Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-12
AN AMERICAN DOCTOR OF DIVINITY IN
EXETER HALL.

The Massachusetts, Sabbath School Society has
published, for the use of the children Of the Or
thodox Congregational Churches in that State, a
work entitled "Sabbaths Abroad" by the Rev. j.
B. Waterbury, d. D., of Boston, q bunker of the
hunkers, q supporter of the Fugitive Slave law,
and one who thinks it not worth while for Massa.
chusetts to get excited merely because one of her
Senators was knocked down by Il Southern ruffian!
In his sketch of a Sabbath in London" occurs the
following passage
"My first meeting was that of the London Tract
Society. 1t was dull. The speaking was very in.
different, not a ray of genius, or a sparkle of orato
ry. Everything went heavy. The only incident
worth mentiJning-and shat scarcely served t.
wake up the drowsy audience-was the introduc.
ton OF Il negro speaker. His skin was black as q
coal. Ills whole speech, which was vulgar in die.
ton, and very pompous in manner, was a TRADE
against America for holding slaves. This seemed
to give the audience the animation which the 9th
er speakers had failed to awaken in them. They
really seemed to enjoy this speech. First the feet
then the hands, then the hear him. were proofs
that his was the telling speech of the occasion.
The English are fond of giving Jonathan a raj
on this subject, whenever they can get n chance,
and it isn't of the spiritual kind either. What
excellent philanthropists these people are They
have raised twenty millions of pounds, bought all
the slaves, ard then turned them loose, without the
least provision fOC their welfare, or so much as in
curing whether they we're dead or alive. | hope
That when slavery Is abolished IN America, as
pray God it one day may be, it will be on a some
what different plan. Freedom alone is not all that
we must give them. They need to be prepared
for the boon and England, if she would confess
1t, has committed a great practical error in the
way in which her enamel patton was effected. How
ever, let us not recriminate Let us give her cred
it for what she has done and if there is a better
way, let us try, as soon as possible, to find it. AT
ter the black man had concluded, and the storms
of applause had subsidized, traced my way back
to my hotel. musing on certain points which the
exercises at Exter Hall had suggested, one Of
these reflections naturally was how easy it is tC
see "a mote in a brothers eye, when 10 a beam is
in our own! There is a considerable amount o.
heavy timber yet to be cast cut of thyme eye, Ole
England Another was, be not partakers of 9th
er mems SINS ! do not quote this as a litera
require Il great amount of logic to prove that while
the Englishman was lining Jonathan's pocket;
which she was using up TO enrich her merchant
princes. | like to see responsibilities shared where
they ought to be and l believe, in my very soul
they should be in this great matter. | hPve nc
apologies to offer for slavery. But | like to set
everything fair. If England and America have
great p~riciteges, they are also great sinners. Meth
er should criminate too fercely the other. Wher
the trnth is spoken, it should be spoken in love-"
While the children of the Orthodox Churches Of
Massachusetts, arc fed with such stuff as this from thu
Sunday School Library, we need not wonder that
too many of them grow up to be doughfaces in po
l%ititics aud hypocrites in religion.-A. S. Stand
ard,