Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-02
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NOTES FROM A FIELD HAND.

DEAR BENZ At the close Of my sermon at East
Richland, lbefore narrated) a local preacher Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, of gigantic proper
tons. (standing more than six feet.l and with n
pious Methodist yell ringing cut the end of his
sentences, took the desk and exhibited himself as
PRosLAvERY BoANERGEs,
the most ~palpable and dreadful l have ever come
in conflict with, and in a TRADE of slang. ,ile sto,
ries and general wickedness of talk. occupied the
audience for more than an hour, till nearly eleven
o'clock in defence Of slavery. the slaveholding
character of the M. E.. Church. (which he admit
ted and justified the Colonization Society, the
Government, theSouth, and almost everything else,
save the Yankees, Quakers, Aoolitionists, and the
English people, whom he vilifed by the vilest talk
and slang that l ever heard in a pulpit or from a
clergyman or any body, or any where else in my
life.
In wickedness and bold 5lasphemy he quite
equalled the celebrated Parson Brownlow, but not
nearly in intellectual ability. So that although l
suspected at first that it might DO the parson him.
self, l soon found that it was not he, but only a
faint shadow answering to the name and style of
the Rev. James MOORE of East Richland.
lie did not meet boldly or fairly any one of my
points, but by slang and extravagant ~looseness of
talk and ludicrous stories he sought to cover over
and obliterate the impression l had made, and
when DO was through he hal tho audacity to mako
a prayer, and pronounciug n beneoiction dismissed
the assembly.
lie made a little show in the outset Of over.
throwing my view Of Christianity by quoting Paul
against me, saying that Paul's Epis.les were bet
ter authority for Christianity than the four Cos.
pels i. c. Pauls authority was better than that
Of Chris, himself in relation to Cbrist's own teach,
met my points at all.
He said that Slavery and War we're necessary to
prevent The world from becoming overpopulated
That The people of the worli got to be too many
too mighty, and too wicked, for God himself to
manage at one time, and he drowned them by the
food as the only means of safety. That these pa.
gan idolatrous heathehs could not be saved from
hell, they were only q curse to themselves and the
world, and it would therefore be right to kill them
of and rid ourselves Of the nuisance. That by
killing half or more. VIC might have some hope Of
saving the rest. By going to Africa and killing
Numbers and securing the rest as ~captiyes to bring
20 THIS country ioT eusi6SoWout, Wo Ouiy sent tnOet
killed to their inevitable doom, while We brough'
the ~captives within the reach Of The means o.
grace, aud so plucksd them as brands from tn,
burning.
Slavery was morally right. God had recognised
aud endorsed it, had himself, sent back tn,
Fugitive slave Hagar, and Paul bad sent bacl
Onesimus. And if it was once right as Il mus
have been, to have received Gods endorsement
and support, i. must always DO right. Mora
truth and principles we're eternal, they were neve
created, but always existed. And by Gods recog
milton Of Slavery as right. it was demonstrated
that it was o great moral tratb, a righteous insti
tuition that would always exist, as il had Away
hitherto done.
And yet the fool admitted that politically il va,
an evil that ought to be restricted, as The Repub
licsus proposed. and melted entirely away from
our land BY the processes Of The Calculation So
eisiy