The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-08-02
MoBBIHe THE METHODIST,

| The Central Christian Advocate, Ttethodist
newspaper published at st. Louis, is suffering
great tribulation On account of the il usage of
its brethren in the western part> of Missouri
After giving doleful recital of the CT eltt and
intolerance of the border rufians towaiSs its un-
offending brethren, the editor goes to re-
mark: !
"Now we ask, in view Of such occurrences
what are these people to do? Is thet no re-
dress? Are the solemn declarations o the Bill
of Rights great farce? Are our Laws thus to
be trampled down, and every sacred tight set
at defiance? Of what avail is it, this we live
under Government boasted of as the teest and
the best In the world, on soil which the blood of
| the fathers consecrated, and have foa: ing over
our head the far-famed stars and strip. 5, which
but yesterday waved so proudly in ev6y neigh
borhood, village, and city, in our broaf lapd-
| what ayails all this, if such occurrena vs. as we
have recorded are suffered to take plac and no
effort made to assert the majesty of the aw, and
extend its protection alike over all our itizens?
Alas! for our liberty, civil or religion /, if the
most sacred rights can be trsmpled at She will
| of mob, and officers of the law in his places
or low, stand by and wink at it, or bee. me par
alyzed through fear"
The most melancholy circumstance CT injected
with this business is the fact that the ,ldrocate
dare not state the real origin and al thors Of
the outrages upon its brethren. 1t is fraid TO
say, what every one knows, that the in titution
of Slavery, that "sum of all vllanies, as the
founder of Methodism Justly character: ed it, is
responsible for the outrage and insult TO which
the Methodists of Missouri are now subjected
NJ tbo< h., 1ioo in, It's Oh
There can be no freedom of speech, even in the
pulpit, where the barbarism of Slavery prevails.
Let the Central Christian Adcocate boldly de-
nounce Slavery, and it will command respect in
Missoun as well as out Of it. Atchison with his
gang of cutthroats may domineer for the present
over the border counties, but the people Of st.
Louis a, least will tolerate free discussion There
can be NO excuse for the style Of gentle semon-
STRANGE adopted by the Adrocate.
This y no time for trimming and smpro-
mise. B man must either be for Slf ,ery or
against it. He must be its supple tool, is min
lister and propagandist; or he must op ose it,
and depcunce it as a curse and a crime of the
blacklist die. We rejoice that the ISIS lie is at
last made up, and that even the freemet of the
South begin to feel that they must either ecome
slaves themselves, or trample the insttui on I'M
der their feet Hitherto the slaveholde have
managed to identify their cause with tina of the
South, so that the "rights of the SoutH I" and
the arrogant pretensions of the slave folders
have been regarded as the same thing; ut this
effort to Cypress and prosecute numero IS sect
for refusing ALLEGIANCE to Slavery, for fusing
to make it a part of their creed, we halls as the
germ of a new life in the South-of new South;
and we trust that the madness of the detions of
Slavery will not stop short in its career, snti it
has aroused thorough hatred of the inst tuition
among the non-slaveholders. Anti Slavet men
have long insisted that Slavery is almost a, much
the curse of the poor white man as of the ave
for it deErives him of education, of labor free
dom of thought, and religious instruction but
it has been impossible to reach this class They
rarely read, even if they have the faculty there
being no institutions or usages in the Sow h cal
culated to cultivate a taste for knowledge; mong
the poor. But, thanks to the insolence If the
Shareholders, they are made to feel and to Il ink
and we trust that the day is not distant when
they will begin to act. G..