Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-09-26


advocato-he was guilty Of making a dis
tincton whore it seems to me there is no diff
ference. But thore was, to my mind, an ev-
ldent Discrimination to meet my questions
fairly, and | refrained therefore from urging
more than two or three Of a half score which
l had thought Of. wanted them to Justify
their denunciations of Wings and Demo-
Gratis, on the ground that voting for slave
holders is not a very immoral act, and their
leniency towards their evangelical brethren,
Of pew and pulpit, on the ground that it is a
very immoral act, | don't believe they wan
ted to hang themselves on either horn of the
dilemma. But thus ended my talk with
Liberty Party.
And when | saw there was no prospect of
having my questions fairly met and answer
ed, with a simple yes or nay, | turned to the
audience and addressed them briefly upon
the support given to slavery by the religion
of the country. | reminded them that cler-
gymen at the south were selling their own
Church members-in some cases their broth
er clergymen-and according to their faith.
Jesus Christ, who is formed in every Chris
tan the hope of glory and the Holy Ghost,
whose temple their pious slaves are. Then
/ asked them to look at the relation that the
northern Church held to the southern-the
private members of the latter being received
at the communion table of the former, and
the ministers to the pulpit-constituting vir-
tually one Church, and as such. placing texts
of scripture under the institution of slavery
as a solid foundation for it to rest upon
Such a religion spoke of as being the worst
in its influence Of any thing on earth.
But | will close this already too lengthy
article, with the additional questions which
| intended to propose to the Convention
They are the following:-Is any man fit to
be a minister of the gospel who votes for a
Shareholder | thought it would be very
hard for them to say that minister with whom
they exchange p~ulpits-and some of whom
were present-were not tit to preach; but as
they had denounced them as being wicked
as politicians, | was anxious to know what
they would say of them as evangelical cler-
gymen. Consistency, | thought, required
them to say they were ministers of Satan,
rather than of God. But | give the other
questions. What shall we do if we ale Dem
ocrats, or if we are Wings! Shall we not
stay in our party and try to reform itl or
must we come out from itl And what shall
we do if we are Methodists or Baptists or
Calvinists! or members of any other pro-
slavery sect-stay in or come QUIT OF course,
] knew they would say of the political par
ties-'Come out Of them; flee from them as
Lot did out Of Sodom; and that they would
say of the religious parties, Stay in them;
the Church is a diviHe institution. and you
must purify it'-but | wanted the whole au-
dience to see the inconsistency of their posi-
ton. And in conclusion, | desired to ask
them what action the passing Of their reso-
lutlons would result in. Rev. Mr.. circuit
was there as the representative. as he said.
nf nInptppO tNUnOtinthC of tho Ibrrob ,n1 |
a very pro-slavery body they were %conclu-
siveiy proved to be. And resolutions were
passed declaring they were very 'inconsist-
emit But ] intended TO ask the clergymen
living in this region, as the representatives
of the one twentieth, if they should continue
to exchange with their brother Orcuttl and
continue to receive the 'lay' members of the
Church, who sympathize with Mr.. o. to
their communion tables! OF any but EVAN
gelical clergymen, ! should not have asked
such questions. Liberalists do not eXcom-
municate and give over to 'the builetings of
Satan,' every man tinctured with 'heresy,'
and they cannot, therefore, upon their princi-
pies, be called upon to pursue such d course
towards a pro-slavery man. But those who
would eXcommunicate for saving wood on
the sabbath, or for dancing, or for being a
Unitarian, Unlyersallst, or a GarrisOnian,
should also, IL seems 10 me, eNcOmlnunlcdte
for giving sanction to the traffic in human
beings. But they will probably do no such
thing. They will continue vehemently to
denounce Wings and Democrats as of the
decii, and also continue in very intimate
Christian and ministerial fellowship with
such of them as are of their sects in religion.
Liberty Party comes forward with great
pretensions to goodness, but if it could be-
come a powerful party, fear it would be a
party the most to be dreaded for its %tyranni-
cal influence of any that exists. 1t might
abolish chattel slavery, and doubtless would
and abolish it with sword in hand, if it
could not otherwise. But under its reign
all sects of supposed h%eretics, and non-resis-
tants especially, would be likely to fare hard
they certainly would if some of its pres
ent clerical leaders, or similar ones, had the
direction of it. An exclusive religious par
ty in politics, whose reliance is the sword,
is a dangerous foe to humanity. OFF of the
Anti-slavery platform, l would oppose Lib
erty Party, chiefly on this ground. Away
with all religion that hangs and butchers
mankind. When it is in authority it will
hang and butcher them for Internationally to
a creed. But more on this point at some
.other-time. w. IL. L.
From the Emancipator.