Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-10-24

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that calculating tyranny which has marked
the course of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. The principles which that church
practically teaches, although they may not
cause the immed late slaughter Of thousands
ina day, yet they justify the slow murder OF
the bodies and the souls of millions. Who
would ust rather behold the keen axe sever
the head rom the body of abeloved friend.
who had not rather see the Gpillotine drench-
ed with the warm blood, of a brother as it
comes ~gushingtfrom the fountain of life, than
10 have that freud or brother fettered and
manacled by a Methodist slave trader, driven
off and sold to the plantation Of a Methodist
minister, there TO be whipped to and fro by
the keen lash, doomed to live a lingering life
in degradation AMI chains, to have the heart S
blood pressed out drop by drop in the most
excruciating agony, and to have the crushed
spirit feel the weight of terrible despairl-
We regard that man as far more merciful
who takes at once his brothers life, than him
who murders that brother under the lingering
torments of slavery.
Upon whom rests most of the guilt Of the
bloody crimes of those DAYS of revolution!-
What was the cause which produced those
terrible %effectsl Read the history ofthe cor
r%uptions of the French church, of the venlli-
ty and tyranny of the French priesthood, and
you have the question answered. So cor
rupt was their religion, so foul and degrad-
ed the character of their priests, that the peo-
pie learned to hate every thing which bore
the name of religion, and to scott at and nd
icule the idea of Il God. Can not the priests
of this land take warning by that blood stain
ed historyl Had it not been for the reform
-atory movements of the advocates of peace,
Temperance and anti-slaveFy in this land,
who have presented to the Eeople a religion
which the interrupted heart naturally loves,
we know not but the history of the churches
and priests of America, would have beenread
in the history of the church and priesthood of
France. We warn the priests of the terrible
consequences of their course, and while re-
buking them for their error will strive to in
c%ulcate the principles of true religion so that
the false and pollutedfaith which the clergy
teach, shall not drive the people into. blood
shed and violence.
If the Preach revolutionists asserted there
was no God save reason, the ERev. Elisha
Bates and those with WHOM he stands eccle-
siastically connected, practically teach the
people a no less Infamous doctrine, for they
learn Of the priesthood to trample under foot
every one of Gods, laws, even 10 his com
mandment "Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy ,neighbor,'' We will make our
declaration stronger, and assert they teach
them a far moTe infamous doctrine than athe
ism. We would rather believe in no God,
than to be led to the worship Of a being who
delights in war and blood, who is the pro-
tector of armies, and the God OF Battles, whe
has instituted and e~njoined slavery, and bless
ed the gallows assthe Workmanship of his
hands. Such a being is most foul and dc.
graded, and is even less calculated to excite
those deep and hallowed feelings Of vepera'
ton which tho God Of peace aEd levc has
implanted in the souls Of his children, than
1.-The lowest and mostdegradod AMI profigl,C
of the female sex" which this priest tells III
were worshipped in the spirit Of rid.cule by
the French people. Yet such is the God Q
the American Church.
The Rev. slanderer asserts that Garrison
and other abolitionists advocate the abroga
ton of the marriage relation. Our %anti-sla
very acquaintance is quite extens i've, yet ",
do not know of a single individual in III,
ranks of the aboiitionists who holds such sen
timents, nor did we ever hear of one VIII,
held them. unless our information cam
through the medium Of such siandererS rs tn
Rev. Elisha Bates. But we do knew thu
the Methodist Episcopal church trlmpie
that relation under foot iR the persons of en-
hundred thousand of its own members! Il
ven ifthe allegations which this priest make
against the anti-slavery Disuaionists of Amer
lea, and the Republicans of France were true
it would only prove that in this particpla
they were as bad as the Methodist i piscopa
church. We grant too much; even thus woul
not make them SO bad. Let it be shown thu
the Jacobins of France, or ithe Disunionist
of America were, or are the sworn supper
.ers of government which is pledged to hui
back into the power of their outragers, thos
women who stflve to escape from the hous
of concubinsge and pollution to which the
have .approyin gly condemned them, as mar