Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-11

Clevelond. insisting that such crimes should be
brought to discipline, premature, sectional, lanai
ical
But our story is not ended. Six weeks ago
tb;s same pastor wrote to O friend in this city,
"There is not one pro.slavery man IN hoiston
Presbytery. We are all opposed to the system
of slavery. But still VIC 30 not like the inter
ference Of the Home Missionary Society with this
matter" Nop he writes, 81 have seen the dark
side Of slavery. | must leave. Find me u par
ish in any free State from Maine to Kansas
And shall the Home Missionary Society aid such
a Church as that which shields this bloody mas
ter, and not even inquire as TO The character Of the
slaveholding which there is tolerated
We ask DR.. Cox to ponder this case, and zee
whether, instead Of venting Latin objurgations
against the Home Missionary Society from the
Chancellorship Of Ingham University, he ought
not to revert to The manly tone Of his letter of
Febuary. 1886, to DR.. Allen, of Middlebufy.--
We can find no words more appropriate to this
whole subject than this extract from that epis-
tic -
LETTER OF REV. 8. IL. cox, D. D.
"You especially invite my attention to the CUES.
ton, 'Uhdt hare Christians in the non-StrUehotdiny
states 10 do teiM slaUeryP Ought they TO hold com,
munion Nth shareholders or shareholders. eCen u
the cases are modified as much as that Of the Rer.
Mr.. Ely, for erdmpleP
There is n manifest difference between princi-
pies abstractly and absolutely viewed, and their
application to particular cases these may be
qualified and even yalliated, just for the same
reason that they may be aggravated also by cir
cumstances. That slavery, the system identically
of our own country, is intrinsically and preemi'
aently wrong, is at variance with the everlasting
righteousness of the moral empire OF God, or, as
the lawyers say, is NAHUM an SC, is q proposition OF
almost self evident truth. | know that all masters
are not equally cruel, covetous, or o5durate ana
that all slaves are not equally abused nay that
some are treated comparatively well and kindly,
and are comparatively happy. But what OF this,
as it respects the conscience? 1t is all one .sys-
tenn. Every owner of a slave, not even my hon.
ored friend above named excepted, upholds the
system-lends it the awful sanction of his prac-
tice. his influence and his name; and s,like the tenn
perate drinker, las it respects another grand NOR
al interest of REFORM, q mighty obstacle to the as
tendency Of correct sentiment and correct action
in the community.
81 am more struck with the similarities of inju-
ry, than with the seeming Q EXCEPTIONS OF favor, in
the privations and degradations of the slaves
The experience of the worst treated, is the ha6't.
ity of the best treated of them all and every good
master who dies intestate leaves to the machin
cry of the law the disposal of his whole estate
his fellow creatures included and hammer o
the auctioneer is invoked to sell them singly OF
in pairs, or lots to suit the purchasers as Thu
phrases of stereotyped commercial usage. Blu
| make these observations by the way, to show
that the system is one-that the differences ART
cOmDaTablNelJ luCUuSlucTuDlO -luu bhoJ rory Nv
the principle or tie casuistry of the matter-that
the system is utterly and awfully wrong-that nc
Christian ought to do erl that good may come in
frvor of it and that those who care for their
souls, and for the appreciation of God Almighty,
ought not to be driven from the true state and
nature of these matters and their involved issues.
"As the principle, as related to the moral code
OF God, | hesitate not a moment to say, that, 9TH
er things being equal, a SLAYER of any description
ought to be excluded from the communion of the
church and that, by consequence, the members
of the church, individually, ought to withdraw
communion from Shareholders and slave-dealers
universally. Whatever in the system, or in the
support of it, is morally wrong, is no small crimi-
naiity. 1t is piacular, rather than venial it is the
moral humiliation and p~eroition of our fellow
creatures-each one of them a brother of the
species--an immortal-a man in body soul, and
spirit, Aud 10 it oar Judge Eternal, who conde-
scends to wear our common nature, in the person
of Jesus Christ on his throne. and to call every
man his brother-such emphatically, If he loves
the Saviour ? and to be represented on the earth,
by the poor and by the oppressedf And the King
shall ansaoer, and say unto them, Verify 1 say untc
you, inasmuch as pc hare done 1t unto one Of Mt
least Of these my brethren, ye hare done it unto
me.U