Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-29

erai Assembly oil the presbyterian cnurch W IL
session in New Orleans had q most harmoniou
and fraternal season, with none to disturbth
peace of their Zion by 80 much as q hint that slav
driving and slave'trading was anything else thar
the chiefest Of christian graces. This desirable re
suit, for which the church has prayed and labor
ed for these many years, even ever since the infde
abolitiouists first disturbed their pharisaica
~slumbers, has been at length obtained. The piou,
presbyterian Shareholders have had their ecclesias
teal rights and their christian character fully
guaranteed. Their vanity has been fattered arc
their prejudices sanctifed, so that the whole com
munity are in q state Of admirable good will
towards this branch of our American Zion
Saints have We'd with sinners, Steamboat cap
tains and clerks, with the merchant princes oil
New Orleans, in showering upon them "Souther
hospitality and free passages upon rivers and rail
roads, We have not seen their proceeding in de-
tail and are not therefore able to say whether they
adopted resolutions in favor of that eminently
missionary institution the foreign slavetrade.-
Perhaps indeed, too many of their church mem
bers, ruling Elders and Bishops are interested in
rearing and ~traficing in american stock, to be
favorable to this new plan of foreign importation.
But however this may be, they evidently In their
burning patriotism look with especial favor upon
the fllibustering projects of Walker, Titus,
Toombs and others. With an eye Of faith thoy
already see the glorious success of these enter
prises, and looking into the vista of years." ex-
claim, the "whole boundless continents ours"
In this base pandering to slave-drivers, of course,
northern Doctors of divinity led the way. Thus
the Rev. Courtlandt Vanrensaler. (of New York
we believe, made a speech at the centennial cele-
bration of the union of the synods of New York
and Philadelphia in which he informs us Of the
visions of glory which his faith sees in the future
is reserve for our national Union. Hear him in
HE fervor of faith and patriotism.
slow the ignorance of man clouds the vision of
faith And yet m~ethinks, faith can see into the
vista of years. Like as the eye, with a telescop e
unravels the tangled skein of nebul@ in the skies,
faith can behold the confused mysteries of Cen
trail America taking their places as stars in the
armament of our Union. And as astronomers
think there is some central point, whittier the
whole system is tending, so were l to theorize
about the territorial centre of our Republic, when
expanded a century hence. | would say 1t might be
here, in the city of our centennial celebration
here in New Orleans, where lines from the North
and South and West meet, a triangle enfoiding a
problem of greatness here, on the highway to
the whole of the glorious Pacific States here, in
contiguity with Texas, and with the States OF the
great Mexican peninsula IL Ii ""y uo"h' W III
1sthmus."
As good news from a far country, must this
pious rhetoric have fallen upon the ears of the
New Orleans fllibusterers. Buchanan has 1t not
in his power as effectually to aid them as these
Presbyterians have done by the sanctifcation of
their labors by prayer and sermon.
COMMENTARY OF THE New TEsTAMENT-Adin
Balboa is publishing in the Practical Christian a
commentary on the New Testament. He sets out
by stating that the, authors, transcribers and
trsnslators of the New Testament were honest and
good men bu. imperfect and falliable, though he
claims that the authors we're often highly inspired
by the "Divine Christ Spirit from the spiritual
world.n The seventh position of the commenta-
tor we give in his own language, for the informa'
ton of our readers.
7. Though the New Testament Scriptures con-
tain sundry discrepancies, incongruities. and er.
rors, these are comparatively few, incidental and
unessential whilst they testify OF most import.
ant facts, and declare fundamental principles OF
religion principles absolutely divine, without
the reyerent embrace of which mankind cannot
be truly and permanently happy in this or any
other state of existence. These divine principles
are the only real Word of God that is or can be
contained in any HOlyBook. They constitute the
intrinsic, sacred and indestructible worth of the
New Testament Scriptures, and are to be regard
cd as specimen radiations from a vast and mex
haustible source of divine realities, existing be-
fore and above all sacred books, all heavenly in
spirations, and all finite receptions, OF truth and
good. The testimonies concerning them are not
fnalities, out helps to fit mankind for higher and
higher communion with the great source whence
they have descended upon us.
CAN'T SroP TnEM.-COnnelly is in Jail under
Judge Leavitt's humane sentence, but yet the trav'
81 on the underground railroad is as brisk on the
Cincinnati track as ever. The Gazette of that
city, of the 25th inst, says:
During the last three W eeks more than twenty
ruuaways have passed through this city en- route
for Canada. One Of the latest passengers was q
Kentuckian, who was so ~hHe In features as wei
color, that he travelled through Kentucky and
crossed the river unsupported. when he presented
to theUnderGround agents of this city they
thought him no runaway, but a white man, and
would have continued to regard him as animposter
had not one of his former fellow .bondsmen recog-
nizeG him.
Another of the late fugitives came from Mem.
phis. lie secrected himself upon a steamer, and
arrived in this city five days afterwards, without
seeing any one. His only sustenance was one 6is'
cult. and such drops of water as the paddles, in
their revolution, threw to his hiding place.
METHODIST CHURCH SoUTH.-This body OF
sanity shareholders is now in session in General
Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Like the
the Presbyterian Assembly in New Orleans, they
have peace in their borders, which they are
quietly improving the better to adjust themselves
to their slaveaOlding position. They very unani.
aouss adopted the following preamble and resolu-
lions ezpunging the old General Rule, forbidding |
~slsyehading. from the discipline
GENERAL RULE ON SLAVERY. II
Whereas, The rule in the General Rules of the /