Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-05
sLAvB,HOLDINa ON THE BORDER.

Tha. many of people and some of our min
listers on the border, are, to all inents and pur-
poses, pro-slayery shareholders, is proved by the
following indisputable testimony:
|. The late Rev. JonN A. COLLINS declared,
Willie at the last General Conference, that the ut.
tempted distinction between mercenary and nom
nercenary slayeholding. on the border was q fig
ment. lie frankly admitted that MethoJists there
held slaves, for the same reason that "others did,
namely because they wanted their work"
q Dr.. Lee, of the Richmond Christian Adcocate,
declares it. Hear him -
'Sir, is it not to you, and to me- and to many,
many others, that in the church in which Bishop
Simpson and DR.. MCClintock ministers, and
from which they were delegates to tho Wesleyan
Methodist Church there are thousands aud thous
sands Of slaves, and that these slaves owned
and worked from sun to sun by the members and
ministers of said church? Will Bishop Simpson,
or DR.. McClintock, or the New York Express, or
any one else, undertake to deny that there are
many shareholders and slaveworkers among the
prtcate members, and cDiciat members, and minis.
ters Of the Northern division Of the NJ. E. Church?
They will not try it. 1t cannot be denied"
And again
"If you never knew it before, learn it now from
me, the p'eacherS and people IN the Northern dicis-
ion Of the Methodist Episcopal Ca,uhh hold stares
as truly as those IN the Southern diUiS0h. Now, try
and remember this in future"
rocate, declares it to be the case in his letters
Bishop Morris, republished in our columns some
time since, and to which Bishop Morris has not
yet replied.
4. Rev j. D. LONG, of the Philadelphia Confer.
ence, and another minister on the border who
writes for Zion's Herald, (''BOrder''j both declare
1t to be true. In the Appendix to the last edition
of his PICTURES" Br. Long says IF one mem:
Der of the Church wants money, and another
member Of the Chursh residing in the nefghbor-
hood wants slave, the sale is made and no more
attention is made to the sale than would be made
to the selling of horse 1t is not considered a
violation Of the Discipline, for it is but an ex-
change from one mercenary slave-ho iCr to anOth-
er l know recent case in which member Of
the highest standing in the Church. sold slaves 10
another member Of equal standing, and the sale
was regarded as q common business transaction.
If II Church member who is n farmer needs hand.
he buys slave if he wishes to do so, either Of
saint or sinner, or at IL public sale, best suits
his purpose, with the intention 0f reaping the
fruits of his Involuntary labor. | appeal to the
preachers of the Philadelphia Conference, who
travelled in Mary land and Virginia. whether this
is not the fact"
5. The Pastoral Address of the Philadelphia
Conference, to the societies under it's care within
the bounds Vt the Northampton and Accomac Cir
cults" published in the q. A. and j., April l4th,
1871, and signed by DR.. Durbin and others, vrtu
ally asserts as much.
q. Rov. H. q. ATwATER, of the Providence Con-
ference, who has recently been through Missouri,
Arkansas, Kentucky and Virginis, with view to
ascertainiDg the truth upon this subject, confirms
what Br. Long and others asserted
I. DR.. Cross of the Southern Church, informed
me that to his personal knowledge several mem.
bers Of the Baltimore Conference, were in fact
slave holders, owning their servants" in the name
of some friend.
8. Rev. Thomas CARLTON has admitted before at
least twenty Methodist ministers at one time, and
thirty at another, (of whom none as yet fallen
asleep) that he knows OF one member of the Bal
timore Conference, who owned three slaves, and
another who owned twelve and when told point
blank that he knew of Others in the same Confer
ence who were slave holders, and dare not deny it.
he did not disclaim the alleged knowledge.
9. A minister from the border told US personally,
within n month, that he knew member of the
Philadel phia Conference to "sell nigger and put
him in his pocket" but few years ago, this cleri
cal dealer in human flesh and blood, being at that
time and still member of that body, and for
aught we know, delegate to the last General
Conference. lie is notified as a witnesses at Br,
Longs trial.
Such are few of the facts proving the completely
of our Church with slavery in the border Confer
ences. And yet our anti-slavery neighbor of the
N. c. A., defends these Conferences as aggres,
sively ant-slavery O. for little ant-Slayery eye
salve, that he may see
Mexico seems to be rotting down." as one of
the correspondents expresses it, Campeachy,
Cuernavaca and Queretaro are in the hands Of
revoutionists; the Indians are ruling and running
in Yucatan, Durango, chihuahua, Sonora, and in
parts of Zacatecas, Jalisco, Coahulia and Nueva
Leon; the high roads abandoned to robbers;
commerce is checked, and in many parts entirely
ruined; the post routes broken up, and the nation
beggarly poor. ...