Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-30


| thing it shields the Catholic and Pagan
| priests, and condemns Elijah. We should
be clad to know in what form he would pre-.
fer a charge against one of these men with
whom he so deeply sympathizes-John b.
Wolff for instance. He says it won'td 10 to call
| him a priest, because Jesus was the great
High Priesti it certainly will not answer to call
him aministero of the gospel iffor no other rea-
son than thatJesus was minister ofihe gospel
we must not call him a man, for Paul speaks'of
"tho man Christ %Jesus;'' we must not call
him a thing, because he is not one. If the
logic of cur correspondent be good he should
not be honored with any distinguished name.
(2) Friend Pixley's crodulity is tremen-
dous. If he can believe this, what can he
not believe? To whom does the STAKEHOLDER
applystor the specification of his robbery! To
the church and clergy! Who is it that stands
most in the way Of the Temperance reforml
The church and clergy! Who arc the most
efficient supporters of war! The church and
clergy! Who most strenuously defends the
gallows as an ordinance of God! The church
and clergy! The church and clergy are in
the rear Of the world upon all questions ef
moral reform. and they continually cruelty
Christ afrtsh as he was crucifed by the
church and clergy of eighteen centuries ago.
(3) True! And the light Of the Priest
hood is darkness, and the darkness is very
great.
() If the words priest, and %priestly, have
by the force of circumstances become express
i've Of all that is mean and cunning, why
should we not use these words to express
that idea! Our correspondent attaches to
language a sacrodness and immutability which
1t does not possess, for it is but the robe in
which we clothe our ideas, and the meaning
OF words is continually changing. He doubt
less uses jesuiticah and attaches to it the COM
mon every day meaning with which it has
been invested. Upon his principles of rea-
soning he does very wrong. Jesu, if we mis-
take mott is the Spanish way of writing Jesus,
and the original meaning of Jesuit, is, one of
the society of Jesus, a society founded pro-
fessedly to establish his doctrines, and accor-
ding to our friends logic, it is casting re-
proach upon Jesus to use his name as a part
of a word to express the idea of craftiness and
deceit.
~ If friend Pixlcy will get up an opposi-
ton petition and desire us to publish it. we
will do SO as freely as we did that of our 9TH
correspondent. 1t is true a challenge was
by him, but only to the priests; is
Phineas Pixley one! In the event of the
challenge being accepted we did not consent
to have the question discussed in the Buglc,
for there are reasons which would lead us to
object to such a controversy in our columns.
Coy We received the communication; but
had we been willing to admit such discuss
ion into our paper, our readers would have
seen no point in the article referred To-. The
stated were these. Two towns that had
not prospereI when they broke the S abbath,
grew rich when they observed it. The ques.
ton upon which discussion was challenged,
was, is the Sabbath a christian nstitution?-
The facts presented would no more prove it
to be christian than the large dividends on
stock, would prove banking to be a
christian institution.
~ Another evidence ofour correspondents
magnifying power. The article referred to.
Is a preface to two poems of Pierpont's, and
IS from the pen of n. P. Rogers, and creaitcd
o him. We don't endorse quite all that we
(though we would in that case per-
else would friend Pixley's letter of
have remained imprinted. The
3D. ectlonable expression in relation TO By-
IN, is. "When he (Piorpont) personated
his astronomical stakeholder, he was out Oft
the pulPit,) and the power he put forth, in
mere %frolic, would rank with any kindred ec.
ort of Byron Does our correspondent
')ntend that all ~clergymen are more frolic-
'ome than Byron! When he again enters a
complaint, we hope his indictment will con-
something of serious import-somethinn
worth complaining about.
SPUNGERS.
10 be true to the bleeding slave embraces
many, many things and vastly important re-
possibilities. But can it he true that we are
TO "Remember those in bonds "a
with theml" Will not the act of our
~ssenting to the truth of reform doctrine en-
tile us to the privilege of getting our living