Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-28

ted him. lie spoke there. never saying n word
about the distinctive mission of the FREQ Mission
Society, so he acted elsewhere. Such action as
this sustained by tho body, drove mo from them.
So of the Quakcrs. Fox and Penn and Barclay
wore g,ol mel, rocormors. When they wore their
hats there was a n meaning and n virtue in it, for 1t
endangered a mans head to de- so. But what is il
now We sent a Quaker from Massachusetts u
Congress. lie went forward to take the affirmation
Of Office with his hat on. Nobody cared about it.
The quakcrs vote for Shareholders and pro-Slavery
men. and though not themselves Shareholders, like
, others. sustain the system. So Of all the sects.
for himself he had come to the conclusion that no
/ reli sious sntts ever could be true to the slave or
to God. lie liked to meet men and eomen. ToI
labor effectively for humanity, q man must be
! free.
r c. S, S. Grifing, said there IL n kind of Pro-Sla-
= very work that all the sects do. Politically they
sustain Slavery. True the Wesleyans and perhaps
c some others claim that they require their members
to vote an Anti-Slavery ticket. But do they thus
; vote? When their party makes a bargain with a
o Pro-Slavcry party. they 60 forward and sustain
b pro.Slavery candidates, doing the very thing they
l.. profess to condemn. They are now doing Pro.
= Slavery work by supporting tho Republican Party.
This party is pledged to respect the Shareholders
= claim upon his slaves as recognized in the Constitu.
ton Of the United States. The Weseyans say it
4 is a sin to vote for Wings and Democrats. Yet
f when an opportunity offers. they form a union with
them and vote for their candidates. The best of
. them vo ed with the Free Soil party in Massachu.
4 sctts, and that party whenever it hoped to gain
g power Ivy it, gave its support to the most infamous
Democrats in the country, such as Gen. Cushing.
, who declared it the duty of the Administration to
:, crush out abolition" There is no Anti-Sla-
very sect III this country unless it be the Old
l. School CovcnanteTs.
Mr.. Wellman wished to contradict the whole that
had been said of the Wesleyan Methodist Church
II sustaining Slavery. The injustice done the Wes-
y. leyans was in putting the exception for tho rule.
:, They have been put on n par with others. Why is
this Have they not laws against Slavery? The
Discipline says that no one who supports q party
that sustaiAs Slavery can be a member Of
. that Church. Other churches have no such rule
> Seth Spraguc had been referred to. lie was nj
Anti-Slavery man, with one exception-that Of
sustaining Daniel Webster. lie agreed that his
conduct in this respect was wrong. And it was il
violation, too, of the discipline of the Church
But can you always keep bad members out of
-. church or other as, ociation? Can you always &c
tiichl IA NiIcll tHCN are II ~ NOulu ~ Sllchlil
listen to hear the Wcsleyans denounced, as bein
Ma as corrupt as the most Pro-Slayery sects in til,
land and to hear their ministers, who had toilc,
j. po, erty and almost starvation to build up a let
ter church, thus misrcprescntcd. Iii outrageous.
it is abusive. If there are Pr0-Slavery voters i
y, the Church, they are there in spite Of the disciplin
.n and against the rule.
But what of the American An;i-Slaverv Socict,
:. That Society invites members Of Pro-Slavcry pa
ties, Wings and Democrats to join it, and allow
- them to 20 On in their Prc-Slavcry work. 1h
Wesleyan Church, then, is far ahead of the Carr
-. sonian party. You complain that Seth Sgrague
not east out of the Wesleyan Church. Do you en-,
out all who vote for shareholders? Does tt
u"o American A. s. Society ever attempt or propo.
it?
inns c.. C. Burleigh.-If the American Society d
OF attempt or profess this, l would abjuro that Soc
here ETY..
; an Mr.. Wellman.-Mr. Garrison says, "wc pr
scribe no man for his opinions" They admit 4
inc who profess to be opposed to Slavery. l won
SUI not live in connection with such a Society.
C. c. Burleigh.-Our friend needs to learn t
u Il first rudiments of the Anti-Slavery reform. l
says he would not belong to Il Society that inyit
* to it's platform all that are willing to work for t
I !" immediate overthrow Of Slavery. We differ fro
was him here. 1t is the excellency Of the Anti-Slaye
''Ee organization, that it throws its doors open to
"ou who are willing to work for immediate emanciT
inc ton. But then, it is said, we must not condcl
the church that does the same thing. We wol
No not, if your church were ornanized upon a 81
ocat- liar basis. But it is not. The Wesleyan Chul
IL III processes to hold mp the absolute standard for
truth-to he the medium Of Divine light to
N OF souls Of men. 1t Processes to allow no immoral
'aSSa withid it. Mr.. Wellman says their rules forEiC
cart member to vote for a stakeholder. Then they hi
-nlng no excuse for allowing Seth Sprague and 9th
aueS' like him to remain in the Church.
mi Mr.. Wellman.-You say the churches make h
'eces- professions. You profess more. Slavery is
question. Why don't you make a test? Y
Sy or members may remain in Pro-Slavery churches {
ne no political parties, and you do not prescribe tn
Why then condemn the Weslcyans?
also Mr.. Burleigh.-The position Of the Ameri
they nti,Slavery Society appears to me to lie the
aimed, o,o md ono m si,v con,nrebanlo1 W. have
II we discipline. We have a test should be ashame,
N and Ourselves if We had not. We hold up q high 81
e true dard. Those who will helm hold it nm we welco
)ut 80 If some Of them fail TO take the HIGHEST rosit
orrupt we cannot help it. Those who are inconsist
y we rebuke. Ii they still love us well enough
oss' Il remain with us, VIC will not drive them out.
lt'or take all the help they will give US, trusting to
lodist' truth to hold up our standard. We thrust out
qua body who chooses to come in. Could We do OF
wise, and act rightly? Could VIC do otherwise,
abiish- he consistent? We do not claim to be the
" act? church. Though we claim to be higher than
slavery American church. We claim however, to stan
IF that higher ON the Anti-Slavery reform than it prvfe
re is a to stand upon all reforms. We endorse, or pre-
nd the to endorse, no mans character. No such un
d him. standing is implied by our position. Not s
nounce the church. Let the church he as true to its