Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-10-02
American Board Of Commissioners, for For
eign Missions.

This Society, the most powerful and wenl-
thy, as well MS the oldest voluntary nssocia-
tion in the country, has just held its last an
niversary a, Troy, N. Y. 1t has its mission
aries OH every continent, embracing among
them many excellent men and women, and
in many particulars its influences lave tend
TO the civilization and improvement of the
barbarous tribes among whom they have
luIored But its an,i.slavery influences in
this country are extremely aud hopelessly
conservative. Its material aid is furnished
10y the orthodox New England cottonocracy
aud their sympathsers, West and South
lis affairs are managed 10y those New Eng.
land Diyines who create and sustain that
system of public morals which au'horises
slnveloldiug in the Carolinas aud slave
catching in Massachusetts. They hold that
the popular will, aud the law of the land is
the end of oil controversy, in Boston, that
fountain of christian light and knowledge
They extend the most cordul christian fru-
teriity to ministers aud church members,
who annililate marriage by the Wholesale
who practice concubinnge-und buy and sell
the fruit of their own bodies us slaves. Gull
~ us the pntrons aud managers of the Amer
lean Board are of all this aud more, it might
he expected that they would especially sane
tify in their mission churches, slavery, con-
cnbinngo ,polignmy, and whatever other vices
a. l.. Al. Al. a.
pie, and the interests of their association
should demand. Their history has not dis
appointed this reasonable expectation.
The following comparison OF this board
with the political organizations Of the coun-
try is from the Christian Press. A paper
eniinenlly devoted TO missionary enterprise,
hut separate from the American Board, on
account offs pro-sluvery tendencies.
1t ought to he known by all who do not
desire To support The slave power in our he
nevoleDt societies. hat the corporate mrnlhers
of the Board nre hostile to nny introduction
of that subject at the meetings. The final
iiy" doctrine with them is more confirmed
aud complete than il is with the great South
crn Pariy-compospd Of whut was once
called the Wing aud Democratic parties Of
tie lnnd a corporate member residing ut the
wesllone Oithe large number which the Board
elected immediately after our Chicago Con-
yentiou) wus asked ifit would I've possible To
get the sin OF slnvc-lIoldiug, MS practised IN
the mission churches before the Board? Ills
reply was, that the thing would he utterly
impossible. lie said, that il WIS his opinion,
that even corporate member, who would
attempt In iniroduce the excluded subject
would lie L" ntenanced"-kindly hut
frmy put down." So every unn must feel
who attends single session of this Board.
Now, that the platform of the Southern
party should dsrounteiance aud "resist"
the agitation of this subject, is not TO be
wondered az. Political organizations that
have sold themselves TO the slave power,
cannot he expected to aid in expeling sin
from the world; hut that the American
Bonrd--lornrd 10 to expel sin from the ear,ll
should send gospel To the lienlhen tint
ncknow lodges slavery as consistent with
Christianity, seems 10 me land | think il
must seem To all Others, il they will think Of
ii,) wrong aud wicked. This policy of the
Board suncities slavery in the eyes OF the
Indian aud gives false instead of true
religion To the heather. Many appear to he
very much opposed 10 snnctiOnng the exten-
sion of slavery into new territory, when this
euorniry is contemplated by the state. The
Wing sitlc 10 the great Southern party says,
they vote for GeI'l Scoit-the head of the
army, IN order To prevent the extension Of
slavery. Aud yet many of these men pat
ronizc Board that extends the gospel in new
territory connected with The curse of slavery.
| They will extend an evil ia the church, That
they will not in tile state. Aud not only
this, Int while in the American Congress,
the subject of slavery eau lie discussed not
wiihslandng The resolutions Of the party,
the American Board has succeeded in ubso-
lutely excluding the consideration of this
same evil with which their churches are i'm
nediutely connected.