Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-10-11
a True Chnrch.

We do not think church is over-sealoua
in its Christian duty which finds the cour.
age to condemn as unchristian, that which
in the eye of the law is piracy. But We
do think that the church is cowsfdly and
base which wants the courage to condemn
a great crime, intolerable to the laws Of
God as we'll rs the laws Of man. The
Episcopalians of this Diocese bad most
imperative reason on Sunday last for utter
ing. with more solemnity and contrition
than they ever did before in their lives, the
response-"have mercy upon us miserable
"sinners?" The weeks work Of their rep
resentatives in the Annual Convention, so
far As the action upon the subject of the
Foreign Slave-Trad was concerned, was
unworthy Of them either as Christians,
Churchmen, or men. =
But all churches are not rs this church,
we are happy to know. At the late meet
ing of the East New-Jersey Baptist Asso-
citation, held in Jersey City, the report of
tie Committee on Resolutions, thus refers
to the Foreign Slave-Trade.
"Intensly painful and humiliating is an
other part of our duty. They cannot shut
their eyes to the flagraut violation of some
of the wholesome laws ofour beloved coun-
try at our doors; and while carefully ab-
staining from any allusion to the party pol
itics of the day, disavowing distinctly and
emphatically any utterance which can be
uttered into the promotion or opposition
of these parties the advocacy Of one set
of men, or the repudiation of another, your
Committee feel that it would indicate a
recreancy to the high principles of human
ity which our country more than half a Gen.
tury since, and earlier than any other ma
ton, proclaimed, fortified by legislation
and penalties the most severe to put under
the ban, the accursed slape-trade, if now
we fail to notice with the solemn abhor-
renee which its atrocity merits the engage
ment of SO many of our ships and men in
that port of New York, scarce cable
length from the place of our present meet
ing, in this same traffic. Having before
them definite statements of the fitting out
from this single port of nine ships and
barks, of the aggregate tunnage of 1919
tuns, within the last FIVE months, can we
longer remain silent.
RESOLVED, That it becomes US as Chris.
tians who love our country and its honor,
at home and abroad, to utter our severest
reprobation of all engaging directly and in
directly, in this unholy traffic.
RESOLVED, Thas, as good citizens, We
pledge ourselves in all the proper ways in
our power TO aid our Government, and all
its officers, in arresting the prosecution of
this diabolical work, now condemned by
the laws of all civilized nations. as well as
emphatically by the word of God"
There was no attempt to gag the gen.
tlemen who offered this strong and out
spoken condemnation of that wicked traf
fc; no confusion followed; no points of Or
der, hitherto unheard of, were started by
men whose position and reputation would
not have led one to look for such triokery
from them; there was no angry contempt
displayed, either in words or acts; no
stamping out of church with clamorous
haste; but, on the contrary, the resolutions
were received with the seriousness the i'm
porlance of the subject demanded, and
with the dignity becoming religious as
sembly. After some fitting comment up
on them by one or two members, they were
passed without dissenting voice.
The East New Jersey Baptist Associa-
ton, which thus fulfilled its Christian du-
ty in relation 10 moral and legal crime
common in the community where it is TO
be presumed that it is not without influ-
ence, comprises about so churches, and
numbers not less than six hundred commu-
Y. Tribune.