Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-10-17
GIDDINGS ON DISSOLUTION.

SOShuu vs. NNA'S Oh u
first page is a strange mixture of false and
true doctrine. Were he not connected with
the Wing party, and standing before the peo-
pie as one of its representatives, we doubt not
but his vision would be clearer, and the o.
pinions which he SO honestly entertains and
frankly expresses, would be somewhat diff
ferent. As it is, he is far in advance of his
party, and boldly avows doctrines which are
unpopular with majority of them, and which
his political opponents have tried to US TO his
disadvantage.
We understand he is a member ola church
which holds loving fellowship with those who |
'~enslave their fellow men; and thus endorses
the christian character of the plunderers of
Gods poor. This fact would of itself have
a tendency to close his eyes to the enormous
guilt of those who enthusiastically sustain the
unrighteous system and we were therefore pre-
pared to hear him say, that although slavery
is the source of more crime and licentious-
ness than all other causes combined, sacrif-
cling annually nearly thirty thousand human
lives, yet he imputed the apathy of the Amer
iican churches in relation to three millions of
,bondmen in their own land, more to a want
,of information, than a lack of moral feeling,
'or of christian principle. If instead of being
the enslavers of their fellow men, the pious
plunderers of Gods poor, Southern Presley
terians had made a practice of ''marrytng
their deceased wiie's sister" and moving
their feet to sounds of music in the ball room
the northern churches would have been all
alive upon the subject, and made themselves
acquainted with the veriest minutia in rela-
ton to SO fragrant a violation of christian
principle. The very ignorance which he
pleads as their excuse, will be the cause of
INSTRUMENTATION.
file admits that the Constitution is in some
respects pre-siaxery, but not 10 the extent the
American Anti-Slavery Society regards it,
His assertion that the slaveholding power has
,wrested from it a support which the trainers
of that instrument never designed it should
give, amounts TO but little, SO long as mis- pre-
,vious admission stands before us. If he be-
l~lieves the Constitution to be pro-siSvery in a
@single clause we deny that he can rightfhlly
sswear to support it. We care not SO far as
the obligation to refuse all sanction to it is
concerned, whether it be pro-slayery In many
parts, or only IN one; he has no right to pro-
mise to uphold it if it be false to God and
humanity in a single particular. Would he
claim a right to promise to support its pro-
slavery parts, if they stood out separate from
the rest of the document, and required a dis
tinct oathl We think he would not. Whence
then does he derive his right, to swear to
support them in connection with the rest!
His opinion of the fathers who framed the
Constitution, is far better than the one we
entertain, and better than our friend has OF
himself. He declares they acted as they
thought best under the circumstances, but
were they now living and possessed of the
information upon the subject which the peo'
pie of the present time are, they would NJ,
have framed such a Constitution as they did
Yet although he possesses the knowledge o
which they were destitute, living at a time
when the great mistakes which the fathers
made are clearly seen and felt, having thu
light of principle and of experience as hi
guide, he annually renews the foul and blood
stained covenant, and in the presence of Got
and the Universe swears to support nat g'r
compact which he tells US the fathers woul'
now refuse to adopt. Strange inconsistency
the fruit of party despotism, and lack of ldit
in moral power.
We are glad however that friend Gliding
appears to feel so deeply and so keenly, tn
insults and the outrages that the North ha
received at the hands ofslavery, and we hop
that he will learn ere long that we have n
right to expect better treatment so long as W
wickedly aid the South To Cypress and enslav
cur brother man, and lend our support 10 Til
God-accurscd Union. He says, "with IN
hands thus c,otted and dripping with tn
hl7od Of hs slaYss. ! carnct rsys1ence