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

uelI'y, Where they multiply with the prolific
readiness of the maggot. We here see the
sanctuary and the sacred office prostituted,
for the purpose of pandering to slavery, by
f~atteTing the oppressor OF Gods poor, becaus,
said oppressor is rich and powerful. And
what is the request with which our ears are
saluted ! 1t is that we should turn traitors to
the truth, and c%onnive for his special accom-
mediation, at his lording it over Gods heri-
tage, lest we be branded as infdels! H0lU
very reasonable. As then the clergy, them
selves, are a fruitful source of infdelity, and
not we, if they wish to prevent its spread,
let them cease calling evil good, and good
evil-putting darkness for light, and light for
darkness-then will infdelity be put to ST.
lence-not before. This effect will never be
produced by laying the charge of its spread
at the door of Abolitionists. If the N. Y.
lnfdels hare taken the step in question, they
might have saved themselves the trouble
They need be under no apprehension for the
success of their enterprise-need join no new
party. The work is doing to their hands, by
such men as Junkin, Rice, Graham and
Steel. Nothing is wanting but to prove that
such an institution as slavery is sanctioned
by the bible, and should not only be tolerated
in the churches, but it is not even immoral,
and the work is done: infdelity is triumph
ant and our country is ruineI.
He next undertakes to prove, that " with
the duties of church members, as citizens,
the pulpit has very little to do. With such
things as slavery, in the District of Column
bia, he would not NEEDLE, &C." This seems
to be a very general conclusion, with the
clergy, Of a certain stamp, when the subject
of slavery presses upon them. The %inferna
trade in slaves, carried on in the District
ment is to be derived from its condemnation
Whenever anything of this sort is in tn
wind, they Immediately prick up their ears
in an attitude of attention, as we see exem
plifed in the case of those 10 or II clergy,
men of different denominations, who ran OF
a recent occasion, for the Office Of Chaplain
to Congress, at which time they logged the
members, for their votes, with the usual tricks
of electioneering demagogues. Here was
something in the District, with which they
could "meddle." Wonder what the New
York Inidel Club would say to it? There
arc transactions of a nature, that he must
have a hard heart, indeed, who would not be
disposed to " NEEDLE" Herewith. And the
following is one of them. A narrative cal
culated to move the sympathies of any body,
but a shutting priest, who is waiting for a
bid on lis prayers at a price per diem. 1t
was the sale, in the District, during the past
winter of the wife, children, and grand chill
dren, (l3 in all of a free colored man, a
member of the nj. +. Church, of more than
80 years standing, in which pious christians
were the chief actors. The Pulpit, you know,
; must have nothing to do with slavery, in the
District - that would be meddling with pol
| itics - thing it is never right to do againsI
slavery 1t must only be done for it. And
in meddling with politics for slavery, it il
> considered lawful for the "pulpit" to hrus'
: forwcrd its occupant as Chaplain at pOhtiea
Z Conventions, got up 10 promote the election Il
: tie Presidency Of a Stakeholder, DueAiSt, Gem
bier, 9c., DC. Such "meddllng -" as that Il
S very excusable, in the {" pulpit" especially
e as a majority of its supporters, like the lsra
elites when they wished a King, were as pr
o ously bent on the measure itself. And the
don't all the d. j. tell us,by their example
that it is always proper to float with the pol
ular current! Certainly. How then cant I'll
! clergy be expected to NEEDLE" with tn
'' exciting subject" in its relations to Il
10 District Of Columbia. Why that would
all one as preaching politics on Sunday, ar
q would at once sink them to a level with A
van Stewart and Gerrit Smith. o dear!!-
le And then you know, slavery, in the Dlstrlc
IN is an organic sin, about which individua
IN need not be troubled.
D. Next he brings a string of charges again
as late members of his own congregation
- who nave studied tho slavery question s
Oh much and so exclusively, that, like the MI
nc l%erites, they arc in danger OF becoming III
he nomaniacs. Their personal piety Is whine
is ing away, having forsalson the Sabbath schoo
IS. and Missionary cause, and all other meaI
Of Of grace - have thrown aside those old sta