Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-08
NEW YORK EAST METHODIST CONFER.
ENCE,

The New York East Methodist Conference yes.
.erday, after a routine BUSINESS. took up its sec
ond resolution on slavery, and the Rev. Mr..
Roche, NJ. d., Of Philadelphia, occupied two
hours it telling stories about how the slaveholding
Methodists of the Philadelphia Conference had
treated him. During the last eighteen years he
has been stationed on slave territory for t wo years
at Smyrna. Delaware. Nearly half an hour
was consumed in telling q story of the modera'
ton of the British in sparing a tree that was very
much priced by their American enemies. He
hoped tbut they would at least exhibit no less con.
sideration for their southern brethren, and con.
cluded by ex.olling the great moderation of the
Philadelphia Conference. in declining to consider
the charges preferred by the Rev. DR.. Quigley last
month, in the Philadelphia Conference. against
she Rev. j. d: Long, Of publishing ungodly lies
about the brothers iu Christ belonging to the Con.
ference, who happen to hold slaves.
This brought out Mr.. Long, who is at the Con-
ference, with his book, Pictures on Slavery and
who declared that the Philadelphia Conference re-
fused to consider the charges against him because
there was nothing in his book but the truth.
The book is very general in its statements Of
facts, which are few for a volume of 400 pages.
Mr.. Long estimates that there are 6.000 slaves
now owned by members Of the Methodist Episco.
pal Church North, more than were owned by the
whole Church North and South. since lS45. He
states that Samuel Green-a free cOlored man of
Dorchester county, Md, and a local preacher of
the Methodist Episcopal Church-was sentenced
to ten years imprisonment last year for having
in his possession a copy of Uncle TOMS Cabin +;
thar Dorchester county is almost exclusively q
Methodist county, and the Methodists of the State
could have him pardoned at any moment they
might desire. Mr.. Long, in a picture of a class
meeting, gives the following report of what was
said by
"HENRr DEMONSTRATING My soul is hot
hot as pepper. Before | sought de Lord | was
a very bad negro l got drunk, and took de name
\ - 40 7 oy1 IN yoip hnt n I nm N oo,u ,uook,-
liz Christ Jesus, and on my way to Hebben.
toats de witness in my breast! Bress de Lord
| feel dat my name is rotten on His hands"
Mr.. Long handed us the following advertise
ment which appeared in The Cambridge Herald
dorchester County. Md of Oct. %, 1857:
$500 away
! from the subscriber, from the neigkborhood O
Town Point. on Saturday night. Oath. inst. m,
AARON CORNISH,
about IS years old. He is about five feet ter
inches high, black, good looking. rather pleasan
!. lconntenaGce and carries himself with a conhden
manner. He went of with his wife DAFFNEY
Negro Woman belonging to Reuben E. Phillips
, will give the above reward If taken out OF tn,
county, and 5000 if taken in the County il
either case to be lodged in Cambridge. Maryland
Jail.
LEVI D. TRAVERSE.
| lU6 nSV. LCtl -. lEdFCTec u u iDChl ITtdtne
belonging to the Philadelphia Conference of tn,
Methodist Episcopal Church. and Reuben L. Phil
lips is a brother in good standing.
The church edifce in Cambridge was built SOM
years ago and decided TO trustees to be held TO
the Methodist Episcopal Church so long as it
discipline shall tolerate slavery. Judge LIE
compile, of Kansas notoriety. was a convert in
| revival which took place in this church soon aftel
its dedication.
The position of the Methodist Church on slave
~ since John Wesley said that American SLAYER,
was the sum of all villianies," bas varied consider
ably. The first Discipline. adopted in 1894, re
quired members to free their slaves within twelv
months, and prohibited the admission of slave
holding members, besides making it a capital of
tense to buy or sell slaves or to give them away
! This lasted for twenty four years. when so mucl
of it was repealed as related to private members
} In 1886 the General Conference sent out the ex
ceedingly Pro-slavery pastoral address Of which
the venerable DR.. Bangs avowed himself the
J author on Monday. Preachers were tacitly allow
ed to hold slaves, and in 1874 only the NEST siren
7 uous opposition Of New England and the Yves
! prevented the ordination Of a slaveholding Bishop
To-day, although the main body of slaveholdinl
Methodists have Withdrawn from the Church, anC
established the Methodist Episcopal Church South
; two Conferences 1.-THE Philadelphia and the Balti
more Conferences) cover territory in which ar
} Methodist Church members owning six thousand
slaves. One of these 1.-THE Baltimore Conference
passed the following resolutions in March. 1857 :
Resolved, by the Baltimore Conference, in con
ference assembled. That we highly deprecate tb,
agitation of the Slavery question. which ha
already resulted to the great de!rimeat of the pc
li;ical and religious interests Of the country.
Resolved, That. as heretofore, we will oppose
with zeal any aggression which shall BIO attempt
ed by the Abolition agitators of she country.
The struggle in the New York Conference il
now upon the point whether the Discipline should
be altered so as to exclude Shareholders deoisively
and whether the Methodist pulpit and pres,
lshosld b sssa sgsipst Slavery, in short, whether