Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-25
From the Northern Independent.
A LITTLE PUZZLED.

|: is we'll known fact that all Of our border
lrethern Mt the last General Conference, professed
to bo good anti-savery men. So far as words were
concerned, they were desperate haters Of slavery,
and their people were haters of slavery. Aud
than all the rest, there were but precious fer
slages held by members Of the Methodist Episcopal
ChurcM Now all this really grateful to the feel.
ings Of nearly all from the north, northwest and
east. Well, the Committee on Slavery believed
the protestatons of the southern men, and they SO
wrote in their report. Now, the puzzlo is here
l.lf these men hate slavery SO cordially, why did
they not only refuse to vote for the report of that
Committee but got up minority report, made
speeches agains: the report of the ma ority, and
hinted, if they did not loudly threaten, secession
and terrible revolution, should ,ha: report be
adopted?
2. If there are so ttao slares in tie Churcd along
the border as these men pretend, how could the
terrible disasters which they predict result from
making the chapter on slavery in the Discipline
conform to the real doctrine of the General Rule,
which is undoubtedly directly against slavery,
as much as it is against buying smuggled goods
or profane swearing?
8. Then again, if so few per ons are interest in
this mattered.so few holding slaves, howwill they
be able to get up the terrible and disastrous fuss
which even in anticipation frightens these brave
men, and serves 10 scare whole General Confer
ercps?
T. Will people who have comparatively nc
slaves who hate save.hoding who will not allow
their traeeing preachers to hold SlareS the local
preachers being less holy, suppose may,l will
such people allow the Church to be rent and torn
to pieces for eiecng from its holy circle what they
admit to be crime?
5. Where these conditions exist, is it Mt all prob
able that the Church south, whose chief corner
stone is slavery, who but for slavery would never
have had an existence-(by by.the-by what a
reason for forming new Church only think
the Church of Christ issuing forth from the ac-
knowledge6 horrors, iniquities expressions, whip
pings, adulteres and pollutons of slayeryis it at
all probable that such Church could make head
in a community SO situated and indoctrinate1 p
But suppose they did, where are the chances Of
success on their part? Can they succeed better
with unrghteous weapons, than the true Church
with truth, humanity, and the sword Of the Spirit
on their side? l own these things pu sze me. 1t
does seem to me that men who hate slavery SO
cordially, will DO something to oppose and rout its
legions, instead of exhaus.ing all its energies to
bolster, and nurse, and keep the foe alive, by fur
nishng it with aid and comfort
The leaders of the great secession used to talk
just in this way, while they were with u.s. but they
have sooner bid good by, than they coOlly
draw the pen across every word in their discipline
condemnatory of slavery, and proceed with all
calmness and gravity to prove that GoD ALMIGHTY
ORIGINATED AND NOW UPnoLDs THIS INTERNAL
SYSTEM.
The question often arises in my own mind will
the apolOgists for slavery who remain among us,
after little time adopt the same course?