Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-01

BY the following from the Edinburgh Mars It will
be seen that Mr.. Pillsbury is still busy AMI sue.
cossful in his labors. We concur with the editor
in the earnest hore that Tic opponents Of Ainer.
lean Slavery will deal vigorously with tie surpor.
ters Of the system everywhere!
Prom the Edinburgh Novs ofNo,.&.
The antislavery meeting, held On Monday eve.
ming last, in the United Presbyterian Church, Col
lege Street, Was % more important gathering than
its numbers indicated. The stormy night prevent.
I'd the audience tciag 50 large rs it might have
been, but the fact that all the resolutions were
moved and seconded by men who hayo held high
civic Offices IN Edinburgh, and who are also prumi-
hent men IN their respective churches, was u testi-
mony ON behalf Of the supporters Of the Anti.
Slavery Society in the United States, which mere
numbers could nIt have given. Tho late Lord
Provost NJ Llren-a man who takes nothing in
any cause for granted without full Investigation
was called to preside. In his opening speech the
chairman touched upon the religious difficulty in
connection with some Of the advocates in America.
That reference construed Mr.. Pillsbury--to lear
whose address the meeting was more specially con-
vened to re. plough the ground he had formerly
gone over, and lay bare the lurking or more ostcn-
tatious pro-siavery sentiments and practices Of
nearly all the great religious organizations in
America. The Bible aud tract Societies Of that
country are stepped to the core in pro-slavery SYM
pathies and action, and the American Board of
Missions, although improving, is still all ON the
side of the oppressors, through a negative more
than a positive policy-exccpt in opposition to alb
olitionists, against whom all its doctors of divinity
are especially Jealous. Mr.. Pillsbury's proofs Of
the active or passive support OF slavery 10y the re
ligious bodies were all drawn from their own pub
lished and official documents. They are almost,
without exception, intensely pro slavery and as
such men as Albert Barnes declares that without
the support OF the Church, American slavery could
not exist a day, the only conclusion which men
who bcl;eye the testimony of tho New Testament
annotator can arrive at, is, that the American
Church is the bulwark Of American slavery. Ex-
Baltic Fyfe took this ground. lie had examined
the documents, and had come to the deliberate
conviction that the religious ass lclatiOns OF Amer
ica, its Bible, Tract, and Missionary Societies,
we're undoubted supporters Of the slave system,
and therefore ought not to receive the countenance
of British Christians. Ex-Bailie Scott had long
since come to the same conclusion, and therefore
seconded the motion Of Baltic Fyfc, which was
That, in the deliberate judgement Of this meet
ing, slavery, especially as it exists in the United
States OF America, is in direct opposition to the
spirit CT Christianity. And seeing that, on undis-
puted evidence, it is proved that this system is
mainly 'sustained' by the churches Of America :
resolved, That until they abandon their present
position, it is the duty Of British Christians TO
withhold fellowship from them, and to use the
language OF aAectlonate and earnest remonstrance
against their sin: That the American tacitly ap.
proves of Withholding the Bible from UPWARDS of
three millions Of their own countrymen the
American Tract Society, which admits no anti
slavery sentiments into its own publications, and
expunges, without notice or remark, anti-slavery
sentiments from its reprints of British publications:
and the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, which admits Of, and practically
defends, slavery in its mission churches, should
not be selected by British Christians as coad-
TUTORS in missionary or other religious enter.
prises.'
Ex-Bailie Duncan. in moving the second resolu
ton, entered s,ll more fully into this subject.
None who know these g%entlcmdn dare accuse them
Of Indifference to religion; but Mr.. Ducan declared
that he would rather be an abolitionist, with the
so-called infdels, than a supporter Of slavery with
the so,called Christians and un 'ompromisingly
supported the following resolution =
That this meeting, contemplating with deep in
terest the conflict between freedom and oppression,
conscience and law, now going on in the United
States, desires to express its respect and admlIa'