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

beings is at stake. Let me assure Friends
that If ] have gone counter to their creed or
criterion, l am truly sorry, not because have
done it, but because of the necessity there
was in doing it. l am not bound by any
creed, neither do | intend to be.-My W
mind is my creed, and all mankind are MEM
bers Of my sect. Turn with me back for
one moment and view the first advocates of
the then doctrines of Friends, and witness the
denunciatory %epithets hcaped upon these de-
vance of the prevailing and established dog
mas of that day. The vocabulary of the Eng
lish language would not furnish them ample
nor adequate means for their persecution;
hence they resorted to physical force in order
to crush those simple truths, but all in vain;
for ''truth is mighty and will prevail" And
how often Friends speak of those as the dark
ages of superstition and priest-craft. And
when that pure and noble minded man, Elias
Hicks, spoke in such satirical and cutting
terms against the Inconsistency of such con-
duct as pertaining to Christianity, and by his
doctrines effected a division in the Society,
little did he think that he was laying the
foundation of a sect that would so soon cry
infdel, infdel, against the very doctrines he
preached, and that they would themselves
turn prosecutors!
1t therefore will be understood that with
the original doctrines of Friends l have ne
contest. But against that Inconsistent and
slaveholding religion, which modern Friends
endeavor to make us believe is the erst prin-
ciples of christianity, l have an %uncompromis-
ing warfare, and hope ever may have
Are not Friends asa body guilty ofthe blood
Of their brothersl Dc they remember those
in bonds as bound with theml Let us see.
Who among them have ever stood aloof from
political jzfgons? Who among them have
has been set up for the perpetuation of Sla-
very! Who among them that believe war moi
only to be a moral evil, but a national one,
that has not knowingly supported by their
votes the Commander in Chief of the Ameri-
can forces! Who among them nave not de-
clared slavery and war to be wrong? None!
And who among them have carried that dec
l%aration out in p~ractice9 But few! Th9nare
they not only hypocrites, ,but are guilty of one
of the worst ofcrimes in the sight Of God. And
when a person comes along clothed with the
garb OF freedom, and breaches deliverance
to the captive, they are compelled to do it in
the streets. And when application is made
for Friends house, they are spiritually inform
ed the house wants rest and they fear the seats
will become soilcd. Oh! Shame where is thy
blush? 1t has been by them bartered to the
Slaveocracy for safe keeping.
"On, on with your work, but ne'er forge'
Ye heartless, purse-proud, pampered few;
The martyrs cause shall triumph yet,
And crush to earth such foes as YOU.
Where freedoms banner is unfurled,
The slave shall be the'batSe cry
In freedoms ranks throughout the world,
For such as dare live free or die"
1t will beseen by the above, that l DO moi
dissent from what l have formerly said. ]
therefore hope Friends will not concern them.
selves about me. If they are willing to al.
low me the right of speech as a member o
their society without any memal reservations,
/ then shall continue as such. If net / will
mott should ere this have r~epudiated the ide;
of continuing a member, had it not been for
continued hope of its regeneration from any
participation in the accused institution Of A
merriam Slavery.
MAHLON BRANgN.