Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-01-22
Gbe Auti- 5lauerp Buole.
SALEM, ONO, JANUARY %, 1853.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE meets February 9th
The American Board and Slavery.

We ask the attention of our readers to the arti-
Gle on this subject, from the American Mis-
sionary. These American 4" Scribos, Pharasoos
-hypocrites who, arc comprising sea and
land to make prosclytes, have indeed made the
Indians tenfod moro tho children of sin and
wrong than before.-Time was, when they
knew not slavery after refined and civilized
forms.-Whcn they hated not their brother be-
cause of his complexion, features, or that he
belonged to q prescribed race. The fngitivcs
from tho white Christians who escaped to the
the savage Choctaws, Chcrokees and Greeks
found a safe asylum and a savage brothers
welcome. They were incorporated into their
families and their tribes, and to defend these
! fugitives who had taken refuge among them,
the Indians repeatedly dared the armed force of
their neighbors. This was the origin of the
Seminole war, and Of other assaults which pre-
cocded it. But then the Seminoles had not
been visited by missionaries of the American
Board. They had not been taught tho divinity
Of slavery from the example of the patriarchs
and the teachings of Paul. II remained for
! the Cherokces and Choctaws, on whom was
bestowed the especial labors of "The Board"
most strikingly to illustrate the influence Of their
teachings. These missionaries employed slave la
Dor to prove that they were not aboltionists but
were sincere in their pro-slavery instructions.
They found apt scholars and ready converts, so
that in 1886 tie whole nation was converted, and
passed tho following laws, establishing slavery
MS the orthodox religion,
"Be il enacted, &c, That from and after
the passage Of this Act, if any citizen of the
United States, acting rs missionary, or a
preacher, or whatever his occupation may
he, is found TO take an active part in iayoring
the principles and notions of the most fatal
and destructive doctrines of AboliIionism,
he shall be compelled TO leave the nation and
forever stay out Of il.
"Be il further enacted, &C., That teaching
slaves how to read, to write, or to sing in
meeting houses or schools, or any open place,
without the consent of the owner, or allow
| ing them to sill at table with him, shall be
sufficient ground to convict persons Of favor
! ing the principles and notions of Abolition
| ISM"
They also passed laws prohibiting emancipa-
tion-making it penal to teach slaves, negroes
and mulattoes to read-forbidding negroes to
bear arms-to own property, and finally expel-
ling them from the state. These are the fruits
of American missions, as conducted by the
American Board. These the fruits of preach
ing pro-slavery religion. These arc the men
who "givc as much evidence of being born
again as church members in Vermont" as one Of
their missionaries testifes, and we don't doubt it,
1t is the same religion in Vermont, and in the
Choctaw Nation. 1t was sent from Vermont
and Massachusetts, and Ohio, and bringeth forth
the grapes of Sodom wherever it is cultivated
1t makes fugitive slave law for Vermontersr
and among the Choctaws "enacts that any cit
iEen who shall hire, conceal or protect any free
negro FROM the operation of their law, shall be
fned from $3.50 to $500, and if unable to pay
shall receive fifty lashes on the bare back"
To maintain this religion thousands of dol
lars are annually contributed by the churches
and expended by the I" Board" What infatua-
ton and blindness to believe that such religion
can save the soul either in this world or that
which is to come.