New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-09
A PREACHER IN THE MARYLAND PENI
TENIIARH
To the Editor of The n. Y. Tribune.

To tie Editor Of The ~ T. Tribune
SIR This Anti Slavery controversy is bringing many
da k things to light. l have just read pamphlet,
put forth by the Rev. j. NJ McCarter, Of the Phila-
delpha Conference resident minister of the NJ f.
Church in Harrisburg, Pa, in which he shows that
colored preacher Of his Church is in the Mary
land Penitentary for the crime Of having in his pos
session copy of Uncle Toms Cabin. The way by
which this dark deed became known was merely
incidental, and is thus narrated by The Philadelphia
Eren;Rg Bulletin, and reprinted in the pamphlet
On Saturday afternoon Of the Conference. 1.-THE Philsdei
I held in Eaton Pa last April two scenes occurred which
to the moral estimate put on the same ocaby AFTER tne
sa.as eastern. SeT Soe a. M,yand passed he
Permission male statement IN regard 10 his connection win
Slavery The gentleman said he had in his family manu-
mted slave who was TO be the Of p % ami that
be did himself Stakeholder The gentleman then
lower part Of the prnn.is particularly He called L Paradise
,he land Beulh and his feeling, seemed 10 him
.s the oec, y idos,Ty He gave i. great praise and
Even Poas ~, IL IsIssIS. Of Is institutions few moments
Newton, Md, called, the Rev NJ McCaer after
aud remarked he felt case for the
that he had the his iend tpontns TO the
ing of all the good that bad been said OF him. that he would
,heeriu give him b. voeea he sincerely destroys thst
"in,.nupted by the Rev p Combe Who appealing 10 the
Chair wished 10 know II the brother in order aud whs,
Uncle Tom. Cabin had to do With the case before u.s.
Mr. McCarier cOutuuedI renaTkins that some 2ood
end should inform local preacher about 70 be elected 20
orders be 10 have copy OF Uncle Toms CABIN IN
AID 81 q the &eSod
Grecpe in the Maryland Penteniiay sentenced
thereto for year, for the grave ohen. OF having nse
volume Of that offensive and neenosry publication IN ms mouse
The Dorchester County Court bad last spns passed
upon him for years and To-Day while we are mere nc Is
for;en long years for TIA; which Is no moral o.
Mr.. McCarter, the resident NJ F.. Minister in Har-
rshurg, Pa further adds in his recent pamphlet:
had long conversation with the pastor oil Ssnas
on the Onateiy Conference Record Of the CIRCUIT
shtsS licensed exhoT,eT In The church The excellence
0oatly where be known and whom be
-. :. rxceediDsy useful sl.o among the colored free
len bs woS S'en IN their meeting houses preached to
Imam Pit once said in the British Parliament
mat One TACT was worth thousand arguments"
ne., btrS we nave fact setting forth base deed,
vS'enPt.oIe as ,Ae iocah'y from which it emansted,
ana one, TOO that Is 50 well authenticated II ia this
That Samuel Greene, technically an eIhorter. but
really, as MIR. McCerter terms him a preacher IN the
~. Il. Church to the colored people il now in tbe
Maryland State Prison, and has yet more than nine
ceary years 10 s,oy for the inraciion of MARYLAND
hw which is one of the most Infamous that was ever
ttacted on Gods round earth, in either ancient q,
nodern times, in civilized or in savage countries
see Dorsey, p. 1919 Has pspsl Rome or inquisi.
CORAL Spain ever gone beyond this
x,Whlher are We driving Slavery is coming I'M
Nor'h and looking into our doors and into our
enurches Having invaded State rights il is now
.onug a! church rules, imprisOnng her teachers and
tasshs tens OF thousands Of her members into dis.
nn, sud degrading bondage. And where are our
bishops, synods and Conferences, whose Aocks are
S Gus Lnndered Ia other days, when a number of
"Suahs had been taken into captiyty Rishons
rue 10 NJ Cypuan, iuplOrng his assistance for
~ 'eoemp1lVu. lie .hod tears on reading these