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_.'"
"The Rev. James Smylie, A.M., of the Amite Presbytery, Mississippi, in a pamphlet, published by him a short time ago, _in favor_ of American slavery, says:--'If slavery be a sin, and advertising and apprehending slaves, with a view to restore them to their masters, is a direct violation of the Divine law; and if _the buying, selling, or holding a slave, for the sake of gain_, is a heinous sin and scandal; then, verily, _three-fourths of all the Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists_, and _Presbyterians_, in _eleven States of the Union_, are of the devil. They 'hold,' if they do not buy and sell slaves, and, _with few exceptions_, they hesitate not to 'apprehend and restore' runaway slaves, when in their power.'"