Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-05-08

'5''C", SiO he helpSu pass inc iOIlOMlnS
resolution, at the formation of the Highland
county Anti Slavery Society, of which he was
Corresponding Soc., Aug. 1, 80:
Re%solccd, That we cannot agree with those
who profess to be opposed to siaUery in the
abstract, and who at the same time can find
many excuses for slavery in practice, because
in our view, the whole evil of slavery con-
sists in the practice of it, the discontinuance
Of which would be a complete removal of the
evil"
Another considerations" continues he,
''they THE slaveholders] are not conscious of
the evil of slavcry-have not examined the
subject-are mere bates in Christ" Who
can for a moment doubt itl A largo family
Of these " babes were at the last Geu'l AS
sambly. One of them was w. Bullock of
Ky, president of the mob meeting which
shipped Off c. NJ. Clay's press to Cincinna-
ii. Another "babe" who figured largely at
the Assembly, and whose works on Roman
ism were hawked with great JUNCTION, at the
door of their place of meeting, g. II. Thorn
well Of S. Co. once advocated tho following
resolutions at an indignation meeting in the
South
"R3soiccl, That slavery as it exists at the
south is no evil, is consistent with the prin-
clpIcS of revealed religion,-and ALL oppo-
siion TO it arises from IA misguided and Gend-
ish fanatcism, which we are bound to resist
on the very threshold.
Resoired, That ALL interference with this
subject, by fanatics, is a violation of our civil
and social rights-i5 unchristian and inhu-
man,, leading necessarily to anarchy and blood
shed, and that the lnstigators are murdcrers
and aSJaSSinS."
|: they 80 on at this rate when they are
"babes," what will they do when they be-
come men! Such "bdbcs'' would be better
for the rod Of discipline.
The preacher then brings John Newton for
ward TO prove that men thieves may steal
ship-loads of slaves from Africa, and yet be
piOus, and therefore not amsnable to church
c~ensure. No justification was attempted of
him in preference to any other kidnapper, on
ly he was piots. This Justification, like one
already noticed, was not original. His Holt
ness, the Pope, p~ractisel upon it before Mr..
S. was thought of. Had Newton lived in
our day, and been caught by John Bull, at
his piOus trade, his cloth would not have
saved him from being hanged as a pirate
And even Henry A. Wise would have said
amen! " But" asks our preacherin triumph,
/" was John Newton ever expelled from the
church !" No, nor does the church he be-
longed to expel its members for sins which
Mr.. S. Correctly enough, as III respects most of
Them believes of giant magnitude, but this
only enhances the enormity of slavery, for
most Of them are %inseparably connected with
it. They are as follows Dancing, ~profane-
ness, th~eatre-going, horse racing, card play
ing, drunkenness and debauchery. For none
of these would it eypel, but he would expel,
although many consider one Of them as Ell
Their no sin at all, or at least quite a venial
one; and none Ct them are at all equal to slave
ry in enormity. Is it any wonder then that
they did not expel Newton!" But are we
to initiate them, is the question. "No,"
says Mr.. S., not as it respects the dancer, &c.
but merely the Shareholder. And why not he
as well as the others! 80 you might expeI
somebody that was pious." If Newton was
indeed pious, the best evidence he gave Of
the fact, was his repentance and abandon
ment of what Mr.. S. calls the 50 accused
slave trade," not his active participancy in it
But if we are to believe the latter, the church
es should hold on to him, whether he aban
dons his business or not. Tell it not il
Richmond, publish it not in the streets o
I New Orleans, that here is a church so cor
I rupt that she will hold on to a member up t
: the very day that the government hangs hin
r for his misdeeds. Poor Judas slew himsel
f too soon, for had he been a contender wit
J, such men as Rice, Junkin and Steel, h
q would have been fellowshipped as a tende
r " babe in Christ !" No doubt he appeare
9 quite piOus, as his fellow disciples seem ne
d to have suspected him and even he, like III
e STAKEHOLDER, was the last to suspect himself
treason against God and man. Judas sold h
master for thirty pieces of silver, but his su,
~cessors of the o. S. Presbyterian ChurC
IL mako a much better bargain, and sell him f
I'd three or four hundred dollars-not in his ow
10 person, but in that of his MISUNDERSTOOD
s. of whom they hold in their pious keeping