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

from The Wesleyan.
MORE LIGHT SHINING ON THE PANDE.
M0NIUN OF METHODIST SLAvEH0LD'
ING.

III nhVeDs, EDITOR oil Zion 3 lleraln, gives 10 MS
readers the following extract from private letter
he has just received from friend in Maryland
He speaks Of the bloody crew who has got possess
ion Of the NJ. Il. Church, with quite refreshing
plainness. When Metbodists will talk of the in
tense wickedness and meanness of Slavery in the
plain open style that JoHN WESLEY did, an impor
tant point will be gained towards getting rid of it,
Hthose men in the NJ. +. Church, who maintain
that slavebodng is CONSTITUTIONAL" had two or
three of their "ittle children" in the fangs of some
Maryland Methodist Gorsuch, Reese. Pattison or
lIardcastle, they would light magazine that would
blow all "Borderdom" down to Cape Horn, rather
than strike hands with such profaners Of God and
man.
"'Dot ON l or cross 7, on slavery and the long
hypccricies of the stakeholder in the church will
be torn off by themselves, and they will show them
selves as verify prosavery as their 'dusky sisters
sons. Antislavery on the part of Shareholders is
a monstrouS hypocrisy-such is my charitable opin-
ion from long acquaintance and observation. Ask
Pattson or Hardcastle, both Methodist members
of the late Shareholders Convention, and they
would say they were anti slavery as to the abstract
sentiment; but as to the practical they would en-
slave 25, 900 free blacks if they could tomorrow,
and become joint proprietors of the whole lot, and
even sell any surplusage South
Even now we have moro law than is observed
buying and selling slaves wholesale and retail,
is now fact among US. Notwithstanding the law
against the traffic. True, the gift of an inch in
slaveholding has fulfilled the old proverb, and an
ell is takcn-the crime and folly is in giving the
inch.
l agree with you that the prohibition of slave
holding by law would set us right before the world,
and we could carry ultimately standard, not
only over BOrderdom. but beyond the line of dvs
ion between US and the Church South. But
chameleon church which should stand anywere or
nowhere rather, and whose var ations would make
it 'all things to ALL would be disaster on the
Border greater than the annexation of all Border.
dom to the Church South. live are to lose the
Border, we had better shove it into the bosom Of
the Church South by constitutional and unquali
fed prohibition Of slaveh olding then VIC would
reconquer it, and move beyond its limits. The
first shock in this case would send most Of the Bor
der from us, but the 'rehuent wave' would bring it
to ohr wharf for permanent anchorage. There is
anti slavery ism enough to create that 'refuent
them adhere, in case the rule prohibiting slavehol
ding were put in. The stewards, leaders, trustees
- the men in power are Shareholders to a great
extent. but the vast majority are not; minority
are downright anti.slavery in sentiment and would
secretly rejoice that the church had come back to
the administration of their fathers days in the
church for it is known that in all Marylan the
stakeholder was, if then admitted into the church
at ALL admitted but to hear his practice preached
against and the whole current of church influence
was against him in the business. But in every
county in Maryland, and in every charge there
would be those who would be troublesome to the
gOers off and many of the churches the Eastern
shore of Maryland could not be gotten from US even
in the lower circuits bordering on Virginia. 'The
sooner the better think, is the sentiment of the
true anti-slavery men, as to plain prohibition in
the Discipline Of the practice of slaveholding
"Now, Doctor am in favor of Withdrawing the
sanction of our religion given to slaveholding. 1t
has that sanction believe now in all portions Of
the church where Shareholders are admitted
Their admission is indeed all shat is necessary to
give it the lenediction Of the church nay, to give
and take the sacrament on the church's fealty to
the institution. The hands of our members are
full of blood on the Border we strike hands with
them in covenant engagement, and thus strengthen
those blood-sained hands in their iniquity.
should not wonder if the book a6ore where records
are kept, would show for this Conference year in
the bounds of the Conference within which live,
that several hundred slaves had been sold to slave
traders, many of them thus sold members of the
pfh Epia tha oil nj
those hundreds are preachers, exhorters, and vari
GUS other official and private members of the
church. l doubt whether there is ono preacher
now on our slave territory who would administer
the discipline for selling q slave The attempt to
do it, says one, would render him useless to the
slaveholdng portion of the population, if it did
not cause his ejectment from the church. 1t is
thus We hold the slaveholding Christians to our
Methodism. Alas for the church of Wesley |!
Alas for the religion of Jesus !
The New Orleans Delta contains an article al.
tacking Hiram Powers, whom it accuses of being a
"violsnt abolitionis". The Delta has CORES.
pOndent who is solicitous to be informed whether
Powers the abolitionst has received an order from
government to execute two statues at $40 900 each
1t is quite certain in this connection, that if gov
ernment never employs great artist until it un
til it finds one who is partzan Of slavery, that
i: will never employ one at all--Cin. Com.
The Rev. j. W. Kelley, of the South Carroll,
ma Conference, states, ina published letter, that
in one Church in that State the colored members
meet one'third of the expenses OF the parish, Civ,
ing from $1,000 to $500 annually.
Elder Jonas Hartzel, of Davenport, Iowa, has
entered upon mission, the object of which is to
deliver series of lectures on the moral aspects
of slavery.
During the month of November, there was coined
at the Philadelphia Mint 1904, ,l35 in gold $780,
900 in silver, and $751; 900 in copper coin,