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whether members or not, and even to licensed ministers of
their respective connections. The "negro pew" is almost
as rigidly kept up in the free states as in the slave.
  XVII. In some of the older slave states, as Virginia
and South Carolina, churches, in their corporate character,
hold slaves, who are generally hired otut for the support of
the minister.  rfhe following is taken from the Charleston
Courier of February 12th, 1835.
           FIELD NEG RO ES, bp Thomas Gadsden.
  On Tuesday, the 17th instant, will be sold, at the north of the
Exchange; at ten o'clock, a prime gang of ten N EGQROES, accustomed
to the culture of cotton and provisions, belonging to the INDEPEN-
DENT CHURCH, in Ch(ist's Ch/itrch Par ish. . . Fe4. 6.
  XVIII. Nor are instances wanting in which negroes
are bequeathed for the benefit of the Indians, as the fol-
lowing Chancery notice, taken from a Savannah (Geo.)
paper will show.
                   "' Brigan Superior C(turi.
Between John J. Maxwell arid others, Executors of
          Ann Pray, comrplainants, and             IN
Mary Sleigh and others, Devisees and Legatees, under  EQUITY.
        the will of Ann Prav, defendants.     5
  "A Bill having been filed for the distribution of the estate of
the Testatrix, Ann Pray, and it appearing that among other ]lga-
cies in her will, is the following. viz., a legacy of one fourth of
certain ne-ro slaves to the American Board of Commissioners for
Domestic [Foreign it probably should have been] Missions, for
the purpose of sending the gospel to the heathen, and partictilarly
to the Indians of this continent. It is on motion of the solicitors
of the complainants ordered, that aill persons claiming the said
legacy; do appear and answer the bill of the complainants, within
four months from this day. And it is ordered that this (order be
published in a public Gazette of the city of Sav-annah. and in one
of the Gazettes of Philadelphia. once a month for flour months.
         - Extract from the minuel t s, Dec. 2nd, 1832.
  "JOHN SMITH, C. S. C. B. c."-(The bequest was not taccepted.)
INFLUENCES UNDER WHICH THE AMERICAN
       CHURCHES HAVE BEEN BROUGHT.
  Charleston (City) Gazette.-" We protesta,-aint the assumption
-the unwarrantable assunmption-that slavery is ultimately to be
extirpated from the Southern states. Ultimate abolitionists are
enemies of the South. the same in kind, and only less in degree,
than ininiediate, abolitionists.''
  [Vashington (City) Telegraph.-'' As a man, a Christian, and a
citizen, we believe that slavery is right; that the condition of the
slaveholding states is the best existing organization of civil
society. "