Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-11-07

liiionists have not only been orvertod. AM
! made 10 subserve the interests Of a political
party. but the better feelings of the commit
nifty seem 10 have been panlyzed by it's ac-
ton, and NC find the people as cold and un-
| feeling as the seIscless iron they help -
rivet around The neck of their brother. Lib
erty party appears frightened at the approach
of Old Organization, and frequently say to
the people, stay away from its meetings.
they are inhdel--no gosernment-anti-
church-don't go near them. In some cases
this influence obtains and our meetings arc
small; but as a general thing WI have no
reason to complain of a want Of hearers.
is true there are abolitionists in that party,
who have extended a kindly welcome, and
bid us God speed in our labors. This Ger.
tainly is not owing to an approval of the ul-
ira doctrines we advocate; and whether it
originates in the prospect that they will reap
the benefit. or in some other feeling we will
not pretend to decide.
The labors of the agents of the Am. A. S.
Society in this State for the last five months.
In conjunction with the efforts of the Ohio
Am. Society have been remarkably effective.
A new impetus has been given to the cause
of freedom and humanity. Public attention
has been aroused-sympathy which had here
tofore been damned up in its cold and lev
channels has been ELECTED in behalf of the
oppressed. Many hitherto unconcerned, have
been made TO feel the aggressions of the
slave power upon the north; they begin to
realize that unless slavery be overthrown
they themselves will be easlaved. When
the true position Of the Wings and Demo-
Gratis, the Inconsistency Of Liberty party, and
the corruption Of the church are exposed, we
belisye that the conscienees of almost the
entire people bear testimony to the ttuth; and
they are only prevented from embracing Il,
by the s%cctarian trammels, and party eonsid-
e%rations that bind them. Very many who
formerly had faith in political action to abol.
ish slavery, and many who had but little
confidence in that measure, bet yet deemed
! 1t necessary to show their strength at tho
/ ballot box, have become convinced that the
abolitionist looses his moral influence by
making slavery a political question, and that
/ by so DONG he detracts from the dignity and
purity of tbe holy enterprise in which he is
engaged. And besides, they are convinced
that the means for the redemption of the
world, which were used eighteen hundred
years ago, by that great reformer, Jesus of
Nazareth, are the best, the safest, and the
most eHeetuaa; and that indeed they are the
only means that can be used by a christian
or a irae philanthropist. Many who hereto
fore had a blind reverence for the U. S. Con-
1 s%titttion, and who had been wont TO worsbin
/ its trainers, now see that it is a blood-stained
\ document, and that its authors violated every
principle OF justice and humanity in its
\ formation. They see that the Federal
Union was formed at the fearful sacrifice If
the liberty and the happiness of one sixth
part Of the people. They see that the pro.
vlsiehs OF that instrument have given perma-
nancy and security to the system of slave
~; that under the fostering care of the pen.
eral government, it has been strengthened
and extended, until it forms a component ele.
Rent in every department of State.
At a recent meeting of the Elk. Com. of
the Ohio Society, one hat of its memherss
resigned and now occupy the true Disunions
ground. They feel that they can no lonqcrr
aad or give countenance to a political party.
although 1t bears the name of liberty, which ,
s"ears to support that Constitution which,,
SS a death warrant TO the hopes, the happij.
AesS' and the liberty of the poor slave
Samuel Brooke whose ~untiring devotion to the
anti-siaveIy cause, and whose efficiency as a
general agent is well known and highly ap.-
preciated, is of that number. AS an aoont,
aor the Am Society in the West, he is now
actively engaged in promoting the interests.
OF the cause. lie has recently issued a
work entitled "The Shareholders Relirion."
which has a rapid sale, and is calculated "a
do much good.
Anti-slavery publications have been ex-
tenslvely circulated, those that excite inter.
est by enlisting the sympathies, those that
treat OF the corruption of the church and the
state, and the duty of secession from both:
and beside the great good that must necessa-
rily result from the circulation of books. from
the numerous meetings that have been held.
and the various private discussions that have
been had; a paper advocating the doctrines Of
the Am. Society has been established. and i.