Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-25
From the Philadelphia Morning Times.
A PIECE OF GROSS METHODIST DOUGH
FACEISM,

We call the particular attention of all our
readers, and especially of members of the
Methodist Episcopal Churches in our city, to the
following .tactS:
the Rev. John Dixon Long is a reputable and
irreproachable minister of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, and a member in full standing of the
Philadelphia Annual Conference of that Church.
He was born, and has lived, until a few months
age, jim the State of Maryland. He was reared in
the midst of slavery. His father was a STAKEHOLDER,
and all of Mr.. Longs connections, associations,
experiences and observations have hitherto been
in Maryland. Mr.. Long whose i'll health has. fol-
q year or two past, compelled him to desist from
the moro active laborS of the Methodist ministry,
has employed his leisure in writing a book, called
"PICTUREs OF SLAVERY IN CHURCH AND STATE"
This book has recently been published. and is
nothing else than a plain, simple, modest, and un-
vanished statement of what he has seen of negro
slavery, what ne knows about it, and what no
thinks of 1t as a man and n Christian. Without
any pretense to beauty of style or profound
thought, Mr.. Lcng'e book is the straightforward
narrative and utterance of an honest aud earnest
discipline of Him who came "to proclaim liberty
to the captive" No one can read the book with
out being profoundly impressed with its humble,
decorous, gentiemanly and religious tone. Every
word in 1t breathes of piety, goodwill, gentleness
and courtesy. Not q word in it can possibly
offend the most fastidious taste or morality.
But the book speaks of siarery as il as, and as
q good man piers IL. Of course, then, the book
is strongly opposed to and condemns slavery. 1t is
an anti-slavery work.
Now the Philadelphia Annual Conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United
States maintains a Conference Tract Society. Tn,
object Of this Society is to publish and dissem
mate, gratuitously and otherwise, books, publica
tons, and tracts, in favor Of Christianity. pur
morals, and the peculiarities of Methodist doctrin
and discipline. The Society has a Depository q
bookstore at No. ll9 North Sixth street, a6ov
Arch, where many or most of the principal evaI
gelicai religious and moral books of the day al
kept for sale. The Rev. Andrew Manship is th
Agent for the Tract Society.
Some four weeks ago the Rev. Mr.. Long too
several copies of his boz. to the Tract Societ
bookstore and requested that they should be sol
there on commission, just as they sold other book
in a similar way. Mr.. Manship positively refuse
to allow this. Mr.. Long then made the same n
quest of the Board of Managers of the Society, c
of some of them but this second request wa
also refused by a quorum of Managers, co~nsistin
of Mr.. Manship, James b. Longacre. Esq, (cA
as da tHgrd1er and employee in tie United Stat
Alal, where they issue the latest coinage tcih II
,oord 'h6eJty" erased), and Colson Heiskell Esq,
wealthy Market street merchant, who probabl
sells goods to Southern customers.
IL will be observed the Philadelphia ConferenC
Tract Society. or rather its Pro.Slavery Manager
exclude from their book store a deeorous, religion
. book, written by a Methodist Minister OF the be-
standing, simply because The IoOk condemns negi
starery as scrong.
Nov. mark the reverse Of this picture.
Every one has heard Of the notorious "Parso
Brownlow"o of Tennesses. lie was once an itine