The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-02-04
Tao,. Aecornt of his Expulsion.

- Fees Account of his Expulsion.
We published an account on Wednesday |
of the outrageous treatment and expulsion
of thirty-six of Kentucky's best citizens
from that State, because they were opposed
In principle to the institution of slavery,
and desired by moral and constitutional
means its gradual abolition. We bad not
room TO give the able and temperate appeal
made by these oppressed persons to the
Governor of Kentucky, that he should, by
virtue of his position. protect them from in
Jury and unlawful Punishment. The Gov
ernor intimated that he could not interfere,
and advised them to leave the State quietly
and peacably. We have been waiting with
some interest the comments of that able and
conservative paper, the Louisville Journal,
regarding this high-handed outrage, but so
far it has contented itself with bare an
nouncement of the fact. 1t certainly can
not approve this forcible expulsion, and is
not afraid to say so. The other Louisville
journals, we regret to see, uphold the move
ments. On Wednesday night meeting of
sympathy was held in one of tue Cincinna-
ii churches, when most of the thirty six flu
gitives from slavery oppression were pres
emit. Below will be found condensation Of
prominent man of the little community.
The Rev. John G. Fee then took the
stand. He is middle aged, mild and un-
pretending in his appearance, and withal as
peaceful looking gentleman as ever suffer
ed for the sake of colored or any other hui
mainly. He has fine head, the intellectu-
al character of which is heightened by the
absence of that capillary ornament. which
oil III Ia
menced by stating that the question had
been asked him, what was the work of him.
self and companions in Kentucky? were
the primary work on which they were en-
gagged. was preaching the Gospel of Christ,
in contradistinction to a Gospel of Form,
and Abstract Orthodoxy, which ignores
suffering humanity, and does not meet the
wants of the religious world. He dwelt up
on the time serving principles advocated by
a majority of the ministers of the Gospel
whose lot is cast in the Southern States, and
the rapid increase of infdelity in c. nse-
quence; for when discerning men were told
that the Bible sanctioned human slavery,
they became skeptics, and reasoned that a
creed which could be founded upon so mon
strous an injustice, could not emanate from
God.
He maintained the necessity of change
to purer religion than is at present prevail
ing in the South, before the law of slavery
is changed, nor is there, said he, any hope
of the redemption of the slave from any
other source. The cotton gin has ouly en-
HANGED their value, and we have the expert
ence of this and other countries that revo-
luton will not ameliorate their condition.
It must be more than political movement,
il must be the love of Christ, the conviction
of heart imbued with the principles of
Christianity either in the Church or out of
it. He illustrated this by naming the prin-
cipal anti-slavery champions. He main
tanned that slavery was sin and blot up
on Christianity, and expressed conviction
that it could not exist a day outside of the
Church were it not for the Church. These
were the preachings which on several occa-
sions had subjected him to mob violence,
but, said he, such lawless demonstrations
do not retard the progress of truth.
By such means ten churches had been
planted In the region wherein these doc
trines were inculcated. The number, said
he, is small enough, but it shows that more
can be done with better men and better
means. We, said he, are driven out, but
the seed has been sown. There are thou
sands left who have read sufficient to know
that slavery is sin against Christianity, as
we'll as a drawback to the internal prosperi-
ty of the country. Thousands of trac is are
even now disseminated by those who are
left behind in the mountains of Kentucky
to continue in the good work. But the
Northern Churches must perform their du-
ty, they must refuse to give countenance or
prestige to slavery, by their countenancing
it. He called upon the men of the Free
States TO exert themselves politically, so
that none but Free State men should fill the
offices of the Federal Government, for he
was satisfied that thousands in the South
would turn their faces against slavery were
the subject eased of the present political
pressure.
Mr.. John Rogers, co-worker with the
Rev. Mr. Fee, next took the stand, and con-
tinued a speech, interspersed with des-
cription of the little settlement from which
they had been driven, and various anec-
dotes, which we have no space to detail, of
nearly half an hour in length. He express
ed himself as having been perfectly willing
to endure martyrdom, but that he was fear
full it would have led to a civil war.-CAi-
cago Democrat.
THE SLANDERER OF JOHN BRowN-The
wife of George w. Brown, editor of the