The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-06-18
AMERICAN SLAVERY.
Address of French Protestant Pas
tors.

tors.
The following address to ministers Of
the Gospel in this country has been
sent from Paris through Rev. Dr. Massie.
The distinguished Protestant pastors
whose names are at the foot attest that
it has been signed by CSC Protestant
ministers Of France. Since the 12th of
March further signatures have, we un
derstand, been sent in, raising the total
to the large number Of 750:
To The Ministers and Pastors Of all
EOangelicaE Denominations IN Great, Brit.
ain.-Paris, February 12-Honorcd
and Beloved Brethren 10 the Lord.--It
is the glory of England to have given
to the world the example of ,abolishing
first the slave trade, and then slavery.
1t is her glory to have continued for
the last sixty years the work Of sup
pressing universally the slave trade and
Slavery at the cost, it is asserted, Of ff-
ty millions Of pounds sterling. And it
is, under God, chiefly to her religious
men, to her Clarksons, her WILDER.
forces, her Buxtons, to her missionary
societies, that England owes this glory.
VIII not the sons and successors of
these great Christians complete their
work, by urging their country to de-
clare itself openly for the true cause Of
the liberation of the slave, in the terrible
struggle which is at present convulsing
the United States of American
} No more revolving spectacle has ever
been set before the civilized world, than
, a Confcderacy consisting mainly OF
4 Protestants, forming itself, and demand
ing independence in the nineteenth
= century Of the Christian era, with a pro-
fessed design of maintaining and prop.
agating slavery CoDfedoracy which
: lays down, as the corner stone of it's Con
7 stitution, the system of slavery as it ex-
lists at present in the Southern States, q
= system which may be defined briefly as
the right to treat men like cattle, and
5 to commit adultery and murder with
impunity. Setting aside all political
considerations, can any Christian heart
fail TO be stirred to indignation at hear.
= ing the clief Of that Confedoracy an.
swering decree Of emancipation by an
a implied threat Of determination?
c The triumph of such a cause would
5 put back the progress of Christian civil,
ization and of humanity whole centu-
ry. 1t would make angels weep in heav-
en-, and demons rejoice in hell. 1t
would enable the friends of the slave
trade and Of slavery in all lands to hold
up their heads, ever ready as they are
to rcappear at the first signal, in Asia,
in Africa, and even in the great cities
Of Europe, 1t would give fatal blow
to the work of evangelical MISSIONS
And what frightful responsibility
would rest on the Church which should
/ remain the silent spectator of such tri-
umpLl
If there is a peaceful means of has
= tening the end of the war and of rem
dering its issue such as is desired by
all the friends of humanity, is it not
that the sincere Christians of Europe
should give to the cause of emaucipa
ton powerful testimony which would
lsave to those who fight for the right oi
expressing slaves no hope of ever see
u ing those Christians give them the hanc
y of fellowship?
Ministers and Pastors of all tb,
. Evangelical denominations of England
Scotland, and Ireland, it is here W,
u need your assistance. Tako the Leaf
n and let US call forth a great and peace
d full manifestation of sympathy for tn
l. colored race, so long oppressed and dc
based by Christian nations. Let u
thus discourage the partisans OF slave
ry. Let US strengthen and encOurag
D, those who wish to abolish it, at tn
n same time disposing them to listen t
J. our suggestions. 1t is in free Englan
c. that such manifestations can be power
I'd full. What may we not hope for i
IN throughout Great Britain, the voice {
e. all the ministers Of the crucified Savic
h. and in France our voice echoin
es theirs-pruy and plead that soon ther
O. may no longer be in the United State
so colored man that is not free an
ne equal with the whites
May God grant it, and may his bles
ing rest alike on Great Britain and Il
ly United States, in Christ, the true Libc
''- ator!
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