Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-07
From the Boston Courier
EMANCIPATION IN THE WEST INDIES

Rev. Mr.. Bleby, an English Methodist. All for
twenty,seveu years a Missionary in the We n.
dies, preached yesterday morning in the \Q-
field street church, mainly upon Emancipatii d
it's results in the West India Islands. Ate
wing from a Scripture text the doctrine of "
TO oil men, whether white or black, or r
low in the scale of moral debasement, AM
exercise of all christian virtues to all me-
kinds, Mr.. Bleby proceeded to give a CO
history OF the missionary movement in
Indies. IL began with the conversion of
bert, a planter. who went to England az
tJohn Wesley, then returning talked to
lot the religion which he bad acquired,
lhad asregulAr congregation Of about two(
IpeEyons. After the death Of Gilbert, one
a government officer, continued the work.
years later, five Metbodists missionaries
from England for America but were drive
West Indies by adverse gales, and upon
the state Of things there, concluded to rema
assis, in the good work. They laid the four b
of one of the most fruitful missions Of ID p
times. For twenty seven years, he (Mr. D
had been a laborer in that field.
The Missionaries met the most severe trid =
Those Of the inhabitants who were interest in
slavery discovered that Christianity and sla Fry
were antagonistic, and attempted to defeat The
work. Laws we're passed to shut out the mission.
ares, and when King George put q stop to that.
they visited upon the blacks the most rigorous
abuse, although without accomplishing their
OlJCO 2AttOh tpO
os 10000 negroes, the persecution was more bitter
than ever, the missionaries being accused of hav-
ing melted the rising. He, among other missiona.
ries. was tarred and ~feathered, and thrown into Jail,
and could get no legal protection at all. But fol
all this. there was a retributive Providence. and
when the churches Of England rose in their might
and their indignation, slavery was abolished.
lie described the scenes which occurred when
the day of liberation took place. In his own
church were nearly 5000 persons, who spent the
day decorously an! in the worship of God. And
be had been asked many times. how does Emanci
patton work? For ten years. it operated with un
t qualified success, and then it was hindered by the
, free trade action of Great Britain. by which the
free colonies were thrown into an unequal compe'
d. tition with the slave owning prodaceIs in Cubs
D and Brazil. Some planters were ruined, and somC
estates were thrown out of cultivation, but they
! are rising out of it. In Barbados, emancipation
has been completely successful. Real property il
0 now worth more than at any previous time in it,
T. history. Thore is scarcely a yard Of earth not un
der cultivation. The criminal statistics will com
f pare favorably with those of any part of the
world. The churches and schools are crowded
r He had a membership Of 100 persons under hi
charge, which had agreed to raise $4,000 the com
d ing year for church and school purposes. The
seven hundred children in the schools would com
i pare favoratly with those Of the common schools
o Of England or America.
In Jamaica, the Prime Minister, the head of III,
Stipendiary Magistrates, the second Judge of .h
e Supreme Court. the most eminent physician an,
n oculist. and some Of the most influential member
of the Legislative Assembly have black skins an,
/ woody heads. lie believed the blacks to be as ca
pable of intellectual culture as the whites, and q
10 appreciative of the virtues and graces which adorl
every condition of life.
70 He concluded by an appeal for peculiarly assis
lance for the aid Of the churches and school
which he represented.
III . a II - G.
! relaxation but he was also endeavoring to obtai
= aid in building FIVE school'houses among hs pei
- pie. Though poor. the people had pledged $50
towards the work, and had already paid half irol
their wages for gathering the late crops. The
= = had also pledged $500 for church building. I'll
school houses would cost between $4,000 and S50(
but when once built. the means TO carry them {
y would be easily obtained.