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The American Board And Slavery

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
March
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

ö i;m üiu luiiuwiiijj iiuiíiii uuiuiuuui ation iu the Emaucipalor of Feb. 17. If ie Board do empioy Si,AVi;-Hoi.DEns lo roach Chrisiiiinity lo the heathen, i ought ) bo knowo. The Emancipator is publieh J at Boston ivherc tho Prudential Commit ;c reside, and if untrue, it will doubtless e denied. Should any correction oppear, re símil notify our readers: for we havo ot the 8lightest wish to misreprescnl the omgs of ihe Board. Bul if 6uch a grave nd reverend body volunturily employ ipn-elealors in 1842 to proclaim "the lorious Gospel of lbo blessed God," the v'oild is entitled lo know it. 'Next, nnd chiefly, ns it oppcare to me, hould all consistent nbnlitinnists look to he present attitude of the Board lowards l'avery. Ia this, of coursc, l include iho round ihey tooit or continucd to occupy at heir laet meel ing, when the policy for tho iurrent ycar wa9 settled. Here, then, iet is c.'Mor into pariicnlais. At thcir com- nunion seauon in Philadelpliin, during tho casion of the Board, ihey sat down togelh■r, slaveholílers, conservativo?, (not to uso lie obnoxjous term to soroe of pro-slaverj' ncn,) and uhocver eould bc elassed unler llie heatl of abolitionists; fewer probaly of the last ihan of the first. From tho atest Dublifilied rcnoris of the Board, itapenrs that luero-are 15 or 18 corpornto or oiresponding members from the elave States, to say nothing tf some 200 honorïry membnr?, who are entitled to a part n their deliberation?, but not to vote. From the latest accounts too, there were n the employment of the Bonrd, from 20 o 25 male and female missionaries from he eame statcs. Someofihe former aro Jcnotcn to Be elaveholdcrs, and some of ihc atter to bc children of such, and most are jelitived to be. These miseionaries aro aboring in África, Turkey, Pcrsia, India, Greece, and in Indian territorios, regiems which have all deeply feit the horrible ovils of slavcry. No public, and it is to be ircsumed no private instructions h'avc evjr been given them to discountcnanco tho sin of 6lavery. Indeed thcre is renson lo doubt whelher any one of them regnrds it as a sin in itself, to hold human beings as t property." -------