Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-31
NEW SCHOOL GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Rev. Samuel II. Cox, D. D., has recently been
in St. Louis lecturing and preaching. By his evan
gelical ~toadyisin, he has secured quite a breeze Of
popularity. lie seems determined that it shall con-
tinue to fan HIM, if submission to slavery can Sc
cure its continuance. The next General Assembly
of the New School Presbyterian Church is to meet
in ST. Louis. And Mr.. Cox sends to the churches,
through the New York Evangelist the following
instruction, relative to the delegates to the Assem-
bis.
Shareholders and their ecclesiastical allies at the
north manage admirably. They convene their
Assembly where all its actions shall he under slave.
holding surveillance, and then this famous Rabbi
sends forth his instructions to send up just the
men who, from deficiency in conscience or moral
courage, shall give neither trouble or uneasiness
to their masters. The work in which DR.. Cox is
engaged is quite as infamous in character, and will
prove far worse in its influence than that of his
Rev. Brother, Dennison, who is endeavoring to
kidnap a free woman by the aid of the U. S. Com
missioner and Marshal.
DR.. Cox says;
1.-The people here are expecting the General As
sembly, next May, with increasing interest and
sdllSiut ClOn, 4 I ought u Dc anticipated ny all our
Presbyteries with large-hcarted and appropriate
wisdom. They will certainly do great good-or,
great harm, by meeting at St. Louis. The reasons
are many and mighty. Of this l would affection
ately warn all the Prcsbyteries. If Il Preshytery
has any member in it that is only goodish and
w~eak-minded impulsivc, and not at all compre-
hensive, or we'll experienced. or rightly informed :;
or, If he be partisan, emotional, and destitute of
knowledge and good manners; or, if he be Il the
orizer, an afstractionist, ORR philosopher Of one
idea; or, If obstinate, or unanimous III self esteem
only then | say, tor. the sake of all the ends that
Paul would pursue and prefer, or which the wisdom
that is p~TQtita6te to direct would inspire, give him
an impartial Through to stay ut home; and consult
his honour and usefulness and fame and peace, ly
putting a wise man, instead of him, as "A Commits
siOner to the General Assembly Of 1865 Some
may despise this counsel-still | soberly give it,
loving the Church at large aud our own branch of
it in particular-and loving also many dear broth
rem who differ from me, possibly, in these things.
| do not want to see the General Assemble act at
ell out OF character, or against the Constitution,
or in any with no or with little wisdom. And this
city is full of undetermined and principled persons
who will watch them and take impressions for
after ages from what they see, and hear, and feel,
of the wisdom of the Assembly. Our dear breth-
rem in the ministry here, good and true. are much
interested, all of them, to show the excellence alone
Of truth and order, in all the collective snd indi-
vidual actions of our beloved Assembly. Other
wise, we shall only injure them, and counteract
our own prayers, through our preposterous zeal,
that is not according to knorIedge. l mean, as ev-
reader knows, in reference to the matter of sla-
very ; but NOT AT ALL on THAT ALONE. Let all the
PASTORS and all the churches pray that the Holy
Ghost may fill all the members with the nis1Om
cOmeM from ADORE; and then all will he right.
This is the epitome of all my prayer for them, to
the Great Head of the Church. We have some en-
emics-beside the derl and his angels some that
ought to be at better business! and some whose
titles, Offices, and places, might make the simple
too easily mistake them for trends. Sed. sap. sat.
ce!b. ct. pr8!erea-non-nihH."
We infer, from this voice of warning, that the
of the New School Presbyterian Church
are fearful that the 'volcano," which they . cap
ped " with so much difficulty some years ago, is
about to burst forth again and bury them in its
fiery quotations. They have taken care that the
General Assembly, at this crisis, shall meet in a
slaveholding city, where a foul moral atmosphere
aid them to smother the spirit of freedom and
choke the utterance of those who desire to cure The
Church of her deadly leprosy. We snail see how
we'll they succeed.