Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-09-05


then that he should condemn the Buale fo
seeking to overthrow all the pro-slavery par
ties on che same ground. Con -istency truly
is a jewel, and mly my brother lind II.
IrI rightly understand the doctrine Of the
Bugle, or the Society of which it is the or
gan, it holds that slavery is a sin; ard that
as abolltionist5 we must cease to fellowship
that sin both in the church and in the s,lte;
either by refusing to let it remain in, or, il
1t has the power in its own hands, that g
then are to withdraw. And we find that we
are commanded thus to do; for the church OF
Christ has ever been tlught to turn sin out
of her DOORS; or if the church were cankered
at heart, | mean if sin had got into her "Ho-
ly of Holies," then were the faithful re1uir-
ed 10 come out of her. "Come out of her
my people that we be not partakers of her
SINS" and this is the voice of the ''Bugle."
Slavery has flung its blasting mildew into
the very sanctuary of the church; it has en-
twined itself around her trunk and around ev-
cry fibre; she has become canker-caten and
decayed. No more does she lean upon the
arm of her once beloved but now weeping
Saviour; for she is fallen from the glory Of
departed days. and is now chained and car
ried upon the back of the "Great Beast that
once did pursue her. Alas for herl Heav-
ems hosts are weeping over her destruction
while devils damned i'm lowest hell shout
with internal glee: The Bugle, like a mes
senger from the skies, sounds its loud notes
in her guilty ears and calls unto the elect or
faithful TO come out of her lest they partake
of the judgments that are in waiting for her.
And for being thus faithful to the mission en-
trusted to its care, not only the Ptnrisees
who love to pray standing in the popular pla-
~ Lat al, GIL. n Ia. -. -. a.
''sce if it will be supported by the people of
Ohio;" and among these Scribes is the pfous
Editor of the "Advocate," who himself is a
member of an evangelical c~onclave of mem
~stealers and women whippers. And to JUS
tify himself in thus remaining a member of
the church, he says he does so in order to
lend his influence to redeem or cleanse her.
Why did he not think of this better ,cay a
little sooner, and stay in the Wing party and
redeem or cleanse it from all pro-slaveryl
Just look at this pious Editor, battering
the pro-slavery sentiment in the two politi-
cal parties and calling down upon them the
anathemas of heaven, and at the SINE
time supporting an ecclesiastical organiza-
ton which holds that slavery is an %institu-
ton of the Bible-"God ordained" This
looks very much to US like ''stopping the
Spite and opening the bung;'' for while the
church has the manufacturing of the public
sentiment, the two parties only strive which
shall ride into power upon the sentiment thus
created, Pro-slavery is found in the one,
becaus Sc the other teaches it in the pulpit;
then the church is the field for labor; the
fountain from which slavery drinks its fill,
and satisfies its hunger. And twas because
the Anti-Slavery Society turued its battering
rams against this source Of Pr0-skuvery senii-
ment that a goOdly number of those whose
bread and butter comes by their teaching on
the Sabbath day, became frightened lest their
sceptres should be taken from them; and to
evade such dreadful calamity, they cried,
''Slavery is a political eciI, and must be put
down by political MEANS" and Immediately
Liberty party was born:-and then they cried
again; "Liberty party will overthrow slave
ry,-come ye unto it and let the church "a
lone, for they that speak evil of her are INFI-
DELS."
Has this not virtually been the case! No
wonder our faithful Garrison combatted Lib
erty party with such determined courage, for
truly has 1t been one of slavery's artful
schemes to ward off her impending ruin
1t was a deep laid artful plan, and has even
succeeded in drawing the third part of the
stars of the anti-slavery host after it; and by
its cry of ''Infdelity'' it has shut the eyes of
many more that would now have been among
the faithful opposers of slavery. But it is a
consolation to know that it has been detect
ed in its very infancy, and although the shock
vibrated through every fibre of the A. S. So
ciety, although its organ was stolen by its
protested friends, and its energies crippled
for a season, yet it is now coming up cloth
ed in the majesty of Truth to battle the hosts
of slavery even in their own tents; and it will
yield no quarter, nor "Give up the ship" I'M
til the shout of disenthralled millions shall
60 up to heaven, and the demon of oppres-
sion sink into oblivion.
But am occupying room which should
be filled by ADLER pens, and must content my
self with the hope thatth Elitor of the .'Ad-
~vocate' will publish this in his paper, and as
he likes to copy from the 'Bugle" in par
%ticular, feel in hopes that he will lay be-
fore his readers the article on "The superb
GRITTY of moral over political power" which
he will find in the first number,
Yours in the cause of Universal Liberty,
AMOS II. WILLIS.
NO UNION WITH SHAREHOLDERS