Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-09

or throw around the professors of religion or
the ministers of the Gospel, the shield of pro-
lection, for Garrison to look coldly on, from
his editorial chair, and write down-"Scribes
and Pharisees-religious hypocrites;'' and for
Stephen S. Foster and Abby kelley-Ben-
iamin S. Jones and j. Elizabeth Hitchcock.
and others like them, Atraverse the country,
blowing their Bugles, and telling the infam-
ed populace, these are shievcs and murderers
-women-whippers ndbaby-stealers-led on
by the lying Priesthood!
But even this is not all. The American
Anti-Slavery Society declared at its anniver-
sary last year, that there is no exodus for the
slave TO freedom, unless it be one Of blood,
but over the ruin Of the American Church,
and the grare Of the American Union. But
how can these objects effect the liberation of
the slavel Let Stephen $. Foster, in his
brotherhood of Thieves, answer the questions:
where he urges, as the strongest objection 10
the Federal Constitution, that it prercnis n.
resurrection Of the SLIres. Why then dis
solve the Unionl Plainly to produce a ser
vile instruction.
SO then, when government is destroyed
and anarchy and violence reigns instead Of
law and order-when seryile Instruction is
let loose, with all its countless horrors
when the church with its ministers shall be
swept away, and the purposes of the Ameri-
can Anti-Slavery Society be fully accomplish
ed-when the sounds of Mieres-and robbers
and uomen tUhippers-and 6aby stealsrs-
and hing priesth0od-shall have died away,
like the last groans OF their yictims-what
will be left to be done to complete the work,
but for the masses that remain without law,
without homes-without family arrange
ments, or kindred relations, to Iiot on the
spoils while they lasted, IN the utter exclu-
sion of the idea Of private PROPERTY
These things have a natural connection
with each other. Take the first step, and
the others as naturally follow, as the rushing
of water will succeed the opening Of food
rates. Il the Church he overthrown, its mo-
raj influence obliterated-the government de-
stroyed-and the restraints which now pre-
vent s~ervile Insurrection be removed, tho
whole wreck and ruintof society will follow,
unless the Arm of 0innipotence arrest its
progress!
That the peaceable emancipation Of tbs
slave, by the moral reformation OF the master
is not their object. is ssiaent from the mean
they employ, and the declarations they make
t 1t is further evident from the fact, that the
heap the most violent abuse upon persons an,
communities that have done the most to re
strain the evils of slavery, and to meliorat
the condition of the colored race.
Thus the Methodist Episcopal Church ha
been more grossly abused than ever, since i
1 took that action on the question Of Slavery
D., which induced the Southern Methodists t
secede from them, and form a new and sepa
rate organization. And thus also the Socie
ty of Friends. which for more than half
= century has made n~on-Slaus holding n condi
ton of membership, and has been distinguish
= ed for its advocacy of the rights Of the color
= ed race, has been even more abused than tn
Episcopal Methodists. know two individ
. uals,S who while resident in Va. and unde
the direction of the Yearly Meeting Of tn,
! Friends there, secured the freedom of abou
400 people of color, who were illegally hell
= in bondage. Two other Friends (now de
r ceased) under a similar appointment, obtain
ed DEGREES of courts in favor of about 100
more. The Friends of n. C. liberated from
: 1000 to 1900. And my kinsman, MicaiaI
Bates, Of Richmond, Va. recently secured tn
e freedom OF about twenty, and sent them Oh
/, to this place.
And vet such men as these, who have civ
en- such proofs ofbeneyolence and sound chris
tan principles, are publicly denounced b.
travelling aJ0litiOniSts, as there's and pirate
o -uomen tchippers and Baby Sea!erS!
e We say, in general terms, that though IN
$ Church and the Government are connecte
with moral disorders-iti is our duty to reform
and not to destroy them. We would endeay
8 or to cure the patient, and not to Kill him, be
cause he is sick. The former is the course c
h the conscientious physirian, the latter is tn
policy of the unprincip,"d assassin. And Will
C we testify against the corruptions which ar
/ to be found in our civil and religious institu
e tons, and endeavor to remove them, we ar
If not chargeable with their continuance.
l. We are morally bound TO the communit
of which we are members, to promote its CON
mon interests, so far az they may be in ou
power-not on one point alone, but on ALL
le And he is not 4 good citizen or an hone;
n man, who refuses 10 do it. Whilehe derive
lie innumerable advantages from the institution
n of society-he is bound TO promote the con
y mon veal for raIue receired. And ii he doe
Is not like the Government, instead Of remain
re ing in it, to act the part Of a traitor, let hi
of edpe it. Let him go to Africa, to China,
in to some other region, where he can be cle'
" of the American Church and the America
at Goyernment-without attempting the destruI
- ton of either. Or if it would suit his fame
as better. let him, taking Milton for his guild
he set out in search of that ''limbo wide al
ms large" somewhere upon the 'backside
this world, far OFF, and called the 'Paradil
n of Fools'-where sail abortive things" Z"
I'd habitation find" Let them go, and bio
at their BuaLEs THERE, to proclaim the Jubil,
let of their emancipation from law and religio
M, -
es s James Stanton OF Springboro, o. a.
m Jamss Hupnicutt. of Richmon Ind,