THUS the whole control of the
Institution was lodged in the hands of the
Shareholders aud their friends and of course
new Faculty less Objectionable to the
South appointed.
As to the charge of Abolition against the
Professors, as that term is generally under
stood, nothing could be more unjust. Prof
Rs,tison and his associates were New Eng
llandimen, opposed by education and from
principle too, to slavery in the abstract, and
mo doubt desrous of seeing it abolished at
some future time, in a very gradual and
peacable manner, without Inconvenience TO
shareholders. They carefully rcirained from
showing countenance to any of the Anti
Slavery organizations of the day; would not
allow any lecturer TO address tho students on
West India Emancipation, or any other
branch oftle Slavery subject, and pursued
altogether such non-cemmittal compro-
mise course, intended to please if possible
their Kentucky brethren, that it might have
been thought no trouble would have arisen.
But tie "peculiar institution" demands that
every thing shall bend to its interests, and at
its demand well endowed institution is
wrested from the hands ofits rghifu owners,
and moulded to sanction by its teachings the
einstitutions sofSavery.
The Baptisis of the North West could not
continue to support, without loosing all their
sselErespect an institution which had been