the following resolution—­’That slavery, as it exists in the South, is no evil, and is consistent with the principles of revealed religion; and that all opposition to it arises from a misguided and fiendish fanaticism, which we are bound to resist in the very threshold.’”

“Rev. Mr. Crowder, of Virginia, at the Annual Conference in Baltimore, 1840—­’In its moral aspect, slavery was not only countenanced, permitted, and regulated by the Bible, but it was positively instituted by GOD HIMSELF—­he had, in so many words, ENJOINED IT.’”

THE BAPTIST CHURCH—­“Memorial of the Charleston Baptist Association, to the Legislature of South Carolina: 

“’The right of masters to dispose of the time of their slaves has been distinctly recognized by the Creator of all things, who is surely at liberty to vest the right of property over any object in whomsoever he pleases.’”

    “Rev. R. Furman, D.D., of South Carolina—­’The right of holding
    slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by
    precept and example.’”

“The late Rev. Lucius Bolles, D.D., of Massachusetts, Cor.  Sec.  Am.  Bap.  Board for Foreign Missions, (1834.)—­’There is a pleasing degree of union among the multiplying thousands of Baptists throughout the land....  Our Southern brethren are generally, both ministers and people, slave-holders.’”

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—­“Resolution of Charleston Union Presbytery—­’That, in the opinion of this Presbytery, the holding of slaves, so far from being a SIN in the sight of God, is no where condemned in his holy word.’”

“Rev. Thomas S. Witherspoon, of Alabama, writing to the Editor of the Emancipator, says—­’I draw my warrant from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to hold the slave in bondage.  The principle of holding the heathen in bondage is recognized by God....  When the tardy process of the law is too long in redressing our grievances, we of the South have adopted the summary remedy of Judge Lynch—­and really, I think it one of the most wholesome and salutary remedies for the malady of Northern fanaticism, that can be applied.’”

“Rev. Robert N. Anderson, of Virginia—­’Now dear Christian brethren, I humbly express it as my earnest wish, that you quit yourselves like men.  If there be any stray goat of a minister among you, tainted with the bloodhound principles of abolitionism, let him be ferreted out, silenced, excommunicated, and left to the public to dispose of him in other respects.’”

THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—­“John Jay, himself an Episcopalian—­’She has not merely remained a mute and careless spectator of this great conflict of truth and justice with hypocrisy and cruelty, but her very priests and deacons may be seen ministering at the altar of slavery, offering their talents and influence at its unholy shrine, and openly repeating the awful blasphemy, that the precepts of our Savior sanction the system of American slavery.’”