9. Regard for decency, refined sensibility and common humanity, urges non-fellowship with slaveholders. The members of a slaveholding church become insensible to the grossest outrages upon the better feelings of slaves, and they habitually commit acts, without a blush, which, one should think, would pale the cheek of a demon. For illustration take a well authenticated fact: "A runaway slave in 1841, assigned the following as the reason why he refused to commune with a church of which he was a member. '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!'" But the members of that church, generally, were altogether without feeling upon the subject, and were as little disturbed in selling a slave to purchase silver ware for the sacramental table, or to pay a parson, or to support a missionary, as in selling a mule for the same purposes. 10. If slavery be fellowshiped in the church, then _slaveholding preachers_ will be coming around and preaching the gospel to us! A dealer in human flesh will undertake to teach us to be just and merciful. We will be expected to receive the elements of the holy sacrament from hands that use the cowskin occasionally on the backs of slaves! It is notorious that churches which fellowship slavery have an exceedingly dumb and callous ministry on the subject of oppression. Frederick Douglass, I think it was, who said that the hardest master he ever served was a Methodist Protestant preacher. The following incident will illustrate this thought: "A minister of the gospel owned a female slave, whose husband was owned by another man in the same neighborhood. The husband did something supposed to be an offense sufficient to justify his master in selling him for the southern market. As he started, his wife obtained leave to visit him. She took her final leave of him, and started to return to her master's house. She went a few steps and returned and embraced him again, and started a second time to go to her master's house; but the feelings of her heart again overcame her, and she turned about and embraced him the third time. Again she endeavored to bear up under the heavy trial, and return; but it was too much for her--she had a woman's heart. She returned the fourth time, embraced her husband--and turned about,--A MANIAC!"--(Anti-slavery Record.) Good God! can any one plead for the admission of such cruelty into the bosom of the church and into the ministry? And let it be remembered that this preacher simply did what the legal relation authorized, and what all slaveholding ministers may do without ecclesiastical censure.