Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-29
From the Same.
Thirte,S Families haze left The N. p. Ch,rch on
JcDsssoneHe Circuu because Of Slarey an The
Church


Church.
Mr.. EDITOR 81 thought it would not he out of
place, to write some facts touching the desolatiou
of Slavery on JeH'ersonvle circuit sixteen years
ago. made my enterance in itnerancy, on Jefer-
sonville circuit, then embraced in the northern
portion of old Washington circuit / spent my
first two years in the itinerancy on this circuit,
and, also, my fifth year in the itinerancy was
spent on this field Of labor Then it was, that the
contest about our relation to Slavery began on
this circuit, caused by Anti-Slavery Lecturers, who
exposed the NJ Z. Church as PrO-Savery to the
core To prove the position assumed, these Lee
turers cited to the little buok. which disiranchsed
all men Of eoor,to General Conference resolutions
on the subject of Slavery, and above all, to the
practice OF members of Tho NJ. p. Church, and the
want Of judicial interference, to ezpel slavehold-
ers, On this last point they drove the nail in n
sure place, and made it appear that the M. Z.
Church, In common with all otuer Slavery sus-
tanning Churches, were the bulwarks Of American
Slavery. This is position, not easily and sue.
cesslully controverted for if all the American
Churches, had thrown all their moral power
against American Slavery, this mammoth evil had
been crushed long ago. or so crippled i'll its ener-
ges, that it would be mere nominal affair con
fined to men Of low moral sensibity. When
these prO-slavery principles and practices, were
exposed in their connection with the NJ P.Church,
they bore like an incubus upon the minds of many
pious persons. They felt they were disgraecd, fol
they were taunted with pro-savery connection
with being the supporters of asystem OF involun
tary Slavery, which they despised in their hearts
and loved to hate. And, though the writer of thi'
article, preached conservative sermons, wrote con
seryatve articles in the Western Recorder, it was
only beating the air. The fnct could not lie retut
ed, that American mot Bibe,) Slavery, was sane
toned, tolerated. and practiced in the Nj. =
Church This fact had to be admitted, and more
that there was no redress of grievances in thi.
~ thaC Tha Sn1t anil, ,
after family withdrew from the Methodist Protest
ant Church. Some of whom were the fruits q
my irst two years labor this point of ole
| Washington circuit And, now, | can coun
thirteen families gone out from US, because of on
connection with Slavery, who lived in the bound
of Jeffersnnville circuit. And the end is not yet
unless there is separation from the South And
ask, where is the use, the sense, the reason, Il
hold to a General Conference connections lat sncl
great sacrifice Of membership and influence Fo
Jetiersonville circuit is on y one of many in th
North and West, which has been afflicted, torment
ed, and rent assunder, by the fact of the practlc
OF Slavery in the M. p. Church. Shall we b.
eternally subject such disafection to the Church
which never fais to result in schism, and the los
of religious influence? What is there in ou
! General Church connection so meritorous tina
we should preserve it at so great loss? 1t give
lus no religious influence at the North and West
but destroys it TO great extent. 1t does not pre-
serve our numerical strength in the free States
1t lures no man sound in heart to the Church, bu
.epels them, because of Slavery in the Church.
A. IL. TRUMpo.
i SDri1qfeld o. June TO- 1857,