New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-14

These ISLANDERS and injurious attacks are very nat
pra consequence Of that course OF EFFORT ana eNen'
which in Code providence has canssd you 70 De re-
oardsd and criticised IA leader. For ourselves,
inevitable that we should thus regard you. Oar enc,
mics now leave MS alternative. There arc goou
reasons likewise why you have come TO be 30 esteeed
without any purpose OF elort o. You're os .,s,,m
yon have appeared prominently and pernsenty
when others would not stand forward IN advocacy
Of this sacred cause 10 the manifest dsparagsment OF
your reputation, as that is estimated among men and
70 ibs pjary Of your works both mere ana ~ Urea
lished IN one of the foremost Of our metropolitan
churches, in the heart Of the metropolis Of America;
also, in your equally known exertions IN the con-
troversy for Temperance FOR The integrity Of we DOC
lust eributive sanctions Of Government, and against
the biquity of Popery In view of these reasons it
would not be assumption for us TO call you leader.
Bu our principal reason il apart from all these. It
ia found in the fact that throughout the rank and file
of the American clergy except yourself I'VE except
here some hoppred pames in more limited spnereh
we have in VAN looked for any who, having the faci-
tiles of wide influence and prominence before the pub
lie were willing to proclaim and inss, upon, o the
basis of Anti Slavery effort the Bible doctrine Of the
inherent siDfulness Of savehc ldhlg. Some OF them
concede that the moral duties, which, as they ae4e,
grow ont of the resistance OF slavery, snouid %
preached upon Others, more advanced, proclaim
themselves ready to condemn the evils, a. they term
IT, incident to Slavery while they careful 10 assert
that they are not Abotoniss and do not propose TO
interfere with the vested rights OF the States.
Now, Sir we have been compelled TO regard this az
a compromise of principle and connvance with the
fn If Slavery is TO be dealt with at all il is becausc
is opposed to the Word of God and we are TO attack
where it exists. We rejoice IN your constructions OF
the Biblical argument as explicitly set forth in
your last work on the Crime and Guilt Of Sayehold.
ipg We feel that the argument as there stated Is from
the logic of inspiration that we cannot gansay or re-
sis ii without Iapaby disavowing and repudAtng inc
Word of God that from its very binding radicalism
and terrible certainty it affords the best, sures and
only true foundation for any moral effort or movement
behalf of the enslaved We are happy also, ~ REL
utaon Of the ISLANDERS diligently circulated, that
your DtiSayery minlstrations have been without Ell
iect and but waste of time and effort TO declare pub
icy that though aside from the convictions we have
ust expressed many of us might, from sentiment or
philanthropy oppose Slavery yet that the burden OF re-
spot sbity for the deveraDce Of the slave the
of personal duty in this respect the yes rnng and con-
straint of conscience and OF the love OF Cars, in De-
bali of the oppressed which feel IN great part,
the fruit OF your teaching.
doctrines and proclaim them boldly. While speaking
abroad of our National SINS trust that neither sor-
row. nor shame, nor any imagined duty OF loyaity 10
our institutions will jar the fidelity Of your statements
or dpjnieh the ardor of your rebuke. Having ChrSts
commission, may you be careful only to honor Him
and promote His cause in this blessed work.
in parting accept best wishes and most fervent
PRAYERS. While on the ocean or in other lands You
NAV fee that you remembered in our prayer circle
at our family affairs, and in our closets.
You will please communicate our grateful remem-
brances and hearty thank to our sympathzng friends
in Great Britain, especially to those who have ON
public occasions and in so signal manner manifested
their apprecatin Of our cause and abors.
May God bless you, and in due time give you back
to us nyigorated and restored, to lead US on TO new
conqussts for truth and righteousness.
The Rev. DIR. CHEEyER replied as follows:
DEAR BRETHREs AND CHRISTIAN FRIENDS; My
heart appreciates your kindness and wish eould
give you fitting expression OF my gratitude and love-
In the of Christ in great and bitter conflict
protracted, and not yet terminated, you nave
been firm and faithful. These troubles bring US
nearer to each other; may they bring all nearer
10 God. We have reason TO regard the privilege
of laboring for the delverance of the enslaved as
too great and precious to be enjoyed without some
degree of suffering. In this sacred cause, we have
to bear reproacbes for the of Christ happy are
we. pray God that we may have grace not only to
meet anuly and endure patiently even snch assaults
as are made against from protested friends though
real sandeIers bu be truly grateful that unto as IT
is given in the behalf of Christ not Only 10 believe on
him. but also to suffer for his sake. Ii canno, be ex-
pected that SO great and mighty advancement and
conquest by the Kingdom Of Christ as tha OF the aboh
ton Of Slavery In our own land can De a'eonplsned
without great aud perseyering labor the endurance
OF hardship, and the encounter Of enmlty and wrath.
But confess that did not anticipate just on the eve
of my departure for Great Britain. such singular
ebuliton of i'll feeling and false and injurious remark
as have been referred to in the article in this weeks
IadeDendeHt, against Church whose only fault in
This thing has been that thsy have resoutely sus-
aimed and warmly loved their pastor and have sane
toned and practiced and maintained the utmost free
dom of the truth and independence OF the pulpit in his
continued uerances against the sin OF slayeholiing.
am amazed at the compound OF bitterness aud false
hood in that article. It's evil uent cannO, but reco
upon its author But the present 10 not the time for
exposing its misrepresentation of our affairs, the
insOence and insnuated SANDERS OF its advice TO the
PEOPLE of Great Britain to send TO this countrya
commission of merchants to see that the gifts and sym
pahy of the churches there toward this Church be
not perverted and misappied. II is inuendo, the
lawyers term it, to the effect that not only
church guilty of church mendicancy," that paper
has sneeringly reproached us but that We are dis
honest and swindDg church, getting money on false
pretenses, to spend il in improper manner Dear
brethren ard Christian friends may you have that wis
dom which is nom above to enable you TO deal with
this SANDER, and with the other falsehoods in this
attack, in righteous and Christian way. do not
think it will much injure me or you in Great Britan
indeed by the blessing of God il may tarn 70 tbe fur
therance of our cause Beside the attack in Tt Iads
pendent against this church. there is also the fbrica
ton introduced in the words following |
at is we-atteed fact that nearly years slave.
holder member in full in Dr. Cheeyer. CD lrch.
the officers OF the church. recently Qs6o dni ed ty er
This is a new decoction of old lies, in regard TO
which shall now simI ly present the following ex-
tract from letter OF NINE which has been published
in Edinburgh, referring 10 tissue of absolute false
" hoods concerning Shareholder having been admit
ted To my church, and Kept IN II with my knowledge
A" and consent, and all the while preaching against
" sayehol,ng as crime against God aud man, set in
" the same catalogue with the crime of MURDER The
whole charge is an entire and perfect fasshood.
" grounded on the single circumstance of lady from
" the Methodist Church, but originally from slave
" holding family in Kentucky, having Joined my
church in this city, and then Quilted US in the year
" 1866 about the time when my discourse in reproba-
Z" ton of the outrage against Senator Sumner aud in
defense of free speech against Slavery was delivered.
" This lady was not known by to have been herself
A and believe never was snch eNcant