"We have a weapon firmer set And better than the bayonet:-- A weapon that comes down, as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod, But executes a freeman's will As lightning does the will of God; And from its force, nor doors nor locks Can shield you:--tis THE BALLOT-BOX." SLAVEHOLDING RELIGION. Maintaining Theological Seminaries. The following is the conclusion of an advertisement in the Savannah Republican of March 23, 1845:-- "Also, at the same time and place, the following negro slaves, to wit: Charles, Peggy, Antonet, Davy, September, Maria, Jenny, and Isaac, levied as the property of HENRY T. HALL, to satisfy a mortgage _fi. fa._, issued out of the Supreme Court, in favor of the _Board of Directors_ of the _Theological Seminary_ of the SYNOD OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA, vs. said Henry T. Hall. Conditions, Cash. C. O'NEAL, Sheriff M. C." Buying Church Furniture. A runaway slave, in 1841, assigned the following as his reason for not communing with the church to which he belonged at the South. "The church," said he, "had silver furniture for the administration of the Lord's Supper, to procure which, they _sold my brother_! and I could not bear the feelings it produced, to go forward and receive the sacrament from the vessels which were the purchase of my brother's blood." Supporting Churches by Slave Jobbing. The Rev. J. Cable, of Indiana, May 20, 1846, in a letter to the Mercer Luminary, says:--"I have lived eight years in a slave State, (Va.)--received my Theological education at the Union Theological Seminary, near Hampden Sydney College. Those who know anything about slavery, know the worst kind is jobbing slavery--that is, the hiring out of slaves from year to year, while the master is not present to protect them. It is the interest of the one who hires them, to get the worth of his money of them, and the loss is the master's if they die. What shocked me more than anything else, was the church engaged in this jobbing of slaves. The college church which I attended, and which was attended by all the students of Hampden Sydney College and Union Theological Seminary, held slaves enough to pay their pastor, Mr. Stanton, ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS a year, of which the church members did not pay a cent (so I understood it). The slaves, who had been left to the church by some pious mother in Israel, had increased so as to be a large and still increasing fund. These were hired out on Christmas day of each year, the day in which they celebrate the birth of our blessed Savior, to the highest bidder. These worked hard the whole year to pay the pastor his $1000 a year, and it was left to the caprice of their employers whether they ever heard one sermon for which they toiled hard the whole year to procure. This was the church in which the professors of the seminary and the college often officiated. Since the abolitionists have