Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-06


blood, should leave the nation by the
Of March, 1871, and forever keep out OF IT.;
and in case of their infringing this law. they were
to be seized aud sold 10 the highest bidder iN lie'
the proceeds Of the ealo 10 DC distributed among
the districts according to their population. twas
also enacted that il any citizen of the nation hlreu
concealed, or in any way protected any free negro,
to evade the foregoing provision. lie should forfeit
from $3.50 to $500, orr it unable to pay this hne'
receive fifty lashes on his bare back. And it was
further enacted that if anywhite man in the nation
should abet, encourage or conceal a free negro, u
conceal him from the foregoing provision, he
should he Forthwith ordered out of the nation 10y
the Chief or the Agent.
In October, 1916, another law was passed,
which prohibited all negroes from the United
States or the neighboring tribes of lndians, wheth'
er they had papers" or not from onieringand re-
naming in the Choctaw nation. under pretence OF
hiring themselves to work. The offenders were to
lie taken up by the light h%orscmen, and to receive
not less than ono hundred lashes on the bare back
and all property found in their possession was to
be sold publicly, one third of the proceeds to 20 to
the light horsemcn, and the rest to be applied to
some beneficial purpose.
The most Objectionable enactment which l find,
having any bearing upon slavery, was approved
Oct. 10, 1916. 1t is as follows:
BE ii enacted, &c. That no negro slave can be
emancipated in this Nation, except by application
or petition of the owner 80 the General Council /;
and provided also, that it shall be made to appear
to the Council, the owner or owners, ut the time Of
application, shall have no debt or debts outstanding
against him or her. either in or out of this nation.
Then. and in that case, the General Council shall
have the power to pass an act for the owner to
emancipate his or her slave, which negro, after be-
ing freed, shall leave this nation within thirty
days after the passage of this act. And in case
said free negro or negroes shall return into this
nation afterwards, he, she, or they shall be subject
tn ln tnlo, ~. tho l;rJt nre,,, onl .,neD nt
public sale for the term of five years and the
funds arising from such sale shall be used as ma
tiunal funds"
Such is slavery among our most enlightened and
christianized tribes. Such are some of the fruits
of the Christianity which the American Board
propagates among the heather it labours to con
vert.
At the late anniversary of the American Board
there seemed to be some movement in an anti-sla
very direction, But a letter since written by this
same Mr.. Treat, still Secretary of the Board, for
Southern influence, gives evidence that the Board
still maintains its purpose of propagating a slave
hol ling religion by its mission churches.
The letter was published in the Christian Oh
server, a paper eminently Southern in its tenden
cies, and which, we are told, circulates largely n
the South. Perhaps the Board may be willing thai
the northern churches should take its Hartford
action as evidence of anti-slavery, while this last
letter of Mr.. Treat should convince the southern
churches that anti-slavcry was a very harmless
affaiI, and lhat neutrality-suspicious. character
was to remain untarnished. That even Mr.. Treat
whose famous letteI of 1913, which, stigmatized as
abolition, had created all this disturbance did not
endeavor to persuade missionaries to exclude slave
holders from the communion"
Here, then, is Mr.. Treats explanation of what
he did not mean in 1913. 1t is dated:
MISSIONARY House., BosToN,
October 7, 1854.
DEAR SIR: In your paper of this date. you pub
lish an extract from the Waterman and- Observer
and then inquire-"Is this a fair and truthful
statement? Did Mr.. Treat endeavor to persuad
missionaries to exclude shareholders from the con
uIunion :? did he treat them with threats, that
they persisted in their course, the Board woul,
cut them off? Did lie thus undertake to speak 70
the board? To each and all of these interrogatories
| answer mo" And | must be allowed to eX
press my great SURF rise that any enc should hay
supposed IN, capable of su:h conduct.
S. b. TREAT,