Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-22

OF human beings without regard 10 circumstances,
to a discriminating declaration, which makes the
moral character of the act depend on the use to
which tho human being thus bought, sold, or held,
is to be put
Br, Monroe is one Of the most clear sighted men
in the General Conference, and there is no doubt
that his Interpretation Of that amendment is en-
droly correct. 1t was designed to tolerate what
DR.. Haven calls simple slageholding.'
IT, That suol. was tho design OF o majority Of
the Committee from the beginning. aud Of DR..
Kingsley in particular, is evident from the follow.
ing passage in the Report:
'Tac moral right to purchase a slave to free
him, involves, also, the moral right to hold the le-
. gal relation Of owner to that slave until the
Uenevolen, intention Of freeing can be carried in
to execution. So When, owing to whatever cir
cumstauces, the immediate sundering of the legal
relation would be mauifestly a greater injury to
p the slave than its temporary continuance, ADD
when the eviden, intention is to give freedom mt
the earliest practicable moment, such an act oi
holding is not only not wrong but it may be a
duty. II is something necessary to be done IL
e order to confer permanent freedom upon the per-
son so held. In such a case the holder is not
released from the obligation to give unto the SER
Z want tDat which Is Just b1udli u " Rua'u
d it'll the most religious care the sacred and divine
rights of the conjugal and parental relationships,
and to see by all means that such legal provisions
as are practicable shall be made to prevent such
persons aud their posteri:y from passing into per-
pctual slavery
Mark, how The slave ia allo we'd to be held, be-
cause it would be 'manifestly q greater injury to
free, than to hold him. And mark. also, the
twaddle about pay, and guarding the ~conjugal re-
lations, &c, and the advice about preventing them
from passing into perpetual slavery. Who does
not sue that all ;his looks towards the continuance
Of the Nomination. Else why this talk about the
e coujugal and parental relationships, and providing
that 'pcs,erity,' &C., shall MOI be slaves
THIS paragraph is every way more tolerant of
slaveholding, than any portion Of the old chapter
and yet this is the milk of which the new chapter
I'd is the cream.
h. 81 The new chapter was passed with the ex
press understanding that il was not the design to
'e condemn our members for slaveholding.
While making bis speech, DR.. Slicor of Balti
more, charged such a design upon the antl-slavery
party, whereupon it was Indignantly repudiatet
by DR.. Kingsley, Chairman Of the Committee, anC
the author Of :his new chapter. The following il
lue OmCldl TepOTb u u COIlu4uJ
NJ Slicer-Now, l say, if you hold slavery il
The same category with thieving and robbery, arc
:. polygamy, pot it in The book say, put it in tn,
" book;-and hold the administration responsible t
'" arraign men for slaveholding, as well as for thie5
~ ing, polygamy, or murder. You dare not do it.
DE-. Curry-We intend to do it, Responses {
we Will
IN Mr.. Slicer-1 wish the Border to take motto
n that DR.. Curry has given notice, with the appro
~ val of the majority, that they intend to do it.
bo DR.. Kingsley protested against the speake
making that statement If DR.. Curry chose t
~. speak for himself. il was all right; but he had n
j. authority to speak for the majority. When th
speaker calls upon The Reporters to note that
nm was with the concurrence of the majority, he mu,
protest.
DR.. j. S. Porter, Mr.. Monroe, and others
the minority said it was endorsed by the mojorit
all around where they were sitting.
Or. Reid said not q response came from ado,
where he sat, which was near to DR.. Porter.
DR.. Kingsley said there was not ten men in tt
Conference who would do it.
MIR. Goode said thai those around him sal
"r they were for it, ard were not ashamed Of
o either.
-: 800 ON''J oN'd ~ u Nv cfOOlhO uu lOlN
between them. lie had spoken for himself an
supposed the others of the majority, were about G
=" the same opinion
In answer to DR.. Bond, who asked whether tn
~ new chapter would admit of continued slavehoId
ing, without a purpose to free them, DR.. Kingsle
replied:
AS a personal favor to DR.. Bond, VIC will al
pa swcr for ourself; we are not the authorized ez
FOUNDER of the Discipline, but we will answer, i
as direct terms that we think the Discipline, as
we now is, will permit, under some circumstance
nu- the holding of slaves without the purpose to fire.
20 them, and thai, under these circumstances, q PEI
lie son can properly be admitted to membership i
me the Church. There may be cases where emanc
US patton is impossible, or where, owing to circun
stances beyond the control of The master, emarc
IT, patton may be evidently a greater injury to ii
&C. slave than to remain as be is, and where the ma
ter If he were in the slaves stead, would desire
im remain in the legal relation of slave; and if the
circumstances continue through the natural Iii
at time Of the slave, then the master may be justif,
ou- in continuing to be the legal owner of such slav
he but i: is his duty even under such circumstance
att to give unto his servant that which lie just Al
or equal. Under these circumstances, the mast
AS would not hold the slave to be used as q chatte
but from an entirely different motive
We This very adroit explanation, shows conclusive
as that DR.. Kingsley designed the passage previou,
cited, as a federation of lifelong slaveholdiu
wherever the stakeholder considered il best for
lis slave still to be held in bondage. What a spl,
did enactment this for the eztirpation of SLAYER
Der Here we find DR.. Kingsley, chairman of
be anti.shavefy Committee, and author of the n
y IN chapter, protesting against the idea of arraigni
5s OF men TOR slavehoiding. There were not ten IN
Now 10 the Conference who would do it, And ey
n DR.. Curry declared as the sparring closed, Il
wha, be had raid was merely in badiuagel
ling one there pretended SO far as we could learn, a
the certainly no one openly avowsd the sentiment