Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-02-29
From the N. o. Delta. Sturgeon Speaks his Mind about Man.Stealing Peonle."


 C. H. Sturgeon, sort of vulgar pulpit pugilist of London, who has succeeded in" making famous hit in his clerical vo-. cation, has recently come out in letter. and spoken his mind on the subject of negro slavery in the United States The letter was called forth by inquiries touch- ing the suppression of passages relative to slavery in the American edition of his ser mons. It is half apologetic to his aboitien friends in America who complained of the suppression, and wholly denunciatorv Of the shareholders ill America, by lively desire to reach the pockets of whom the suppression was prompted. It is a charac- teristic emanation, full of sell-sutiiciencv and arrogance of an inflated clerical mOunte- bank. It is redolent of inherent, concen- trated and subimated vulgarity It is a foUl precipitation of sanctimonious brutality the production of rhetorical bully and a moral braggart, not of an evangelist after the manner of the eloquent Paul. who con sidered gifts of speech, and zeal, and even martyrdom. all as nothing without that charity which "suflereth long and is kind, ' which "envieth not, which vauuteth net itself" and is not putfed up" What faith, or zeal, or alacrity to suffer martyr. dom, MT. Sturgeon may possess, we pre- tend not to know: but gifts of speech he certainly possesses: and therefore we have no hesitation in writing 1t down as a phil oSophcal fact, that man may speak grammaticalIy and rhetoricallv-and be a brute. Suhjoincd is the letter m question as we find it in the New ork Independent, Bcecher's organ:
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 l have always considered it to be my duty to deal with those sins which per ceived to be most rampant among my hearers. We miss the mark when we preach of absent individuals It is very easy to talk about brutality of the unedu- catcd when addressing my lord and lady, but l prefer to tell these gentry their own sins, and not to fatter them by compuing them with others. This rule has brought me at divers times into no little trouble which 1 have very cheerfullv endured and have rejoiced therein. But HOW new outcry IS raised in your land, and I am charged, not with being too severe with Brother Jonathan, but with letting him off too easily. Having no slave holders in England, ] should have been beating the air If had preached against slavery to my people, for this is the very last crime they are likely to commit. It is far more prob able that any slaveholder who should show himself in our neighborhood would get mark he would carry to his grave, if 1t did not carry him there
 do from my inmoSt soul detest slavery anywhere and everywhere, and although commune at the Lords table with men of all creeds, yet with shareholder have no fellowship of any sort or kind Whenever one has called upon me, l have considered 1t my duty to express my detestation of his wickedness, and would as soon think of receiving a murderer into my church. or into any sort of friendship, as man-stealer Nevertheless, asl have preached ill London and not in New York, have very seldom made any allusion to American slavery in my sermons. This accounts for the rumor that l have left out the anti-slavery from my American edition of sermons. This Is not true in any measure, for, as far as my memory serves me, l can not relnem Der that the subject was handled at all in any of my printed sermons beyond passing allusion and 1 have never altered single sentence in a sermon which has been sent out to my American publishers beyond the mere correction, which involved words and not sense. However, if any think me capable of such double-dealing, doubt not that they judge me by themselves. and from such persons esteem Is not desirable l do not, therefore, regret the loss of it. I have this much to say to all who respect me in America: 1 do not want to be blaming you constantly, while there are slns enough Tn my own country, but shall not spare your nation in future l shall remember that my voice echoes beyond the Atlantic, and the crying sin of man. stealing people shall not go unrebulled. I did not know that had been SC fully apopted citizen of your republic, but fnd- ing that you allow me to be one of your selves, 1 will speak out quite sever,ly enough, and perhaps more sharply than will meet with appreciation.
 have not been altogether silent upon the subject, for 1 have spoken with burn ing words when then matter has been on hand, but as this has usually been upon the platform, and not from the pulpit, these utterances have net reached the press.