Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-01
LONDON EMANCIPATION COMMITTEE s
ADDRESS TO DR. CHEEVER.
PRESENTED BY GEORGE THOMPSON, CHAIRMAN. cor
led FROM THE A. s. STANDARD.

PRESENTED BY GEORGE THOMPSON, CHAIRMAN. cor
| led FROM THE A. s. STANDARD.
! REV. AND MUCH ESTEEMED iR:-We gladly en-
brace the opportunity which your arrival and tenn
porary sojourn in this city affords us, of making
known to you, personally and officially the senti-
nents of high regard with which your character
has inspired US, and our sincere admiration of the
exalted aud humane purposes to which you have
devoted The rare abilities ith which it has pleas
ed the Master whom you serve to endow you.
! Your name-familiar to us all, as that Of q ripe
scholar, on eloquent divine, and an omplished
authcr--has been long cherished as an ornament
of English literature, and an honor to the Chris.
tian Church. But Committee for The proiho.
ton of the cause of Negro Emancipation we are
prompted to offer you this tribute of our respect
and esteem, less on account o' your reputation in
the would Of letters, and your distinction as
pulpit orator, than because of the fidelity moral
courage and disinterested devotion you have mani
tested, ia defence Of the moral character and gov
ernmeut of God, in the interest of four millions of
the American people held in bondage, the cry Of
whose wrongs Tierees the Of the civilized world
Your attachment to the cause of the slave is Of
no recent growth or developments The Chairman
of this Committee hus borne public und grateful
testimony to your heroic conduct in the year 1885
IA year which will be ever memorable IN the an.
mails of the American Abolition Movement)-a
year of fiery persecution, gag law and mob vio-
ence, when you spontaneously opened the place
Of worship in which you then muis,ered, to the
British advocate of immediate emancipation, and
stood by him un(alteringly, till the fury Ct the
storm led him to seek tho preservation of his lie
by departing from your city This fact in your
ant-slavery history would, we venture to think,
alone be suficie to secure Gor you the confidence
of British Abolitonists. But your claim upon
their confidence and gratitude rests also upon more
recent acts which have demonstrated how deep
and Interchangeable were the principles you ospous-
ed quarter of century ago
Ten years ago you occupied the position of min
ister over one of the most numerous, wealthy and
Influential congregations in the city Of New York,
and nothing required Of you but that your
yia#s on the subject Of slavery should be in har-
mony with those of tho ministers of religion gen.
orally in the United States or that you should ut
ter but occasional and qualiied expressions of
your anii-slavery convictions. crisis came, and
true to your nntecedents, you conferred not with
1esh and bi3od' but stood FORTH faithful AMONGST
the taithless found the nnexible vindcator of the
immutable obligations of the Divine law, in oppo
sion to q nation that, for a time allowed human
statute to supereede the positive man lates Of the
Most high God.
On the passage Of the Fugitive Slave bill in
1850, when ;ho majority OF tho clergymen Of the
United States supported that most infamous enact
ment, and preached obedience to lis diabocal
provisions, you, faithful to your high ofice, did
not cease TO cry aloud, denouncing it from the
Word Of God as outrage upon natural rights,
and sub'ersivo Of the fundamlnta principles Of
morality and religion.
Again, in 1855. when the Government, the Con
gross and the Slave Power combined, had tram.
pied upon a solemn national compact, and had
thrown down the barrier to the extension Of slave
ry over the vast unpeopled territories of the West
"a measure which led to the horrors and blood
shed perpetrated by Border Rufianism in Kansas,
you came forth as the exposet Of peffdious
breach of faith. as tho defender Of Gods violated
law, and as the denOuncer Of the Vaccinations of
a guilty confederacy.
We have present to our minds also, your equal
~ unhinching condemnation Of the barbarous
Dred Scott decision your powerful efforts to CON
vince the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions of their completely in the crime
Of slavery your enlightened, just and generous
defence of the memory of that worthy descendant
from the Purians, the Martyr-Aboitiouist John
Brown; and lastly, your appearance, without
ompromse of your own peculiar views, upon the
platform of the American Anti Slavery Society, in
action against the common enemy of
the rights Of God and man, with the iliustrious
pioneer and champion of the Anti-Slavery move
ment, William Lloyd Garrison.
Ia this career of holy obedience to, and earnest
zeal for, the honor of our common Savior, and
The freedom from personal bonds of those for whom
lie died. you have been required to endure hard
ship as good soldier Of Jesus Christ and you
have approved yourself as one,
You have been called to witness disagreements
and divisions in your Church, ard to suffer griev.
'usly from detection, deserton, Misrepresentation,
,alumny and conspiracy. You have stood unmov-
ID and now with a diminished, but united, puri.
led and devoted people, who, for time, have con
iented to part with you, you amongst us, ,ac-
,ompanied by their prayers, and heralded by COM
nendatons to our hearts from the best and truest
riends OF the down-trodden slave, by whatever
lame they may be known. We hail your advent
IN our shores with joy. We receive you to our
confidence, and offer you our earnest cooperation
n the prosecution of any mission you may have
n connection with the downfall Of slavery You
nay render much needed service 70 that cause in
his country 1t is required that the eyes Of the
christian public of Great Britain should be opened
o the extent and guilt of the connection of tho
american Churches with slavery to the terrible
orruption of the Word of God, and prostitution of
he precepts of Christianity, which have resulted
rom the growth and prevalence of slavery and
D the solemn duties of the Christian bodies of this
oontry to cease from communion with those in l
America who, in any relation, arc accomplicos =
lith menstealers' Ia