Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-20
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune
The Journal of Commerce makes wry faces at
our recent structures on the Southern Aid Society
as was to be expected and misrepresents them, as
was rather to be expected than desired. 1t
says:
1.-The Tribune is in especial trouble about this
Society. Either, from it's infdel tendencies, it
does not believe the Gospel to be of any value, or
else it is SO vindictive that it cannot bear that a
STAKEHOLDER should have chance of being saved
on any terms"
No. Sirsl The Tribune believes the Gospel o
nestimable value, if fearlessy preached in its pu
rity and fulness otherwise, it is not certain.
1t holds that stakeholder, precisely like any body
else may be saved 6y repenting Of and forSdkWg
his SINS We know no other way but our theo-
logical training is limited, and we are willing to
receive further instruction. But how people are to
be expected or induced to forsake their sins if the
evangelists are required and constrained to keep
silence with regard to those sins, we cannot i'm
agine.
We will not be misunderstood on this point
The Journal proceeds most mistakenly to say
that
"The Gospel of the Bible-the whole Bible
the South is willing to hear and does hear, when
ever it has an opportunity. The Gospel of The
will not hear. The Trbune's difficulty is, that it
mistakes A5olitionism for the Gospel, and will
either give the South that or nothing Such friends
the Southern. Aid Society is fortunate in not pos
sessing. Their hostility it has right to expect,
and can afford to bear"
Now, The Tribune has mover proposed to sond
the Gospel to the South at all. 1t is not our voca
ton. We believe the is tho fact with regard
to The Liberator. 1t is the American Home Mis-
sionary Society that has undertaken to difuse re-
ligious truth throughout the Slave States, and has
been for years engaged in doing so. That Society
has nothing to do with the Tribune nor we with
the Society. 1t is made up of the most active and
jealous portion of the Orthodox Churches-tha
portion most intent on having the Gospel com
mended to every creature. That Society does no
preach to nor require of the South immediate, un
conditional emancipation. Here COPIED from
The JournaD is its rule Of action with regard tt
Slavery:
"Resolved, That in tho Disbursement of the fund
committed to their trust, the Committee will no
grant aid to the churches containing slaveholdins
members unless evidence be furnished that th
relation is such as, in the judgment of the Com
mittee, is justifable. for the time being peculia
circumstances in which it exists"
Here you see, is no hint of refusing to preacl
the Gospel to sinners because they are sinners, o
for any reason whatever. There is not even re
quirement that the saints shall be non-saveholder
but simply that they shall have some other excus
than the love Of gain for holding men, women ant
children in perpetual bondage Is not this moder
ate Is it not reasonable? 1t surely was not i'm
PEELED by the Tribune, but cannot see where
in Christian should demur to it.
i Let us briefly illustrate. We find in that mode
of conservative Christianity and candor, The New
York Express, copied from The Boston Traveler)
the following
i TALK WITH SLAVE GIRL.
O. How much do girls hire for here? A. GO
six dollars a month.
| o. How old are YOU A, Dunno.
@. Are you free? A. No; belongs tt
O. Have you any children? A. Yes rs 60
O. How old are theyi A. SAL she's six, an(
Wash, he's three.
Q. Where is your husbands A. rs not mar
Q. thought you said you had children? A. 81
l has.
@. Is your mistress u member of the Church
. A. Yes course she is.
: Q. Didn't she tell you it was wrong to havt
! children if you were not married2 A. No oil
course not, simply and angriy.
$ Q. What did she say when your children wer'
e born? A. Didn't say nothin.'
We appeal to all who know anything of slave
holding society and morals to say whether this dia
| logue is unnatural or improbable. And we appea
to any Christian who is not making over $4,000
2 year by Southern trade or patronage to say wheth
it is worth while to diffuse such Gospel as thi
poor girls mistress had been schooled in. BE
! evermore understood, thon, that we do not objec
to the saving of Shareholders we object to North
! ern money being employed to disseminate South
side divinity among Shareholders, simply becaus
that sort don't and wont save them.
A REMINIscENcE.-In exchanging courtesie
with the (Richmond Ya.) Religious Herald, W
(American Baptist are reminded of a curious doc
ument which we clipped from the advertising CO.
umns of that journal several weeks since. As i
, our view, it illustrates the binding influence 9
= slavery upon those who have been long famila
with it, and especially those who have a pecun
mary interest in it, we will not deny ourselves {