Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery BazaarWeston, A. W.
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Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar
Weston, A. W.
Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts; Bazaars (Charities) -- Massachusetts -- Boston
To remedy this evil in the eyes of the evangelical Anti-Slavery
churches of Great Britain, we would respectfully urge it upon them to
care not for the heresies of a portion of the Abolitionists of this
country, but to concern themselves energetically, and at once, with
that Practical Infidelity which is sapping the foundation of every
Orthodox sect in this country. _Christianity and slaveholding cannot
exist together._ Anti-Slavery as is the public sentiment of Great
Britain, it must rise infinitely higher, before it can tell upon the
churches of this country. An apostate Abolitionist from the pulpits of
Boston, fresh from the defence of the Fugitive Slave Law, is welcome
to the Anti-Slavery pulpits _par excellence_ of Great Britain. Such
Anti-Slavery as this can never accomplish the work.
The exclusion of Dr. Prime from the platform of the British Bible
Society was a triumph of Anti-Slavery principle; but the rarity of
such an event was shown by the strong feeling with which it was
received by the religious public of this country, who really seemed to
think it a cause for war between the two nations. We again repeat, it
is for the churches of Great Britain to take strong and effective
action on this subject, and that speedily. It is necessary to their
own vitality, which must speedily perish before the blighting
influence of pro-slavery fellowship. “What communion hath light with
darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial?”
We will add a few words more on the general question, and close a
paper already too long.
The _intellect_ of the civilized world is convinced as to the enormity
of the system we are attacking. A new and unique mode of defence is
beginning to obtain in some quarters. The sins and sufferings of
Slavery are conceded, but Abolitionists are urged to patience――by what
consideration, think you? Because God is patient with the sins and
sufferings He witnesses! “He is patient, because he is eternal,” says
St. Augustine.
We must confess that, to speak of the Maker and Governor of all
things, the self-existent and Omniscient, “whose kingdom is where time
and space are not,” whose methods and sovereignty are in so many
instances inscrutable, as waiting patiently for the evolution of His
own all-perfect purposes, and thence inferring that it is the duty of
His creatures to look with patience on scenes of wrong and outrage
which they could not contemplate patiently as borne for one day by
themselves, is a species of cant, the impiety of which is equalled
only by its inhumanity.
With the heart of the nation, colder and harder than marble, and a
mere handful of men awake to the Slave’s terrible wrongs, and striving
to create some sympathy for them, this miserable talk of patience, and
of judicial calmness in summing up the arguments on all sides of the
question, and of scientific surveys of the whole field of conflict,
appears to us extremely out of place.
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