Reformed Covenanter: James Standfield on the abolitionism of the American Covenanters

Our friend Daniel Ritchie (Reformed Covenanter) has posted this bit of history and quotation concerning the American Covenanters and the abolition of slavery at his blog:

James Standfield, an Anglican layman and secretary of the Belfast Anti-Slavery Society, was heavily involved in a controversy about the Free Church of Scotland receiving money from and having fellowship with slaveholding churches (this controversy ran from 1844-8). In opposition to the view that American slavery was not sinful and that slaveholders should be admitted to communion, Standfield observed that, “These sentiments, I am happy to say, are repudiated by all the Covenanters in America”.

~Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 20 Nov. 1848.

Source: http://reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/james-standfield-on-the-abolitionism-of-the-american-covenanters/