Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-19
a NEW A STATE.

Some dozen or more years ago, a delegate to the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church,(w
think it was Judge Stevens Of ludiana,) said IL
that body that the time would come when n new
state formed out of the Choctaw and Cherokee ma
tions. would apply for admission to the Union, and
that as n consequence of the missionary rollcy then
in vogue, THAT of admitting Shareholders to mem
ber3hip 10 the mission churches,) it would be a
slavehOlding state.
The following scrap, cut from a Southern paper,
shows that such n project is now being discussed:
New SOUTHERN STATES. Fulsom.a Choctaw,
and one Of the most prominent of his nation, paid
us n visit yesterday. Mr.. FulsOm is in favor Of
having the Indian Territory west Of Arkansas be.
tween the Red aud Arkansas rivers, and extend
ing westward to the one hundredth degree of west
longitude, organized into a State. aud admitted il.
TO the Union. We think such a step absolutely
necessary for the protection Of the South. The
Choctaws and Cherokees are slnveholders, and
would add another slavehOlding State to the CON
federacy. The treachery OF Buchanan has given
Kansas to the North let the South before it is too
late create a barrier against this NandaI encroach-
ment, which IL fast enmoshing her. These lnolan
tribes are better citizens, more advanced In the
principles of our government and laws than the
people Of New Mexico, dr the mOngrel advcnturers
from foreign nations and our own. y no are to make
q free State of Kansas.-Nemphis Enquirer, July
l6.
For more than thirty years, missionary labor
has been largely expended among those tribes OF
Indians, and Judging only from the number OF
converts" anu the improvement Of the Indians, in
temperance, agriculture, education, and other
things, concerning which the missionaries sought
TO exert an influence, or.gaye instruction to inem,
is encouraging,
Against the S. stem of slavery, as it exists in the
neiGhboring states and among their tribes, "it has
not been the aim OF the missionaries to exert any
direct influence, either by their public or private
teachings y 'most OF them have uniformly avoided
this topic in their public administrations - they
have received Shareholders into the communion Of
the church" and declined to make tia test OF pi-
ETY., or II condition of admission to the privileges
OF the church, that a candidate should express q
determination not to live and die a slavehOlder."-
In giving instructions 10 church members, 1.-THE
relation Of the Christian master to his slave, either
as to its lawfuluess or its continuance. they hare not
disturbed, and iitHe has been said TO him calling ia
question The Fundamental principles IF this S~yStem."
II from the beginning the missionaries to the
CherUkees and Chuctaws had acted on the princi.
pies of the American Missionary Association, and
had labOred to exert dlrectiuhuenCe against slave
ry as they did against intern perance, how different
would have been the prospect of those tribes
Then every enlightened friend of Christian liberty
and pure Christianity would have hailed with joy
the prospect of their admission 70 The Union. Now
we can look forward to it only with dread, as a
thing to be resisted and prevented, so long as they
maintain their present institutions, If we would
avoid the threatened judgements of God
The character of the laws under which the new
State will be likely to come in. may be Judged Of
from is present ones.
The Choctaws have the following:
'Be it enacted. &c, That from and after the
passage Of this act, if any citizen Of the United
States, acting as a missionary, or a preacher, OF
whatever his occupation may be, is iouad to take
an active part in iavoring the principles and no
tions OF the most fatal and destructive doctrines of
Abolitionism, he shall be compelled to leave the
nation and for evor stay ont OF it.
Be it further enacted, &C., That teaching slaves
how to read, to write, or sing in meeting-h houses or
any open place, without the consent OF the ownur,
or allowing him to sit at the table with him shall be
sufficient ground to convict persons of tavoring the
principles and notions of AboiitiOnism.
Be it enacted, &C., That no negro slave can be
emancipated in this nation, except by application
or petition Of the owner to the General Council;
and prorided also, that it shall be made to appear
to the Council, that tho owner or owners, at the
time of application shall have no debts outstanding
aginst him or her, either in or out of this nation
Then, and in that case, the General Council shall
have the power to pass an act Tor the owner to
emancipate his or her slave, which negro, after be.
ing freed. shall leave this nation within thirty days
after the passage of this act. And ia case said
free negro or negroes shall return into this nation
he, she, or they shall be subject to be taken by the
light hOrse-men and exposed to public sale for the
term of five ye IRA; and the funds arising from
such sale shall he used as rational funds"
Among the Cherokees is a law, as follows
BE it enacted by the National Council, That
from and after the passage. OF this act, 1t shall not
be lawful for any person or persons whatever, to
teach any free negro, or negroes, not of Cherokee
blood, or amy slave belonging to any citizen or cit.
izens of this nation to read or write" The penal
" annexed to the violation of this enactment, is n
fine Of 500 to sou, at the discretion Of the court,