Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-13
PREACHERS MEETING.

The following we take from the Northern Inde-
pendent The execrableness of slavery is holding
human being as a slave. The principle is the evil
the sin. To talk of enslavirga human being, or
holding him as slave, without its being sin, is an
abuse of terms, and the confusion of ideas.
This ecclesiastical gathering is discussing
whether the General Rule should be SO changed
TO exclude all Shareholders from the NJ. +. Church.
Rev. DR.. d. Curry, late OF Indiana Asbury Univer
si,y. Indiana, got the floor, and sad-lt has never
yet been proved that there were any shareholders
in the Apostolic Church. The whole is an assump-
ton. Criticisms on few words have not proved
it. The whole spirit and genius Of Christianity
was at first, and ever will be, deadly opposed to
slavery. On the contrary, Christianity killed
slavery in the Roman Empire. The relation be.
tween slave and STAKEHOLDER is sinful relation
per Sc independent of all abuses. Itis the assump.
ton of power which God never authorized any one
human telng to exercise over another. ltis at war
with all the principles Of His moral government.
In creation, God gave to the whole race, the dom
inun" over themselves, over the earth. This was
n God.given right, adhering to every man, always
and every where. The slave hos n more right tn
give it up, than the STAKEHOLDER has to take it. God
never designed one man to absorb another. He
believed in the Declaration of Independence. In
sef-evident inalienable rights, among which are
life. liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These
were sei.evident--and he never undertook TO
prove axiom. Whenever he met one who denied
these, he is done with him. 1t is stupidity to argue
with such a one. Now the STAKEHOLDER seizes up
all these selEevdent rights and takes them at one
sweep. and then cfushes out the manhood, that
he may hold them. lie did not dwell upon the
abuses Of slavery. The daacning SIN Of the tctoIe
waS the hotdiHg Of a human being as q sIace. On
this declaration the DR.. was strong and discursive
making, should think, deep impression. No
one, be said, ought to give up himself as slave,
TO yield up the freedom of his will lie should
maintain his accountability to God This idea
,i.l.,. ,,nl, .l a
Primitive converts who were under the yoke to
heather masters, never gave it up. The Church
at tha, day did not allow them to do it, Fear not
them that kill the body" but maintain distinctive
Christianity. There is more than one kind of
prostitution. The slave who willingly gives up the
control of himself to another. prostitutes those
Heaven given immunities which were bestowed
upon him for other purposes.
The STAKEHOLDER rOhs or steals. When a man
makes or earns anything, it is his own. If anoth- |
er forces it from him. he robs him. The |
slave aud hired man work through the year. 1.-THE
empoye does nut pay the latter. we say he cheats
or wrongs him. And equally in regard to the |
slave. lie would not dwell upon the abuses of
slavery, perhaps it was incapable of abuse. But |
word en- the nseperahle results OF it in socety.-
DR.. c. said he had lived many years in slave.hold-
ing States, mostly in the interior, the most moral
sections Of the South. The corruptng and degra. |
ding influences on both classes had never yet been |
never could be told. Slavery degraded
the dominant much as the subjected class The |
virus Of this aboninatioh pervades everything 50.
cal. domestic, political and religious, where il ex-
lists. And it ever Wilt never can be moderated
1t mus, be killed outright to arrest its contagun
But unhappiiy, az now administered, the laws of
rhe State and the usages of the church afford it n
screen. which gives it every facility to carry
on lts abOmnatun.
Under its influence, the whites are deseriorating
rapidly. Young white males are nearly emascu.
lated before they men. II we have no regard !
for the African, ,saould not have for our own
bdasted Angl Saxon race whose blood is swiftly ]
passing into slave veins? A presiding elder said !
to him. that after the lapse of many years. twenty
or more, he was returned TO the District on which
had once travelled. and that he had been shocked |
and amazed at the bleaching process which had !
been going on during the interval. There are
white slaves, who in form and features. are beaut
ful many of them removed from the lst to the /
10th and 32d degree from colored blood. and Who'll
y white. The females of this day. in land that
boasts of revivals, were doomed-hopeless--h
ess without protection from either the law, the
,hurch, or public sentiment.
But is not the negro worth saving? lie had I
soul lie is dow degraded. But the wonder is
hat his enSre manhood has not been wholly crush.
I'd out That there is any remains Of it in him. is
Indicative oe the future. No race within the last
TWO hundred and fifty years, under the circum-
stances in which the African has been placed, with
lhe neei OF the whte man upon his neck, has risen
equally with him. lie is pushing up through both
slavery and caste, and through the piles of preu.
iices heaped upon him by both Church and State I
As a minister of the gospel, he had seen the
working of slavery and religion Religious slaves
have a low estimate of morality. There can be no
proper recognition of marriage, or of the family
relation, and tic want of these morals, spols eve.
rything else. There could be no moral purity
among them. Chastity was no virtue. All slaves
steal They do not call it so. They say it is all
theirs, but master takes it away from them, and t
they Try to get some Of il back again. II slave I
Massa's turkey eat massa's corn and massa's mig.