*  The  following  Btatement  apparently  varies  from  the  preceding,  in  respect  to  the
number  of  slaveholding  Conferences :

"The  Methodist  Church  North  has  about  one-fifth  part  as  many  slaveholding
societies  as  the  entire  Church  South.  It  reports  in  the  slave  States  three  anono!
conferences,  857  preachers,  and  86,627  members,  all  in  actual  and  full  fellowship
with  slaveholding." — Pres.  Blanchard,  a*  reported  hy  Cleveland  Trve  Democrat^  Sep.
26,  1851.
The  solution,  as  furnished  ns  by  Mr.  Lee,  is,  Xhixtfive  of  the  Conferences,  viz.,  the
Pittsburg,  the  Ohio,  the  Indiana,  the  Illinois,  and  the  Philadelphia,  though  bearing
Northern  names,  include  portions  of  slave  territory ;  while  the  Western  Virginia,
the  Missouri,  and  the  Baltimore,  are  slaveholding,  of  course :  eight  in  all.
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CHAPTER  XIII.
POSITION  OP  THE  AMERICAN  CHURCHES,  ETC.   CONTINITED.
11. — THE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.
