New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-14
THE sCHJRCH ANYI. SLAVERY SOCIETY.

been pushing into notice and activity the Association
which goes by this name until il has attained ucon
Siderable importance in the public eye. If we mistake
not, their aim is TO organize ana array the Churches
of the Country and the Ministers Of Religion against
Slavery Without any reference politics, parties,
denominations, they wish to unite all Clrstans,
ION tho basis Of the Holy Scriptures az dyiney in
"sped against Slavery and to concentrate the eneF-
I" GIGS Of TIE Christian Ministry and Of Christian
Churches upon the extinction Of that great sn.'
But this however laudable in itself, is hopeless
undertaking. For, in our view, Ministers, Churches,
and that which goes by the name Of the Church. are
Of all bodies the mos, immoyable And the reigning
religion of the land so far az il is to he judged by the
dominant sects and organizations. IS 60 IN league WIN
Slavery, that to break that league until Slavery Itself
be broken, is fatty impossible.
II the Society had teen called the Peoples Anti
Slavery Society instead Of the Church Anti-SIavery
Society its chances Of speedy success would have been
far better than they are; that u.s. an appeal TO the
People against Slavery is much more hopeful than an
appeal to the Churches or to the Ministry. Wine tue
latter are too much in fear Of one another to allow
Nature to work like itself, TO burst forth sFona-
neously 10 round amen to appeals against hoary OF
precision the heart Of the People on the other hand,
responds at once TO the great first Principles which this
Society has put at the head Of its Declaration VIZ;
The Rights Of Man man sacred aud iualienatle,
without distinction Of blood races; Property in
Man mrossiJe as being without gTaut from the Crea-
tor and equally contrary TO Natural Justice and to Re-
vealed Religion
Doctors of Divinity in our day, and the common run
of Ministers are too tightly fettered with the seim-
rosed manaces and thumb-screws Of theological
technics Tor metaphysical about molDm in Sc and such
like to let item accept ard act upon such an honeft,
ont-spoken Anglo-SiSon Platform, rs that which is
made by the two Article. put forth at Worcester in
the Declarations Of the Church Ant-Slavcry Society
The distinctions which they 60 fond OF making IN
the interest of Slavery between organic Fin and ind
vdua SIN between sin in the abstract and sin III the
concree between sin in the system Of Slavery which
they admit to be infor nal" aud sin in the act or
practice Of slavehoding which may in their view be
entirely Innocent between collective wrong, which
is always aud unchangeably wrong, and subjective
wroDg which is TO be measured entirely by the cir
cums,ances Of the individual committing h'-those
! distinctions together with the fact that while the
ground of the inherent rghuiHesS Of Siorery Is taken
without any qualms, in the view of these critical
gentlemen, the question about inherent sninlness
one Of tie most vex.d questions Of moral philosophy
all these things together will not let the professional
RaLbis Of the day, "s,uded in ethical distinctions
adopt such creed Of Liberty as lice at the bottom OF
! tie Church Auii-Savery Society.
Little can be done, therefore, with the ScrbeS AM
Ph&sces Of the Christian Synagogue TO change them
The appeal against Slavery in order TO be successful
be 10 the heart Of the people not to the Chureles
nor TO the Ministers ta command the ear and t,and at
| the gate of the Churches. You Will never get The
Church and the Ministry fair ndsquare against Slavery
! till you have gotten tie people there.
Thauks 20 Tie bhrbarvus Of Slavery, the au
ddcOus and reasonable moves Of Secession, and the
! outrageous treatment Of Nouherners by the Slave
Power unless they happen TO carry III their pockets
MAYORS passport, "a belonging 10 the Young Mems
Christian Association the mssses Of the North nrc fast
becoming impregnaed with an undying hatred Of
Slavery that sball yet upbeaye the twin relic of bar
barism from lie deep foundations IN avIce and lust.
Meanwhile let not be understood starring the
honest and earnest attempt, in sJme qarteie u the
Church, TO put Slavery under the ban Of c1communc
ton. II any thing ought 10 be taboo in tie Christian
Church il should be slayeholding. II anything can
Justly what is technically called Withholding Christian
fellow ship in the Clurch-to argue which We under
stand TO be n specially Of the Church Auti-Suycg So
ciety-it is what Macaulay in biz carly days called
/ he uHpgHiIed vicicdHcNs II S7r0t-a wchcCuess
he faid and the might be said OF the wckedness
Of Secession now, "when punished, dtgraccill only
10 the offender, but unplnshed disgr,cefu to the
&" vhoie soci,fy.'
The dires; scandal upon Protestant Christianity a.
the present time ard The deepest disgnce uIon Amer
can Churches midway in the arch Of the nineteenth
century, ia the federation aud defense Of American
Slavery Asif it were not enough to tolerate in the
Church what NJ. Loyeoy rot long since, IN tie floor
/ Of the House.of Representatives called the ana'g am
Of all crmes," II is pi1usy urged in orthodox quar-
ters, that Negro Slavery was Instituted by Divine au-
thorv at the creation If man. that negroes are not
the children Of Adam their status by creation being
that Of an inferior race which GCd has made sngect
TO the Adamic race, and 10 continue Throughout
." all their generations and that God subsequently
cuIsed all the fruits # the mixture OF the seed oil The
two races 10 the same subecliyn the eab'e race.
So that cody Deacon Netherlands & Go. may con
tinue their pious pon.melng with paddles and hand
saws. upon the feni-sable sides Of negroes and de-
scendants Of negroes with the pleasing consciousness
that they are but factors Of Divine Providence toward
tha part of his creation whoae natural stains in the
new theologico-ebnoogc parlance, is 81 that Of an
inferior spec,es of the same genus with Adam, but
made subject to ibe Admic race, in their creation,
"by the positive command Of God ard 80 to continue
4" throughout all their generations"
Beyond controversy the defenfe of Slavery in the
Church, and in some Of its orthodox organs in this
country, has reached an univaled hight OF impucence
and hypocrisy. 1t is fast getting even beyond that
pass which West Indian Slavery had attained at the
time that Macaulay first attacked it, thiry.sx years
ago, when he SAID " 1t is neither in facts nor on argu
menis that Slavery seems now to depend for Proteo
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