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

Letter from DR.. Toss 10 Dr. Boyd. Result of Tie
Recent PreSbyte,idn Church Schism- Old School
Churches North Prepared to Join Tie NesU School
"A Neo Southern General Assembty--Dr. Rice
Standing Astride the Mississippi Rirer.
CLEVELAND, June 5, 1867.
Rev. A. II IL. Boyd, d. d. had a call, yester-
day, from Rev. Dr.. of this city. lie Dis.
closed to me a fact which helps to lift the veil
from our future. lie told me that many of the
Old School, North have written to him, that they
are prepared to join the New School General AS
sembly, SO soon as that body is relieved from
slavery The development, then, of coming
events, is clearly to be this:
l. The New School, South, have now clearly de-
fined the true Southern position and therefore
sooner or later, all the real South will occupy that
ground--tho Old School as certainly as the New
School.
2. That fact being fully revealed, the ultra Old
School North will secede. They will secede, be-
cause they are not strong enough to exscind their
Old School South. They will secede, then, and
join the New School Assembly, now freed from
slavery.
8. The New School Assembly, with this ultra
Old School element. all the more intense for being
pent up, will become too offensive to permit our
Philadelphia and other conversative men, to re-
main in it.--What thon? Why
4. A General Assembly, or organization, will
be formed, based upon eschewing the slavery ques-
ton, will be the final result. In it will be all the
South, standing upon the Scripture ground, as
now more clearly understood, having with them
very many Of the North, who will have been grad
nally brought to the same position, or, if not. yet
holding cordial fellowship with those who do thus
believe.
Rev. DR.. N. L.. Rice, of st. Louis, Missouri
will denounce the position taken by the Southern
delegates at Cleveland, and he will use every art
to prevent his Old School South from taking it
for he knows that if they do take it, the consum.
nation stated as above is a mere question of time
Yea, he knows that that issue must come, from the
irresistible law of the present unfolding of things
The DR.. represents me to be ercitable and ercen
tyic hence lie affects alarm at my views of slavery
l plead guilty 70 the ritatay. My eye is not dim
med, nor my natural force abated. / may be &c
centric too but ! promise the Dir. he will find mt
sufficiently c%oncentric before the slavery question
is settled. The following has some concentriclty
He(Dr. Rice, lis a Colossus, who has been, ant
is, standing astride the Mississippi. But now
that great water, under the recent abolition rain
extending from the Rocky mountains to Cleveland
Ohio, is widening astonishingly and the DR.
will presently find bis legs stretching apart so dis
agreeably, that he can't continue to keep his fee
on both sides Of the river. What will he do
consent to be tumbled into the river, when his'leg'
can't be stretched apart any farther. What then
Why, he must (sup2osing him looking dowr
stream )either lift up his right leg, and place hi
whole person on soil now free, and be wholly wEa
he now is as to one leg. viz: an abolitionist or h
must draw the left limb over, and have Doth hi
feet on the anticipated free soil Of Missouri, ant
be an abolitionist after a day or so, This is DR.
Rice's present and future.