Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1863-05-07
Address Of the Protestant Clergy
men Of France to the Clergymen
Of England.

Vi EDSldmus
The following address has been is
sued in Paris, dated February 18th
18th. The French original is signed
by nearly seven hundred Protestant
clergymen of France, eight-tenths of
the clergy of all Protestant denomina-
ton in that country:
"To the Pastors and inisters of all EvaneelicaI De-
nominations in Great BritGn:
brothers, honored and loved in
God: 1t is England's glory that she
has given to the world the example of
abolishing first the slave trade and
then slavery itself. 1t is her glory
that for sixty years she has not ceased
to work for the extinction in the traffic
of slaves, and of the institution of
slavery, at the cost even, it is said, of
fifty millions of pounds sterling.
Sand it is, after God, to those reli-
gious men, to Clarkson, Wilberforce
and Buxton, and to her mission socie-
ties, that England owes that glory
Will not the children, the successors
of these noble Christian men, complete
this work, by urging their country to
declare in loud terms for the sacred
cause Of liberty for the slaves, in the
terrible struggle now going on in
America ?
"The civilized world has seen moth
ing more revolving than confedera-
ton, for the most part Protestant, in
the nineteenth century of the Christian
era, leagued together and demanding
their independence with the openly
avowed intention to maintain and
propagate the institution of human
slavery, and placing as the corner
stone of its constitution the system Of
slavery as it exists in the Southern
States; which may be defined as the
right to treat human beings as cattle,
with impunity, adulteries and homi,
cides.
"Let us lay aside all political con-
siderations is there Christian who
does not shudder when he listens to
the Chief of this Confederation, who
answers to a decree of emancipation
with kind of menace of extermina-
ton ? The triumph of such cause
will put back that of Christianity and
civilization for a century, it will cause
the angels of Heaven to weep, and
will rejoice the demons of hell.
Throughout the world the supper
ters of slavery will raise their heads,
all ready as they are to re-appear at
the first signal in Asia, Africa, and
ouoH in ovr-weH-rvgufdCeu C1r1es of
Europe. 1t would prove disastrous
blow to the work of evangelical mis-
sions. And what a responsibility
would weigh upon the Church which
would remain a silent witness of the
accomplishment of so shameful tri
umph If there be peaceful means
to bring this war to close, and make
it conform to the wishes of all friends
of humanity, the Christians of Europe
should give the cause of Emancipation
such hearty and earnestly expressed
sympathy as shall not leave to those
who are fighting for the right to op-
press their fellow men any hope of
ever seeing the hand of Christian fell
lowship rendered to them.
"Pastors, ministers of all Evangel-
ical denominations of England, Ire
land and Scotland, we need your co,
operation, your example, your infu-
ence.
"Places yourselves at the head, and
let US altogether call for great and
peaceable manifestation of our sym.
pathies for the black race, so long
enchained and debased by Christian
nations. We shall thus discourage
the partisans of slavery, fortify and
sustain those who are endeavoring to
abolish it, and thus influence them to
accept our counsel.
at is in free England that such
manifestations will indeed be power
full. May we not hope that if, in
Great Britain, the voices of all the
ministers of the Cross be raised, while
in France our voices echo their prayers
and pleadings, very soon there will
not be in the United States a single
black man who is not free?
"May GOD so will it, and bless in
Christ, the true Liberator, Great Bril-
tain and the United States -
The Richmond Enquirer says that
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