The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-02-03

p"Iot, bHc bOCtofs .bpfOhtub TepJlnB,
quoting the sentence in small capitals
Shareholders, under teaching like this, may
well resist all exhortations aud appeals to adopt
course Of measures to srbyert u system which
is brOodng like a mighty incubus over them
If were STAKEHOLDER, aud believed this repre-.
sentation | should make myself quite content
ed and let slavery work out it, own redemp-
tion.n
DIR. Parker, an return defended the senti-
ment. All this drew the attention of the pub
lie to the strange and loathsome assertion, and
some writer, (who it is not now known proba-
bly, trusting 70 his memory, quoted the passage
as follows: Slavery has "No EVILS But SUCH
AS ARE ISsEPARABLE FROM ANY OTHER RELA-
TIoN IN SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC LIFEn
The passage thus undesignedly altered was
repeated and repeated on both sides Of the At
lantic In the mean time, our Doctor, perfectly
Indifferent TO the Ghbel y ON his ministerial
character, took no steps to arrest its progress,
till an opportunity occurred of branding Uncle
Tom as a calumniator. Had his sole object
been to vindicate himself his purpose would
have been fully answered by addressing civil
note to Mrs. Stowe, stating the precise Ian
guage he had used, pointing out its variance
from the quotation she had used, and request
ing her in her next edition to acknowledge the
mistake, and to substitute the one for the other.
An immediate and willing compliance with his
wishes would have followed
The attempt of the Pro-Slayery party 10
make fuss about this pretended libel has led
to the publication, in pamphlet form, Of the
old discussion in the Philadelphia paper and
beautiful commentary does it form, on the
dyine's tender regard for his Anti-Slavery
character and his ministerial usefulness, and
his claim ON Mrs. Stowe for $40 900 damages
for innocenly installing tweedle-dum for
tweedle-dee. Throughout his letters he vigor-
ously contends for the perfect consistency of
slaveholding with the Obligations of Christian-
ty. Take, for example, the following:
III assert that there are many hundreds of
slsveholders | mean voluntary Shareholders
men who have inherited plantations stocked
with slaves-who have no plan for emancipa-
ting them, but who expect to transmit them TO
their heirs and yet they are excellent Christian
men, and are not guilty of one of the sins speoi-
fed They do not brutalire their servants
they do not enshroud one in ignorance they
| do not exercise an unlawful control over the
children of their slaves, or refuse 10 permit
them to obey their own parents They do not
hesitate TO obey the Apostles injunction, to rem
der to them what is just and equal"
This Doctor of Divinity, 80 sensitive himself
to SANDER, does not hesitate thus to launch his
shaft against a multituds of good men, in
| America and Europe--inclading in the latter
almost the whole body of Christian ministers
of every name. The closing allusion in the
correspondents last communication TO Satan
as stakeholder, if it were of any consequence,
might be retorted. Satan has no involuntary
servants He is AN AsoLIrIoNIsr, AND AN
AGoUsER OF HIS BRETHREN,, y
Let us now See how far our much-iniured
Doctor has himself been, like his satanic males
ty, "an Abolitionist, and an accuser of his
brethren
In 1884, the Rev. Amos A. Phelps, pastor Of
the Pine-street church, Bosten published a vol,
ume entitled, Lectures on Slavery, and its
Remedy Previous to its publication he pre-
pared and distributed in the form of circulars
for the purpose Of procuring signatures, paper
which he called Declaration of Sentiment"
In this way he procured the signatures of one
hundred and twenty-four clergymen, and the
declaration, with the names attached to it, il
pre6xed to his volume. One of these circulars
was sent to New York, and was there signed
by the Rev. Joel Parker uith his opn hand, and
the declaration now appears in Mr.. Phelps
book with the Doctors signature, as may be
|
Slavery Office, No. 4s Beekman street, n York
We copy from the book:
Declaration of Sentiment
"The undersigned, after mature deliberation
feel themselves constrained by a sense of duty
to God and man, to make the following AK
preston of opinion We believe
a. That Slavery IN our land is great and
threatening evil
&C. That it is a great and crying national
sin.
80. That every man, whether he live at tn,
North, South, East, or West is personally re
sponsible, and has personal duties to discharg
in respect to it.
~. That every man who adopts opinions o
pursues practices which, adopted and pursue,
by all others, would 90 to perpetuate this sin
does thereby become personally guilty in re
spect to it.
as We believe that Slavery, like other sins
ought to be remeded as soon as the nature o.
the case admits; and further, that the natur,
of the case admits the possibility, and therefor,
imposes tho obligation, of Immediate Enamel
patton.
"6. That such emancipation is both the dpty
and the interest of the master.
al. That although the people of the non
slaveholding States have not the right Of phys
cal or legal interrogation in the case, they hay,
the right and that it is their solemn duty, tc
do what they can by light and love- to en-
tighten the public mind, arouse the public con.
science, and change and elevate the tone OF
public sentiment on the subject, in every Soc
ton of the land.
"And, finally, we believe that the gnnd OBJ
stacle to the abolition of this sin lies in the uti
Of the stakeholder; that this will being changed,
there would Of necessity be q change in the
various laws and other obstacles which have
grown out Of it.; and that this will is to he
changed by the power of public sentiment
among non -slaveholders and by means of kind,
candid, and thorough discussion with slayehold-
ers themselves.
'"In respect to the scheme of COLONIZATION,
which at the North Processes to be scheme OF
gradual and ultimate though incidental
emancipation we feel constrained to say
al. That, whatever its merits are it can
never be on adequate remedy for Slavery
and
80. That whatever Of good it may have
done, the time has now come when the friends
Of God and man ought to take higher stand
and adopt and act on principles which lay the
axe directly at the root Of the tree"
II IN oiu saw, tnat renegaoo u worse
than Turk" and all experience testfes that
spostates are tho most bitter opponents Of the
faith they have discarded.
Il is very painful TO the Christian to witness
the impulse given 10 inRdelity by our Pro-Sla-
very clergy-an impulse not 10 be checked by
attempting to conceal and cover up their delin-
quencies, but by exposing the utter inconsist-
ency of their conduct with the just and merci-
full precepts Of that blessed Gospel Of which
they are ministers, Alb.
SPEECH or aEsAToR SnuLE--The expecta-
ton that this distinguished orator would ad-
dress tho Senate on the interesting question of
the Cuban annexation, crowded the Senate
chamber on yesterday with a throng of visit