Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-13

SOhthi1inb tue views OF JOhn wesley and Rich-
ard Watson on Slavery. By REV. Dixon LoNo.
o superanuated minister of the Philadelpbia
Annual Conference of the Methodist EPISCOPAL
Church.-Philadelphia published by the author,
1857.
The author of this work is a native of Mary.
land where be has lived until quite recently, when
he changed his residence to Philadelphia in order
to remove his sons from the immediate contact and
inevitable and immoral influences of slavery
His father was q stakeholder, from whom he in
herited one slave, who was Immediately enamel.
pated on coming into his possession. lie is there.
fore prepared to speak of slavery from his life
long acquaintance with its facts and Influences
For near twenty years he has been connected with
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
jealousy noting all the influences of slavery
upon that church and ministry, and therefore q
competent and unimpeachablc witness in regard
to the relations of that church to slavery. His
testimony on this point is tie prominentan md impor-
tant feature of the Book before us. The testimony
is given, without ambiguity, concealment or apol-
ogy and with a candid impartiality which marks
the honesty, as well as the mpetency of the wit.
ness. While he is evidently a most devoted friend
OF the Methodist church, he is not like many of
his brother clergymen Of the west. disposed to
cover up its guilty completely with slavery, but
rather as a wise and true friend he seeks her pres
ervation by means of the truth told in love. The
moral integrity of the writer is stamped upon the
whole book. Of this one or two examples must
suffice; speaking of hia patrimony he says: y'
"Of the few hundred dollars received from nv
fathers estate, one fourth of the whole was in the
person of a valuable and honest slave. I imme.
diately filed a deed of m~anumission. And had 7
owned five hundred slaves, and had every cent I
was worth been invested in them, 1 should
have set them free. Beliering slavery TO be a sin,
Why should l haze hesitated ?"
Again he says:
"Some fifteen years ago. the roll of the Philadel.
, phia Conference was called, and each member, rs
his name was announced, was to answer the follow
. ing question Are you a Shareholder When nv
name was called, / made my first and nearly my
last speech before that Conference. In my re.
marks l used this expression-I would sooner
, lose my right arm than be q voluntary slave.
holder.
h "Since that time the question has never been pu,
t Are you a stakeholder" but another one has
O been substituted and put to young preachers about
to be received into the Conference : "Are you an
Abolitionist."
e Pertinently does Mr.. L. ask, is j it not time tc
r recur to the question, :'Are you a slave holder ?'
q In regard to the fact of slave-holding in the Meth
5 dist Episcopal Church, a fact SO stoutly denied by
ministers and members of the North and West,-
: Mr.. LIS testimony it explicit. He tells us there
!, is little difference between the Churches North and
r and South he says :-"Where you strike the key
d note, you will find out there is very little difference
i between the laity of the Methodist Episcopal
e Church and the laity Of the Methodist Episcopal
D Cau-ch South in theory or practice on the subject
+ OF slavery. Do the members Of the Church South
3 hold slaves for life ? So do ours. Do their slaves
live in promiscuous intercourse? So do ours
Do they refuse to vote for men who will advocate
state laws prohibiting masters from separating
. mother from children? So do our members
On one point there is entire unanimity among the
Q laity of the slaveholding portion of our 1.-THE
. y Philadelphia) Conference and that is opposition
to the free colored people having day schools in
which to teach their children to read the word Of
God"
!; Again speaking Of the Philadelphia Conference o.
which he is a member. Mr.. Long says, There are
upwards of $4,000 white members and probation
ers in the slaveholding territory of the Confer
d eDce." OF this number he adds 'these are at leas
one thousand mercenary Stockholders. These thou
d sand slave holders o,rn at least one thousand slaues
4 Numbers own from five to ten. And l know one
G individual who owns t~weniy,"
The Baltimore Conference has a much large
. slaveholding territory, and Mr.. L thinks certainly
I DO fewer Shareholders or slaves. We shall give
n our readers further extracts hereafter.
. The work is of rather a miscellaneous charac
y ter, made up as its title page informs us, of anec
dotes, biography, personal "reminiscences, &c. And
Y though somewhat disconnected, and unpretentiout
Y of literary merit, it is written with an earnest
y purpose, is a readable book throughout, and adapt
0 ed to useful circulation, especially among the re.
S ligious denomination to which the writer belongs
u MORAL COMMUNICATIVE Old school Presbyte
rian Assembly had not even the moral courage tc
assail Mormonism by a condemnatory resolution
even in the present state of public sentiment
against that sect. The supporters of concubi
: mage in the Sou tn, are remarkably tender of thu
feelings of The Salt Lake poligamists.
In the course of the proceedings of the Assem-
bly, at Lexington last week Rev. j. f.. Bright
of Tenn, offered a resolution denouncing the in
Equities OF Mormonism, and expressing the desire
of the Assembly to see those i~niquities wiped from
the escutcheon of the nation.
Judge Fine expressed his abhorrence, and thai
. Of the whole country. of tlose iniqui.ies
but doubted the ~propriety of introducing such
= subjects into the Assembly. lie moved it be lait
' on the table.
The mover asked leave to withdraw it, which
. was granted, and it was Withdrawn.
IA MAHoNING VALLEY ASSOCIATION FOR THE In
PRovEMENT OF HoRsEs.-This Association has pc
litely sent us a complimentary ticket of Admiss
n ion to their exhibition on the 18th and 10Th inst
N We observe by the programe that the Association
exhibits, and awards premiums only for speed
h A very limited exhibition, as it strikes us of tn
1t admirable qualities of that noble animal the horse
J. We are sorry to see these associations which hav
d been and might still be eminently useful, degener