Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-02-29

ready to publish anything 1 may have to say on the matter, and l shall also avail myself of the Watchman and Reflector.
 Finally, let me add, John Brown is inn mortal in the memories of the good in England, and in my heart he lives.
 l am yours, most truly.
 c. H. STURGEON.
 Copham, London, January. 1860
 The vile and bloody instincts of an un mitigated ruffian boil over, when this nre clous specimen of modern evangelical elo- quence threatens the shareholder who should dare to come into his neighborhood, with mark which would carry him to the grave. 0, shame, where is thy blush! Paul. who preached the Gospel, had only words of respect and endeament for the slaveholder Philemon. Sturgeon, who professes to preach the Gospel according to Paul and the other Apostles, Eliminates brutal threats of violence and murder against whole slaveholding people. There is a difference between Sturgeon and Paul. Mir. Spur geon utterly eschews fellowship with a slaveholder at the communion table or else where. There's nothing which slave holder of intelligence and taste would more willing y part Withal than the said Spur geon's company, under any circumstances. MT. Sturgeon would as soon think of re- ceiving murderer into his church etc. as a "manstealer" A cultivated "man- er''-which in Stigginsish rhetoric means laveholder-woulda as soon think of receiving graduate ofthe fshmarket into his house as this delectable adept in scur- rility; and a sensible one would certainly keep his property, whether slave property or what not, out of the reach of that ad- mirer of the John Brown code of morality. Of John Brown, the rhetorical splurger says Tn my heart he lives" Alas! for Brown; after all his crimes, lie scarcely mertod so cruel fate. Falstaf. buried in foul clothes that :" fretted in their own grease" was not in so uncnviable situa- tion. Into how small space the dead could be squeezed, has been long question with spiritual philosophers and demono- logists. Surgeons testimony, if true, settles the matter; they are capable, if he is to be believed, of infnitesimal compress sion.
 But, after all, ultramontane abolitionists, represented by the New York Independent, are not satsliel with Mr. Spurgeon's apol- ogy. That paper says:
 MT. Sturgeon has acted wisely and faith fully in dealing with sins which are most rampant among his hearers. We should not look to his sermons for frequent and pointed references to American slavery: though it might be worth his while to con slider how far the cotton manufacturers of England are responsible for the financial support of the system. We should be glad to get his views upon the ethics of trading in the products of cGerced and unreouited labor as distinguished from the ethc. of trading directly in that labor American slavery, through its great representative crop, has direct relation to the commerce and manufactures of Great Britain, which no English philanthrop'st can afford to overlook. If the torges of Birmingham manufacture shacklcs for American slaves, and the mills of Manchester buy from slave | holders the cotton produced directly by siave-labor, and manufacture this into cheap domesticS" which British merchants sell to American shareholders wherewith to cloth their human cattle. there is an ethical bear ing of American slavery upon the English people which 1t behooves Mir. Spmgeon to take in hand. Moreover, since the London Times has become tie open apologist of slavery and the slavc-trade, Mir. Sturgeon would find that he is not beating the air" in preaching against slavery to an English audience.
 The last sentence is peculiarly pertinent. t strikes the nail on the head, and puts Mir. Sturgeon to the proof of that fearless consistency and candor of which he makes such an egotistical parade in his letter. Mir. Spurgon is a vulgar bully, but in his way he is discreet wilhal. He is prodigal enough of blows when they fall on the air. Slave holding he calls man-stealing; slave holders he donounceS as no better than mur- derers. Those are words that prove noth- ing, stand for nothing, in fact But, let him attack the results of slave industry as developed right before his eyes, and he has to deal with things, not words-stupendous and stubborn things. that concern the vitali- ty ot British commerce. and the question of food and rament for millions of British sub lects. The London Times is worldly wise; Mr. Spurgeon's other-worldiness is not so tanatical as to make him altogether despise the wisdom of that secular journal.
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