that in the very hot-bed of abolitionism, viz., in
the extensive territory of New England, Providence, Maine, Vermont and
New Hampshire Conferences, there was not a solitary free negro in
connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church! Is not this a
remarkable fact? Here, we have a territory of vast extent; embracing
something more than a half dozen states, and containing within its
limits multiplied thousands of free negroes; and not one! No! not a
solitary free negro is found in the bosom of the Methodist Episcopal
Church! Many of them left pious and humane masters in the South, and
were withal pious themselves when they left their masters; or,
otherwise, they were stolen from good men in the South by pseudo
Christians of the North, _and taken to that free and happy land! the
land of their dear friends_, and consigned to poverty, vice,
degradation and the devil!!!

What does all this mean? How does it happen that the free blacks of the
North are so little benefitted by the Christian ministry--particularly
in those sections where a large portion of the ministers belong to the
abolition faction? How does it happen that the African population are
so little benefitted or influenced by them? Is it true, that the
negroes have discernment enough to see, that their wordy benefactors
have done nothing for either their souls or their bodies--that
conscience and religious principle have but little to do with all this
slavery agitation? It must be so! Hence, we can understand why it is,
that the African population have more confidence in a slaveholding
ministry in the South, than they have in an abolition ministry in the
North.

My engagements are such, that I shall be forced for the present to
pass over the argument mainly relied on by abolitionists of every
grade, to prove the sinfulness of American slavery; or at least, I can
give it but a cursory notice. I understand that a celebrated D.D., has
published a work, in which, he labors hard to prove the sinfulness of
American slavery from its evils. It was the design of the author of
Uncle Tom's Cabin, to prove the sinfulness of slavery from its evils;
or otherwise, its abuses. If this mode of reasoning is allowable in
one case, it is so in another, and by this mode of reasoning I can
prove the sinfulness of every institution beneath the sun, social,
civil and religions. It is in fact the argument principally relied on
by skeptics to invalidate the Christian religion. They wil