The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-03

this way, and knowing that asa Board they
were resposible for it, they instituted legal
process to obtain it, which resulted in the
sale of two negroes belonging to the estate
of Davis. The Assembly hear the report
and order its Board to hand over the money
to the Synod, to whom it righfully belongs.
Now the question is, does this act OF the
Assembly authorize, justify, or have any
thing to do with the sale of the negroes one
or another2 Ianswer--It does not The
suit was instituted by the board, and con-
Quoted throughout by them or their agents.
They did it upon their own responsibility,
and chose to do it rather than pay the
money out of their own pockets. They did
1t because it was the only way in which
they could secure themselves against pecu-
mary loss; they did it because they thought
it was right, and / suppose their con-
sciences-let those who live in free States
think as they may of such things-approved
of what they did. True, the Assembly does
not say that the board did wrong in allow
ing the negroes to be sold; she does not
take it upon herself to say that they are not
property, and cannot be taken in payment
of debt, and that the board ought to have
stopped the Sheriff when theylfound there
was nothing else upon which he could levy
70 pay a Just debt but lot of niggers =
and paid it themselves. Upon this question
she is silent always has been, and trust
viii continue to be until it is more evident
than now, that ii viii be productive of good
for her to declare her sentiments she chooses
to occupy conservative position, to allow
the State to control its own affairs, and to
leave it to the consciences of her members
who live in slave States, whether they will
own negroes, buy or sell them. And be-
, cause she does this; because she does not
choose, like some other ecclesiastical bodies,
to legislate upon the slavery question, to
rend herself asunder or involve herself in
endless difficulties, she is charged withgoing
ilto business, q with Selling upon a lot of
niggers,n and selling them to the highest
bidder, with praying that they may bring
good price, and then consecrating the cash
to the cause of missions. Is this fair2 Is
it the truth2 1 say It's false, both in letter
and spirit, and the man who wrote that ar
ticle for the Tribune, or furnished the ma
terial, knew it, or ought to have known it
before he dared to publish slanderous libel.
Further-the writer in question supposes
that the reverend members (of the assem-
bly) smoked their cigars and took their tod
dies discreetly," for he does "",not hear of
any of them In the calaboose. ... 20.
Does the gentleman who was SO very
"anxious" to have some of the members Of
the assembly at his house, and was so sorry
that his home was so, taken up with other
company that he he could not afford them
accommodations" really suppose that they
stock their toddies discreetly during their
stay in Evansville, and has he no better
evidence of their good behavior and Chris
tian department while in our city, than that
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not come out openly and charge them with
drunkenness and rowdyism upon the street;
this might have cost him something; there
might have been another sheriffs sale, OIL
something slse-but he-or the one fol
whom he furnishes the material-insinuate.
in the strongest terms that such was thu
case. am not much surprised at this, not
withstanding its unblushing meanness and
baseness, after what he says Of the Assem-
bly's dealing in negroes. $50
| leave it for this community and tn,
world at large to be their own judges as Il
low far the statements Of our resident edit0i
of the Nelr York Tribune ought to be taker
for truth. .t.... ~. ... .... Cd.
i had intended to have said something II
relation TO the position of the Old Schoo
Presbyterian Church on the slavery ques
ton; for the gentleman alluded to above
and who, am told, makes his boast that b,
is "the daddy Of that Tribune article" is ,
member of that church, and as every on,
who knows him will testify his great yea
for its success, its institutions and usages, a
well as for its doctrines, had intended Il
have shown that all that he has said of tn,
Cumberland Presbyterian Church nigh
with quite as much show of reason and
truth have been urged long ago against the
church of his own choice; for the Genera
Assembly of the Cumberland Presby terrain
Church, in receiving the report of the
Board of Trustees in the matter referred to
did nothing more than pursue--wha; ha:
been-the undertaking policy Of the Ole
School General Assembly. She year after
year accepts of all that is offered her fol
benevolent purposes, and expends it judi
ciously, without asking whether it is tn,
product of free or slave labor; and hundred
and thousands of dollars fall into her treas
ury that never would have been there ha,
it not have been for these q ten studded fin
gers and these two brawny arms" ha,
intended to have spoken of these thing
more at length-not for the purpose of max