Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-26
A NEW MISSIONARY FIELD-A MISS
I0NARY COMING.

@ MlOO-l
I0NARY COMING.
The accounts lately published detailing the afro.
cious cTueliies of the pious Mr.. Netherland, Of
Rogersville Tenn. ,perpetrated upon his slaves; has
called to TIE rescue OF his brother, that blackguard
n nd bully, Rev. W. G. Brownlow of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and Editor Of the Knox
vile Wing. Mr.. Browlow sends his communica-
ton this time to the Ne,c York Times. lie does
not therein dispute the statements of Mr.. Sawyer
relative to Netherlands cruelties, but dilates large
]ly upon the proper treatmon of fanatics south and
proposes TO come north himself to instruct the
heather Of New England in regard to thor duty
to Shareholders and fanatics. He gives Neither.
land a certificate Of character. He says, "Mr.
Netherland is an honorable man, q humane gen.
tleman. and is not a slave dealer. and never was.
| have known him intimately for thirty years.
or course he is an honorable and q pious man too.
All slave drivers are honorable men though all do
not profess to be pious men. We may state, though
Mr.. BrownlOw does not, that Mr.. Netherlaud is
one of the pillars of New School Presbyterian
ism in Tennessee, and as such was delegated to
the late Convention in Richmond, Virginia, to aid
in the organization of the new Southern Presbyte-
rian Church. By the way, we observe that the
New York Observer reports that Convention was
eminently blessed to the salvation Of souls in
Richmond, as the first fruits, of the preaching of
this gospel of the New Church. But leaving
Deacon Netherland and his new Church we re-
turn to Mr.. Brownlow's communication. lie
says:
an your notice of East Tennessee and the
Slavery question. you use this language-I give
the paragraph entire:
'ln spite of that high character, and these ia
vorable aDtecedents, a thousand of the best citizens
Of the place, q few years ago, assembled in cold
blood and burnt q negro alive at the stake. One
of the local papers commenting upon the tragedy
boasts of the ~tact,-which III any other civilized
community would have been considered au aggra-
walton OF the atrocity-that the perpetrators were
cool. calm, and deliberate The editor of this
same journal, "a minister of the Gospel adds
We unhesitatingly affirm that the punishment
was unequal to the crime. Had we been there,
We should have taken a part and even suggested
the p~inching of pieces out of him with red-hot
pincers, the cutting off of IL limb at a time, and
then burning them all in a heap
Now, the local paper alluded to, is the Knox
vile Wing, of which l am the sole editor, and
have been for the last nineteen years-a paper
having a larger circulation than any. paper ever
published in East Tennessee. And l arm the Minis
ter of the gospel alluded to, q local minister OF the
Methodist Church, South. The remarks a;tribu
ted to me are correctly quoted, and if | had beer
present, and there had seemed to be any necessity
for my doing SO, | would have said and done just
what | then stated, and | would have been cool
T calm, and deliberate in SO doirg &, for this is ouI
mode of doing things down South And why
! Because some anti slavery Williams, mostly fruu
I the North are making a fuss about the matter, and
3 seeking to rescue the negro"
We only add some of the concluding extracts in
/, which this Rev. Slave driver announces his mis-
sicnary purposes. The benighted heather of New
En- gland are the objects of his especial solicitude
and are to become the objects of his Christian la
bors, He says:
!, The yillainous agitation of the Slavery quos
u ton 10y your long-faced hypocrites and v~agabonC
n philanthropists Of tie Norih is only intended t
give birth to new and more lofty schemes of dis
union and to more bold and hazardous enterprise
in the States and Territories.
y at is Northern Abolitionists, scores of whom
are here in the South in disguise, who stir up GU
r slaves to these acts of murder and violence
Some of them are filling cur pulpits-some occu
- pying high positions in our colleges-some edit
= ing political and religious newspapers-some prac
q ticing medicine-some selling goods-and som
stealing h ,ough the country as secret agents q
1t Abolition societies, enticing negroes to run away
% These scoundrels ought to be %lynched, rode upol
rails, and in many instances hung!
&c 1t is my purpose to spend this coming White
d in the principal cities of the South lecturing upo
y the subject of Slavery. the morality Of the Mort
contrasting the condition of free persons of co
or in the Free States with that of the slaves in tn
South. In the Spring | propose visiting the Ne,
England States, and repeating the same lecture.
In other words, | propose to go among you as
Southern missionary, to e~nlighten your ~benighte
It Free Soil population on the subject of slavery.
look upon the cities and towns of the New Enl
lie land States, and of the northwestern States. a
opening a wider and more inviting field, at thi
time, for faithful missionary labors than Hindo,
\ tan, Siam. Ceylon, China or western Africa |
additi n to your wicked and rebellious course ~
on the Slavery question, you have forsaken tn
true God and The Christian religion, and gone U
1t after spiritualism. Fanny Wrightism, Fourierisn
u Mormonism, Aboiitionism, Devilism, and the hui
:: dred-and -oneisms SO spontaneously produced b
New England soil!
! hope, gentlemen, you will do me the favor t
e publish this hasty-written letter, and your Blac
Republican associates the kindness to let iher
know am coming. They may wish to muster u
one of your Beecher's or Parker's to reply to IN,
a | will divide time with any ono of your pious fret
dom-shriekers. Respectfully, &c.,
w. BRowNLow.
Sept. 10, 1857. Editor Of the Knoxville Wing.