"We are about to make an announcement," says the True American, "which must sound very strange to those whose field of observation is unlike our own: The greatest impediment to the success of the Anti-Slavery movement in the slave States is, the opposition to it of those men who profess to have been commissioned by high Heaven to go abroad and use their efforts for the mitigation of human misery and the extirpation of human wrong! This assertion, which appears so monstrous, will not surprise any one who lives among slaveholders. Our conviction of its truth has been confirmed by extensive observation." RELIGIOUS TESTIMONIES. ARCHBISHOP POTTER. Some of our wise ones will have it that _doulos_ means slave. Archbishop Potter, than whom no man was more learned in Grecian antiquities, in his work on them, published years ago, says, chap. 10, "Slaves, as long as they were under the government of a master, were called _oiketdi_; but _after their freedom_ was granted them, they were _douloi_, not being like the former, a part of their master's estate, but only obliged to some grateful acknowledgments and small services, such as were required of the _Metoikoi_, to whom they were in some few things inferior." * * * * * THE YOUNGER EDWARDS, (Pastor of a church in New Haven, and afterwards President of Union College)--"Every man who cannot show, that his negro hath by his voluntary conduct, forfeited his liberty, is obligated _immediately to manumit him_. And to hold [such an one] in a state of slavery, is to be every day guilty of robbing him of his liberty, or of _man-stealing_--and fifty years from this time (1791) it will be as _shameful for a man to hold a negro slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft_." * * * * * DR. ADAM CLARKE. "Among Christians slavery is an _enormity_, and a _crime_ for which _perdition_ has scarcely an adequate state of punishment." * * * * * REV. ALBERT BARNES. "From the whole train of reasoning which I have pursued, I trust it will not be considered as improper to regard it as a position clearly demonstrated, that the fair influence of the Christian religion would everywhere abolish slavery. Let its principles be acted out; let its maxims prevail and rule in the hearts of all men, and the system, in the language of the Princeton Repertory, 'would SPEEDILY come to an end.' In what way this is to be brought about, and in what manner the influence of the church may be made to bear upon it, are points on which there may be differences of opinion. But there is one method which is obvious, and which, if everywhere practised, would certainly lead to this result. It is, _for the Christian church to cease all connection with slavery_." * * * * *