on, of Andover, United States,
gives also an extract of a letter he had seen from a
gentleman of high standing, who was at the South at the time
of writing, which says, "The South is too much interested in
the continuance of slavery, to hear any thing upon the
subject. The preachers of the gospel are in the same
condemnation, and METHODIST PREACHERS ESPECIALLY. The
principal reason why the Methodists in these regions are more
numerous and popular than other denominations is, THEY STICK
SO CLOSELY TO SLAVERY!! THEY DENOUNCE BOTH THE ABOLITIONISTS
AND THE COLONIZATIONISTS."

To show the extent to which THE BAPTIST CHURCHES SHARE THE GUILT OF
THE SYSTEM OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA, it will be sufficient to read an
extract from a letter addressed to the Board of Baptist ministers in
and near London, by the Rev. Lucius Bolles, D. D., the Corresponding
Secretary of the American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions. The
testimony is the stronger, because the whole letter is a carefully
written apology for Southern religious slaveholders, and an attempt to
silence the remonstrances of the English churches.

"There is a pleasing degree of union among the multiplying
thousands of Baptists throughout the land. Brethren from all
parts of the country meet in one General Convention and
co-operate in sending the gospel to the heathen. Our Southern
brethren are liberal and zealous in the promotion of every
holy enterprize for the extension of the gospel. THEY ARE,
GENERALLY, BOTH MINISTERS AND PEOPLE, SLAVE-HOLDERS."

In this connection, I may notice the recommendation of the work of
Drs. Cox and Hoby. We are assured by Mr. Breckinridge, (though he
confesses he has not read the book,) that every representation it
contains relative to slavery among "the Baptists in America," may be
relied on. That book, thus endorsed by Mr. B., informs us that the
deputation were permitted to sit in the convention at Richmond,
Virginia, only on condition of _profound silence_, touching the wrongs
of more than two millions of heathenized slaves. We are gravely told
that the introduction of abolition would have been "an INTRUSION, as
RUDE as it would have been UNWELCOME." It would, says the Delegates,
have "FRUSTRATED every object of our mission;" "awakened HOSTILITY,
and kindled DISLIKE;" "roused into EMBITTERED ACTIVITY feelings
between Christian brethren, which must have SEVERED the Baptist