Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03
THE NEW YORK OBSERVER ON THE
CH0CTAWS.


If the following from the New York Observer
is to be relied on, the recent Anti-Slavery demon
stration of the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions, was all a sham to delude the
Anti-Slayery supporters of the Society. The Choc-
taws it seems are satisfied that the Board and the
churches, are the frieEds of slavery and SO they
permit their missionaries to tie ach their children.
And but for this conviction, the teachers would
have been elected and the schools suspended,
and the American Board, would have been forced
to have sought out other heather as subjects for
her conversion.
The last paragraph affords a fair exposition of
American Christianity, the sort the old missionary
societies are propogating. Their evangelism rever
interleres with State authorities. Oh no. The
authorities may enact fugitive slave laws-forlid
the instruction of children-command the worship
of Juggernaut, caniba!ism, polygamy or whatever
else it pleases, and the American gospel never in
terferes. Surely the slaveholding Choctaws have
good reason to confde in the Board and the chur
ches as the friends OF Slavery, if the Observer
truly represents them and who shall say it does
not.
The Observer Gays:
ena'eI eaTnen Wltn Satisfaction. that the laws
adopted by the Choctaw Council, in respect to the
schools taught by the Missionaries of the American
Board, and which were the ground of its action ut
Hartford, are suffered to lie a dead-letter: and
that the schools are continued precisely the same
plan as in years past. We have also good reason
to believe, that the result would have been very diff
ferent, had not the Choctaw nation been assured
and well satisfied, that the action taken by the
Board, in reference to those schools, would not be
sustained by the public sentiment of the churche,
in the States. The idea Of withdrawing from the
instruction of the schools, because the missiona
RIGS were not to lie allowed to teach those fui
whom the schools were not established, was one
so obviously opposed to the principles of the Cos
pei, to the theory of Christian Missions, and It
the practice of the Missions of this Board in other
! countries. that it was condemned on mature re
Election, even by some who, at first view, believed
that 1t was expedient to put forth such a decla,a
ton.
With every years experience, we learn NOR,
and more clearly that the work of evangelism E. tn,
earth Is to be achieved, not by Interference will
existing State authorities, or by any attempts t.
alter the forms Of government, under which tn,
missions are allowed to be established, or even b,
attempting to reform legislative abuses; but b,
the mere presentation of the Gospel of Jesu
Christ, in its integrity and spirit. Such wa
the example of our Savior himself; such W,
the practice Of the Apostles. All attempts to in
volve him, or them, in controversy on the subicc
of humarsgovernment, human laws, or civil au
thority, were rebuked and resisted.
THE SENATE BUYING SLAvES.-On the 10th ult.
a bill passed the United States Senate, authorizin,
the payment out Of the U. S. Treasury OF tn,
claims Of certain Indians for slaves lost. Tel
Senators voted against the measure, viz Brainerd
Foote, Hamlin, Fessendon, Seward, Sumner, vii
son, Gillette, Chase and Wade.
The papers refer to this as though it was til,
first decisive act of the Government ~recogniz
the nationality and legality of Slavery. Just a
though the whole action of the Government wa
not now and had not been based upon this fact
Always has 1T recognised the right of property il
men. The President, the Congress, the Judiciary
the Diplomatic and every branch of the Nationu
Government has ever conducted its operations NJ
on the superstition Of the rightfulness of this clail
of slaveholding.
LIBERTY AND SLAVE ATCHING.-At New Orlcan
and other places in the slave States they celebri
ted the birth day of Washington, with much pom
and ceremony. Some of our cotemporaries. thin
their advertisement for this display looks strangel
beside advertisements for the sale Of men, wenel
and children at public auction.
Not at all. 1t would be-strange TO see any OF
err kind of liberty celebrated than the liberty
! hogging slaves. That is the fashionable kline
now a-days and has been for more than half a eel
fury. And besides shareholders are accustome
. to quote Washington's name rs a strong defenc
I for their ~iniquity. To a Celestial a Hindoo or
! Nubian il might seem singular and inconsistent
But it is a genuine American idea, and witt
u Americans" can and does excite no surprise.
= DIscUssoN.-The National Intelligencer admit
a long communication, very triumphantly advocat
ing the superiority of freedom over slavery. Tru,
it is admitted under protest yet still it is some
thing to find an argument Of such SOFT in such T.
quarter