Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-22
From the North British CGlasgow) Daily Mail,
REV. DR.. MONOD.

tend the General Assemblies Of either the Estab-
lished or the Free Church, or the Synod of the
United Presbyterian Communion, have as q matter
Of course seen and heard a little fat grey man ve'
hemeutly denouncing Popery in very bad English.
Few at all acquainted with the annual congresses
of our Ecclesiastical Courts but familiar with
the ParsiauPro,estaut pastor. the Rev. DR.. Monod
Sure as the returning summer brings the swallow
to our shores so surely do the May meetings bring
DR.. Monod to Scotland. His story has now been
so often told, that it has long lost its freshness
and though the neOdful has been generally forth
coming, even beyond expectation, it may be tre'
sumed that one day the springs of charity will be-
come exhausted. Whether it was that the late
) commercial crisis had somewhat frozen the foun'
tains of sensibility simply the dread of lean and
haggard times to come, that induced the french
man to turn his eyes from Scotland to America,
E we cannot say but from the journals Of the New
World we learn that DR.. Monod, 5raving the per-
lis of the deep, has crossed the ocean in quest Of
the almighty dollar.
America is proverbially dangerous to clerical
eputations-espeoially to clergymen in want of
, cash Not that the money is not forthcoming
!he cash can generally be got, only the conditions
on which i; is given arc such as often leave an ug
ly smutch on the palm Of the receiver. Many
whose regulations rre toleraby bright before vis
iting the Western Republic have returned to Eu
rope rather contaminated than improved by con-
tact with our cousins 1t is not for US to pro-
nounce any opinion upon DR.. Monod's visits to
Scotland sThey did, indeed, seem somewhat too fire.
quent to be at all compatible with very diligent
discharge Of the duties Of the pasorate. 1t might
be also thought that his appeals against Popery
had about them good deal of the ad captandum
rulgus, But should these surmises be ac
knowledgcd to have been well grounded, they were
but yenial errors compared with the crime with
which he is now charged. No less celebrated a
person than Harriet Beecher Stowe accuses the
Doctor of ha ring bowed the knee to the slayeocra
cy Of the South. The Southern planter is so ex.
tremely sensitive respecting the peculiar instu.
ton, and often has he had his most sacred feel.
ings shocked by the offensive terms in which Eu.
rope talks of his position that the smallest dona'
D ton Of sympathy from the Old World is thankfully
received and generously rewarded. 1t is possible
indeed not unlikely, that before visiting America
; DR.. Monod's views Of slavery we're those of an en-
lightened and christian European. lie may not
have looked upon it as John Wesley looked, when
he described it as the Of all villainy but we
are at leas. entitled to presume it met his cordial
: reprobation The Doctor, however now sees mat
tera in different light, the wedge of gold has
dimmed his mental vision, thrown a shade over
conscience, and it would seem he has returned to
France not, indeed, apologst of slavery per Sc
: that is not needed-but tho apologist of the
modes by which the pro-slavery party in America
seek to prevent the touch of truths ithurie spear
from revealing the system in ITS native odousness
Mrs Stowe charges DR.. Monod, while in Amer.
lea. with consorting mainly, if not exclusively,
with the pro-slavery party, and with accepting
their one,sided representations as picture of the
true position of the all-important social question
of the United States. What that one.side view is,
we do not require to learn from French pastor,
even though he should happen to be editor of the
. ArchiveS du ChriStiaaisaa. The portrait has been
SO often before presented Ly even British doctors
of Divinity, that when we met it in the journal of
the French divine, we az once recognised its "a.
miliar features. Those who know am thing of the
state oc feeling in the South are quite aware that
the utmost care is exercised to secure that nothing
printed upon slavery shall circulate in the slave
States, Chambers Papers for the People were
ISRiiilSu All O'eI the CHlOu, uul tIlS
paper on slavery was suppressed. The magazines
of Britain are, for the most part, iepublished in
America, but such parts Of them as touch the re.
culiar institution are carefully weeded out. In
pursuance of this policy, the American Tract Soci
ETY., some mO ago, refused to publish tract on
the duties of masters to their slaves because said
tract, it supposed, would excite the feverish
susceptibility of the southern Christians Against
this decision it is known, not a few of tho nobest
Christian men in the United States protested. The
position of parties consequent on this division Dr.
Monod has attempted to exhibit in his own journal
magnify ing the importance and zeal of the maiori.
y, while depreciating the motives and influence of
the opponents of the course the society has seen
fit to adopt. The apology Of DIR. f. Monod shows
be has we'll learned the cant of the proslavery par
ty-an odious amagam of great religious ZEAL
with great moral turpitude. Much of the force of
all replies to such special pleading has recently
appeared in the Archieves du ChrStianisme, was Of
ten blunted by the retort that it came from infde
denouncers of the American churches, who under
the guise sympathy for the slave, sought to mask
their hatred Of our common Christianity. That
convenient apology, which has so long and so Of
ten cloaked deeds of darkness too gross to the
I light is NO longer servcable. Not any of those,
whose reputation for orthodoxy is tainted, have
now entered the lists .
The authoress of Uncle Ttoms Cabin herself
it is who has confronted this French latterer of the
slave power. From Mrs. Stoves reply We CLEAN
a picture of things as they are in America, which
/ it may be we'll Scottish General Assemblies and
Scottish Synods should bear in mind when next
year DIR. Monod gets up in their midst to pour out
his bottled wrath upon the Papaoy,-
Let DR.. Monod only see how this course OF ST.
leuce which he go much applauds in the Tract So'
ciety works He and oil the French brethren con-
jure us in the namo of common Christianity to
6ght against slavery. We try-hght accordingly