Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-02
~PRO-SLAvERY MINISTER'S.

The Eastern Abolition papers have been much
and ably occupied recently in exposing and duly
honoring the absurd and wicked positions Of
three New England Doctors of Divinity, Pharisees
and Sophists, who would have carried away the
palm from those the Galliiean denounced and ex-
posed eighteen centuries ago.
DIR. DEWEY, a Unitarian minister of Boston, who
publicly advocated the Fugitive Slave Law immc-
diately after its passage-who was charged with
having avowed his readiness to send his own moth
err into slavery to save this Union-and who, as a
reward for such exemplary flial attachment, was
honorcl with a chaplaincy at Washington by Pres
ident Fillmore, came out last week, alter four years
silence, and declared that it was entirely a mis-
take. 1t was not his mother. but his brother and
son, that he proposed to offer up es a sacrifice, and
as "he was a sincere and respectable person." he
trusted the correction would be credited. Another
correction it behooyes us to make FOR the Kew.
Doctor, inasmuch as we have helped to circulate
the charge he is here refuting. lie would not
''send' anybody into slavery. lie is strictly con-
stitutional in his sacrifices. The Constitution does
not send anybody into slavery. Oh, no. 1t only
'gives them up" That is all. So with DR.. Dew
ey. lie says: 81 sail Il would consent'-for l
did not speak of sending anybody into slavery
would consent that my own brother, my own son
should go into ~slavery-tcn times rather would |
go myself, than that this Union should perish for
me or mine"
Well, now we have it all right. This is what
DR.. Dewey said in Boston four years ago, and this
he stood by in Boston last week. Having set the
DIR. right, we must say that we quite agree with our
eastern cotemporarics, who, not at all deferred by
the Dr,'s responsibility" say that they see nc
difference in the intrinsic character of the charge,
as made in the original indictment, and that of the
am ended one. The poor man is so morally OBJ
fuse, that he cannot see, or else is so silly as to
think that the people will not see that the gist Of
the crime charged, consists in his consenting to
anybody's going into slavery, whether it be his
mother, his brother, his son, or the son of the
poorest mother in all slnvedom. But if DR.. Dewey
is so blind as not to see this, the people are not,
and they will look upon his willingness to send
anybody into slavery, as a horrible impiety COM
mittcd against that Ged whose minister he profess
ses to be, and a not less horrible outrage against
man, and his happiness and rights.
Another of these Rev. workers for slavery is Dr..
Lord. Who wishes to enlist all ministers of the
Gospel" in the crusade against liberty, and for
this end, in sanctimonious form, desires all min.
listers candidly to inquire whether slavery is not
an institution of God, according to Natural Relig-
ion and n positive institution Of ReUealcd Rclig.
ion p 'Whether n minister OF the Gospel, who
now honestly convinced that slavery is not, of it.
self a moral evil, or by necessity politically injur
ious, but is essentially an ordinance of the God Of
Nature and Revelation, for the ends of his Gene
raj Government-one who would now hold slave,
in his owl right, or hire their service of theil
proper masters for missionary or other benevolent
work among the heather, if a natural necessity OF
convenience should require, may not hope for thu
forgiveness and charity of his brethren?"
We have no time to comment upon this series O.
questions nor is it needful. Our readers can dc
this for themselves and they can also Judge un
erringly the character of the minister and the mar
by this paragraph.
The last of this pro-slavery, priestly trio, is thu
Rev. NEHEMIAH ADAMS, D.. D., whom our readers
will remcmber as the recipient of an overseer-like
letter from the Honorable Henry A. Wise. DR.
Adams, it seems, has written his book without the
aid he sought from Mr.. Wise, and we have ne
better meats of making our friends acquainted
with its unique character, than to quote from
lively review of it in the last Anti-Slavery Stand
ard.
The book is entitled, "a South-Side View o
Slavery: or, Three Months at the South in 1854, b,
Nehemiah Adams, D. D."
The Standard Says;
The author commenced his voyage to the Soutl
with some rather remarkable expectations. liz
felt Up. Ill a confident expectation of seeing n
the landing, or in passing through the market
place, a figure like the common touching vignettt
of a naked negro on one knee, with manaclet
a man and brother p" "He felt sure that The
should see, on landing, the whole black popula
ton coced dovn.. This best Expresses, in a wore
(lis) expectation" Up. LAY. He had fixed in hi
mind (p. 1907 the image of Topsy rs the expo
nent of coloured children" and Expected t.
find, in those black children, imps, Shakespeare
Calibans and Flibbertigibbets, provoking, dis
gushing brood" On landing Up. Is, zone thin,
Immediately surprised (him)"; the slaves WI,
were taking away the trunks "were all in gooC
humor, and some of them in a broad laugh
my theory was that they 1.-THE slaves, p. 2S) ough
to be perpetually unhappy. tried to persuad
myself that they were." Yet, he supposes (p. 10
that he "had, at least the average amount 9
information and ignorance with regard to tn
subject"
The following little incident Up. 2O5) is by n
means average" 1t is a first rate specimen
either of simplicity or art, in the narrator, an,
good evidence of sagacious reading of characte,
on the part of a slave. DR.. A. had been ''speak
ing of heaven" to one of the slaves, in the wood
and then "ventured to put the question whethe
he would like to be free"
Good reader, did you ever see DR.. Adams
Fancy such a question, so ~prefaced, proceedin
from his solemn and intensely clerical counte
nance, supported by a white neck-cloth, and lever
supposing he had not just come from dining witt
f the master, at the great house, what answer coul
you nationally expect from the ordinary amour
Of sagacity, and the ordinary reverence for truth
which a slave acquires on a plantation? Here i
his answer.
Twisting the withs of old grape vines arounc
the ends of rails in m~ending n fence, he thought {
moment, turned his face towards me, while he helc
a rail, half tied, in its place, and emphasizing hi
words with motions of his head, he replied, eacl
word being deliberately separated from the rest
want to be free from my sins them's all IN,