New-York tribune., 1879-12-08

TIE DFCfNNING or rrF FIGHT
N.v for some facts as TO who began tine fght FOR
emancipation. Before is the Life of the Rev. Dr.
samuel Hopkins of Hartford. lso5." He was
horn in Waterbury Conn, In 1871, just lis
v,or. ago He was a fearless and jealous sboonist.
and IN the midst OF the greatest save-mart on
tis Continent, Newport. and WIN iorm,r slave save
h, ldets IA his congregation. who laf built
MP massive fortunes upon this shoekins and
the systcn. Tue Act oi Rhode Island againt slavery
n 1852 has ever allowed every man 10 say hls
sy lie dd sr % SerlsGS ary ts1 Snt While aai
only Boston. New-York aud Pniadelphia bni even
fGGoS '0STs s% Violent %SS. in @ defence OF
s'averv and OF the slave power. between 1880 and
sVch sbcminar,ou though bat twenty five wears had
passed away since sayers for the West coast
IN shores Of the Narraeansett At the June
session OF the Rhode Island General Assembly,
he Union ii passed An incorporate certain per
by the name OF the Providence society Tor pro
unlawful held IN bondage, and for Improving the
b. red that Rhode Island bad abolished slavery in
l7-4 six years before. or the persons forming tae
Providence Society lis belonged to Rhode Island 6o TO
Massae usetts. and 20 Connecticut
1t the Ne nodist Coufrrenc" hed in Boston. April "a.
1880 nnder presidency o. Francis Asbury. after
greatest ecclesiastca character that our country ever
tlat slavery Is contrary To the laws ~ God, aud
nature nurtiu society aud contrary tO the dictates
Ve would not others should unto US
aud ours 4 Do we not pass our dsnpprObatiOn on
III our rrsnas who keep slaves and advise their free
onn,9 Yes This less than four years after the
famous dec. aratiOn made at PniladeDn IN 1875
TDen who began the fight against American slavery
MIR Oarrisor other ever put tins ques-
non more plainly than IN these words TINS mas
ever since been the doctrine OF the Methodist
Fniscopal Church. Thousands OF slaves had been
paled by the Methodist Church. as the NUT OF
tins doctrine before 1865. and thousands oi our
church menbers. both preachers and peopie,
have suffered martyrdOm ana asSassnatlon
,r th. doctrine. And still the work of assassination
goes forward daily IN the South Ana thr
sud IA not yet. Our church papers are lu
~ tbe ACCOUNTS. If GsrrssOnian ever suffered
deatn for ans Antisaveryism since the commencement
~ Inc Ltbera0r. In 1881. yet TO learu The act
They have all kept themselves out OF harms was
roe gao has been theirs: the Tnartyrdoms
thew have Jeff 10 sandered church They were things
MOI 10 thelr taste. The martyr. Torrey, Congrega-
tionslist minister whom | well knew, was p0t
nrrisoniar, but sturdy opponent or Garrison. Ihen'
who began the nghit -. , 81. ...
on up &c the war, mentioning names OF those con
.cea witt the Methodist Church who were engaged IN
A. ard sho although for time tney were uoinE
iiitle in the matter it was because they iofe-
saw that an internecine war must result Hom
she,r action. Then he asked II Mr. Garrison was
chr,stsan and SAID that he was Neither an IN
fdeI Ike Robert IngersoI. nor . Christian as as
they understood the term M: os,nson ss nevs. We.
knew the inside OF church. and therefore WAS