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 SLAVERY 
 
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 CHURCHES, RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES, &c. 
 
 A REVIEW: 
 
 BV 
 
 THOMAS HENNING, Esq., 
 
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 PEEFATORT REMARKS, 
 
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 J. J. E. LINTON, Esq,, 
 
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SLAVERY 
 
 IN THE 
 
 CHURCHES, RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES, &c. 
 
 A EEVIEW: 
 
 BY 
 
 THOMAS HENNING, Esq., 
 
 WITH 
 
 PREFATORY REMARKS, 
 
 BY 
 
 J. J. E. LINTOX, Esq., 
 
 STKATroiiD. 
 
 TORONTO: 
 
 FKIXTED AT THK OLOBE BOOK A.VD JOB OFFICE, 22, KIXO STUEET WEST. 
 
 1856. 
 
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PEEFATOEY EEitfAEKS. 
 
 I 
 
 _ The following Review appeared in the"Ulobo" newspaper of Toronto 
 m November last (1855.) It was written by Thomas llcnnin-^. Esq., Secret 
 tary of the Anti-Slavery Society of Gana.hi. at Toronto. It has no sne- 
 cial relation to the "Report," wnich forms it.s title, beyond a passincr refer- 
 ence to It It goes over the subjoct generally, a.4 applicable to the Ameri- 
 can churches in their support of and connection with Slavery. It occurred 
 to the writer of these remarks, that the subject being so ably handled by 
 Mr. Hennmg, it would be well toresouo by republication, such an impor- 
 tant review on slavery, from the dorn>ant files of a daily journal whicli as is 
 customary with newspaper perioilicals, are laid aside after perusal, ai.d get 
 beyond the reach of reference. Such is the reason for its re-appearauce 
 and availing himself of the opportunity, these remarks are prepared 
 
 We indite these prefatory remarks, under a depre.s.sing sense, as a man. 
 that men, professed Christian men, admitted members of cimrches, permit- 
 ted to take in their hands, at the comn>union table, the symbols of a cru- 
 cified Saviour ; nay, that ministers of religion by their silence, by their ex- 
 pressed words, and by their ownership of slaves, are guilty of not only 
 holding their fellow men in bondage as slaves, but committing directly or 
 tacitly the gross outrages on these slaves, which no pen can adequately de- 
 scribe, or tongue, however eloquent, discourse upon. •■ Nothing of tra-edy 
 "can be written, can be spoken, can bo conceived, that equals the fri<rhtfrl 
 "reality of scenes daily and hourly acting in the United States, beneath the 
 'shadow of American law and the shadow of the cross of Chnst,"-trulv 
 too truly, has Mr?. H. B. Sto we written. ' 
 
 _ We have DO hesitation,-we consider it a duty, in stating, that if there 
 IS one thing more and above another, which will cause Infidelity, Deism 
 Freethinking, skepticism, and unbelief, as to the reception of Christimiitr, 
 It 18 the present attitude in America, of certain Christian churches and so- 
 cieties, and of those who recognise and fraternise with them.in regard to the 
 am and evil of " American Slavery." And in this statement, we are sorry 
 to include thelukewarmness, apathy, frigidity, with a connection and a fel- 
 lowship, of some of oar Canadian churches and societies. If a prominency 
 
of intercession for the African race, is to be effected by Canadian chnrches, 
 If a suceesalul ond benignant misulon to non-Ciiristian lands (we should 
 hesitate to call them heathen lauds !) is to be forwarded, it cnnnct be done 
 bytbem Cbiistianly, in their recognizinf? the American Tract Society, 
 the American Sunday School Union,the .Methodist Episcopal Chnrch Book 
 Concern, of 200 Mulberry Street, New York, the Presbyterian Board of 
 1 ubhcation, 225 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia ; or any religious society or 
 organization which has not, in open front of its consUtufo", the words, 
 "We have no feUowahip with American Slavery, and receive not its 
 gains." 
 
 Let not the (Free) Presbyterian p*- from our allusion to the Presby- 
 teiian Board of Philadelphia.for though that Board publishes pure copies of 
 books from the original, when they republish, (there is an exception, howev- 
 er,) which the American Tract Society does not do in all cases,* the Board 
 13 a part of the noted Pro-slavery General Assembly of the Presbyte- 
 nan church of the U. S. (old school.) That Assembly has under its man- 
 agement at Philadelphia, the following Boards :— I. Publication, 2. Do- 
 mestic Missions, 3. Education, 4. Foreign Missions,-.the latter at New 
 York, Kevs. Dr. Lowrie and Mr. J. L. Wilson, Secretaries. And yet the 
 Presbyterian Church (Free) of Canada, will " dilly-dally "and shake hands 
 with that body opeidy, encourage their colporteurs in Canada, buy books 
 &c., from them, colportage them in rural districts, and in every way act 
 with that Board, as though the latter was not of a Pro-slavery church 1 
 Away with the excuse which has been, and will ugain be made, that their 
 copies of books are ;>ure copies! So is the golden eagle, silver coin, or 
 bank note, of the Presbyterian Slaveholder, when paid in as a subcription, 
 a contribution, or at a collection for that Church I Such is not counterfeit 
 money. Surely the divines in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, are not 
 of to-day's teaching, as not to know.that the collections made and contribu- 
 tions received, a few years ago from slave-holdere, by certain ministers of 
 the Free Church of Scotland, who made a tour in the slave States, when 
 paid m to the Treasury of the Free Church of Scotland were marked as the 
 price of blood; and within a few yards of where we pen these words, in 
 Stratford, there lives a Presbyterian, who on a visit to Scotland, was wit- 
 
 ,„,ii, I I®- 'j '^°°T° *° what extent the American Tract Societv has been 
 
 ^ilty, that mdependent of D'Aubigne's history, and several oVherbZsr^ 
 
 eired to by name, it may not be generally known that the celebraS bo^k 
 
 "Mammon," by Harris, and the cheering' 'Morning ExercLl" 5 the iTte 
 
thTvl K ',? «Pr''""°"-''y tl,o people, nn.l8awthe marked expreasion, 
 
 he very b,„ d.ng. bcin^ well marked in many plnoes in chalk writi,,; 
 
 g.ve back the money, it is the price of blood !" Reference is most vivid' 
 
 lymadetotheevents atthe time (184G-47) in the book, "MyHondago 
 
 an My Freedom." by F. Douglass, p. 382. Mr. Douglass was then fn 
 
 „„ r; u\ "^^•"^^P"^'''"" h tbe Presbyterian people of Scotland is 
 
 not ye hushed And with such and other prominent marks of a Christian 
 
 d..pos.t,on with the lay Presbyterians, shall the ministers of that Church 
 
 iTh r ""', r^l° "'''^ "" '•"''"''''"" °^'*"y "^'"J of contamination 
 
 with a pro-slavery church or organization such as above alluded to ? 
 
 of ^^r w'^ ""^"""J J°;''""^" ^"^""'^ " °^^2th January,)to the standing 
 of the Wes^yan Methodist Church in Canada, in its connection and fellow? 
 8h,p with the pro-s avery Methodist Kpiscopal church (north) in the U. H 
 and adduced sufficent proof to sustain oar accusation, notwithstanding" 
 
 ht n.T " .Tr f'f """°- " '^'■'^ ^'''''^'' ^'^""'^''y School Advocate/ 
 having tho add. ,oa of the word " Canada," being a reprint of the S. School 
 Advo ate. published at 200 .>[ulberry street. New York, continues to be 
 publ.shed,a, tfaiToroato, by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Ca.ada, 
 
 the ranrd?a?rr t'''^" ''''T^'''^' of separation, or of ^protest by 
 the Canadian Church, agamst the evils of slavery countenanced n the W 
 M. Church (north.) But in the latter church, there may be another sei 
 cession or perhaps adivision. on the slavery question, ere long-so thinks, 
 the Pittsburg C/.n..,a« Mvocate andthere ha. been a recent cause too 
 
 VTSZ^'u^ZT'""' T''''""'- ''" «'-°''°'<J-fc' Bishop of the 
 MK Church (.outh) from a plum pro-slavery church, to officiate at the 
 
 1 O "V tV w r' '''""''• '"'^"'''''y («''''>'•''- '^^'^"'^ope, Day- 
 ~ Jl. '^'2'''^'^'^ ^f^^t^^'Ji^' people in Canada. are kept in igno- 
 ranee of these things yet it is with snch, their church in Cana- 
 da, has a fellowship and connection. But . . nas been of long standing 
 as the records of their church will shew. V^hen will that fellowship and 
 countenance have an end 1 ^ 
 
 The Methodist New Connection Church in Canada, has no such fellow- 
 ship. We wish we could say as much of the Regular Baptists of Cana- 
 da,-.and we desire not to discourse further with the Congregational 
 church,-.yet there are excepti.ms of a "fellowshipping tendency" with 
 some of Its ministers also. We have neveralluded to the Unitarian minis- 
 try; yet we cannot refrain at this time, in referring the •' fellowshipping' 
 churches above named, to the truly Christian, benevolent, and philanthro- 
 pic resolutions passed at a meeting of that Body, held at Montreal, Octo- 
 Der, 1854, where about 300 ministers were present. They are worthy of 
 
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 10,; ot _'.iril ('etot)or, siimc year. * "•"«- 
 
 That nnform i.s inK-ded ami required in the Chrislinn oh»rn\. «« ♦ 
 
 chattel,lav.ryo(l.u.,u., l.LM.,;,rs,of iho cl.altdizin^r system whcrcbv h,r 
 ... ...s are ..y laws „,ade by Christian n.en. l.oid ini::!:^:'^^ 
 
 tl.e.samea.wehoI,lor,,oss..ssourhorHe,s, cattie, chair., tablcH m3 
 in. m„ onts, booK. an,, all chattel property ; and as liab. t o pr , v 
 opul.cly .sold, even to the separation of man, wife, and child -"veto 
 tiesaieo apart of a man, or part of a woman, and of the Lo tjlf 
 wlnlo in the mothers won.b. or at its birth ;-with the wel «„""!. el 
 
 I hat an Al!iance,_a pnrely Kvangeliea! Alliance.-ig reonjrod to reform 
 
 And one oft. .r^.c..::!; ^e^Iti^r 1 T ll^^ IJ 
 ha o b.,man c^.tel slavery as recognised, countenanced. «nd ^ U dp! 
 
 tcd m I J (,hr,stmn divines and by Christian laymen. ^ 
 
 V\«*io not hero allude to those portions of the world callQd l,«n*l,«„ 
 barbar,an. or uncivilized, or to a "ion-ehristian" people ' coutrv no w« 
 s.n^ y connne our ron.arks to Christianized portiLs of onrg.ob: ' 
 
 The Llu-isfan count.y. where such a.. Alliance might bo more omlnentlr 
 fanned, appears to be in the land of our birth, Creal J^ritain A,Tt£ 
 H. London IJristol and Leed, in Edinburgh ^nd Glasgt exi^ lor 
 tuns, wh.ch have haulably laboured bo far; by the proLltioa of 1?," 
 
 ti-e'ibtirirturi''""!'':'''"^' ''"'"■""'^) «■'""- »--'»«o"« «« 
 
 ton (AUss.) in New York city, also at Cincinnati, and at Dayton ^0^^ 
 lively 8,„all price. Get any one of them : They are - ^"*' 
 
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 tory of the 
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 HU u thiitf^, 
 iB, miuical 
 
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 to reform 
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 eminently 
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 of facts 
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 utions 08 
 
 in Bos- 
 
 n (Ohio). 
 
 wa refer 
 
 It Chrla- 
 
 1 follow 
 se books 
 sompara- 
 
 le Abol- 
 the late 
 
 
 Thomas Olarkson, M. A. (originally published in 1808— Referable to It, 
 the evidence taken before the House of Commons, is published by the 
 American Keform 'IVact Society at Cincinnati, price 25 cents.) 
 
 2. A brief notice of American Slavery and the Abolition movement, 
 By the late J. B. Kstlin, P. R. C. S. Bristol ( Kug : ) 2d Kditloo, reprinted 
 by the Leeds Anti-slavery Association (Eng : ) 18,)3— Tweedie, 3;t7 Htrand 
 London, pp. 54, (an excellent epitome on the subject.) 
 
 3. Key to " Uncle Toms Cabin"— by Mrs. U. B. Stowe, Boston, 1854. 
 This is an unanswerable bool: of facts and arguments. 
 
 4. Inside view of Slavery : By C. G. Parsons, M. D., Boston 185.5, pp. 
 818. A book of facts. 
 
 5. The American Slave Code, by Rev. William OJoodell, 3d. Edit., 185.1, 
 pp. 430. (Here will be found the legal relations with facta. A valuable' 
 book, with an e.\cellent letter from Hon. W. Jay, prefi.Ked.) 
 
 6. Slavery and Anti-slavery, by Do., 3d. Kdit. 1855, pp. GOG, (n com- 
 plete review and history of slavery and anti-slav3ry movements, and espe- 
 cially slavery in connection with the American churches and societies.) 
 
 7. My Bondage and my Freedom, By Frederick Douglass, 1855, pp. 464. 
 (Mr. Douglass is proprietor and editor of a newspaper called after his own 
 name, at Rochester, N. Y.) 
 
 8. The Slavery Question, By Rev. John Lawrencv, Diyton (Ohio), 3d 
 Edit. 1854, pp. 224, (This book is the mu/<um inparvo, on the subject, 
 embracing all that is needed ; origin o: slavery, its definition aod illustra- 
 tion, slavery and religion, American churches and slavery, &c, Thi,; i« a 
 book which no man should be without, and states ftll that may be desired 
 to be known. Get it.) 
 
 9. Letters on Slavery, addressed to the Pro-sl-very men of America, 
 showing its illegality in all Ages and Nations— By 0. S. Freeman, pp. 
 108, Boston, B. Marsh, 1855. (This is a book filled vith authorities. ' 'I'he 
 Boston Traveller says, "these letters on slavery will form, foi' future use, 
 an irrefutable text-book upon the subject.") 
 
 Manybooks and pamphlets &e., on the subject of slavery, can be ob- 
 taiaedattheAbolitioii Depository, 48 Beekm an Street, N. York, who.se 
 catalognes with prices, are issued. We briefly refer to "An Enquiry 
 into the Scriptural views of Slavery,"— By Rev. Albert Barnes, Phil. 
 1855 : a perusal of this book would enlighten some pro-slavery minds. See 
 review in « Independent," N. Y., 27th March, 1856. 
 
 Ifthe present system of American Slavery, is much longer recognised 
 «»'. not more generally, openly and freely protested against, by Christian 
 men, the Christian religion may soon only have an existence by name, in the 
 United States of America ! 
 
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 societies. The homJthlZtZ °^"""'«'e''«. churches and religious 
 hope, of ChrisI trail e^^^^^^^^^ ""'^ ^''« «-»'- of 
 
 tal men. i„ the csp^u ^ ; "L: ""' ^ •'^-^"' -^^ ''-- 
 
 has arrived when the cliaralrn '^ Amer.can Slavery. The time 
 
 »en . this wi. i:^!-: LrtrcZ :;^i?;Ch"'-i ^"^^^" 
 
 may be desired, the question will be "wa iT S ' " "'f"™"«oa 
 
 achieved or supported by a .«„ or by a^^J:;, V;T'''"' ''^ 
 may follow also, in this wise • « Xo m« " «.. *m«ja« / And the opinion 
 
 reveled) who ™lll iT! "'V'"'!' °' J"'"""'s« "^ o""^ » *» age 
 
 patriot, and the politician, tho snlTf 7, ^'^^ philanthropist, the 
 
 ^o..ofaiihu.Lfr:drrnS\:t;:^:^^^^^^^ 
 
 VV e pray, however, that we may be snaivd fn on« *i. t . 
 tlnitedStatesandinCanadatake thaf r 1 '^"''''''' ''"^ ^^^ 
 
 the human race by slaverT wS T T T''^ ""^ ^PP'^^""" <>f 
 ought to take. NurrureLotn ."? T'^^'""^"'''' '^"^'^^'^ '^^7 
 (however great or sma I and 11 tl ^'^"'='>«« ^^«' '» world's goods. 
 
 and a ^iehicai;::^:^ ^JJ^^^^^^ V"^^' 
 
 empire "on whoRprpalmoti,,. j >«=" prerogative to belong to an 
 
 .. s.ho. j;::tvirrr.^:::':r^^ 
 
 as an inscription oa their tPn.ni«= p u- ' ^^° acknowledge, 
 
 oatheiredLestoSd cS^^^^^ «"P-- "^^^ovah, and 
 
 andwhodecla.^a„unfalt^Zatd,J , ,?"' °''" shall be slaves,-* 
 Vicro.iA,Ietall«„i;i^X;atl^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 7 ^"°'°"« Q"««» 
 
 ana coanectio.withprosir:tLra:d^^^^^^^^^^^ «^^«"°-^''P 
 
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 Stbatfobd, O.W, April, 1856, 
 
 J- J. E. LINTOIf. 
 
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3ur hope here 
 i3 by the ac- 
 
 and religious 
 he anchor of 
 inful and bru- 
 7- The time 
 5(1 of between 
 I informatiou 
 iomplished or 
 
 the opinion 
 'ian should" I 
 
 lan, and no 
 ts ia this age 
 3an Slavery, 
 thropist, the 
 ir own free- 
 T American 
 
 :he8 in the 
 •pression of 
 inches they 
 rid 'a goods, 
 of a loyal 
 ■long to an 
 r has brav- 
 knowledge, 
 »ovah, and 
 be slaves,'' 
 ous Queen 
 fellowship 
 
 NTON-. 
 
 SLAYER! m THE CHUECHES. &c. 
 
 REVIEW. 
 
 Report OP the New York General Associatiot, (Con- 
 gregauonahst,) .>6th August 1855. With introduction 
 oy J. J. t.. Linton Esq. Stratford, C. W. 
 
 ^ of^T'^^Kr^^ "TuT" '"^J^^^" that demand the attention 
 of the public and challenge discussion, there always tower 
 aloft above the rest, some, which, both on their own account' 
 and because of the relations they bear to others claim our 
 special notice and call for eame^st and Zl Uing ITtion 
 Promment amongst such subjects, stands at the present day 
 the question of human slavery, which is the source of s^o' 
 many and so great evils, social, political, economical. Tha^ 
 man pers.s s in keeping his fellow man in such an abnor 
 mal condition as slavery implies, is one of the strongest 
 
 So, I ^ ■'"'''. '^S^^'^'^S slavery in the liaht of 
 
 history and perceiving its ruinous effects i the case ?f in- 
 dividuals and of nations, can, notwithstanding such per- 
 ception, palliate Its enormities and advocate itfperpefua- 
 non IS unreasonable; but in the case of a minister of The 
 Gospel, a student of the Word of God, such condu- is truly 
 monstrous. t is strange indeed, how any man, livinV S 
 der a Republican Government, which, in theo/y Ifeas" 
 maintains the right of the individual to life, liber^y'and the 
 
 pursuit of happiness, can, without feelings ofdetesta ion wit- 
 ness the enthralment of three millions of his fellow mTn 
 without putting forth one effort for their enfranchisTmTm ' 
 butunsurpassably strange it is, how any one caLThTm: 
 
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 10 
 
 nn^thVr'^' f *^^* ?°'l''^ '^'^•^^^ "^'s^i'^n it is to " bind 
 up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the cantives 
 
 and the opening of the prison doors tother^haSebmnd'' 
 
 esS npf.'n?l •^^^"•"•^•^^■^ unchaslity, violates the common- 
 rhwJ 'T?""" "^^"'■^' ^"^^ transforms those whom 
 
 Chnstmnity would make freemen of the Lord into the c hat" 
 
 ucVlX^rit"^''"', ""'"^ y^^' f^^'^"^''^' monstrous as 
 SUCH a thug IS It IS, alas, an every day occurrence. It is 
 
 not mere worldly men-tiiose who are living by th^ unre! 
 SvSt «f their bondsmen-those who enfielAhemseTve; 
 by trafficking m the bodies and souls of their fellow men- 
 who act thus, but men who are called religious Ameri 
 can churches and ecclesiastical organization's of almosTev-" 
 ery denomination, utter but faint, if any, remonstrances 
 
 aSof th^'r^^rf ' i'".^^^^^^ defence^'of slaveho dfng 
 and of the return of the fugitive, have been written by lead- 
 ing clergymen, without forfeiture of ministerial standing- 
 
 est positions m heir respective bodies, whilst others^ with 
 at least equal talents, for bearing testimony against slavery 
 have been deserted, defamed and left without support S 
 leading religious periodicals, are either silent ov are ranged 
 on the side of the oppressor. The great Missionary organ- 
 mtions are timid and recreant, while Tract SocieUes, mu- 
 hll ^""^ ""^'T^^' '^' '^^''^^ they print, in order to save 
 s^fv^« t^'^"" °^''^" ^^^^ty slave-owner, and enrich tl,em! 
 selves at the expense of truth and honesty, and every prin- 
 ciple of upriglit dealing. In view of such facts, we^ara 
 called upon, as members of the same family, to lift uo the 
 voice of warning and of expostulation. The cause ofhu- 
 mamty and philanthropy knows no territorial limit, is bound- 
 ed by no geographical lines. If a heathen could say that he 
 regarded nodimg that pertained to humanity to be foreign 
 to him, much more are we bound by every consideration 
 to interest ourselves in the fate of those of ^ our fellow men 
 Who, at our very doors, are treated as chattels personal, strip- 
 ped of every attribute of humanity,and subjected under aRe- 
 pubhcan Government, through the action of their fellows to 
 cruelty more severe than despotism ever devised in any age 
 
is to " bind 
 e captives, 
 ive bound," 
 3an so pros- 
 rogates the 
 le common- 
 ose whom 
 to the chat- 
 mstrous as 
 nee. Ii is 
 the unre- 
 ihemselvea 
 ow men — 
 3. Ameri- 
 almost ev- 
 onstrances 
 Lveholding 
 in by lead- 
 standing; 
 md proud- 
 hers, with 
 St slavery, 
 ort. The 
 re ranged 
 ry organ- 
 -ties, mu- 
 r to save 
 ch them- 
 ^ery prin- 
 !, we are 
 ift up the 
 ie of hu- 
 is bound- 
 y that he 
 i foreign 
 deration, 
 low men 
 lal, strip- 
 der aRe- 
 Ilows, to 
 any age. 
 
 11 
 
 'We had occasion lately to notice, though briefly, the pro- 
 ceedmgs of some of the religious bodies at their anniversa- 
 ry meetings m the United States and promised then to de- 
 scribe more fully, at a future time, the relation of these bo- 
 diestothegreat question of slavery. The publication of 
 the tract whose title stands above, as well as some similar 
 works which are now before us, affords us an opportunity 
 ol reviewing the subject in some of its numerous bearings, 
 and of exhibiting the delinquencies of the Church in re! 
 spect to this sin, which, without its countenance and en- 
 couragement, as the distinguished Barnes has honestly con- 
 lessed, could not exist for a day. 
 
 In the first place it is worthy of remark, that the course 
 Ol the Church in regard to the sin of slavery in the United 
 S»tates, has been for many years, as in the case of the State, 
 a downward course. Goodell in his w^ork entitled, « Sla- 
 very and Antislavery" shows us that the Friends iA their 
 
 HYi^r™^^''"?^ *""?'' ^^'''''^ ^^""^ o^ the subject as early 
 as 1776, enacting that "the owners of slaves, who refused 
 to execute proper instruments for giving slaves their free- 
 dom were to be excluded from membership or disowned." 
 1 he Congregationahsts also, in New England, were equal- 
 ly uncompromising, and about the same time, Ihey resolved 
 as a body, " that the slave trade and the slavery of the Af- 
 
 tTrfthf '' ^' '-^^'i^'^ ""^""S US, is a gross violation of 
 the righteousness and benevolence which are so much in- 
 ?SL rl*''; ^T*^^'- "1 ^''-/«- -« ^-7/ not toll 
 wp fin!f ?/ Z^'\ C°'^^"gdown a few years later [1780] 
 
 SL . The Conference acknowledges that Slavery is 
 contrary to the laws of God, man and nature, hurtful to BO- 
 S' contrary to the dictates of conscience and pure reli- 
 gion, and doing what we would not that others should do 
 onrS^ u ^1^^^ J^^"' ^^'^'' disapprobation upon all 
 iZllT^" T^"" H'^P '^^^'■'' ^"^ *hey advise their freedom." 
 101 ttr^i'T f^ml^ee's History of the Methodists, page 
 whhln ^h^e Methodist Episcopal Church was organiJd 
 with a number of express rules on the subject which stipu- 
 lated THAT SLAVERY SHOULD NOT BE CONTINUED IN THE 
 
 CHURCH ; and Wesley's tract on slavery, in which it was 
 designated, as "the sum of all villainiS" was distJkld 
 
m 
 
 12 
 
 by the Methodist itinerant preachers as a part of their offi 
 cial business. The General Assembly of ff PresbyterlfL" 
 Church adopted in 1794, a note to the r40nrl r,„ i- ^ f 
 larger Catec'hisn, in which they1a^^/^,:' e'^ C^^r 
 
 SS9ffii='~£^~ 
 
 ^s^^-^n?s^si-fa;r^^ 
 
 the Baptists resoved" that slavery is a vrXn. j ■ • ' 
 of the rights of nature and ineon^i en, wS tSZ 
 govemtnent, and therefore we reeommend it to our breth 
 
 "u fromt: hnd° IZr^'T '" ^?"'P'"'= '"' ho"M 
 lJo!i- • ^"^" ^^s the position of some of thp 
 
 leading sects m regard to this question at that eTrlv dav 
 Let us glance br etly at their course since that ime and Ji 
 their present position. In 1801 the Genera rnnV! 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Chu^h'^T^-dl ""^tTTe 
 more than ever convinced of the ^reat pvii n'" Af • ci 
 very, which still exists in the Sed StaTes^ oT ^^^' 
 here the studied dilution of the teSonrof 1780 Xn 
 slavery was admitted to be not merely " an evil ''but a .^ 
 contrary to the laws of God, man and nature " ^^,*f^'''' 
 down to 1836 we find the Conference teld at Cinoinnat? 
 declare that they wholly disclaim any right, wishTrTnten' 
 
 r^id'f '"^'^ ^'^^'^''" ''''' ^"d P^i^^i-^I re7a^t on of masl 
 ter and slave as it exists in the slave holding States ofT. 
 union." This was adopted by a vote ofllotoU Whv 
 so great a change ? The answer is to be found in he fZ 
 
 hat too many of the ministers were themselves slaveholders 
 In strict accordance with this resolution were S sen ' 
 ments of tne leading individual ministers of this church 
 For example, Prof. Simons of Virginia Conference declared' 
 « that slavery which exists in America, was founded in 
 
 ^tt d .l'^"'^^l"\'^^T^"", '^y' that «'God not orJy per^ 
 muted Slavery but absolutely provided for its perpetuation • 
 the act of nolding a slave, then, is not a shi.'^ SshoD 
 Heddmg, a Northern man, presiding at the New England 
 Conference m 1838, refused to put resolutions clSn^ 
 the buying and selling of slaves, and declaring slavery to 
 
IS 
 
 be a moral evil. It has been asserted that since the divis- 
 ion of the church in 1844, on the expediency of having 
 «laveholding Bishops, the northern branch was anti-slavery, 
 lo this a sufficient answer will be found in the following 
 statement lately made by Ziori>s Herald, a leading Method- 
 ist paper published in Boston. « Our church (north)" says 
 tlie Herald,'' tolerates iilaveholdrnQ ad libitum in its Laity : 
 a man owning a thousand slaves finds admission to her 
 communion just as freely as a man who owns none. In a 
 word, slaveholding works no more disqualification for mem- 
 bership in the Methodist Episcopal Church than it does in 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church South." To corroborate 
 tnis statement, the editor quotes a resolution of the Balti- 
 more Conference, determining to keep travelling preachers 
 tree Irom Slavery but determining at the same time "not 
 to Hold connection with an Ecclesiastical body that shall 
 make non-slaveholding- a condition of membership in the 
 cnurch. In 1853, a prominent member of conference said : 
 Slaveholders claimed to be in the church by ri<r/,t and 
 under the discipline of the church, and not merely by suffer- 
 ance and tolerance ; and he (Mr. Collins) endor^d their 
 views fully, and completely." 
 
 Turning now to the Presbyterian church we find a state of 
 things precisely similar. In 1816 tlie General Assembly, 
 while It called slavery a "mournful evil '' directed the era- 
 
 i«'/« J'^ o ''*'' ^""^ l^^^) ^^ ^he eighth commandment. In 
 I8J5, Mr. Stewart of Illinois a ruling Elder, in advocating 
 sundry anti-slavery memorials, urged the General Assembly 
 to take action on the subject. He said ; 
 
 " In this Church, a man may take a free born child, force 
 It away from its parents, to whom God gave it in charge, 
 , saying bring it up for me,' and sell it as a beast, or iiold it 
 in perpetual bondage, and not only escape corporal punish- 
 ment, but really be esteemed an excellent Christian. Nay 
 even ministers of the Gospel and Doctors of Divinity may 
 engage m this unholy traffic and yet sustain their high and 
 holycaling. Elders, Ministers and Doctors of Divinity 
 ^""^u^ r ' ^"'^^' '^"g'^g'^d in the practice." 
 
 The facts were not disputed, a Committee was appoint- 
 ed which reported m 1836 that "the subject of slavery is in- 
 separably connected with the laws of many of the States, 
 
I i 
 
 14 
 
 I he matter was thprpfni-o ,-„^ a -. .'^^^ our i^nurcnes;" 
 
 .ha Church rd'tMe'dTnotetldtd^^^LTsch ^" '^ 
 differing on manv nointi th*.v« k u ^ Schools, but, 
 
 mony o? the sub^e^ct of ^'a^Sy 'pro^'" ^'"'^''^"^ ^"■ 
 Old School body iesolve « S i<, 'f?^ ^^^^ *" y^""' ^^e 
 quence to the besUnterests of hp rh k' .^'"^l"^' ^«»««- 
 of Slavery shall not Tdtcus ed'' a^th '^^\l^' ^"*^J^«^ 
 
 r^EraLf is.^ HV^^^^^ 
 
 amine the actionofthe r inroh a f ^^^d no one canex- 
 ing, with Mr GoodelJ thlThnti f^f '''^^^ 
 between thi dSf bmnches Th"""'^ 1'^^^^"^^ «^^«t« 
 holders under its iurisdic tinn tL„ 7u^ ?^ ''^^ "^^''^ ^lave- 
 ate the practice T e one do.A^.- ^ '''^^''- ''"* ^'^^^ ^«^*^^- 
 bers, th? other^o reTai^Tfet^^The o^e'dts h T, "^'"- 
 Slavery to be a Biblp In«t,-t„/;^ iu , ^°®^ ^* believing 
 
 be ' unrighteous' an^i^^rSe ''^hl'''' '''T^"-" ^* ^° 
 tence of Inv intention tS S«r * '^ °°^ "'^'^^^ »« Pre- 
 
 ers,theothe^rhSthero?r^^^^^^ f? ^'^ ^'^^^^^'d- 
 
 no information' of ^0^^^ n^ ^itin £^^^"^/hat it ' has 
 y-ns to go out of itsb^undaLrtr-C tS^^^^J 
 
 of Tht%tSn^.ThtVetrt^^^^^ l"^ -~ 
 have in their Associations a nJ T^ ^ave been expected, 
 
 course practi.SlTthe s^e T^ P"^^"^^ « 
 
 slaveholding Pre«bvLi.n!" h ^ ^u"^^ fraternized with 
 and otherwise wharthir? ^ ""^ ^"'^^'^ ''^ resolution 
 ful,andhrvecolinedc.;i:^^^^^^^^ ^"r/^^ ^« «^»- 
 
 ing," a distinction rt very Spt b le^; t-^ " ^^'-^hokJ- 
 nary intelligence Prof Stnotf V a , P^^^ons of ordi- 
 
 iss;rdi'tS~^^ 
 
 ins .P roW.Crnt^rr„"h^ tr.1ite- 
 
 
IS 
 
 existence of slavery was not sin ; that the aJmse of it was the 
 only essential and fundamental wrong ; and therefore the 
 relation of master and slave may exist, sulvafule, et salva 
 ecdesta, « without violating the Christian faith, or the 
 Church." And after the passage of the infamous Fugitive 
 Slave Bill in 1850, the Professor was amongst the first to 
 appear as the defender and eulogist of Hon. Daniel Webster 
 for the part he took in procuring and advocating that in- 
 iquitous measure, and vindicated his defence at length in a 
 published pamphlet. Then again the publications of the 
 Congregational Body, such as the Christian Spectator, teach 
 that the Bible " contains no explicit prohibition of Slavery 
 It recognises both in the Old and New Testaments, such a 
 constitution of society, and it lends its authority to enforce 
 Je mutual obligations resulting from that constitution." 
 Ihe Editor of the Vermont Chronicle, (Rev. Joseph Tracy) 
 now of the New York Observer, wrote of slaves, « that they 
 have no right to be taught to read immediately. '■> And 
 whUe advocating the education of such, " ivould pass no 
 sentence either of condemnation or approval, on those w/io 
 withheld this art from their slaves. ^^ 
 
 The Baptists are not behind their brethren of other eccle- 
 siastical organizations, in defending slavery and frowninj? 
 down all attempts at abolition. Southern Baptists teach 
 that oflopttng slavery as one of the alloived relations of So- 
 ciety, Christ made it the province of his religion only to 
 prescribe the reciprocal duties of the relation. The Sa- 
 vannah River Baptist Association of Ministers decided in 
 i.^''-fi 1 • i'^'''^ insti^tution of marriage must be 
 
 modified m conformity with the slave code, and that slave 
 cohabitation, for the increase of their human chattels, may 
 be enforced by Ministers, without subjecting; them to ''churrk 
 
 of thr-" '\'f^ ^T ^''.\ ^^- Freeman,=in aTexposmon 
 of the views of Baptists, said: "the right of holding%laves 
 IS clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by pre- 
 S?i ^? ^^^^V^Ple-", At the north there is delightful unity 
 with the south on this subject. The Rev. Drf BoIles,of 
 Massachusetts said, in 1834, "there is a pleasing union 
 among the multiplying thousands of Baptists throughout the 
 land; our southern brethcrn are generally, both ministers 
 and people, slaveholders." " The great majority of north- 
 
Kiigion to de HmUeJ« « '•^"'' "«^'" "> «'="'l'"g the.. 
 
 and j„„ico with hy^ocriay and orael.fTbM he, v^™"pS. 
 openly repealing tlie awful blasphemy, thartl^^nreSs of 
 
 i-mnMl n ^ / ^^.'^^l^^'o"' at times oppose our Societies 
 S iln'^itvl^f "^ '''^'^r' ^^ "'* incompatible whh' 
 fa "o he cau'o nr/''\""''"^r ''^^ information use- 
 
 ver^ preached hv /.''"'• ^-'^^ '"^"''^"''' J"«tifyi"g Sla- 
 
 ?L no'r r r "^y a clergyman m presence of Bishop [ves 
 
 a native of a free state) were actually republished as a re 
 
 fe^^!"'' ^"' the author was aLr.LdrmarBi:h;; 
 
 Un1tTd^\VtesS^""°K-''''^"t"^'-^^'^'«"« ''''' inthe 
 iJnitca states on the subject of Slavery. In the most of 
 
 them there are noble exceptions as Regards indSa 
 
 Churches, and m all of them, of members, who are most 
 
 devoted friends of the slave ; but we are' now wrTtirof 
 
 the general characteristics of the great body of the mili^ 
 
 hUe'o^f a ""T"''- r ^^^^''"=" '''' «^"^"- orJalatfonT bm 
 me of a very satisfactory nature can be said. The Pro- 
 testant Methodist Church (without Bishops) allows Slav^ 
 holding The Dutch Reformed Church co-operates whh 
 auhe M '"^ ^^'T^'"' '? Missionary enterprfzes, thoTgh 
 at the late general synod which met at New York, thfv 
 refused to admit into fellowship the North Carolina c a^e* 
 
atement and 
 tvith that of 
 
 xJing THBIR 
 
 rch may be 
 himself an 
 iom and of 
 on the duty 
 he says — 
 iform to the 
 remained a 
 lict of truth 
 ery priests 
 of slavery, 
 shrine, and 
 )recepts of 
 I Slavery, 
 ion?, what- 
 ler in pnb- 
 advancing 
 Societies, 
 tible with 
 lation use- 
 fying Sla- 
 hop [ves, 
 , as a re- 
 ie Bishop 
 
 !t8 in the 
 most of 
 idividual 
 are most 
 i^riting of 
 e minis- 
 ions, but 
 :'lie Pro- 
 's Slave- 
 tes with 
 though 
 )rk, they 
 I classes 
 
 17 
 
 tet^^lTr^ l^^^"™^^.^''"'-^^ ^"-ne of whose ministers 
 were Slaveholders. Unitarians, Lniversalists and Resto- 
 
 Xr\i:r'"'1l\? '" Slaverycncstionas allhe 
 others, lie l-rocvviU Haptisis and the Scotch Covenanters 
 take anti-slavery ground. The Cumberland Presbyterians 
 refuse to legislate on .be subjcHUol\shxvery on theTef hat 
 ^as spiritual bodies they have no eogniineeof ilvil mat- 
 ters. The Disciples, or Campbellites, are slaveholders 
 
 verse i^'trH-n''"? '.''■"""'^.' '"'''^ ^'"^^ " ^''-« ^^^^ on^ 
 verse in the Bible inhibiting it," a„d concluded that "it 
 IS no immoral.' But the low views of the Ciiurch in re- 
 gard to this whole question will be still more apparent 
 whenweeonrie to consider the action of eceles astical 
 Boards and Missionary Societies, a branch of our subject 
 which we must reserve for a second article •• 
 
 In reviewing the foregoing statements, ihen, as regards 
 he Southern Church, w.. find the following principled e^ 
 abhsiied by them as summed up brieily by Mrs. Stowe in 
 
 menf.'l'".^"''?^""^'"^"'''"- ^"reachilf these state- 
 ments we have documentary evidence before us. 1. That 
 savery 18 an innocent and lawful relation as much as that 
 o parent and child, husband and wife or any other Tawfu 
 relation of society. 2. That it is consistent with the mo" 
 iraternal regard lor the good of the slave. 3 That maS^rs 
 
 eof eVr ? TiS:;'""l' '"^^^'""« ^'-o^v'ilhouTThd 
 consent. 4. 1 hat the right to buy, sell and liold men for 
 
 T'f hat'thlf " "^^^rl:^V, ^'^l'^^'«« P-mission of God 
 are rti^t t rr TV''' ^"'"''^ ^''^ '^^"^''^^*^^" "^ ^^e slave 
 tht rt\ ^ *'" ^PP'-^'^^'io" of the reflecting part of 
 
 the Christian community. U. That tlie fact of slavery is 
 
 "a Lromv" 1"Tr'^^^^",' *^"^ '■« p^-^y --o^ ponti- 
 
 HmPnf^L^*! H'e right ol masters to dispose of the 
 time of their slaves has been distinctly recognized bv ihl 
 
 UnheTstf "^^^; '• ''y S'--y a"t"Sstst tt 
 revelation H' ' 1 ''''' ^ '"'''"' "'^'- ^' ^hat without a new 
 revelation from heaven, no man is entitled to pronounce 
 
 BhouIdV""^-! i^- 1^''«t^h««'^Paration of slaves b^sale 
 allowed t ^''''^''^ "' ^^P^'-^^'"'^ l^y death, and the parties 
 allowed to marry again. 11. That the testimony of colored 
 
 person"' l1 ^^^^h^^.f'"-^'!^" ^ ^' ^^"^^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^vhTte 
 person. 12. That it is right and proper to put down all 
 
18 
 
 enquiry upon thif? subject by Lynoli law. What now is the 
 position of the Northern Church? One of deep compli- 
 city. All their inlinenco, ami it is mighty, lias been 
 thrown on the side of the oj)|)ressur. Their course lias been 
 one oi temporizing ami concession, until the distinction be- 
 twoen North and South, in too many instances, has been 
 obliterated. The friends of freodoin and of the slave have 
 been characterized as fanatics ; and men whose whole lives 
 have been spent in acts of benevolence and mercy have 
 been shunned as infidels. The position of the various 
 Northern Missionary Organizations will be gathered from 
 the Tract which has been republished by Mr. Linton, and 
 which he is distributing widely at his own expense. It is 
 well worthy the attention of religious men, and especially, 
 that portion of them on whom our Bible, Tract, and Sab- 
 bath School Societies depend for support. 
 
 SECOND ARTICLE. 
 
 In our previous article on the above subject, we traced 
 briefly the course of the American Churches of all the lead- 
 ing denominations, and proved, we think, very satisfacto- 
 rily, that that course has been one, not of progress, but of re- 
 trogression. We showed that, while almost every sect at 
 one time or another spoke out plainly against slavery, and 
 m most instances declared slaveholding sinful, all the great 
 sects are at the present moment substantially harmonious 
 in repudiating their quondam statements, and in declaring 
 the institution of human slavery, as it exists in the United 
 States, not necessarily sinful— in other words, not a ein per 
 se. We adduced documentary evidence to testify that this 
 IS true of the principal organizatior s, both northern and 
 southern. We stated that, in the nor h, there were Churches 
 an almost all the various bodies, ? s there were individu- 
 al members in the Churches, wl o dissented from these 
 views, and who came out openly against the atrocities of 
 slavery, and hesitated not to declare slavery a. sin and slave- 
 holding ««/«/. These, however, are exceptions, whose ve- 
 ry existence only serves to establish the charges preferred 
 
 fm 
 
19 
 
 low is the 
 p cornpli- 
 lias been 
 lias been 
 nction be- 
 ms been 
 lave liave 
 liole lives 
 •cy, have 
 I various 
 red from 
 iton, and 
 ise. It is 
 specially, 
 and Sab- 
 
 ine traced 
 the lead- 
 atisfacto- 
 but of re- 
 ry sect at 
 very, and 
 the great 
 rmonious 
 ieclaring 
 e United 
 a sin per 
 that this 
 hern and 
 Churches 
 individu- 
 3m these 
 Deities of 
 nd slave- 
 rhose ve- 
 preferred 
 
 against the great mass of i)rofessing Northern Christiana. 
 Uur oDject in the present artiele is to take a cursory dance 
 at the relation ol slavery io the gn-at Missionr.ry (Laniza- 
 tions and [ract and Hook Societies in the neighbouring 
 Union, and to see whether they do not, both by what they do 
 and by what they iail to do, strengthen the slave power, 
 impede anti-slavery action, and seriously injure, not mere- 
 ly t lie cause ot civil ami religious Ireedoiu, but the cause of 
 Christianity, with which these are identified. Heiore en- 
 tering directly on this subject, we would advert lor a mo- 
 mentto the case of the Haptist Church, whose position and 
 views we have been accused of misreprese-tin"- 
 
 Foi the benefit of the friendly critic who called our at- 
 tention to this subject, we produce an extract from an ar- 
 ticle which lately appeared in the Amerimu Baptist, and 
 which we submit, bears out fully the general statements we 
 advanced m our former article. The writer, after saying 
 that the Baptists have no great ecclesiastical organization 
 to which memorials on the subject may be addressed— that 
 the Churches are nominally independent, and may occupy 
 such aj)osition in relation to slavery, as they severally will, 
 
 "There is, however, practically, no such thing as with- 
 drawing ehurch fellowship from slaveholders, and still re- 
 Tv^f l"' ^ denomination. The Church that excludes 
 slaveholders rom Its communion, to be consistent, must al- 
 so exclude those who commune with slaveholders; and 
 the C;^ . to exclude the great body of the Church'es, in 
 
 shed d^t t L'''^ ,? '"^ r'f ^T"^' 'T''^ ''"l^^' 'i^B been Cher- 
 utterivlt ?"'"™. ^''^'•'^'^e^ ""der a conviction of the 
 
 utterly anti-ciinstian character of slavery, might separate 
 themselves irom the Southern Churches,^;mong wlX'e 
 abomination is practised. But the probabilit? of such a 
 separation seems less, to-day, than it did ten or twenty ye'<rs 
 lil ^fj""e> there has been, from motives of expediency, a 
 separation of the missionary and other benevolent organf- 
 b?,t tht K "^^'f./';" two sections were formerly combined ; 
 
 Thl .it f r d^r''^'"^^^""^^ ""^ty" remains unbroken. 
 The mmisters of each section are cordially received by t,e 
 Churches of the other ; and the constant interchange as op- 
 portunities arise, between the slaveholding Baptists of the 
 
so 
 
 I Mi) 
 
 Sotith and the non-.«>lavc'l). .Idinir Baptists oftlio No/tli of 
 fj»e cu.lomary tokens of in ).lly recognition, provoR that 
 iJlaveholtlms^Ms rcjranh-d by both as not incoinpat.blo with 
 Christian characlor. Indeed thr- separation of the former 
 Irom the latter, in their or<,'anized benevoh-nt movements 
 IS not to \Hi aseribe(J to any essential and irreeoneiUMible or')- 
 position ot views relative to slavery. While the Southern 
 societies are avowedly pro-slavery, the Northern are not anti- 
 slavery, but merely, as they profess, neutral. Jf they are 
 not openly and directly lor slavery, neither are theyaiminst 
 It. Iheyputno dillerence between the slaveholder and 
 the non slaveholder, but welcome both on equal terms They 
 make no discrimination between robbery and riirhteous ffain 
 but receive, when proflercd for the purposes they have in 
 view, the Iruit of unre(puted toil, or the price of blood, as 
 readily as the legitimate earnin^'s of honest labour. In fiCt 
 the entire question of slavery is a liiin<,r which th.-v ignore! 
 as foreign to the « single object' to which the dilferent or' 
 ganizations have severally restricted themselves. Accord- 
 ingly we do not find, in the piblished proceedings of these 
 Sjocieties at their recent mn • ngs, a single allusion to this 
 gigantic evil, this chief sin of the American Churches as 
 well as of the American people, this grand moral quest'ion 
 which is shaking the nation to its centre, and movini? the 
 civilized world. The American Baptist Missionary Union, 
 the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the Americaii 
 Baptist Publication Society, the American and Foreign Bi- 
 ble Society, and the American Bible Union, whatever else 
 they may say, havr not one word to utter, in condemnation 
 ot a system which reduces more than three millions of the 
 people of this nation to the condition of mere chattels, mer- 
 chandize liable to be sold upon the shambles to the highest 
 bidder, which abolishes among all these rnillioii. t|. • in. 
 stitution of marriage, nullilks the authority mCi aP -^.^ 
 rights of the parental relation, and tears away i'u i h- r;i t/e 
 key of knowledge, by sternly prohibiting their education. 
 rhey are zealous to remove the heathenism of foreign lands 
 but they have no reproof for the system which creates a 
 ov/er type of heathenism at home. Nay, with one consent, 
 7 receive to their fraternal embrace, as brethren guilty of 
 . '.'- j, th^ men who openly support and defend the evij 
 
 \ ♦ 
 
 3< 
 
Ii« North, of 
 provt's that 
 patiblo with 
 the former 
 inovoinents, 
 ncihfiibleop- 
 ho Soutliern 
 uro nut anti- 
 If they are 
 thpy against 
 i'lu)Ul('r and 
 terms. They 
 hteous gain, 
 hey have in 
 of bh)0(l, aa 
 mr. In f*ct, 
 tlu'v ignore, 
 (lillercnt or- 
 8. Accord* 
 ngH of these 
 ision to this 
 'hnrches, at 
 ml question 
 moving the 
 niiry Union, 
 e American 
 Foreign Bi- 
 liatever else 
 ndemnation 
 llions of the 
 lattels, mer- 
 the highest 
 ioiu tl<.' in. 
 mCi all tho 
 ' I i^"ni t!;E 
 education, 
 eign lands, 
 h creates a 
 ne consent, 
 en guilty of 
 nd the evil 
 
 tt 
 
 system which inevitably produces these evil fruits And 
 yet these Societ.es, which thus turn away f o m tlu crv 
 of the poor and needy, and which thus join h nd wi f 
 tl^^ op,.^.or, are sustained by the Nl^lherrt^t^ 
 
 V. a ha.r^ before us abundant proof to nhow further tJ.it 
 «"tonly cordmluy of se„tiu.enl>revuils between h'M*^ 
 
 8ent.a[ agreement upon the slavery .luestion be vvee^tho 
 leading and mduential me.nbers of boll.. It will b^ remem 
 berec' too, by many of our reader., how the Kc v Dr Kndr 
 
 made by h..u so.ne time ago at Branllord, apo htt.^d for 
 If not defended slavery, on the Southern oleu th- 1 itls i m' 
 
 tSencv of I in s I '"""T"^ '" ''"• ^'"'''-^'^ «""'- ^"^ 
 are those of moft of . . T^'''"''^ '^^''' ^'^'^''^ «^'ntiments 
 
 NortSThelrD^'i'^'o Nlw^ToTk ^ 
 
 aC Ko^for:M"''" of Nortir'carolina, immSe?y 
 
 amSg'tL Bantst ^'.i"' ^l^^litioni^n. will go down 
 the co?e on thi«^i I ^" °"'' P'*"«ip^l men arelound to 
 evhibil^^^ , . ''^'^ question. The triennial Convention 
 iredtnd"ftv.r„"r" °[---! g-ndeur. AboT wo 
 
f ^ *■ 
 
 22 
 
 ir 
 
 11 
 
 I 
 
 i r-f 
 
 possession, calmness, tlie Christian spirit, predominated 
 throughout the whole scene. #****> 
 
 " At the communion board on the Lord's day, the scene 
 was overwhelming. In view of the Cross, the hundreds that 
 participated were all one. No test other than our dear Lord's 
 requirements was thought of. To God be all the glory." ! ! ! 
 
 Turning now to the Missionary Societies, let us see what 
 is the position of the American Board of Foreign Missions, 
 in which the Congregationalists, New School Presbyterians, 
 and the Dutch Reformed Churches co-operate. The report 
 before us declares that the action of the Board at its meet- 
 ing at Hartford in 1854, " placed it in a position on the sub- 
 ject of slavery that should satisfy every reasonable mind." 
 But its action did not satisfy every reasonable mind. What 
 was the action referred to ? Simply this : It refused to be 
 bound by a law of 'the Choctaws which forbade the Mis- 
 sionaries of the Board to teach the children in their Sunday 
 Schools to read even tlie Word of God ; and farther, the 
 Board endorsed the letter of Mr. Treat, one of their Secre- 
 taries, who visited the Indian Missions in 1848. Now, 
 whilst it must be admitted by all that in doing this, the 
 Board made a most important step in advance of its form- 
 er position, still, when we consider the character of Mr. 
 Ticat's letter, and the circumstances of the country at the 
 time of the Hartford meeting, we do not think that very 
 much cause of self-gratulation exists. It must be remem- 
 bered that Mr. Treat's celebrated letter of the 22d of June, 
 1848, nowhere speaks of slavery as a sin to be dealt with 
 as other sins, and as a sufficient bar to admitting slavehold- 
 ers to the communion table. It is true, it is severe against 
 the system of slavery, but very tolerant of the practice. "A 
 system of slavery" it says, " is always and everywhere sin- 
 ful." Farther — " we do not claim that either Christ or his 
 Apostles expressly condemned this system (domestic sla- 
 very) in the New Testament ;" altliough he elsewhere ad- 
 mits that it is at war with the rights of man, and opposed 
 to the principles of the Gospel. Such doctrine, then, is not 
 and cannot be satisfactory to the consciences of anti-slavery 
 Chistians. It will not do for the Board, the most advanced 
 member ofwhich is only what is called anti-slavery — a very 
 diiferent thing, both in principle and practice, from being 
 
yredomlnated 
 
 * * 
 
 ay, the scene 
 Hundreds that 
 ir dear Lord's 
 le glory." ! ! ! 
 t US see what 
 gn Missions, 
 resbyterians, 
 The report 
 i at its meet- 
 a on the sub- 
 lable mind." 
 mind. What 
 refused to be 
 )ade the Mis- 
 their Sunday 
 1 farther, the 
 f their Secre- 
 1848. Now, 
 jing this, the 
 e of its form- 
 racter of Mr. 
 ountry at the 
 ink that very 
 st be remem- 
 22d of June, 
 36 dealt with 
 ag slave hold- 
 jvere against 
 practice. "A 
 irywhere sin- 
 Christ or his 
 lomestic sla- 
 Isewhere ad- 
 and opposed 
 3, then, is not 
 '. anti-slavery 
 ost advanced 
 very — a very 
 !, from being 
 
 23 
 
 an Abolitionist, be it remembered— to tell us that we must 
 be satisfied with their conduct, so long as " overt acts" of 
 cruelty towards slaves are necessary to dis<inalify for church 
 mernbership. But in forming an estimate of the value of 
 the late action of the Board, it must be borne in mind that, 
 at the time of the Hartford meeting, the anti-slavery senti- 
 ment of the North was raised to the strongest pitch, in conse- 
 quence of the action of the Legislature in the Kansas and 
 Nebraska matters; the encroachment of the slave-power had 
 begun to alarm the Northerners, and the members of the 
 Board were wise enough to understand the signs of the times. 
 Outside pressure" was thus brought to bear upon them. 
 The Rev. Dr. Beecher said, "if you fail to meet this issue, 
 your inlluence IS gone beyond the mountains. And you 
 must do It now, or you will never have another chance." 
 Ihe Rev. D. Pomeroy, one of the Secretaries, said «h e 
 
 K V?i / i"''"''^ rT''^ his duty to say that he believed 
 that the feelings of the country are such that though this 
 action (a reference of the whole subject to the Prudential 
 Committee for the purpose of giving a quietus) might har- 
 monize us here, it will not satisfy the pe. -pie at large." 
 The practical result of this may be learned from a state- 
 ment oi one of the most distinguished members of the Board, 
 who voted to endorse Mr. Treat's letter, and who, since 
 that time, said to Mr. Tappan, of New York, " there will 
 not I presume, be any change at the Indian Missions on the 
 subjec of slavery." The position of the Board then, as 
 stated by authority, is, in substance, this :-" Slaveholding 
 in Itself IS not sinful ; the abuses of the system are to be re- 
 garded, and slaveholders are not to be excluded from the 
 W !«<;^^t the meeting of the Board in Utica, held 
 JfinA'J^ y the subject was again up and was "finally" 
 disposed of. The Rev. Geo. W. Wood of New York, went 
 
 aw and Cherokee Mission Churches. He presented to the 
 tlu^fl'^^ °^ the Board a lengthy report,'^embracing the 
 result of his enquiries and consultations with the mission- 
 anes and churches. The conclusions thus arrived at are 
 W^riZfA ^.f ''^' of propositions, and were unanimous- 
 ly ^adopted by the Board. The following is one of them :- 
 While, as m war, there pan be no shedding of blood 
 
M 
 
 24 
 
 "without sin somewhere attached, and yet the individual 
 soldier may not be guilty of it ; so, while slavery is always 
 smful, we cannot esteem every one who is legally a slave- 
 holder a wrongdoer for sustaining the legal relation. When 
 it is made unavoidable by the laws of the State, the obli- 
 gations of guardianship or the demands of humanity, it 
 is not to be deemed an olience against the rule of Christian 
 rjght. Yet, missionaries are careful to guard, and in 
 the proper way to warn others to guard, against unduly ex- 
 lending this plea of necessity or the good of the slave 
 against making it a cover for the love and practice of 
 slavery, or a pretence for not using efforts that are lawful 
 and practicable to extinguish this evil." 
 
 The report further states that there are now 20 slavehold- 
 ers in the Choctaw Mission Churches, and 17 slaveholders 
 in their Churches among the Cherokees. " This, " says the 
 Free Presbyterian," is the conclusion of all the high-sound- 
 ing professions of anti-slavery zeal and principle put forth 
 in behalf of the American Board by its friends last year. 
 It takes its place alongside of all the slaveholding Churches 
 of the land. Its principles and practice are identical, on 
 this subject, with those of the New and Old School Presby- 
 terians, Methodists North and South, Episcopalians, Bap- 
 tists, &c. These sects all hold that the legal relation of 
 owner and owned between man and man is not sinful, and 
 all clairn that their slaveholding members are sustaining 
 the relation for good and benevolent purposes. They all 
 freely condemn slavery " as a system," but stoutly deny 
 that those who practice and uphold the system are guilty, 
 provided they are duly attentive to prayer and preaching-,' 
 and forms of piety. And this is just the position into which 
 the American Board has quietly settled down. " Oh, most 
 lame and impotent conclusion ! " 
 
 _ While trying to apologise for the Home Missionary So- 
 ciety (in which Congregationalists and New School Pres- 
 byterians co-operate,) the Report admits its complicity with 
 slavery. Slaveholders fellowship in its Mission Churches, 
 and slaveholding Churches are its beneficiaries ! ! 
 
 The course of the American Tract Society is now so 
 iiniversally known, as to require from us at the present 
 time but a few observations. Through our own columns 
 
le individual 
 ;ry is always 
 gaily a slave- 
 lation. When 
 ate, the obli- 
 humanity, it 
 of Christian 
 lard, and in 
 It unduly ex- 
 if the slave, 
 1 practice of 
 t are lawful 
 
 10 slavehold- 
 slaveholders 
 is, "says the 
 
 high-sound- 
 pie put forth 
 ds last year, 
 ng Churches 
 identical, on 
 hool Presby- 
 alians, Bap- 
 1 relation of 
 t sinful, and 
 3 sustaining 
 I. They all 
 3toutly deny 
 
 are guilty, 
 . preaching, 
 n into which 
 
 "Oh, most 
 
 ssionary So- 
 School Pres- 
 iplicity with 
 n Churches, 
 
 ! ! 
 y is now so 
 
 the present 
 vn columns 
 
 * » 
 
 26 
 
 ^rZfJ ^' ^^ ^^l" publications of Mr. Linton and others, its 
 pro-slavery tendencies and miquitous pandering to the slave- 
 power have been abundantly exposed in Canada. The 
 
 Sunday School Union, are severely condemned in the Re- 
 port, whose title will be found above. Every sin in the 
 Sn ^"f » ""'P''^""g'y denounced in the publications of 
 this society "except that particular form of sin which in- 
 volves the vio ation of the entire code-the sin of subverting 
 tpl InT ^ KK-^^'°"' ''^^"^/ngthe image of God to a chat? 
 
 V 'to Kr^^u^^ "'•^^ ^^ himself." It refuses not mere- 
 ly to publish the writings of "modem fanatics" on the 
 subject, but excludes the testimonies of such men as Hop- 
 kins Edwards, Wesley, Jay, as well as those Christian 
 fshlrnvT''^ Polok, and Montgomery. But not only 
 IS It gui ty of sms of omission, the society positively sup- 
 
 oiogy soas to soften or destroy the testimony originally in- 
 tended to condemn " a system at war with e^.er/princ^p^e 
 of humanity and every dictate of the Gospel." Wherever 
 the word "slavery" occurs, it is struck out, and "intfrnper- 
 ance" or "dancing," or "novel-reading" or the "u eX- 
 bacco,"is substituted in its stead,thu8 "testifying,"in effect 
 
 laLlv'.^'t h'Sk^'^T' ■''' *^^ ^^^^^ Yor^ Independent 
 .nfUv h '^^'i^'r institution of slavery, the buying 
 
 trnir '"^l"^^ ''"T" ^''"'^^' '^"^ '^^ profession of the Javf 
 trader, are less offensive to God, less contrary to the Gos- 
 
 daninl'P'"^°"1 '" 'r '""^' "^ "^^"' '^'^^ ^^e practice of 
 dancing or novel-readmg, or using of tobacco." The Rev 
 
 D. Bacon, sllre^ydly remarked in a late speech that- 
 verv t7 "''^^'"'^"f' keeps them from publishing on sla- 
 very fhey are ready to publish against dancingand against 
 smoking, for from this they have nothing to fear Those 
 who dance and smoke will not fight thofe who do not or 
 who condemn these practices. He asked if John ihe Ban' 
 tis might not have died of old age if he had the Commit^e^e 
 of the 1 ract Society to give him advice ? If the S So. 
 ciety were sitting as a coroner's jury over his headless trunk 
 they would have to bring in a vefdict of '."r^.r The 
 moral sense ot Christian men at the South may be right 
 but they are afraid to have the Society sneak fhp^rut "^ £^ 
 
Nil 
 
 26 
 
 is Atchison and Stringfellow, and the Devil and his an- 
 gels, that make them fear ; and their timidity constrains 
 the Society to keep silence. And whenever the Society are 
 brought to publish a tract on the subject of slavery, even if 
 it be a few pages from Simmon's Scriptural Manual, the 
 pure and simple language of the Bible alone, and put it in 
 circulation, every colporteur, every agent in all the South, 
 will be molested and driven out, so that as far as those 
 States are concerned, this whole system will come to a 
 stand still. The inauguration of a new policy would un- 
 questionably arrest the action of the Society. But, after 
 long and careful thought on the subject, he was convinced 
 that the present policy debauches the conscience of the 
 North and of the South, and had come to have the decided 
 opinion that if there were no connection of Christian bodies 
 at the North and South, Christianity would exert twice the 
 power at the South that it now does." 
 
 It is worthy of remark, too, that it is only in reference to 
 Slavery in the United States that the Tract Society is dumb ; 
 thus proving how valueless and hypocritical is the plea set 
 up for silence, viz : the Catholic basis on which the Society 
 is founded. On this subject hear the Report : 
 
 " Whenever the books of the Society do allude to the ex- 
 istence of Slavery, it is as to a system unknown to the peo- 
 ple of the United States, but existing somewhere as a phe- 
 nomenon in other parts of the world. Thus in one of the 
 Society's bocks, where a passing allusion is made to a 
 state of servitude, a foot-note explains that in some coun- 
 tries of the East, men are bought and sold and held in bond- 
 age. In some of the tracts on Ttmperancc, arguments and 
 illustrations are drawn from the slave-trade as this exists 
 in Brazil and in Africa. Thus in reply to the objection 
 of the distiller that he cannot sacrifice his property, it is 
 said • Suppose you were now in Brazil and the owner of 
 a large establishment to fit out slave-holders with handcuffs 
 for the coast of Africa, and could not change your business 
 without considerable pecuniary sacrifice, would you make 
 the sacrifice, or would you keep your fires and hammers go- 
 ing ? And again : If a man lives only to make a descent on 
 the peaceful abodes of Africa, and to tear away parents from 
 their weeping children, and husbands from their wives and 
 
and his an- 
 • constrains 
 
 Society are 
 ^ery, even if 
 Manual, the 
 ind put it in 
 i the South, 
 ar as those 
 
 come to a 
 y would un- 
 But, after 
 .8 convinced 
 mce of the 
 the decided 
 stian bodies 
 rt twice the 
 
 reference to 
 
 ity is dumb ; 
 
 the plea set 
 
 the Society 
 
 ie to the ex- 
 i to the peo- 
 re as a phe- 
 
 one of the 
 3 made to a 
 ;orae coun- 
 eld in bond- 
 ;uments and 
 
 this exists 
 le objection 
 operty, it is 
 be owner of 
 h handcuffs 
 ur business 
 1 you make 
 lammers go- 
 , descent on 
 arents from 
 r wives and 
 
 27 
 
 homes, where is the man that will deem this a moral busi- 
 ness ? Other men will prey on unoffending Africa, and 
 bear human sinews across the ocean lo be sold. Have you 
 a right to it ? (No. 305.) Once more, speaking of the du- 
 ty of rescumg the drunkard, it is asked, what would you 
 not do to pull a neighbor out of the water, or out of the fire 
 or to deliver him from Algerine captivity.? (No. 422.) It 
 is only with reference to slavery in the United States' that 
 the Society holds its peace. This studious avoidance of 
 the subject, where alone the candid discussion of it can be 
 of any moment, is a sad evidence of that fatal spell which 
 the great dragon of the South has ' cast over many good 
 men of the land." ' ^ 
 
 We might allude to the course of the American Bible 
 Society and other similar institutions, but we forbear. 
 More than sufficient has been adduced to prove the 
 monstrously inconsistent conduct persevered in and gloried 
 in, by the leading religious organizations in the United 
 States. There are, we again repeat, a few minor organ- 
 izations of an anti-slavery character, but, as has been re- 
 marked " they embrace only such as dissent from the pop- 
 ular and prevalent views upon this subject." Among these 
 may be numbered the American Baptist Free Mission So- 
 ciety, the American Missionary Association, (composed 
 chiefly of anti-slavery Congregationalists,) and the Mission- 
 ary Societies of the Wesleyans, Free Presbyterians, and 
 Free-Will Baptists, all comparatively small and feeble. 
 Can the religion, then, propagated by American missionary 
 associations be of a purer, holier stamp, than that which 
 prevails amongst the individuals composing these societies.' 
 I' if these, " it has been asked " embrace only such a qual- 
 ified form of Christianity as has no rebuke for the slave- 
 holder, they will not be likely to leach a purer form to the 
 heathen— since, to do this, would be to condemn them- 
 selves." How truly, did the Rev. Dr. Perkins, a mission- 
 ary of the Board, who has attained a position from which 
 he can now fearlessly speak out, say in a late sermon : 
 " American slavery is the crowning abomination of the nine- 
 teenth century; it is, perhaps, the greatest of human obsta- 
 cles to the progress of the Gospel— the responsibility of its 
 continuance rests much, if not mainly, with the Northern 
 
29 
 
 ^!::!r:^Zs>^''' ^"' especial]y..-M/;.CA.rcAe.a«i 
 
 Some of the practical deductions from the above, so far 
 
 as Canada IS concerned, are the following :_In the first 
 
 shS if.L""T''' f"'^ T""^''' ""^'^^ ^i«^'^"t Churches 
 sta^P nf?h.^l '''""''^'"' >'""'• ^«q"^i"ted with the true 
 state of the Slavery question m the United States. Judg- 
 ing from certam proceedings at some of our recent religi- 
 rZr^'-T'''''?' '' I' P'^^" ^''^^ ^ ^^«t amount of igno- 
 ZfZlT ""^ '*?• '"''J'"'- '1'''^"' ^«^"^' ^11 «f^o"ld feel 
 usP tt ^ ' f."^'"'"^ '"'"'"'' ^" ^*^'^ ^"^^^i"'^' ^"d should 
 
 tion %jT^"' '^'^ ^T7' '° ^""^ ^^ ^'^ ^ J^'^PPy termina- 
 tion No comniercia advantages, no political or social 
 
 ZlT' '^T^^J^^ ^"r"'^ '^ «^'«^ hoAest convictions, or 
 to make us dumb regardmg what we honestly believe to 
 be mherently smful. All communications with religious 
 bodies or missionary societies which would imply not 
 
 Zut^rrJ-'^^^. ^^^^^^r^y^ but even indiffeLce 
 should be studiously avoided ; every opportunity of testi' 
 fyingour abhorrence of the system and of reproving those 
 
 with ZP 'T"" h '^T^^ ""' ^'"^^^«^^- O^r sympX 
 with the friends of freedom, as well as with the victims of 
 
 tyranny, shou d he manifested, and all our influence-mo- 
 ral, social, political and religious- should be brought to 
 bear upon the extinction of Slavery, whose blasting influ- 
 ences even physica nature feels. In fine, no respect for 
 ecclesiastical prestige should interfere with cur dekuncia- 
 tion oi those 
 
 " Who preach and kidnap men I 
 
 Talk of ChrisL'd glorious liberty, ai.d then 
 13oU hard the captive's door 1" 
 
 
lurches and 
 
 )ve, so far 
 ti the first 
 : Churches 
 :h the true 
 3S. Judg- 
 ent religi- 
 it of igno- 
 'ould feel 
 nd should 
 r termina- 
 or social 
 ictions, or 
 believe to 
 religious 
 nply not 
 iiference, 
 r oftesti- 
 ing those 
 sympathy 
 actims of 
 ice — mo- 
 ought to 
 ag influ- 
 spect for 
 enuncia- 
 
 t9 
 
 THIRD ARTICLE. 
 
 In the two preceding articles we have presented a cur- 
 sory sketch of the wicked action of the leading religious 
 denominations and of the various missionary Boards and 
 organizations in the United States on the slavery question 
 Much more of a similar stamp might be advanced, all tendl 
 ingto prove that, if the Church as a whole, has not been 
 avowedly on the side of the oppressor, it lias been practi- 
 cally so. It has not taken that high decided ground on 
 this subject, which its importance and magnitude demand- 
 ed. Its teachings have been of the " lower law" charac- 
 ter, and have tended most materially to retard the progress 
 ot true Christianity, and in not a few instances to make in- 
 fadels of men who unhappily judged of religion only 
 through the medium of its professors. The following ex- 
 tract cut from a late number of the JVcUwml Era, publish- 
 ed at Washington, serv..^. to illustrate still more fully the 
 Idea which we desire to impress on the minds of our read- 
 
 1't' u '',^,^"f r ^^^'^'''^ " '^'^^^ "o»- Mr. Keitt and the 
 Churches" the lollowing sentences occur : 
 
 "Mr. Calhoun, in his alarm speeches on the subject of sla- 
 very, was in the habit of referring, in ominous terms, to the 
 agitation of that question in the great religious bodies, and 
 Its tendency to break up the connection between thelVorthern 
 and Southern sections. Mr. Keitt, one of his disciples, is 
 following m his footsteps. In a late speech at Spartans- 
 burg S. C, intendmg to produce a weiglity impression on 
 his hearers he announced that the Episcopal and Pres- 
 byterian Churches were in a state of great agitation on the 
 subject of slavery, were on the eve of disunion, and that 
 disunion was inevitable. The pious men of the sAith were 
 scandalized at this, and the Rev. Mr. Baird stepped forth to 
 defend the Presbyterian Church, and vouch for it'pro-slave^ 
 orthodoxy. The bare idea that any respectable pirtion of it^ 
 m.enibersh.p should be opposed to a system which inves s 
 one man with full power to make another man work for 
 him without wages, to deny him education, and sell him 
 like a bnxte, was not to be tolerated. Tiie reverend gentle- 
 man vindicated his brethren of the North against the foul 
 
 hbel. This stirred up the Episcopal brethren, one of whom 
 
 - — J 
 
so 
 
 ■) 
 
 er to ./r M^'f^^^' ^^- ^-^ ^^^'^'«'^^' addressed a let. 
 in 1 1 "• ^'■' ^ u -''°"' P"''"^" «^ ^'^^ Ej>iHcopal Church 
 
 n hat,,aee. Mr. Buxton rejoices to inlbrm the public 
 that the community to which he belongs has really no his- 
 tory to present of its connection with slavery, ' ^or^tl^e sub- 
 ject has never once been named for discussion or in anv 
 way,' m the General Convention of the Church PerhaDs 
 
 arp'nT'/V'^^^'^ ^ ^'''''^"^' '"° ™"^h to say " thattliL' 
 wu It^'' ^,^ ^""""^ P'^^^^^ members of the Episcopal church 
 at the North who hold extremely erroneous se^ntimen s or are 
 even fanatically influenced on the subject of slavery but 
 such persons, it is well J^nown, could not for a moment'gain 
 a hearing upon the floor of any Diocesan Convention in the 
 land, not to say our General Convention.' As a fine illus- 
 tration 'of the spirit of our Church press,' he adds "take 
 
 whi.i t'^'^IS-P^'^'^TP*' concerning the recent Wheeler case, 
 which I cut from a late number of the Banner of the Cross 
 published in Philadelphia" :— -^ ' 
 
 «J,T^\^'''''^"°^'^,''^ ^^^ ^'•^'^d''' Revieio, of this city, 
 should be continued to be sent to us, with marked articS 
 in re ation to the notorious, or rather infamous, Passmore 
 Wil lamson. It cannot be supposed that we can feel the 
 least sympathy m his behalf, or do otherwise than heartily 
 approve the firm course and righteous decision of Jud4 
 Kane, who will not fail we hope, to maintain the majesTy 
 of the law in this and all similar cases'-5«««er, Aug. 25. 
 The beautiful. Christian spirit displayed in this paragraph 
 renders proper the assumption by this paper of the title, 
 ^^Banner of the Cross-! The editor of xL Spectator add^ 
 his testimony : — 
 
 "We take occasion here to say that during a residence 
 JVorth of some three years, we became acquainted with 
 several Episcopal ministers, and with many laymen of 
 that Church, with whom we were in the habit of freely con- 
 versing in reference to the question of slavery; and of 
 the whole number of our acquaintance, we did not converse 
 with one who was not decidedly opposed to the Abolition- 
 ists." 
 
 " We hope Mr. Keitt will be entirely satisfied ; and we 
 see not what better he can do than to commit the holy cause 
 of slavery to churches so entirely without spot or blemish » 
 
39sed a let- 
 )al Church 
 the public 
 Uy no his- 
 jrthe sub- 
 , or in any 
 Perhaps, 
 that there 
 )al church 
 3iits or are 
 very ; but 
 nent gain 
 tion in the 
 fine illus- 
 is, " take 
 ieler case, 
 the Cross^ 
 
 this city, 
 [1 articles 
 Passmore 
 I feel the 
 I heartily 
 of Judge 
 
 majesty 
 Aug. 25. 
 aragraph 
 the title, 
 2tor adds 
 
 esidence 
 ted with 
 yinen of 
 !ely con- 
 and of 
 converse 
 bolition- 
 
 and we 
 ly cause 
 lemish.'* 
 
 < i 
 
 31 
 
 We have already stated, however, that in all the great 
 bodies there are some Churt'hes and many individual mem- 
 bers who sympathize not with the action of the denomina- 
 tion to which they belong, and who give forth from time 
 to time on the question of Slavery no uncertain sound. 
 We have named some of ihesc, and might add several oth- 
 ers to the list. I^he Progressive Friends, at their yearly 
 meeting held lately at Livonia, Michigan, carried very 
 strong resolutions denunciatory of slavery, of which take 
 the ioUowmg as a specimen : — 
 
 « Resolved, That, as Prieiids of Iliiiiiftn Proffross, we regard the institu- 
 tion of slavery as a cnrae, not to bo p(ir|)ctuated, apologized for and defended, 
 Dut to be immediately, uiioonditioiiufly and for evei aboliBhed." 
 
 _ Then again several Synods of tlie New School Presbyte- 
 rians have taken action on tliis question ; such as the On- 
 ondaga (N. Y.) Synod, the Synod of Ohio and the Synod of 
 Peoria, Illinios. All those and others have laMy denounc- 
 ed Slavery as unseriptural and inhuman and protested 
 against its extension and i)orpetuatlon. 
 
 Farther, the majority report of the Committee of the 
 Methodist Conference, to which the subject of Slavery was 
 referred at its last sitting in Urbana, was to the following? 
 effect as given in the Western Christian Advocate. It is but 
 fair to add that it was adopted by an almost unanimous 
 vote, after a full discussion ; 
 
 f.r!.JA"'''^T''^.°"?' f ""«*!'"""*? •""-'-I'l^lf Of tho committee to ^vhom was re- 
 
 Imbl.Indtpl'i' °^'*?"'"^; '">' '•''•-l"'"">'"y to present the following pr^ 
 •mble and resolutions foriulopiion l)y Uonlerencu :— 
 
 enl'lS^nf innl^'r'"' ""'"."" I'"' ""''•'""' of slavery expressly forbids the 
 S-T„^=?"'"'-M '""''' 'J'"' ^^■'"''•"•'MI'O voluntaiy holding of human 
 Jfrn^?, i„ f I ^' ^''^^?''^ ''::'"'■?"■" '" "'«'•■ ''ma-eipation, is equal in moral 
 turpitude to their purchase for the imrpos., of enslaving tliem ; and whereas 
 
 JctTthellfbT''"'''^'^^^^^^ 
 
 «ul;"*?/'^ ''^''' '^^''\ ''■" '■'"'"'"""'"'J "i« ensuing General Conference so to 
 alter the chapter on slav(>ry that it sliull read as follows :" 
 
 " Qutition, What shall be done for the extirpation of the evils of slavery " 
 J'Aimcer.l We declare tliut we are as much as ever convinced of the 
 great evil ot slavery, as it is contrary to tlio law of nature, the law of God 
 Rndjust human laws; and inasmucli as our General Rule expressly forbids its 
 Srr,"?trp:X'tS^'°'"''"'''"*^' """'"^ uecessar/iniplfcation, for- 
 
 " Thm/ore, no person who shall l)uy, sell, receive, give away, or retain as a. 
 Blave, any human being, for any other than merciful JurposesVthe eS^a^ed! 
 
.. .!.)! 
 
 32 
 
 for the purpose of nmancipating tliem, sball be eligible to the meraberslJp of 
 liia Methodist EpiKcopal Chiircii. 
 
 " Armcer 2. Such of our momliprs as may at any time havo slaves under 
 their care shall 111! required to teach them, as far as it is in tiiclr power, to 
 read the word of God ; to encourage Ihcm to atl"n(l upon tlie public worsnip 
 of God, and to instruct tlicni in re^jard to the sacredness and inviolability of 
 marriage, and tlie dutic-- of tlie parental relation. 
 
 " 2. Resolved, Tiiat tlie(»c'neral Oonfcri'nei" niulic such otherchanges In the 
 chapter on slavery as will malte it conform with the preceding declarations 
 of principle.'' 
 
 In a previous article, we alluded to the fact that the ap- 
 plication of the Classes of North Carolina, to become in- 
 corporated with the general Synod of the Reformed Dutch 
 Church, was declined, many of the Ministers being oppos- 
 ed to a connection with slaveholders. It appears that as 
 at present constituted, there are no Southern Churches in 
 connection with the Synod, and the feeling appears to be 
 that if North Carolina is admitted, now the door will be 
 open to slavery agitation within the Reformed Dutch 
 Church, which will result in rending it in twain, just as it 
 has already rent the Methodist and Presbyterian denomina- 
 tions. 
 
 The Philadelphia Presbytery of the Reformtd Presbyteri- 
 ans or Covenanters, amongst other equally strong resolutions 
 passed the following at a late meeting : — 
 
 " 1. Resolved, That the system of American slavery is, in its entire charac- 
 ter principles, claims and issues, at war with the law of (Jod, and utterly sub- 
 Tersive of the dearest and most precious and essential rights of man. 
 
 " 2. Resolved, That to hold or claim any human Iwing as property —and 
 consequently liable to all Its incidents— as athin;; to be bought, sold, and used 
 for the owner's lieueflt, as slaveholders do, is a sin of the b;ackest hue, and 
 Bhould be regarded as a crime to be punished by the Judges. 
 
 "3 Resolved, That slaveholding almitsofno apology, and that those 
 churches and ministers that give their countenance to this sin, by admitting 
 slaveholders to membership, and by refusing to testify openly and constantly 
 ftKainst their iniquity, are not only recreant to the benignant teachings and 
 BDirit of the Gospel and of its blessed Author, but also to the claims of oot 
 common humanity, and deserve the high condemnation of the friends of thnst, 
 of the Scriptures, and of man." 
 
 We need scarcely say that amongst the Congregational- 
 ists and those Churches which are subject to the control of 
 no ecclesiastical body, there are lacuy Associations espe- 
 cially in the Eastern States which are thought sound on this 
 great question, and are bearing aloft the banner of liberty 
 and truth. Again, we might refer at greater length to those 
 
memberslilp of 
 
 F(; Hlavea under 
 lii'lr power, to 
 public worahip 
 inviolability of 
 
 pclianpfos In the 
 \g duclaratioag 
 
 liat the ap- 
 become in- 
 rmed Dutch 
 jeing oppoS" 
 (ears that aa 
 Churches in 
 pears to be 
 ioor will be 
 med Dutch 
 n, just as it 
 a denomina- 
 
 i Presbyteri- 
 j resolutions 
 
 ts entire charac- 
 iiul utterly sub- 
 man. 
 
 property — and 
 ;, sold, and used 
 tickest hue, and 
 
 and that those 
 n, by admitting 
 ' and constantly 
 teachings and 
 claims of our 
 friends of Christ, 
 
 gregational- 
 le control of 
 itions espe- 
 iound on this 
 ;r of liberty 
 agth to those 
 
 33 
 
 Churches wliich felt compelled to secede from tin: old 
 Clmrches and lortn local independent Churches. In 1834 
 a discussion arose in the Methodist Epii^eopal Chureh which 
 terminated in the withdrawal of ecrtuin members in 1842 
 nMay, 1843 the Wesleyan Methodist Churcli wa" cLml 
 larly organized at Utica, N. Y. and s.nce then thev have 
 gamed numerous accessions. They huv;> several inission- 
 aries m Slave States and through their Missionary Society 
 t^m wo^'rk"''' '' ""^ Sy^^'^se. t»'«y are doing a veJy imi)or- 
 
 ^The Free Presbyterians are a body who came out 
 a icw years since both from the old and new Schools " it 
 was organized with only eleven nr inisters and their cJiurch- 
 es, and mainly with tiie view of obtaining relief to their con- 
 sciences from the necessity impo.sed upon them of beins; in 
 fellowship and communion with that great crime upon the 
 life of the soul, American slavery. It now consists of four 
 I resbyteries, covering Pennsylvania and Ohio, and the 
 Western Slates It proclaims a divorce, total and entire, 
 beUveen the re.igion of Jesus Christ and slavery. It re- 
 quires its members, as a term of communion, to neither u«e 
 nianufacture nor sell intoxicating ILjuorsas a beverage! 
 Ard It is opposed to all secret societies as inexpedient, un- 
 
 i^nni fT' f ".? "n'?'"»'' '^'■°"^- This religious organiza- 
 tion holds to the Calvinist.c system of theology, and m form 
 
 uiT/r^TT.l" ''^'''y Presbyterian, having abolished the 
 life-tenure of the office ol ruling elderand made it elective- 
 by the people trienmaliy-thus approximating the order of 
 the Church of Scot and in the days of its greatest purity. I 
 has a weekly religious paper called The Free PrUjUricm 
 conducted with marked ability, at Yellow Springs, Oo; 
 by the Rev. Joseph Gordon. It has also an instiTu ion of 
 learnmg :n the same Stale, which, although in its infancy 
 promises to suceed." Amongst the leading Free mIs-' 
 s ons, we would mention the " American Missionary Asso- 
 ciation which IS sustained chie/ly by Congregationalistr 
 Presbyterians, » Free Presbyterians," and fo son e ex S 
 by Wesleyans and Methodists. It was formed at Albany 
 in 1846, and embraces Foreign and Domestic missions hav- 
 
 c!fn^d!T' \l Af"^'^' Jf,"^^i««» Siam, Sandwich Islands, 
 Canada, Southern and Western States, and many other 
 
%■' •». 
 
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 places. Its active agents such as Lewis Tappan Esn of 
 kew York, and the Rev. Messrs. Whipple unKelyn^ aio 
 men of piety and untiring zeal in the cause of freedom 
 
 Ihere is also tho " American Maptist Free; Missionary 
 Society and the Free-will Baptist Home und Foreiirn Mis- 
 sionary Societies " all of which are making converts to llio 
 truth, and labouring zealously to neutralize, if not destroy the 
 banelul influences shed abroad over the country l)v the iirms 
 tree of slavery. "^ ^ ' 
 
 What then is our duty in relation to this great, this weiyh- 
 tv matter? Unquestionably, in view of the sinf.dness of 
 slayeholding, as practised in the United States of America 
 and ol the tremendous evils which rjsult therefrom, it he- 
 hoveth Christian men, both in their individu.d capacities 
 
 fvW.riTrlf ^^''"r '" «<*cl^«iastical organizations, to 
 withhold fellowship from such Churches and other ecclesi- 
 astical bodies as tolerate and practice sluveholdinw The 
 question is not Avhether we shouhl declare in our opinion 
 aU slaveholders in all circumstances to be " wholly desti 
 tute of the spirit of Christ, undiil to be ranked only with the 
 ungodly ; but it is this, whether such slaveholders and the 
 Churclies or other ecclesiastical bodies tolerating them have 
 not taken such ground and placed thctnsclv(!s in such an 
 attitude, that we ought out of regard to the honor of the 
 bospel and the religion which we profess, to withdraw fel- 
 lowshipfrom them, if we are in connection with them > 
 Does not their connection with slaveholding constitute a 
 sufficient ground for withdrawing from them those tokens 
 of approbation and fellowship which are common among 
 Christians who harmonize with each other ?" We think it • 
 does, and therefore, we would call on religious men in Ca- 
 nada to consider the matter as indivi .als. We would urge 
 upon the leaders in our Tract and Missionary Societies to 
 ponder well their actions, whether indeed they mny not even 
 m a remote degree be by their silence on the (iiiestion en- 
 couraging sm and retarding the coming of that desirable 
 era, when the entire Church of Christ in all lands shall 
 shine forth m the beauties of holiness ; and when slave- 
 holding, with all its monstrosities shall be found, neither 
 m the Church, nor anywhere on earth. 
 
pnn, Esq., of 
 Joc'(!|yn, are 
 r IrotMlorn. 
 
 MiMnionary 
 Korci^'n Min- 
 jnvcrts to itio 
 :)t (loNlroy tlio 
 y by the iipaa 
 
 I, this woijtrli- 
 iiiil'iilne88 of 
 of Aint-rica, 
 .;''r()in, it be- 
 1 cupucilics, 
 nizutions, to 
 <\\wr ccclcsi- 
 Iding. The 
 
 our opinion 
 holly (It'sti- 
 mly Willi the 
 lers and the 
 ,' them, have 
 
 in such an 
 honor of the 
 ithdniw fel- 
 with them? 
 constitute a 
 lose tokens 
 inon among 
 We think it • 
 men in Ca- 
 would urge 
 Societies to 
 lay not even 
 uestion, en- 
 at desirable 
 lands shall 
 ivhen slave- 
 tid, neither 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 I. 
 
 A MINISTER FOR SALE. 
 
 " There la an advertisement in a Kentucltj' paper of one for sale. He 
 was asiuve to a man recently decease.l. It is stutod in the advertisement 
 thjit ho hohls a l.c.!nso to preach. (Jhurches in want of a Pastor will please 
 take notice. —^■•U-Slavery Reporter, (London, Eng..) Ist August, 1855, 
 
 It is to bo sn;)posed that such a " chattel," as the above, will afford " a 
 good spec, in kcMitucky and other places in the Slave States, and is pub 
 lished jn Canada, a one luct, however glaring, pitiful and degrading. The 
 authcrity IS mdisputable, for the Reporter is published " under the sanction, 
 
 "Free and happy land." Xo publication ot the A. Tract Society or oftho 
 A. S. h. Union givinginfopMutiun to explain the matter of the slave nues- 
 tion, or to awaken leeii.igson thosut)ject of Slavery, is published by cither I 
 and that in their own and where American slavery perpetrates such a sale. 
 lluUsuch atact as this sale has a counterpart, is furnished in the Reporter 
 
 he 
 
 JUS •• I speaK 01 uiat wliicn I do know, deny it who dare '" 
 
 F rin'ijr" a"'* "^ m- '""^ ^I'i' '"i"»P"t'«-^i«l i" the ministry 'of the Methodist 
 „ln.^^ n r ^ P'^'^^iding elder, during the late session of the Western Vir- 
 ginia Conference, told me there w^re three of its members fministers) who 
 
 porter) '• Slavery is not a bar to communion in the M. E. Church North 
 
 aH^d '^;:2^" '" ?' f "J';"'' -^"f ^ "l--? '" •^'^'^•^"- Arkansas, Kentucky 
 and ViTgrna, a slaveludder is admitted into the Church North as freely m 
 any one else.' and (urther on. it is stated on the authority oft^eE^ 
 0-. D Pfttijohn "a highly esteoine.l member (Ministar) ofthe North Indi- 
 
 risbnonhr\r'l'^r%'''"'''"^'? '^''^''^" biieve thatsincethe 
 division ot the M. E. Church into south and north," they are now entirely 
 
 tTJlT. 7""^';^"'" with slavery and slaveholders, I will introduce them 
 iLp'^.^T? ' ""i 'V" "T\ ■'''^":'"'- '" o'"- ^'»"'-ch, who, a few months 
 onL/h '^T •r'^".'^''"''? «'''^'^J«'^'«'-the.nostde.spicable character 
 
 E ni 1 ? V ^"", . '^''"'^ ^"'^ '^^o*' "nd throw him upon a 
 &r,i f '";! ^>^'" "1.^ '" ^''y '° "''' steamboat that was to convey 
 hm south to he New Orleans slave market. And in the same city where 
 tl e above instance occurred, there w.»s for many days in that slave pen, or 
 prison, a slave left for sale to the highest bidder, whoever he might b^ 
 
f'^:- 
 
 4^ 
 
 ff ' 
 
 3G 
 
 either a St. Clair or Lcgrce, all the same ; after a few davs, this slave wag 
 purchased by one of his old neighboure.wlio was not williiijfto see him sold 
 to the Southern slave-driver ; and this slave tliut was thus sold was not only ' 
 the property ol a Methodist, but also of a jMethodist pieacher ! I stood 
 by, on one oecasion,and saw a member of our church, and a. class- leader at 
 that, purchase a slave girl, the lust and oi:ly child that a slave mother had 
 left. I stood and looked upon that poor mother as she kneeled before this 
 man ; I heard her say, as she sobbed bitterly, ' 0, nmssa, pleise spare my 
 child ! 0, please spare my last earthly comlort 1' And in this way she 
 continued to pray ! It seemed to me almost enough to move a heart of 
 stone ; but he soon turned scornfully away, saying he had not bouglit her 
 to sell her again, and thus tore her child away, where in all human proba- 
 bility, they would never meet again in this world. And I might continue 
 and enumerate many more simihir cases that 1 could vouch for their truth, 
 but the above is sufficient." And to do away with quibbling and cavilling, 
 which abounds so much with objectors in Canada, as to the American Tract 
 Society, and A. S. S. Union and U. Canada Tract Society, &c. , these state- 
 ments will be found also in the Avium Christian Advocate, N. Y., with 
 remarks, &c. The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada fraternises with 
 and recognises the M. E; Church, north, sells and circulates its publica- 
 tion and demits ministers to its care. But other Canadian churches are 
 also culpable. The Wesleyan body are not the only Siloamites ! 
 
 Again, the fact is, (whoever disputes it, let them examine the correspon- 
 dence in the Independent, of N. Y., and other papers) that a Colporteur 
 or agent of the American Tract Society, or of the American S. S. Union, 
 can travel salely unmolested througa the slave States of Virginia, Ken- 
 tucky, and Missouri, and distribute his books, &c., as such are acknowledged 
 as of pro-slavery origin, but the licensed and regularly ordained minister of 
 the Cross of Christ, if he travels, must be mute and silent, as to the " pe- 
 culiar institution'' of slavery, &c., and if he is not altogether so, and even 
 however cautious, even his very dress, will excite that which will make a 
 
 free man ashamed of his kind. So much for the sum of all vilianies 
 
 (Wesley) ; and "man's inhumanity to man— (Burns) Nothing of Tragedy 
 can be written, can be spoken, can be conceived, that equals the frightful 
 reality of scenes daily and hourly acting in the United States, beneath the 
 shadow of American law and the shadow of the Cross of Christ.—//. B. 
 JStoice. 
 
 J.J. E. LINTON. 
 Stratford, C W, 27th Nov, lS5o. 
 
37 
 
 !, this slave wag 
 to see him sold 
 1(1 was not only 
 cher ! I stood 
 class- leader at 
 ive mother hud 
 eled before this 
 jleise spare my 
 1 tills way she 
 love a heart of 
 not bought her 
 human proba- 
 uight continue 
 for their truth, 
 ig and cavilling, 
 Lnierican Tract 
 &c., these state- 
 e, N. Y., with 
 fraternises with 
 ;es its publica- 
 1 churches are 
 mites ! 
 
 the correspon- 
 it a Colporteur 
 m S. S. Union, 
 Virginia, Ken- 
 i acknowledged 
 ned minister of 
 as to the " pe- 
 er so, and even 
 :;h will make a 
 fall villanies— 
 ing of Tragedy 
 3 the frightful 
 es, beneath the 
 Dhrist.— //. B. 
 
 . LINTON. 
 
 AMERICAN TRACT 
 
 n. 
 
 SOCIETY-AMERICAN 
 UNION. 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOL 
 
 In addition to the various instances of expungings of which the American 
 Tract Society is, and has been notoriously guilty thereby justly entitling it 
 to be accused of silence, hypocrisy, insincerity and falsity, the following 
 additional proofs are offered :— 
 
 1. Rev. W. Jay's " Morning Exercises," — see preface, p. 7. 
 
 2. Mammon, or Oovctoiisness the sin of the Christian church, by Rev. 
 John Harris, — see p. 78. 
 
 3. Atonement and Justification, by A. Fuller,— 12 mo., pp. 396. 
 
 In reference to the last, (No 3) it may be stated, that the author was a 
 Calvinist, but all his views on the point, are omitted, and " the volume is 
 made up of extracts from all parts of his works, ingenioualy framed into sys- 
 tematic chapters"— so suys the Presbyterian of the fVest, as quoted 
 and referred to in an article titled " Colportage," in the Ecclesiastical Re- 
 cord of the (Free) Presbyterian Church of Canada, published at Toronto, 
 C. VV., number for January, 18r>5. As to the " Colportage" and the aims 
 of the American Tract riociety, see its publication — "Home Evangelisa- 
 tion," p.p. 171. 
 
 Religious Book and Tract Societies, of Canada, including Bible societies 
 and various religious church denominations in Canada, which hold fellow 
 ship or connection with the American pro-shivery churches and societies 
 are again warned to " Takr Hkrd." The VVesleyan Methodist Church of 
 Canada, in iis connection and fellowship with the pro-slavery M. E. Church 
 (north) of the U. S. (some of whose class leaders, members and even minis- 
 ters, buy, sell and hold slaves),— the (Free) Presbyterian Cburch of Canada 
 in Its circulation and colportage of and giving credence by its Record, to 
 the pub^licatiuns of the noted pro-slavery Presbyterian church (O. S.) of 
 the U.S., and "Board of Publication" at Philadelphia— the Regular 
 ^aptistsof Canada in an especial miumer,— and some of the Congregational 
 Ministers of Canada, instanced by Rev. Henry Wilkes, D. D. of Montreal. 
 (January, 1856, and S.T. Byrne of Whitby, C. W., (January, 18o5), wilh 
 the Congregational Union of Canada in its vacillatiu.r fellowship,— should 
 all now say " Let us Beware." 
 
 Ifevery educated Minister of religion in Canada were to peruse the 
 . °°/;7:"» ^''^^^'■y Question, by John Lawrence," 3rd edition,— Dav- 
 ton (Ohio) 1854, pp. 224,-THE UREAT SIN of the fellowship of the 
 Canadian Churches referred to, would be too cleariy seen, and a proper 
 knowledge of the question of American Slavery obtained. See also Tractu 
 wu^ • u ^^°f •''>« American Reform Tract Society at Cincinnati (Ohio). 
 Ihe righteous course pursued by the " American Missionary Association," 
 4H Beekman htreet. New York, should be a pattern to Canadian Churches 
 and Religious Societies. 
 
 The American S. S. Union dare not publish anything against the sin 
 and system of Slavery, and, therefore, the youth of America are not in- 
 
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 be encoarapd by Minister of riiigioa .^^SS^lS^^r'^ZZ 
 
 canTe'lireisirc"dfo.*f^^^^^^^^^ ^"d 'i''-'»«t. which 
 
 knoXte bl In'! o^H ■ ''°'P°';^1fe'« 0P«rati0ii8 iu disseminaung a pure 
 
 A want of sterling honesty, with hun^ilUy,^'Si^^^^^^^^ 
 
 Stratford, C. W., 17 March, 1856. 
 
 JOHN J. E.LINTON. 
 
 III. 
 
 RELIGIOUS PERIODICALS IN CANADA. 
 
 1. The Church, Church of England, Hamilton, 0. W. 
 
 2. The £cAo, do. Toronto, 
 
 3. The Churchman's Friend, do, Sandwich, C. W., lately begun. 
 -1 Presbyterian, Church of Scotland, Montreal, C. E. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Record, Free Presbyterian, Toronto. 
 United Presbyterian, U. P. Church, Toronto. 
 Christian Guardian, Wesleyan Methodist, Toronto. 
 Evangelical IVitness, I^Iothodist New Connection, London, W 
 nLilton"'"''' ^'"■"'''"' •^'^''"'^«<«. Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada, 
 
 4 
 5. 
 6. 
 7. 
 8. 
 
 10 
 11 
 1.'. 
 13. 
 U 
 
 Canadian Independent, Congregational Church, London, C. W. 
 Christian Messenger, Regular Baptists, Brantford, C. W. 
 Gospel Tribune, Baptist Union, (Free ?) Toronto. 
 Montreal IVitness, general religious paper, Montreal, 0. W. 
 Le Semeur Canadien (Protestant) Montreal. 
 
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 IV. 
 
 RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES-CANADA EAST AND WEST. 
 
 1. French Canadian Missionary Society, Montreal. 
 
 2. Grand Lifjne Mission, Canada East. (It fellowships with pro-slavery 
 Baptist organizations in the United States.) 
 
 There are Tract Societies in Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Toronto» 
 Dundas, Hamilton, Niagara, and London. Tliey have circulated and soldi 
 and continue, the Books, Tracts, &c., of the American Tract Society, 
 American Sunday School Union, and appear to favor unduly, the publica- 
 tions of these Societies which have been denounced as yielding to the Slave 
 Power. 
 
 The Bible Society at H.imilton, and, as likely other Bible Societies in 
 the frontier towns and cities, also appear to fellowship with pro-slavery 
 organizations of the United States. This should not be, in a British Pro- 
 vince, apart from the question of the wrong committed. 
 
 It is hoped that the time has arrived, in Canadn, when all manner of fel- 
 lowship with pro-slavery and quasi-slavcry societies and churclics in the 
 United States, will be discountenanced by the muiisters of religion, and 
 any other hi official religious positions in Canada. It is not so dillicult, for 
 such in Crtnadii, to obtain information of these Societies in this wise, by the 
 question, — " What books or tracts do you publish, circulate, or sell, by 
 name and mark, against American Slavery" ?