Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-09

like in their character, both are pro-slavery,
both approve of war, and SO intimately con-
nected are they, that even Henry Clay, blind
as he is to the perception Of moral principles,
can see that a disruption in the church would
be but the precursor Of a division in the state,
and as certainly would a division in the
church closely follow a dissolution of the A
merican Union. Therefore it becomes the
interest of the b%rawling politician to magnify
the church, while in reality he values it as
much as did Esau his birth-right. In or
der to give it consequence, as q kind Of semi
religious official, he recommends the appoint
ment of feast-days and fast-days; and that
the priests may have their share of picking
from the public crib, they are made chaplains
of the army and chaplains of the navy, so
government fires none but sanctifed cannon
balls, and uses no swords or bayonets but
those which the American church has prayed
over. And the priests are anxious to sustain
the government as an institution approvingly
ordained of God, and they teach the peo-
pie that if they resist the powers that
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fond the ordinances of government as the
ordinances of God; and among them and
throwing its dark shadow over all others
is the internal gallows-tree which the church
50 loves. The priest and the politician DO
not caricature the church and government, but
on the other hand they conceal their defects,
and attribute to them virtues which neither
possess. 1t may be that some of these have
SO long spoken boastingly of their beloved in
stituticns, have so often repeated sclf-glory-
flying lies, that their falsehoods seem 20 them
as truth.
1t is somewhat amusing to note how lay
ishly Elisha bestows his sympathies upon
the priesthood and church Of France when it
suits his purpose so to DO. He holds up tho
Jacobins as among the most criminal and do
testable Of men because they strove to over
throw that church and destroy that priesthood.
What was the church of Francel Tho
church of Rome, and her priests were Cath
Ole priests. If we believe what Elisha says
of the Roman Catholic Church, it is one Of
the most insiduous and dangerous DISCUSSES
which Infdelity puts on, and therefore moro
10 be dreaded than the open teachings Of Vol
tlire and Paine. If this be a true position,
and the Rev. Editor AYERS that it is, instead
Of holding up the Jacobins to the desteatAtion
of the world, he should rejoice to know tina.
they overthrow in France that church which
in America he denounces as anti-christ aud is
endeavoring to destroy. Priest like. lie does
just what best answers his ends. He ons
minute denounces the Roman Catholic church
as anti-christian and infdcl, and in the next
opens his artillery upon the Jacobins Of France
for destroying its power in that country. He
seems TO US to be as unstable in this I%articu-
lar, as a certain parsonage of whom i. was
said,
&" when the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk
would be,
When the devil was well, the Devil I monk
was he"
His idea OF differences is a singular one.
Speaking of the editors of this paper he Gays,
''The charge which they made against me
Of u~ttering a : foul-mouthed SANDER upon
Garrison, is drawn from inferences." Indeed!
He says that Garrison's doctrines are those
of the French Revolution which drenched
Europe with blood and filed her with crime,
that he holds to the abrogation of tho mar
rage relation, denies the right Of private prop
erty and is oPpossd to all human governments,
and we knowing what are the sentiments Of
Wan. l.. Garrison, "irfer' that Elisha Bates
is a clerical libeiler, that he ''bears false wit
ness against his neighbor." A man stands
up and paints in the blacklist colors the char
acter Of one whom ! know to be a Just and
honest man, and | tell him he utters a foul
mouthed SANDER. Al, says Elisha, your
charge is based upon inferences! True, and
when a man lies, | infer he is dishonest
The charges which he brings against Carl
son are based upon differences, and ~inferen-
ces too as far from fact as error is from truth.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, although he doubtless
regards Robert Owen as an honest, sincere
man who has spent much time and money in
order 10 benefit the race, has never endorsed
his philosophy, but has declared that he con
siderod it sadly defective, aud the letter from
a correspondent Of the Liberator, which the
editor of the Union referred to in his sermon,
and r~e-refers to in the article which lies be-
fore US, contains nothing which could BIO de-
Gently tortured into a proof that the views OF
Owen and Garrison at all harmo nize; nor il
there any thing to be found in Garrison's edi