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

Iisagreeable associations being too strong for
heir nerves.
But we have "forsaken the Missionary
In answer let it BIO said we have
not, nor will we support those Mission
who send out panders to the slave
to preach a gospel that would enslave
the world. We wiN support those mission
aries who preach glad tidings indeed, and
liberty instead Of chains to the ~captive-who
repudiate caste in their own country, before
they go across the wide Atlantic TO denounce
it among the Hindoos. And this is called
forsaking the Missionary cause. But then
our personal piety is whitening" We
rather think it has never appeared very green
and furnishing, to those petrifacticns in the
share Of men, whose finty souls can sympa-
thize with the extortioner and stoop TO flatter
him in the piety which enables him 10 OPP
press the peeled slave. Nor are we desi-
rous it should, "Wo unto you when (such)
men speak well of you, for so spakc they of
the false prophets"
AS to the charge Of mononiania, we regret
TO see professed ministers Of the gospel de-
scend TO the petty tricks and Islander of the
d~emagogue, to sustain even a sinking cause.
What evidence have we given that we are
monomaniacs! Have we been dancing around
tall ash poles with dead and live coons, ban
ners, flags, and grotesque imagery of gratis,
and gerrymanders, like others of his congre-
CATION If we had, we would admit that if
we were not monomaniacs, we were in a
fair way to become hnatics, in which
case we should have had his prayers in
stead of his disapprobation. The whole
of this TRADE is quite a masterpiece of
policy. But like the rest of his sermon,
it is not new. The most noble Fcstus re-
sorted to the like honorable trick. The Phar-
isees also did the same. He hath n devil
and is mad, why hear ye him :" If the
advocates for perpetual slavery, in the church,
could induce the belief that we had become
monomaniacs, by too much study or a
"fendish fanaticism," it might possibly
frighten their followers from the abolition
heresy, and perhaps save them from mopo-
mania. 1t will, no doubt, be gratifying to
know that, from the peculiar structure Of
some peoples brain, or some other cause that
indisposes them to hard study, there is but
little danger Of their being afflicted with the
disease. The design of such attacks is OBJ
vious. 1t is always 10 make a low appeal to
the preiudices of the multitude, and thereby
to save a vast amount Of argument. After
all it is important testimony in our favor. 1t
is a proclamation to the world that such is
our zeal and faithfulness in the cause Of e.
Emancipation, that we are thought worthy to
receive the brand of mad men or fanatics. -
Such charges have been rife in other times
and in other countries. They were brought
against Clarkson, against Wilberforce, against
whose names, a protracted life Of devotion
10 the cause Of the slave, has cast a halo of
such effulgsnce that the gibes and sneers Of
the servile tools of despotism, have never
been able 10 becloud or obscure it. We feel
too much honored to be villifed, in the same
manner of these apostles of liberty and relig-
ion. While, at the same time, we cannot
but rejoice, and would be very far from ex-
changing this testimony, indirect though it
be, and not intended to be passed 10 our
credit, for the ephemeral applause of the des-
pot, and for permission to follow, at an hum
bic distance, in the rear Of the pro-slavery
ID. DIS of this land.
His practical improvement was introduced
somehow thus "How much more good
these ultra men might do, did they but attend
10 the duties of religion, and let the question
Of slavery have its proper place, and surely
the care of the soul is Of much more impor-
lance than the liberty of the body" The
care of the soul, we admit, is of paramount
importance. But such truisms uttered with
mock solemnity, by one who is using his
religious and ministerial influence, TO quarter,
upon the church, a membership who deny 10
sixty thousand of her own slaves, all knowl-
edge of letters, and consequently all opportu-
nifty 10 read, for themselves, in the Word of
Life Of what concerns their souls, are but cal
culated TO inspire the belief, that he who ut
ters them is an incompetent Judge Of what is
likely to benefit the soul. No doubt if we
would leave this discussion entirely TO the
Shareholders, and their clerical apologists, it