Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-14
Prom tho Northern Independent.
A SLAVE-HOLDING D. D..

On Monday morning we CHANGED to ride down
town in the cars with DR.. Deems, who had preach
ed Mt Trinity the morning previous. The CONVEX
sation turned upon the new paper, slavery, etc.;
wheroupon the Doctor coolly informed us that he
was the ''owner of several slaves'-tbat he 'felt
no moro conscience about owning his cook than ne
did about owning his wife," DC. We asked him
if the relation which southern gentlemen %sustain-
ed to- their wives was that of master and slave! to
which he made no reply.
lie stated, moreover, that not only three.fourths
of the members of his Conference wore slavchold-
ers, but that several mem6ers OF the Baltimore
Conference were slave holders also. He said the
slaves we're decided to som other person, but were
in fact owned by preachers. Were some OF these
shareholders in the last General Conferencef
SAMPLES OF LAW AND ORDER.
The General Conference Of lS4S refused to re-
ceive DR.. Pierce as the representative OF the M.
f.. Church, South, or to traterpize with them
Thus the NJ. Il. Church disfellowshipped these
slaveholding Methodist preachers in the mos. sol
emn and Emphatic manner. 1t is consequently
the duty of every Methodist preacher to carry out
this expressed viii, of the General Conference
No preacher has q right to set the authority OF the
Church at defiance by publicly recognizing m mis-
tiers of the M. Il. Church, South, and even slave
holding preachers, as ministers Of Christ. And
yet what are the facts2 Why. these shareholders
are not only welcomed to our pulpits in Baltimore,
and along the BORDER" but even in Philadelphia
and Newark, and New York. Bishop Pierce was
publicly associated with Bishop James and Simp-
son, in the dedication of the Broad.street Church.
Newark, N. j.; and now a slaveholding Doctor OF
Divinity has been introduced into the church we
have toiled 80 hard to rear-the best Methodist
church edifce on this continent-to show tho peo-
pie tho way to Heaven! And what is worst of all
this same d. D.. was extremely tenacious on the
suhjcc, Of holiness, aud is himself q professor OF
entire sanctifcation There, you have it-a sane.
| fiEaN ala rnbn1ipr Rut that IL no WOrsc than DIR.
Stovens' idea of an anti. slavery slaveholding
chuch. 1t il all of a piece with fresh salt. dry
water, rum-drinking temperance men, chaste pros
titutes and holy devils.
Every pulpit entered by q slave-holding preach
er ought to be sent to quarantine, like an infected
chip, and there washed. and scraped, and fumiga
ted, and then re-dedicated. 1t is a Dissertation o.
our holy place-a solemn mockery not only of the
General Conference, but of all religion, for a slave
holder to preach in one of our pulplts. We pre-
sumo that DR.. Foster was not aware that Dr.. Deem
WIS a Shareholder. NJ.
N Independent Feb. 10, '57.
Commenting on this article from the I~ndepcnd
emit. the Wesleyan says:
We presume no such thing, Bro. Mattison. DR.
Foster had much more reason TO believe DR.. Deems
was a stakeholder than that he was not. lii
should have known his man before he placed hin
before the people, to scandalize that sacred place
and occasion. You yourself say sit is a desecra
tion-a solemn mockery for a stakeholder to preach
in one of our ~pulpits." All! indeed! and wht
countenanced this stakeholder in his work of desc
Grafton and -mockeryf Did not Bro. Mattison p
Before We would hear a sermon from this mar
thief. against whom tho law of God has slread,
passed the sentence of death, Exodus xxi, IT,,
We would have put cotton in our ears" rs Bro
Wise said a little boy did not long since, so rs no
hear bad words; or if we had had as good locomo
tive members as Bro. M. is said to have, we woul
have taken ourselves away from the place, instant
ly. And with tho views entertained by this broth
er, he was bound to this course by the command q
Christ. Matt. vii, Ia; XIV, ii.