Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25

'nousdnu Americans p~eTlshed during the eight
years CT the revolutionary war. We have,
then, a direct saving of eighty-nine thousand
lives OF American citizens by pacific mea.
sures. This alone should decide The question
In favor of peace. Bot we have other consi-
detations.
I'd. EXPENSE. DIRECT AND INDIRECT. Com.
merce. trade, and manufactures have been 10
a great extent suspended, and a large amount
OF property has been wantonly destroyed by
the drvastdtions Of the enemy. Bot all this
would have happened to a still greater extent
In war; and the non.resisllng policy has saw
ed US the enormous expense OF supporting an
army and navy, and of building and cquipping
Notifications. The direct expense Of the re-
volutionhry war TO our country is estimated,
by Pitkin, at Sl35, 900 900. Tn same au-
thor has stated the direct expense Of our milf
tary operations since that war, to be more than
$1,000, ooo, 600. All this at least, S435 ,O00,-
600, we should have saved by the pacific
policy.
Sd. Tbs INTERESTS OF MORALITY Ant RE-
lio!oN. If a whole people have such a sense
of their duty to God as to refuse 10 protect
themselves by means which he has forbidden.
they will not be likely to neglect either to
recognize his hand or implore his protection,
throughout the struggle. The Sabbath has
been strictly observed, and the supplicaiions
of the nation have arisen more ardently than
ever TO Him who holds the hearts of kings in
His hand. The mass Of the people h I'VE their
minds intpntly fixed on the great struggle be-
tween liberty and oppression, and anxiously
watching the contest Of faith, love. patience
and hope, against caTnal weapons, have been
strongly withheld both from irihing amuse-
ments and vicious indulIrncies. At the close
of the struggle, therefore, the interests Of Tee
ligion and morality are more lourishing than
at its commencement.
But on the other hand, look at the long
train Of moral evils which crowd in the track
of our revolutionary war. M'emperGnce,
which has now become so extensively the
disgrace Of our land, unquestionably had its
origin in the daily raiions of spirit served 10
the revolutionary army and navy. Sab dth.
breoking was abhorred by the descendants Of
the pious pilgrims, until war, which knows
no Sabbath, broke over the appropriate em-
Payments OF that day, aud the reverence due
To II. Licent'0usneSs, the pr0verbial inmate
OF every camp, and prjanehsfs, a vice almost
universal among soldiers, have fcarluily in
creased since their federation in the revolu-
tlonary army and navy. Thon the whole
spirit and practice Of war produce a slight es-
t%iInation of The value IF human life. Habits
Of pinndrr destroy that regard which We ma
turally feel for the sacredness Of private pro-
prrty. The absolute and unconditional ODE
dirnce demanded by military superiors. takes
away the sense of individual responsibility
to God. In short, war is permitted 10 sus-
pend all the rules Of morality.
TIL loss of 800. 00G, 900 and even the de-
s%truciion of 1000 lives, appear but trifling
evils, in comparison with the enormous de-
nravation of moral habits and religiorT prin-
clples which the revolutionary war HIS pro-
ducrd in th.s nation.
The considerations above mentioned en-
u'ely satisfy the not only that we should have
G lined our Independence, but that we should
have been mere prosperous, better and happi-
er than we now are, had there been no revo-
l~utionary war.
SO much for the positive results Of the nom
resistance plan. 1t may now be well TO look
at the subject in another aspect, and see what
results m0uM not hare taasn place, had our
ancestors been mngnanimous enough, honor
abe enough, CHRISTIAN enough, to refuse to
Fl !ht with Great Britain.
Htving gained their independence in the
mode above mentioned, most assuredly THEY
WOULD nor HAVE CONTINUED To HOLD THEIR
FELLow-CREATUREs IN SLAVERY.
Upon this poin: we cannot be Mistaken
Men who had been led by Christian ptinci-
pies 10 regard the rights and abstain from the
destruction Of their enemies, could not have
deliberately pursued a system Of oppression
aud fraud against their former ftllow-suffer-
ers. Men who had so strongly demonstrated
their belief in the doctrine, That tie whole
human race are alike entitled to life, liberty
} aud the pursuit Of happiness, could not have
systematically manufactured and used whips,
chains, handouts and branding irons. They
would not have kept back the hire of the Id
horer; they would not have taken away the
key of knowledge they would neither have
denied The theory or shrunk from the prac-
tice Of immediate emancipation. They would
certainly ha @ been, in truth as we'll as in pre-
tsnce, a free people.
Aqain. They would not have proceeded
to defrdnd. corrupt, and exterminats the orr
inalinhabiiantso of this country. They would
, nelthe; have deprived the Indians Of their
lands, nor supplied them with liquid fire, nor
broken their faith p~lighted in solemn treaties.
nor expended the revenues Of the country in
making War upon them. How much trea-
sure, how much blood, how many precious
lives, how many immortal souls, might they
have saved
Lastly. They would not have admitted
The system OF violence and retaliation as a
|OlS''tuCHt par OF tneir own EOV0rnmCnt--
Having forgiven their foreign foes, they would
have pursued the like Christian course towards
every domestic enemy. Having conquered
by snifrung in the great contest between ma
tlons, they would have trusted to the s,mo
means for overcoming all minor evils, So
far from depending on the gallows, the pri-
son, the stocks, tho w~hipping-post, for pe,cc
and qIietneSs, they would utterly have TO-
jected all such barbarnns instruments. and
substituted for them love, joy, peace, lone.
suffering. GentIeness, goodness, faith, hone.
patience, meekness. And, doing thus. thew
would have found the word of God a sure 70.
lection.
Coon ADvIcE.-What if people do spcal;
against you! Let them feel that You are able
to bear it. What is there gained by slooping
10 correct every word that is whispered To
your discrediil Lies will die If let alone.
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