Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-04-10

beat to smother all inquiry, or whether a aense OF
justice Influenced a majority TO override the more
rabidly pro.slavery and recommend milder
counsels, we do not know, we only learn from a
report of the conference proceedings in tho New
York Tribune TINT the Conference refused Mr..
Long a trial which he earnestly desired and for
which he was fully prepared, dismissed the charS-
es as quietly as possible and finally passed Mr..
Longs character"
The Tribune says;
The examination into tho character Of the su.
peranuated preachers was resumed, and the Rev.
D. ID. Longs case taken up on the charges prefer
ed against him yesterday on the call of his name,
by the Rev. l.. j. Quiggley A bill of exceptions
was also presented yesterday by the friends of MIR.
Long, with a motion appended that the charges
be not entertained.
Mr.. Long d~issented from his friends, and desir.
cd a trial.
The subject was debated during a part Of yester.
day and during the entire Of this afternoons SEES.
sion.
The following was then ndopted. prefaeed by n
preamble to the effect that, rs j. ID. Long had pub
lished a book, which in the estimation Of many
does great I'M justice to the ministry and members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Delaware
and Maryland, and that as charges are presented
against him in relation TO the same, and that as
the subject of which the book treats is one, the
admission Of which i~s,beyond the strict necessity
of the case-is indiscreet and 2ernicious-and
the Specifications being indefinite, and other diff.
culties in the way of a thorough investigation Of
the merits of the book apparently insu perablc
it is inexpediont that the Conference entertain the
charges therefore
Resolved, That i. would be judicious 10 select
some other way Of refuting and redressing the
alleged misrepresentation and grievances.
The character OF she Rev. j. ID, Long was then
pnPsid and two or tr co pannrn nrosentRd with
reference 30 an investigation of the administra'
ton of this Conference on the subjeGt Of slavery.
&c, all OF which were referred TO a Committee.
who from them were to prepare n paper Tor presen-
tation upon to morrow morning.
Mr.. Long has evidently made an impression up.
on the slaveholding Methodists Of the Philade!.
phia Conference by his. bold and manly denuncia.
ton of their crime. They stand in awe of him
in a manner that should be highly encouraging
to him.
On this point Friedrich Douglass says:
1t was quite like Mr.. Long to be ready for trial.
and quite like the Methodist Conference, holding
! its sessions in the slaveholding aud slave'trading
mart of the Eas,ern-Shore of Maryland, to shrink
from investigation. And ye:, in respect to the
character of this 'Eastun' locality, the result fur
D nishes an indication of = change, a vast and
: striking change in the spirit of the place within
e tho space of twenty-tbree years, q change which
rs an Eastern. Shore man, as we'll rs a freeman, i:
deeply gratifying to our feelings.
Twenty'three years ago, the writer was in pris
on in that very town. and offered for sale like 4
Q brute. The Georgia traders, like 30 many hun
: cry wolves, flocked into our iron-grated apartment
, and impuden,ly examined our person to ascertain
the strength o! our muscles, and the money value
of our body. Had Mr.. Ling then, after writing
such q book IS he has now written. made his ap
/. pearance in Easton. he would have been swep
| mt nF that pIaraN Nth tha nlo n a ~ N uIirl D;pJ
The fact that he could 20 in safety to that darl
spot. and offsr - substau,iste his charges agains
q shareholders. proves that light il now breakin.
: in that region and that the truth is doing it,
a work.
e Where we're Brother Edward Convey. the Mig
ger breaker and Brother Austin Gore (the piOu
brother that killed Bill Denby,') and Others Of tn
same strlpe? What has become Of them 7 How
y could they allow II man like Rev. j. n. Long 4
actually see Easton and live We do mt ad
whers WAS Captain AUDI He has long ago ceaS
to be a stakeholder in feeling or interest he ha
emaneipated his slaves, and from all accounts "
get OF him, he is a model man, a christian, and
gentleman. We are glad to have lived to see tb
day,we can write thus OF the man, of whom we hav
said in days gone by, many of the bi,tercst things
which man can say of n brother man. and shal
n rejoice to add other Eastern Shore sluycholders t
the list Of exceptions.
The Conference was not a little disturbed b
other phases Of this agitating question.
is Mr.Long presented tho following charge agains
- Rev. William Quinn. Il hereby charge Re,
=. Wm. Quinn, n superanuated preacher of this bod
n. with unchristian conduct.
st Specification. la selling, or having sold f.
n. his use, a slave.
I'd 1.-The charge was laid Upon the Secre.ary's tabl
but no action taken at the time upon it,"
Ia NJ, ,. 49, =:
lie Brother Quinn's son had informed him Long thu
ar he had taken a slave to Norfolk and sold him fc
the benefit Of his father.
ne Mr.. Long also called in question tho characte
nc OF two candidates for the ministry by inquirin
whether they had any connection with slavery
! Several of the Brethren objected to the questio
and the Presiding Elder responded that no ha
represented the candidates as promising and US
We FOL and he had nothing further to say. The que
m tion was not asked to tho candidates.
Mr.. Long further disturbed tho harmony Of II
Conference by inqui-ing. when the character
Daniel Titlow WAS about to be passed upo,
"whether he had any connection with negro 81
" very" Says the correspondent of the Norther
Vs. Independent:
"The question was objected to, for various rea
ons, and an appeal was made to Bishop Amea,
= decide it as a point Of order. The Bishop SCENE
to disarprove of the question. and illustrated /
saying, suppose, as the name Of each brother
called, some brother should arise and ask, sc
you wash your face every mourning I" At thi
many of the congregation cheered, by stampin
- Br. Cunningham remarked that he was asham,
IT to hear such q witticism uttered. in CONNECT,
~ with a subject of such moment, and to hear
cheered by such a body of ministers.
Ell. "Br. McCarter said that the question had be,
:, asksd for years, to candidates for admission, "a
" you m abolitionist? ?" That in 1912, the who
est Conference we're asked. substantially, one by on
mt are you a STAKEHOLDER? and il was passiI
~. strange if this question was OF so little momer
or SO much out of order now.
. THE question asked in 1912 was read and ofe
ed as a substitute for those of Br. McCarter.
After considerable discussion, in which Dr.. /.
ed Cooper declared that simple slave.holding ia a mi
OF lister. was no offence. according to the Discipline
of the Church, the substitute was laid on the tab