Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-22

81 'Ou, no SHll the StOJeheepeT, COIOlcu pVOf'P
D are not allowed to enter the pulpit in Virginia
!, - 81 have forgotten the name) col
c ored clergyman, once attempted it, but they put
him in Jail"
How much do you pay your preacher ?"
"Six hundred dollars year." he replied "but
! we don't elect him. We have nothing to do with
tho church but to go there, pay oil the taxes and
listen to sermons bout submission to the will of
God 2"
docs he often expatiate on that duty :"
VERY often-very often. One day 1 heard
him say that God had given all this continent to
the white man, and that it was our duty to sub
nit"
do the colored people," inquired, believe oil
that scrt of thing ?"
i "Oh, no, sir" he returned lone man whisper.
ed to me as tho minister said that.
"'He 6ed-d! ! God am not Sich a fool r'
Il WHO elects your minister ?"
lie explained at considerable length, but lost
; the greater part of his answer in thinking about
the skeptical negro's vindication of the ways Of
Providence in its dealings with the colored chill.
dren of men. / understood him to say that the
church was governed by board of trustees elect
ed by all the churches in lhe city. Certain it is,
that the people who pay the church expenses have
neither part nor lot in the government Of the
church.
; Some time since" said the storekeeper, "they
told us might have the church for--thou.
sand dollars. Il have forgotten the sum he nam,
ed Well, we raised it somehow or other, and
got the building but then we didn't get the right
of choOsiDr nipiS Cd -
Does your white minister Gl,oays preach to suit
the shareholders p
"Yes,sir," he said 'al,rays. lie wouldn't be al.
lowed to preach at all if he didn't"
I now ''Do UNTO OTHERS" ETC., fARED.
The wife Of the storekeeper hitherto had taken
no part in the conversation. She interrupted her
husband and told me the history Of Northern
preacher at present officiating in the city of New
York, who was forced to leave Richmond because
be once selected as text. "Do rnto others as ye
would that others should do unto you" lie is &c
votedly loved by the colored people Of the city
and has cause to be proud of the hatred of the
tra0ickers in human kind. When this clergyman
first came to Richmond, he said nothing offensive
to the human property holders. lie paid visit to
New England and came back what hitherto be had
r only nominally beeu-a Christian minister The
frst text he selected, after his return to the city
was the Golden Rule. He commenced his sermon
q by saying that he had recently visited the scenes
Of his childhood and his early love /; had knelt
once more in the Christian church where he frs,
experienced the spirit Of religion had looked up.
on the walls of the college where he had been
trained to fight the good fight of faith and had
stood at the grave of his sainted mother. lie had
felt there, he said, that hitherto he had not done
his duty as Christian clergyman, but he was de,
termined how, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, to
atone by his future zeal, for his short comings in
by gone days. He then spoke Of tho free colored
girl who had been sold into slavery for having un.
fortunately forgotten to carry her certificate OF
freedom 1.-THE instance that have already cited) J.
1t had just occurred. Brethren" he exclaimed
in the enthusiasm of his newly y.awakened zeal
'hat was not doing unto others as we would that
others should do unto =" Before retiring to
rest that night, he received forty letters of remo1
STRANGE from as many different members Of his
congregation. lie was obliged to leave the city.
Richmond, with true old Virginia pluck, would
not submit to be reproved for her peculiar" sins
by Northern Christian preacher
The wife asked me if was acquainted with the
minister.
81 am not" said, ''but perhaps / may have
seen him in New York"
She went up stains, and brought down q litbo.
graphic portrait of him, which she ha andled with
a loving care. and looked at with an admiling re
. gard of which any public man might well have
been proud.
= "Such testimonial" l said, ooh Douglas
" &C A.,
for the sake Of slavery-is more to be desired than
Z ten thousand Presdences Such testimonial
nay thousands of the like-you, during your life
' time, might easily have earned, il, regardless of
morality duty, sefrespect, you had not bascly
> sold your soul for the chance of an Office !"
THE POOR WHITES AND SLAVERY.
asked the storekeeper whether the poorer
white population of Richmond were in favor of
slavery or against it?
"Thats question" he replied that can't be
answered very easily. Hundreds have said to
me. when they came into the store, that they de-
tested slavery; but they never talk about it to
white people they're afraid to do sO!"
E "a fraid to do so !" Think of that. ye New
4 England sons of revolutionary sires In America
"the land Of the free and the home of the brave y
r free white of the naughty Saxon race are
r afraid" to express their opinions. All South
, ern rights are human wrongs
We find the following in the albany Epsning
g Journal!
The Argus quotes from speech made year or
two since by Speaker Lttlejohn to prove him false
( to the Constitution. The following is one Of its
points ..
II care no. where oppression may be. There
stand merely to repel and resist it. recognize
no power, under Heaven, that can make slave
| recognize no constitution, no law, that can de-
prive man of his personal rights and liberty"
This The Argus deems treason. Dare that
journal express its unequvocal approval of the re-
perse OF this avowal, viz that it would recognize