Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-10

not rally Immediately TO Inc rescue oil thelr
friend. Well, there are this day three mil
lions of our countrymen in chains, and des-
poilod of all that makes life desirable; they
are lifting up their bursting hearts in suppl
cation to God for deliverance and how has
tho Methodist Church treated them ! 1t has
closed its ears to their cry. We have come
here TO plead their cause, and they have bar
red the doors Of their house against u.s.
Take the Presbyterian Society. Let the
daughter of their minister be kidnapped and
hurried off to undergo the misery, the degra-
dation and the suffering of a female slave
and would he not leap from his pulpit, and
denounce every one who did not exert him
self to his utmost 10 rescue his child =
Well, | come to this house to-day to tell the
people of this place the same thing, to APP
prise them of such outrages upon their breth-
rem, and they are bound by their professions
of Christianity to regard them as outrages
upon themselves upon their wives and
daughters and to act in the case precisely
as they would were their own children kid
mapped. Ard do they do it! Does this not
prove that they are not Christians Do you
want better proof of their destitution of
Christianity than this refusal to do what
Christianity requires
Suppose | go to a meeting and tell of a
building that is on fire. There is not a meet
ing in your town but would disband imme-
diately and run. If an old stable or wood
shed in some remote part of the town were
to take fire, it would be cause enough 10 dis
perse any Of your meetings. But when We
come here on this occasion, and announce
the terrible fact that every sixth man, woman
and child in the land are in the hands of the
kidnapper, God must have so many prayers
and SO many hours preaching" We can do
nothing for suffering humanity; there is no
time to attend to the cry of the sIave-we
must worship God would you come here
and interfere with the worship of God ~
My friends, you do not know what it is to
worship God. To U0rship him is to Grey
him. You cannot innocently devote a single
moment of your time, which can be spared,
to any other purpose, while the slave is in
his chains, and be a Christian. There is a
great deal of your time that cannot be en-
ployed proftably to the slave cause. But
the anti-slavery enterprise is an essential part
Of Christianity, and he who does not give it
the first place in his heart, cannot SO to
heaven.
Many of you have assisted in making tn
laws by which the slaves are held, and vel
you claim to be Christians. You have pray
ed very loud you have been very devout
you are talking with sinners on their hope
less condition, for not attending your meet
ings, and adhering to your forms you have
a face as long as any old Pharisee ; bu
what do you dol Why, you voted for Jas
X. Polk, and well you knew that he woulc
do all in his power to keep the slave in hi,
chains.
tell you pity you. If there is n hell any
where in Gods universe you'll find it. Why
| would sooner think Of the incendiary whc
applies the torch to your dwelling being
saved than you. Suppose my friend jacob
Hcaton had $1,000 in his house and | knew
it, and | go at night and steal it, and in orde
that no trace of the theft may be left-in or
der 10 induce the belief that the money wa,
not stolen but consumed in the flames, ! ap
ply the torch and set fire to the dwelling an,
burn it down, together with his family VIII
are asleep in their beds. Now | don't wan
to burn the man and his family, any NOR,
than you wanted to keep the slave In hi
chains by voting for Polk or for Clay; but
wanted the money. You wanted free trad,
or a tariff, ard knew all the while that tina
vote would hold the slave in his chains
Would you not pronounce me a murderer a
heart for doing that which | knew would de
stroy life Yet | have no hatred toward Mr.
l~leaton. You would say | did not love hin
and could not be a Christian. You NAV havt
no hatred toward the slave, but your guilt il
none the less when you vote to consign thou
sands to their chains. You need not tell M
you only wanted free trade, a tariff, a sub.
treasury or a bank, you know your act goes
TO extend slavery. You would commit muir.
der, would you, to have "a bank or a sub-trea,
sury! would sooner, far sooner risk the
chance of the assassin at the day of reckoning
than yours.
Would You have voted for Henry Clay il
he had held your Wifi in sI,vor