Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-12
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
AND SLAVERY.

There are many members Of the Methodist Epi'
copal Church in The West and North West, VIII
still deny that their Church, fellowships slave
holders. Repeatedly we have heard the affrma
ton of members Of the Church that the ChurcI
had divided on the question of Slavery and tina
there were no shareholders in the Northern divis
ion, and consequently the Church had no response
bility or guilt in the matter. 1t would be well
the subscribers to the Bugle would take some pain
to circulate the facts we publish to-day. If the,
wish other facts, they will find full particulars 0
the speeches and proceedings of the Late Genera
Conference on the subject, in the late numbers o
the Wesleyan, published at Syracuse N. Y. TIL,
Editor Of that paper was present, and reported il
full the proceedings. These proceedings prove
the Church to be what the abolitionists have al
slaveholding Church. Even its members who are
called anti slavery, show a miserable lack of mora
vision. and evidently, to them, the Church is moro
than Freedom and Righteousness.
Not even the outrages of Border Rufians il
Missouri, perpetrated, under the false impression
that the Church is, as it should be, on the side o.
justice, could arouse the Methodist Conference tC
any self-respectful or proper action on this ques
ton, either in lchalf Of the slave, or its own
prosecuted ministers. The s~elfcomplacent calm
ness Of the Pittsburgh Conference, which recently
assembled in this place, was not at all to the cred.
it Of its members, as preachers of righteousness
About the same time that these ministers were
thus silently ignoring the slave and that gospel
which breaches "deliverance to the captives, -
The mobocrats of Missouri were also aiding the
stakeholder in a more energetic and active man
ner, though We doubt if they did it more effect.
iv-'y. The Telegraph few days since reported
that the outrage chronicled below was perpetrated
upon the presiding officer of a conference. 1t
seems it was the minister of an individual Church.
From the Gin. Gazette, of June 20,
MORE BORDER RUFFIANlsM-A Methodist Minis
ter TdrTed and Featheyed.-The Border Rufian
Democracy of Missouri, like the Inquirer, believe
their interests required that the pulpit should be
silenced. the only difference being that our neigh
Dor does not propose to adopt any more harsh
measures than denunCiation, and ii stoppage of
material aid, while the brethren of Missouri adopt
the more summary and severe mode of tarring and
leathering. 1t appears there il in Rochester, An
drew county, Missouri, n Northern Methodist
church, and the citizens, ignorant of the action of
the General Conference, recently held at lndianap-
oils, got the idea that this church declares that its
members cannot hold slaves, and thereupon de-
clared the Northern Methodist Church a nui-
sance," upon the same principle we suppose that
Judge Lecompts jury declared the Lawrence Hotel
a nuisance.
1t was then declared to be the will of the COM
munity that the preacher in charge of this North
ern Methodist Church should be siIenced. lie was
accordingly asked to desist from preaching. but he
would not comply, and the St. Joseph Gazette
informs us that, ''as the penalty of his temerity
he was tavred and feathercd." In the difficulty
which occurred, another man named Holland, an
"Abolitionist," was killed. A series of resolutions
were adopted, declaring that every Northern
Methodist Anti-Slavery man in the county should
be notified by the Vigilance Committee, to pack
up and leave, land in the event of their refusal,
the committee to make report of the same to this
meeting, at which time this meetieg will take such
as may be most expedient for their immc-
diate expulsion from our midst"
The first resolution in the series adopted by this
Anti-Northern Methodist Church meeting read as
follows:
Resolved, That we believe in the constitution of
the United States, and the constitution of the State
OF Missouri, and every feature thereof, and that
we hold in adherence any political party, or any
persons, whatsoever, wherever found, that will act
in violation of either.
The Constitution for which these people profess
SO much Attachment, says:
Congress shall make no laws respecting an es-
of religion or the freedom of speech,
Or Of the press"
The consistency of the "relegulators" CT Mis-
souri, is worthy of the Border Rufiian family.
A VorE LosT.-We noticed last week that the
bill in the House of Representatives for the ad.
mission of Kansas to the Union, was lost by one
vote. Subsequently the question was reconsidered
and the decision revised by a vote of 90 for ad.
mission to 81 against. One help to this change,
was the fact, that Herbert, the murderer of Keat-
ing was at large and voted against Kansas G. the
first occasion, but before the latter vote was taken,
he had been indicted by the Grand Jury for MUIR
and as bail was refused, he was safely locked
up in Jail when the last vote was taken.
a CHANCE FOR AN ABOLITION SrATE,-The Blu.
chanan paper of Garfield, thinks that the only
chance even to have "one whole abolition State, is
for CheesedOm (the Reserve) to dissolve itself from
the Union, and annex Salem" That is a plan we
had not thought of before, but we go for it, provided
the Border-iufian advocates will 90 South among
their friends, as we have no doubt they would in
such an event,
FIRST OF AUGUsT.-The colored people of Salem
are making preparation for a grand celebration
of West India Emancipation on the approaching
of August. Rev. Mr.. Graham, Of Pittsburg.
is advertised as the speaker. The meeting dur.
ing the day is to be held in the Fair Grounds
Citizens generally are invited to attend.
The GERMAN PREss.-TheC Cincinnati Yolksblatt
that there are in the United States, ten daily
md thirty-fve weekly German papers which sup
port Buchanan and fifteen dailies and thirty.four
in favor of Fremont. Those in the Cath
,lic interest are in favor of Buchanan.
There's many a slip
Twixt the cup and the lip.
Ono of these unexpected slips has happened to
'ur thirsty neighbors of the Farquhar House., in this
lace and those who congregate there. Last
week, pressed by the public sentiment of the village
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