New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-02

,hs la,anrh Al, for instance teaching their slaves
20 I'D the Word Of God aid attending pubic wor'
ship He admitted that the law Was evidently wrong
and ought 10 be repealed. He seemed To think that
what the right and duty OF the Tristan nso. 2e
| suppressed when the laws Of the land required IT, he
believed Slavery would exist in the Church a. Iong ~
I Slavery existed in the csuotry. tie feared toat ne
might be regarded a. Pro-Ssvery IN sediment but
be was not, and wished the day might come ~hen
Slavery n light be abolished from the Land.
DR.. TBossos Of the Ohio Wesleyan University ro-e
and addressed the Conference. He presented the
question in two-fod Ign.. He did not mean slave
folding in the apostolic, ante apostolic, or Po'tsPo
toic sense, but in The American sense. Admitting
sad the Doctor ths; the negro is degraded race,
that his condition better in Slavery here than IN bis
owl country, yet il did 10: constitute single reason
for the existence Of Slavery, much less for the Church
Of the living God 10 bold property IN man. he referred
TO tie Bible view of the subject. He denied that
Abraham was a STAKEHOLDER in the American sense.
If be wss, said the Doctor how could be, when be
went with his armed slave Warriors, return with
them -aves' He further asserted that Jewish Law
wa. anti fugitive and the whole power and force of
tire nation pledged IN protect and defend the ug
tive. He denied that Onesi nus was slave, and At.
frned that the Apostle Paul could not have sent him
back unless be had occupied the throne of state and
had secret money, and could employ secret msrshsls
and civil off cial.. lie declared if there anything
in the New Testamen in favor OF Slavery, II was 10
war with the rev, htion Of Nature. He believed that
in the New Testament Slavery was Doomed and
damned. II was the New Testament that abolished
Slavery in England and her Provinces and in South
An erica ard elsewhere and not a. some would tesch,
TO be attributed TO inhdelty. He cared not that
Bishop A,bury had accommodated the Discipline Of
the Church 10 the Slavery of the South, and he as
serted that be did wrong. II was perfectly evident,
said the Doctor that be was wrong tron the fact that
the Gospel has wrought the liberation of the slave,
and IT, after three hundred years, the Gospel has not
affected in the slightest degree the dark unrghteous
system what hope is there that ever wiz HIS only
hope for the delivsrance OF the land was from the
~ L.. and tba in he
not act and hold up the mirror, that lie reflections
might tell upon the Church in the South, Slavery would
be perpetuated forever.
Mr. Collins Of Baltimore the champion of the
slave holding portion Of the Church next rose in oppo-
sition to tie report. He said he did not wish to sppe
as polemiCaI gladiator or great champion, but to
discuss 9 question. He did not appear before
them 10 defend Slavery. The Baltimore Annual Con-
frerce was not Pho Slavery bis honored people were
not Fro-Slavery. They cid not leave the Church at
the time of the division because they conceived that
the policy Of that Church was wrong. He said If they
had gone South stars and carriers awaited them Bal
timore would have become the emporium of the South
While he was speaking, the Conference adjourned.
ISDAyAPoLIs, ND, Tuesday May o..
This morning the Conference suspended the rule for
the purpose IF allowing the presentation of resolution
nemSnals. &c. Many memorials on the SUBJECT OF
slavery were BIZ nded from various parts OF the coun
try Never die this subject excite as much attention
IN all parts of the land far the church concerned
a. at this present time. The Supreme Court Is now IN
Judge Ian and bs associates were invited to take
st ats within the bar Mr.. CoLLIss snow speaking lie
labor hard TO .how that Slavery in the bounds of the
baltimore Conference il not what have affirmed.
He declared that though they held the bodies OF men
they never claimed TO hold their souls they had been
charged He was opposed to all changes that looked
toward the introduction Of new term of membership.
He protested against those who assumed that Slavery
wss Divine institution. He sorry that the pre-
cious Bible was ref red to. II was gwen up
had been given up long sgO-that the Bible was not
TO be referred to on this subject. Dr. CHAABERLAYNE
whed Mr. Collins TO take one or the other side OF the
fence on this que-ton This called out Mr. CoLLrsss
indgnaton and be declared before high Heaven that
be was rot two sided man, but transparent a. the
sun in all his views. He believed Christianity would
convert the world and anne orate the condition OF every
man. and yet the Gospel was not to be so construed as
that Il shall teach that savehold IL sim Tie pro-
test against being called Pro-SlaveIy, and asked,
what have we done in advocacy Of Slavery have
we not said be- stood by the flag OF Methodlsm, ana
are we not true and faithful men He appealed to the
r, mpathes of the brethren, and hoped the Conference
would not adopt a law which would cut them on and
prey 10 the world. His peech lasted for nearly two
hours 1t exceedingly difusive, and all he said
far making points concerned, might have been
| said in lees than IN hour
| When be closed Mr.. HosNER, the Editor of the
| Northern Christian Adr0cate rose to an explanation
| He said that Mr.. c. had stated that he (Mr. Ii haC
affirmed that neither Shareholders slaves could BE-
Cbrisisns. Mr. III. defined what he understood by the
| term slaveholcer viz. one who steals man or one
who holds who has been stolen; and such can
not be Christian, said Mr.. H., unless he holds the
slave for the purpose # freeing him. So, said he, in
the same .enee slave cannot be Christian unless
be mike all effors to free himself be guilty of CON
hitting tie big hest wrong net himsef He thanked
God that uld get TO Heaven in spite of the Flu
g,tve Slave law and the devil its author.
Mr.. PHELPS, OF gthe Black River Conference, fol-
lowed. He remarked that the stat ments about the
number of members in the church connected with
Slavery were erroneous. Ii greatly Overrated;
and even If it not, how small would be
The number compared with the aggregate;
1t was said be, principle that has been considered
wise and all have approved and acted upon viz: that
contained in the old proverb, better one suffer than
many" Blu THE advocates Of slavehoding would have
us change th. rule, and make the many suffer What,
said he is to be gained by refusing % take sc'I9n
showed that in the three Conferences which have
such tremendous clsims, they had not four hundred
members white and black, all told; and that one OF
| them had reported q decrease OF two hundred. BE,
sizes said he these Conferences had 10 be supported
mostly by the Missionary Society He wanted 10 know
what offer. nee there between the ministers Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church
South Did they not preach the same Gospel and the
same religion DO they not teach their slaves religion
Have they not the missions among them, aud DO
not the ministers of the Church South do everything
claimed be done by ministers Besides he add
ed thew were more consistent. He proposed ~ give
| our uiIist,r q psnk-an Anti-Savery plank-on
which they might plant their feet, and rom which they
could proclaim emasculated Gospel. Az Il IL, the
| principle on which the Church acts would allow the
ministers of Church to go out to Pagan lands and
take ido.iers and polygansts into the Church. II
the Discipline II to be made to harmonic with the ex-
istir laws and ussges Of the land where the ministers
WHO are intnlsted with it, administration labor, then
every vile atomnstion under heaven may find u sane
tiop and shelter in the Church He WAS opposed 20
any compromises and he believed that the good OF the
Church required decisive action. The question must be
| settled and settled
Dr. DExPsIrR Of the Methodist Biblical Institute de-
liy, red mott effective speech. He took the ground
that slavery was in it, simple and pure state the most
malignant Htsven-daiiIg GOd-tran~cendng evil that
ever saw the sun and the idea OF making 1t better oy
taking il into the bosom Of the Church was az absurd