Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-11

since a council Of the Trumbull Association
attempted to prove this charge, and to show
that the members of the church of which he
was pastor were infdels. This was the way
they did it. Stephen S. Foster is an infdel.
Elder Greene associates with Stephsn S.
Foster, therefore he is an infdel. Elder
Greene's wife and son Richard, and Peter
Fales and his wife and son, and other mem
bers of the church at Southington associate
with Elder Greene, therefore Mey are inf
dels.
Some Of the members of the Trumbull As
ISOLATION, said the speaker, are very anxious
to establish the fact Of Elder Greene's inf
delity-to prove him one with whom they
ought not to associate; but who, he asked,
are the men with whom they do associate
who are they with whom they hold christian
fellowship? A Baptist minister in T,umbull
county, took possession of another mans
wife and child, and Hred in adultery ,viM the
womani The members of the Trumbull As
ISOLATION fellowship that man he is not too
infdel for them. If, instead of this. he had
labored for the overthrow of that system Of
wholesale adultery which the churches have
builded up in the South, he would probably
have been denounced as an infidel. Another
member of the Association took a young wo-
man into his family, who became the mother
Of a child, of which he was the father; that
man was afterwards appointed Deacon, and
wiihout making confession 10 the church! If.
instead of this, he had labored to destroy
tina. system which leaves woman without
protection for her virtue, he would probably
have been denounced as infdel. Such. con-
tinued the speaker. are the men who are rec
orni2ed by the Trumbull Association as good
acceptable members. And the Bapiists are
no worse than the Methodists and Presbyte-
rians. 1t is the members of these and other
| religious sects who sustain ~slavery-who
give it a support without which it could not
long exist.
Although the above testimony in regard to
the Baptist church came from an orthodox
Baptist minister, we suspect it will be no
better received by the sectarians than if utter
ed by a heritic, for it is the truth they dread
and it matters not who ut;ers it. They are
as hard to please as the sailor, who, whilst
being iogged, cried out to the boatswain,
''strike higher, strike lower, strike higher,
strike lower" with the vain hope of finding
a place where he might be whipped and moi
be hurt.
You are doubtless somewhat acquainted
with the position of our friend Greene and
the members of the Baptist church at South
ington. There has recently been a division
among them; those who remained with the
pastor will not commune with a slave claim
ant, or with any one who does commune
with him and so far as we could learn, moi
a single member of the church gives support
to the L. S. government. Elder Greene told
us he had not questioned them personally
upon this point, but that he believed none oil
the members were voters. He has himselI
been an abolitionist for a long time, was ;
Liberty party man. He preached a goot
deal against slavery, but so far as he car
learn, never succeeded in making any con
verts until he adopted the Disunion doctrine
He designs giving, through the columns o
the Bugle, some account of the oppositioI
with which the church at Southington ha
had to contend, CT the proceedings of tn
heresy-hunting councils appointed by tn
Trumbull Association, and other matters con
nected with its anti-slavcry struggles.
None have been more eager to raise til
cry Of infdel against anti-slavery roformers
than the E~vangelists of Oberlin, who are $
extremely u~nereHgelicqi themselves, that tn
stamp OF inidelity or heterodoxy has bee
branded upon their W forehoads by tn
self-ordained defeaJ1fs of the orthodox faitl
They have beer most severely flaggelate
for h~eresy-anG piteon5ly have they CON
planned of it-anG nov, while their backs ar
smarting from the lash, they seize the viii
and apply it with right good will to tn
shoulders of comeouters. 1t is, however
some consolation to know that they thin
them worthy of so much notice. The kee
:, vision and astute intelligence of the Oberlir
lies mas enabled tneIn 10 understand that III
young Hercules of comeouterism must be de
stroyed, lest with his club of truth he das
to pieces the pro.slavery religion and govern
ment of this land. But like the tabled dc
mi-god of olden time, comeouterism, even i
its infancy, will strangle the serpent whic
sectarian enmity has sent to destroy it. TIL
recent attack upon Disunion nrincinles in TN
Oberlin Quarterly, from the pen of Professo
Thome, is but Que of the many proofs G
their advancement. And then such an attac.
not a scattering fire of distant musketry
but a full discharge of artillery. The OJey
lin Evangelist had before fired an occasiona
shot, but it appears without producing tn
desired effect, so the heavier metal of tn
OBERLIN QUARTERLY REVIEW is brought t