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A Reverend Scamp - We learn from the Vincennes (Ind.) Gazette, that the Rev. S. B. McCormick, a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, was tried and suspended from ministerial duties for assisting slaves in making their escape from slave to free territory. The Gazette says:
Several of the witnesses stated that Mr. McCormick had boasted to them the number of the slaves he had aided to escaped, giving the names and places in Kentucky from which they had escaped, and one of them testified that he had heard him say that he had never denied belonging to the underground railroad, that ten thousand had gone to Liberia and thirty-five thousand to Canada by underground railroads. One of their papers states that he visited one of his ministerial brethren in Kentucky, partook of his hospitalities, prayed with his family, and in the meantime arranged matters with his servants to make their escape.
The Church session did right in expelling from its membership so vile a wretch, who would rob his benefactor, who would, under the guise of piety, win the confidence of a good Christian, partake of his hospitality, and steal his property in return for this confidence. It is an insult to religion to call such miscreants ministers of the Gospel.