Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-14
THE AMERICAN BOARD AND LONDON
AkTI-SLAVERY CONFERENCE.

United States. Below we give Il specimen Of the
spirit of the article:
Rev. Cuthbert Young made another nttempt to
indicate the American Board Of Foreign Mis-
5 lons, but simple and honest facts in contradict
tion OF Parker Pillsbury, Esq, were worth little in
NAT Conference. lie vns followed 10y tho Rev.
huward Mathews, Of Wisconsin, whose speech is
thus reported
- am aware that Mr.. pillsbury has documen
in his possession which would ennble him to srb-
stantiate everything he has said on this sub;cct.
ana | submit that those documents sbould be laid
before the Conference" ~
We know not who this Mr.. Mathews il. and us
trust he Is misreprescnted by the reporter. If he
really said what the report ~imputes to him. he
ought to be put into n good Sundav.scboo L.
enough to learn the decaloguc. and especially tbss-
ninth commandment. Ii he is, indeed. ,ranLs
enough and blunderor enough to believe the bueo
falsehoods which Parker Pillsbury. Esq, was i'm
posing ON the open-mouthcd and wide.throated
g"lI'blllty OF that assembly, we are sorry for him,
and sorry for Wisconsin.
In the statement made by Parker Pillsbury, ESQ.
Of Boston, there is nothing ut all surprising to us
on this side of the ocean. But it is something of n
marvel that n meeting, made up in part of men
who have n religious character and standing, could
be imposed upon. for Il single moment, by so foul
mouthed and reckless a reviler and that even
Rev. James Sherman could dennminate the reviler
"onr excellent friend" and could believe that tho
excellent friend was really giving the meeting i'm.
portant lnfprmation"--even 'all the facts of tho
case What would Mr.. Sherman think it. Mt a
religious and semi-religious meeting in New York.
Mr.. j. q. ~llolyouke should he introduced as n com.
petcnt and trustworthy person to describe THE
awful condition" Of the religious bodies in Eng.
land, ana particularly of the Congregational Union
of England and Wales? What would he think if
he should find it reported that, upon some Interrupt
ton by gentlemen protesting TO know something
on the subject. some Christian pastor, as much re.
spected and beloved as he is-Dr. Lansing, for ex-
ample-had volunteered to vouch for the ''Secula.
rist," and had assured the meeting that their ex-
cellent friend was giving them most important i'm.
formation p Any reasonable man in this coun-
Try would as soon thought of crediting the repre-
scntations of n bowling dervish at Constantinopls
concerning the Christian sects of the Turkish en-
pire. as OF believing any representation from Par
ker P%iIlsbury, concerning 1.-THE American religious
bodies"
> 1t is not always easy to draw the line exactly
between knavery and insanity; nor is it always
Necessary. When Mr.. Parker Pillsbury afirms
that the American Board of Foreign Missions lis
Il slavehUlding body y; that Its treasury is con-
stantly replenished by the price of the bodies and
souls OF men, sold like beasts in the market -; and
its missions to Africa are sustained by the money
raised from the sale of Africa's daughters. cold in
the American sliambles to grace the s~eraglios of
Southern dehnuchees that .ff he were n slaye
to Theodore Frelingluysen and should become tho
most eminent saint in the world. his sancti.y would
only enhance his price in the lave-market'"-an
that the religious budies of America have " fur
nished the means Of sending Delegates To church.
eS ia Great Britain by the sale of babies in the
market"-we have no occasion to iudre wbether
he speaks under the hallucination of frenzy or with
II full Consciousness that he is living. We have
never troubled ourselves to consider what Mr.. Par
kcr PiIiSbury says, or why he says it. But we con-
Tess that we are grieved for our common Christian.
lty, and for our consanguinity with the British
churches, when we find men, like james Sherman
ami Howard Hinton, ready to believe, without a
m"ments doubt or pause, the foulest and most
sweeping vitupcration against the churches of this
country ana we cannot refrain frcm nskina
whether this is the sense in which their Cbristian
charity "hclievcth all things"
Tie reference to n late unfortunate delepate
from The American Billie Society makes it nrnnsr
Tor us to say that we concedc entirely to our British
friends the right OF Judging for themselves in all
cases OF that KIND. If amy American, claiming
their public or private hospitalitlcs, is personally
obnoxious to them Tor any reasun-if lie is n SLAM
derer-if he has a bad reputation for integrity or
veracity 1T he is, unsound in his ductrinal teach
ing or heiiei-if he is an oppressor of his fellow
men-lf he is a suppoI ter and defender of onnres.
Sive laws and nstitutions-we arc perfectly will.
ling that they should deal with him accordingly.
whatever testimonials lie may bear to show his &C.
cleslastical standing, and with whatever forms he
may have been delegated from any of our benevo-
lent Societies. Their right to choose their own
company is complete and if they err in the exer-
cise ct that right, the error is their own affair. If
Mr.. Parker PIllsbury'S style of religious character
Is more to their taste than DR.. Alexander's, or DR..
SINNERS or Prof. Parks, VIC have only to say
that we will not dispute with them. If on the
representations of Mr.. Parker Pillsbury and other
excellent friends" like him, they even choose TO
believe that Mr.. Treat is Il villain. that the Board
OF which he lisa Secretary are guilty of ''outrages
from which the very crucifers of the Son of God
would have shrunk," and that membership in the
religious bodies of America is prima tucie evil
dcnce OF extreme baseness. which must he purped
away by some definite and prescribed profession
and renunciation-be it so. Only let them remem.
Der that the American religious bodies " are not
ilkeily to be very much influenced on any question
ny those who have not cand0ur enough. or charity
enough or good sense enough, to read upon the
brazen forehead of such Il man. the title written as
by the tngero of God, AccUsER OF THE BRETHREN.
The above is from the Independent, which bas
the reputation Of being the most thoroughly Anti
Slavery of any of the religious Journals of the
country. But the Independent is no comeouter.-
1t admits union with the pro-slavery religious bod.
les of the country and is a defender of the Home
Mission and other equally guilty organizations of
the country. Like most of the churches of the
country it goes for the church first and for Justice
afterwards. 1t can't forgive the fidelity of Parker
PinSbury to the churches. and hence the reyilinps
of this article. That the Independent has no in
clIiatlon to do JUS ice in the case, to Mr.. Pillsbury.
any more than to the American Board, is manifest
from the following correspondence, which we COPY
from the Standard
BosToN, Feb. "a, 1855.
10 tie Editor Of the Independent.
Sir; In a recent editorial, in speaking of Par
ker Pillsbury's speech at a late Anti-Slavery Con.
ference in London, you characterize that gentle.
man as "a foul-mouthed and reckless reviler," and
you accuse him of imposing huge falsehoods"
upon his audience. May l, MS a friend Of Mr..
Pilsbury, ask you if ! can say to him that your
columns will be at his service to vindicate himself
if possible, from SO serious a charge? An answer
by return Of mail will much oblige.
Respectfully yours, CHAs. T. HovEY."