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

while such works as the Br1'H-Ui.J4 H
Thieves occupy their place - he actually s-u
a copy of it Oh one OF their tables, but did
not read it Chow then does he know il 20 b.
Objectionable y and" as if to cap tho cu..
max of wickodness, they rejoice more 10
hear of the escape of 80 slave, to Canada,
than they would to boar of that number be-
ing converted" OF course when they run
away they leave the means of grace behind
them. Let US hear the Shareholders own
account of the matter. The New Orleans
Presbytory say that there are 100000 slaves
within their single bounds - rs, 900 Of these
never hear the gospel - $1,000 hear it bus
stately [and that from slaveholdaIs) This
is the fa%ttering prospect OF the slaves
conversion in the South, itself being Judge.
Why then should we wish him to remain
there for that object! Conversion, then,
even to the Stakeholder Religion, is exceed
ingly rare, and a chance to search the scrip
lures (Which might be suppo sed necessarily
still more so, as the instance Of tie hI-
bic distributor, who narrowly escaped tho
Penitentiary, in a recent case, for giving abb
bic to a slave, abunlantly tastifes. What
vast spiritual privileges, then, they loose by
running to Canada. What their chance for
conversion is there, we know not, but are SO
sanguine as to suppose, 1t cannot be much
worse than it was in the South, a section de
cidedly in the rear of Algiers, in point of
morals and civilization. Bnt be these reliL-
ious privileges what they may, their mental
culture, at least, is cared for. For who bat
the recreant priests of the times, have failed
to hear Of a certain Seminary of learning
| taught by Hiram Wilson, for the fugitives'
, especial benefit, where it is reasonable to
= suppose their spiritual welfare is looked az
B. ter, with quite. as much solicitude as it would
be on a Louisiana sugar plantation. Mr.. S.
, is so Jealous in th6sMissionary cause he ought
: 10 send him a box of clothing. But before
it starts it is but fair to tell him that it will
sustain a very different class of men from
Professors Stuart and Hodge, and the Rev.
G. G. Jones Of S. c., and who do no. teach
with these men, that Paul sent back Onnsi-
mus, to his master, a slave for life. Those
who are so Mortified at seeing or hearing of
the escape Of slaves 10 Canada, seem unfor-
tunately to have gotten on the wrong side
of the Ohio river, and in order to help con-
vert said chattles, instead of aiding their os-
cape from the inefGable horrors Of the South
ern prison house, had better return to h Gland
of chains and whips.
That any of Us have forsaken the Sabbath
school, either on account of our Abolition
sentiments, or our want Of personal Piety, is
a supposition quite gratuitous, on his part.
Of our personal pioty, it becomes us not to
speak. We trust We are too pious TO rob Il
cradle, or plumber a trundle bed, or even to
apologize for those ichO wouLd. The charge
that "wo have neglected other means of
grace" is destitute Of truth, as also that WS
haze MrOtvn aside tie standard WOTks named.
We even retain and read the old Confession
of Faith, having the note still in it that was
expunged by the Gen'l Assembly OF 1916, to
prevent Slayelolding church members from
seeing, as in a glass, that they were men
s~icalers, when they read the 6th command-
) ment, with the scripture proofs. Wonder If
Mr.. S. keeps this old edition on his table! We
have reason 10 fear that such works as those OF
: Rice and Junkin have usurped its place. For he
n has renounced the doctrine taught in the note
= alluded to, that " bringing off slaves or free
men and to keep, sell, or buy them %(consti-
tutes) ~stealers of men," We obtained sew
Is eral good works before the Presbyterian
le church had commenced the business of for
% gerry, by mutllaLing whatever might speak
ID uniayorably Of the (mOraO institution o! sla-
j. very. Were we nOtc to purchase, we would
= be particularly careful that none OF these
It, counterfeiters extraordinary had any hand IN
their publication. And this is just what oui
purblind preachers call laying aside OF stan
st dard works on piety. The sneaking act oil
n, expunging from one of our missionary hymns
in a late edition of the Assembly's Psalms
l. and Hymns, a couple of verses, apparently
o. because they smelled a little too strong o
+ Abolition, had put US on our guard. NJ
- wonder persons who associate with sucl
IS company, should feel horror-struck at til
~ bare sight Of the " Brotherhood of Thieves,