Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-08-22
Rev. Joseph Romaine.


Another name to swell the record of clerical inlqui.
ty! We have seldom read of such a cool, calculating
villain, such a designing and traitorous wretch as 10.
;sEpH RnMAINE. Protesting to be a follower of Jesus,
and therefore protesting to remember them IN bonds as
bound with them, to love his neighbor as himself, this
vile hypocrite iabored for nearly a twelve month 10 be.
tray into the hands Of the bloody slave power those
who would deliver he spoiled from the hands OF the
spoiler. And 10 order TO do this, he did not scruple 10
add to the ,orments Of the despairing bondmen. lie
inci,ed them TO a hope Of freedom, and filled them with
terrible fears Of still worse condition than that which
they were enduring, until excited almos, to despe ra.
tion, they made a bold push for liberty. But scarcely
had they crossed the river, all trembling and fearful
lest they should be discovered, scarcely had the Ohio
AboitionIsts received them on their own soil, before
they were surrounded and seized by sixteen armed
YIrginians who had been lying in ambush. And all
;his was brought about through the agency Of a Ba2-
list minister, in order that he and the Shareholders of
Wood county might wreak their vengeance upon some
Of his anti slavery bearers.
We're we 10 seek out crimes Of the blacklist shade,
deeds of the most malignant nature, we should surely
tild them IN the record of clerical villany, for the
Protestant Jessit OF modern times is becoming as willy
as the Catholic Jesuit Of other days. Most criminals
act IN The heat Of excitement, in The frenzy of the mo.
ment, but 1t takes those who have stolen the livery OF
the court Of heaven To serve the devil in, to plot most
cleclually and 10 carry out most deliberately, plans
to betray the innocent,t TO slcriti;e the unoffsnding, and
10 fill even ID o%vern,wng, the cup of human misery.
Let JOSEPH RoMAINE witness the punishment that
the slave ever receives for trying 10 escape from his
oPpressor-le lei him see the fast falling tears-let him
hear the agonzing groans, and the ~throbbing OF the
heart lhhi is swelled, even to II bursting, with bitter an
Guish; and then let him ponder over the misery which
his malice has wrought. Let him 90 to Parkersburgh
and see the three captured OhIoans, who, through his
agency have been torn from their homes, their FAM
lies, and friends, and incarcsraied in a Virginia prison;
and then lie, him repent Of The evil which he has done.
Let him read The just adherence Of his crimes which
is evinced by every. true and good mau, and let him
become conscious of the contempt with which the slave
holder, even, regards him; for although the latter MAJ
love the treason, yet he despises The traitor. May a
consciousness of the misery which RoMAINE has in.
fic,ed, Of the Divine law which he has violated, oil
The just Indignation which he has incurred, serve to
bring him to speedy repentance.
We wonder whether the b 'ptist churches will still
regard him as a dear brother in Christ Jesus! If be
remains IN good and regular standing in the church Of
which he is a minister, and very likely there is not SUI.
fcicnt moral principle to eject him, he will of course
at the next communion season be invited 10 the table
Of every Baptist church in the north, unless indeed
there be one, which refuses 10 receive him who fellow
ships Shareholders.