A Virginia Camp-Meeting

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 29, 1860

A Virginia Camp-Meeting.

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Tribune says, that a camp-meeting was held recently in Fairfax Co., Va., and that immediately after the camp broke up, twenty-seven negroes were sold on the ground to some Southern traders! A mother and seven children were among the number. One of the men was on his knees engaged in prayer, when the trader who had purchased him stopped his mouth with his hand and handcuffed him. What a scene on a Methodist camp ground! To what depths are we sinking. Shade of Wesley, pity us! God of mercy, forgive us our great wickedness and deliver us speedily from all complicity with this abomination which maketh so desolate!—Sel.