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Excerpt from Border Methodism and Border Slavery: Being a Statement and Review of the Action of the Philadelphia Annual Conference Concerning Slavery, at Its Late Session at Easton, Pa;, Including the Case of Rev. J. D. Long: The Slaveholding Among Members of the Body: The Extent and Character of Slaveho
Eighteen years of itinerant labor in the Philadelphia Conference, expended on each of the districts within our geographical limits, seven of which were spent in slaveholding portions of our territory, together with as careful observation as we were capable of bestow ing, have given us impressions such as we would humbly contribute to the joint stock of suggestion and fact which create the popular Opinion of the church. Between the representations made at the last General Conference in regard to the church's administration of her Discipline on the question of slavery, and the convictions of the writer, there is, he confesses, the widest possible variance. That our laws are faithfully administered on this subject, and that little or no mercenary slave holding obtains ia our church, we are very far from regarding as cor rect statements of fact. In relation to the Philadelphia Conference especially, we speak with the certainty which local knowledge of facts is always supposed to give. With regard also to the number of slaveholders in the church, as announced at the last session of the General Conference, and given upon the authority of an honored name in the church, it will be seen we have arrived at a greatly larger estimate even for our Conference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
