New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-22
PUBLIC MEEIINGS.
SEw-YoRK EAST METHODIST CONFERENCE.

NEW-YORK EAST METHODIST CONFERENCE.
The New-York East Methodist Conference yester-
day, after routine business took up its second resou-
ton on Slavery and the Rev. Mr.. Roche, NJ. d., of
Philadelphia, occupied two hours in telling stories
abou. how the slaveholdng Methoiists of the
Philade phia Conference had treated him. During
the last eighteen years LIE has been stationed on
slave territory, for two years-at Smyrna Deli-
ware. Nearly half an hour was consumed IN telling
story of the moderation of the British in spsring q
tree that very much priced by their American enc
m.s. He hoped they would at least exhibit no less con-
siderston for tier Southern brethren, and concluded
by extolug the great moderation of the Phsdelphia
Conference in declining TO consider the charges pre-
fsrred by the Rev. Mr.. Quigley last month, in the
Philadelphia Conference, against the Rev }. d. Long,
of publishing ungody lies about the brothers 10 Christ
belonging to the Conference, who happen ~ hold
slaves.
This brought out Mr.. Loyc, who is at the Confer
ence with bis book, Pictures Oh Slsyery,' aud who
declared that the Philadelphia Conference refused 10
consider the charges against him, because there was
nothing in bic book but the truth
The book is very general in its statements Of facts,
which are few fer volume OF 4Oo pages. Mr. Long
es,u ates that there are 1000 slaves now owned by
members Of the Methodist Episcopal Church North,
more than were owned by the whole Church, North
and South, in lSij. He states that Samuel Green-a
free colored man, of Dorchester County, No, and
local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church
was TO ten years mprison nent last year for
having in his pos ession copy Of Uncle Toms Cabin
that Dorchester County almost exclusively Meth.
odst eourty, and the Methodists Of the State could
have him pardoned al any moment they might desire.
Mr.. Long, in picture Of class-meeting, gives the
following report of what was said by
;.EARY B.SsNG-Bre,brng: My soul is hot-hot .pep
drunk and took de- name OF Lord in vain but am
creature in Christ Jesus. and Gay to Hebben
bsDle 10 rotten on His hands"
Mr.. Long handed US the following advertisement
wi ich appeared r The Cambridge Herald tDorches-
ter County, Md of Oct. ~. 1857:
r.. A.
@5.c,bt from a!l the n.Isheohooi e Town Point, on
Saturday night, htRos s,5 sni; c0RSyIsH Ey sff' Man.
scoa IS years old He is about FIVE feet inches high black,
loodloof rather pleasant counnsnce aud carries himself
MY Negro WOnGn beInsillto Reuben Z. Phillips.
viii ye tie above reward il taken out Of the County and
sneer e" MAJ isiH ,s .D' '' '''D LEVI D. rRISERsE
0cs .s, 1851 81
TIE Rev. Levi D. Traverse is local preacher be.
longing to the Philadelphia Conference OF the Metho
6ist Episcopal Church, and Reuben +. Phillips is q
brother in good stsndiDg.
TIE church edifice in Cambridge was built come
years sgo and decided to trustees TO be held for the
Methodist Episcopal Church, 60 long as is dlscI line
shall tolerate Slavery. Judge Lecompte, Of Kansas
rOtcriety Was a convert in revival Which took place
IN this church soon after It's dedication.
The position Of the Methodist Church on Slavery
since John Wesley seid that American Slavery WAS
tle sum Of oil vilsires, has varied considerably
The irst Discipline, adopted in 1884, required members
to free their slaves within twelve month"; and prohb-
tied the adm sson Of slaveholdiDg members, Decides
making it capital offense to buy or sell slaves or to
give them away. This lasted for twenty-fOur years,
vixen much Of il repealed ss related to private
mepb-Is. 10 1886 the General Conference sent out
the exceedingly Pro-Savery pastoral address of which
the venerable Dr. Bangs avowed himself the author on
Mencay. Preachers were tscitly allowed 10 hold
slaves, and in 1874 Only the most strenuous opposition
OF New England and the West prevented the oriins.
ton Of slavsholdifg Bishop. To-day, although the
msin body Of slayeholdipg Methodsts hsve Withdrawn
from the church ard established the Methodist Episco.
p.l Church South, two Conferences the Philadelphia
and the Baltimore ConferencesD cover territory in
Which Methodist church members owning six thou
sal slaves. One Of these the Baltimore Conference
passed tie following resolutions in March, 1857:
Rc.ord BY the Baltimore Cobfereuce ir conference a,n
bd, 1ha. hithy cepreese the agitation Slavery
a., son wth has ALREADY resulted great detr n.nt II
ne political aud religious interests Of tbc country
hCsolred That will Op2o-. sny a.
grss,ior which La lie ATTEMPTED BY the Abolition
lie country.
Tie struggle in the New-York Conference is now
upon tie poir, whether the Discipline should be altered
so as tatxcude slayeholders dec.siyely and whether
lie Nett ctst pap ard press should be used sgsilst
slavery il t,eI: nte.ler j; shopid be Considered az