Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-10
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WHIPPED IN.

A running controversy has boen kent up for
months between DR.. Monfort, of the Presbyte
rian of the West, and DR.. Rice, of the St. Louis
Preslyto ran, on the subject of slavery; Dr.
Rice taking the pro.slayery and DR.. Monfort tie
anti-slavery side Of the question. With this con
troyersy, .he o. s. Theological, Seminary about tc
be established nt Chicago. has been largely mixed
up. DIR. Rice has repeatedly charged that the
design of Dr's. Monfort, MeMasters Thomas and
others was to get up an abolition seminary, to
train race Of agitators for the ministry of the
church. This charge has been constantly denied,
and Dr. Rice stigmatiZed n false aecuser Ol his
brethren. Yet after all this war of words the
latter DR.. has completely riumphed, or rather sla-
very in his person has triumphed, as it always
does in that church DR.. Rice has created a sen.
timent in that church which has compelled his own
election to prOtessorship in the Chicago semina-
Try, DR.. MontOrt as trustee thereof, heddiHg the
cote for himl And DR.. McMasters has been fore
| ed by the same sentiment TO put forth O rather
humble and aPologetcal exposition of his views
on slavery. AS a specimen of the gentle style in
which he coos to the rampant and insOlent slave
power, witness the following:
''If the question be asked, DO I think it my
| duty, either in my professional or my non-pro-
lessionGl relations to discuss the subject of sla
very? give the following answer:
a. do not think that have any special voca-
tion to discuss the subject of slavery more than
other evils and that it ID less my duty to dis.
ICusS 10 tun evils eAIstlS uhuHS Ouhei'es. anu "
which we have nearer and more immediate re-
latUn.
(@.) I think that all my habits Of mind and Of
life inds2ose me to exagerate any one evil or to
give to any subject, however important undue
prominence or, TO take in relation TO it extreme
views. As to this great evil of slavery, may
appeal to my past course in relation 10 IL. have
now been twenty-five years in the ministry. In
all that time all that l have printed on the
subj ect Of slavery amounts to less than twenty-five
pages till last year to less than pages and
much of that occupied in guarding against ex-
treme views. l have never belonged to any 4Nbo-
liton or Anti.SIavery Society, but have always on
iii occasions publicly and privately expressed my
diSapproyal of much in the measures and spirit of
those to whom the name of "Abotionsts" has
been improperly appropriated. l have never
preached a sermon the subject, except occas
ionally as an incidental reference in my instruc-
tions in the Seminary have never participated
in any discussion Of the subject in the judcatO-
res when introduced by others, except once in
the Synod of Cincinnati, and then in support of
paper intended to harmonize tho. conflicting
views in that body, by distinguishing between
the slavery which is to be condemned and mere
involuntary servitude, which is right or wrong ac-
cording to circumstances. Such has been my past
course in reference to the subject. do not men
ton it here in order to claim commentator for
it, for think it doubtful whether it is worthy of
Icommendation, but simply as what is historically
the truth"
Tho amount of all this is that the professedly
anti-slavery men in this controversy have been
completely whipped in. We know that they will
have way of explaining these facts to make
different IMPRESSION but that after all 10 the
plain English Of the whole matter. DR.. Rice has
over and over again charged the other Drs. with
dishonoIable conspiracy to deprive the Synod Of
Missouri of her just rights in the Seminary, and
with other acts hardly less creditabe. Yes they
quietly swallow it all, elect him professor in their
seminary and DR.. McMasters meekly apologies
for any manly words be may have inadver tently
uttered in behalf of liberty Verify slavery is a
hard master.