Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-06-12
NO. Al.

liberty are 10 receive such a terrible shock by
upturning such a 9 governmental civil and re-
ligious liberty have for their foundation lying,
MgG, robbery, adultery, in short the " sum g
all uiLanieS," then ! say | misunderstand tho
meaning of those terms, and am read to cry,
Gogn nth cicH and religious liberty. As soon
would | countenance the claims of the devil.
TO be traitors" to such a government is
glorious. To continue allegiance to it, IN
derstanding its requirements, is Infamous. l
place this simple truth against all that tho
trlducers of Mrs. Foster can hurl at her for
" aIiuriny" tire government of tho United
States.
But she denounces Churches and Minis.
ters--she is an iniidel.
This accusation, friend W. is no. original
with yourself. 1t is true that Mrs. Foster
and her companion, for themselves, and as
agents Of the American Anti-Slavery Society,
do denounce the American Church ard Cler.
gy as prO-~sh7rery-ihey denominate them a
I" BrotHerhOoa Of There's they represent
them asthe " Buloarksg Of american Slauery."
They do this with great severity-ah ! with
the severity Of truth. This fact accounts for
the TRADE, for the flood of persecution, that
is opened upon them wherever they co.
The cry of infdelity is raised against them ;
and, to secure the country against its blight
ing effects, the grog-shops and sinks Of poll
luton are disgorged of their contents, which.
in regular mob order, armed with brick bats
and rotten eggs, 60 forth to the rescue of the
Church; and after faithfully plying their
weapons upon the inidels, the clergy answer
back, "they hare got lraat they deSerre.''-
Truth is the appropriate weapon to be used
against error. When any other is resorted
to, it is prog positive that he who does it is
in the wrong. Grant, for the sake Of argu-
mont, that Mrs Foster and her coadjutors are
infdels. Does that make out that the crimes
which she alleges against tho Church and
clergy are false! Prove that l an a thief,
and you come very far short Of making your
self out an honest man. w, Hook upon this
cry of infdelity, raised by the Church and
clergy, as an attemptto raise a cloud Of smoke
and fog, that they may hide their own wick
edness. Rightfully understood, it is an &C
acknowledgement that what is said against
them is true.
But farther. Those who bring such accu-
sations are very likely to be found guilty Of
the same thing. No one is more ready TO
cry "slop thief" than the incend;ary who
has secured the booty. l will not say that it
is the real intention Of The clergy to propa-
gate inidelity but | ,ciH say that they could
not adopt more efficient means, were the
spread of infdeIity their direct object, than
those they now use. Christianity is pro-
fessedly a system of good ,UiN-Ave. Blu;
when the world sees that a system of op-
preston that would make devils blush is
p~ractised in her name, and. she raises no voice
against it, is not the inference natural that i,
is worse than a fable II lie! How must an
infinitely holy God look upon a Church that
iellowships and holds communion with a man
that could utter the following language T.
"If abolitionists will set the country in a
blaze, it is but fair that they should receive
the first warming at the fire." . \ n
"Abolitionists are like infidels, wholly urad-
dicted to m%artyrdom for opinions sake. Let
them understand that they will be caught
(lynched) if they come among us, and they
will take good care to keep out of our way.
There is not one man among them who has
any more idea Of shedding his blood in this
cause than he has of making war upon tho
Grand Turk" This is the language Of Mr..
VIM. S. Plummer, d. d., a prominent di-
vine of the Presbyterian Church, who re-
, sides in Richmond, Virginia. He would Join
the South in lynching and burning every abb
= o~lit:onist whose business or inclination might
3 lead them thither. But has this infdmously
f murdcrous language ever subjected the ID. ID.
to the least censure from his denomination,
or any part Of it, either North or South Ii
is true that, whatever individuals may have
said, from the body, as such, he has received
no censure. Hence the conclusion is legiti-
mate, that the Presbyterians, as a body, sym.
pathize with, and adopt the language Of
Plummer, as their otvn. Go, w, and search
the records of inhdelity-cull from the dark,
est page that floats on the sea Of blood, as il
rolls its turbid waves to the ocean the black
est sentiment, OF infdelity ever uttsred-hov