Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-06-12

fuence such opinions will be likely TO create,
by the same means.
l understand your objections to Mr.. and
Mrs. Foster to bo the following; They seek
a dissolution of the Union; they denounce
the Church, and are infdels; Mrs. Foster is
not a pure woman, in the best sense of the
word.
They seek a dissolution of the Union. In
regard to this accusation, you say, " Let our
Government be dissolved, ovcT;hrown, by foes
without or traitors within, and where is the
philanthropist or christian who will not saw
that liberty, civil and religious, has received
a shock that will be felt to the remotest rene.
ration 7" Again, 81 do not believe it is in
the spirit and design of our sacred Consiitu-
ton that slavery should be perpotuated in any
of the States of the Union" And again, 81
tell you frankly, friend c., l look upon S. S.
Foster, Abby Kelley, and the Society whose
agents they are, as no better than SO many
ADMINISTRATIONS to themselves, traitors to
their country, traitors TO their God and the
Christian religion" In the first Of the above
extracts, you give utterance to what you sup
pose will be the consequence of dissolution:
civil and religious liberty will receive a terri
BILE shock. In the second you give your
views of the Constitutional is not in the
spirit and design of that instrument that slave
ry shall be perpetuated. In the third you
give such names TO those who favor dissolu-
ton, as, in your judgment, they merit. They
are traitors to themselves, their country, their
God and the Christian religion. | will con-
slider each Of these specifications.
Liberty, civil and religious, will receive a
terrible shock by dissolution. Friend W.,
you will find on close reflection, | imagine,
that this is a feeling which grows out Of pop
ular prejudice, rather than genuine patriotism
or a supreme regard for Christianity. Preju-
dice drags down every generous sentiment
and feeling of the soul, to its own grovelling
level. The devoted Hindoos tremble at eve
ry prospect of innovation upon their civil and
religious customs-rights, or liberties, as they
would say. The yearly pilgrimages bring
millions of that benighted people around the
Temple Of Juggernaut; he is brought out be-
fore them, his head towering to Heaven; the
car on which he rides rolls forward, a devotee
casts himself under its bloody wheels, and is
crushed to atoms; the shouts and Civilizations
Of the multitude rend the Heavens /; they give
half they possess for the support of His Ma
jesiy'S temple and worship thousands die Of
starvation and fatigue; those who live to re-
turn to their homes 60 joyfully and patriot
cally and religlously to the task of preparing
for the next pilgrimage. When Christianity
shall take the place of all this, "who will
not say that liberty, civil and religious, has
received a shock that will be felt to the re.
motest generations By this | intend moth.
ing invidious. mean only to show, as the
above, it seems to me, most strikingly does,
that zeal for, and attachment to, civil and re.
ligious institutions of any kind, are no PROOF
that they are the best. A blind prejudice,
and nothing else, may lie at the bottom o.
the whole. The remark here is pertinent
that, a corrupt church and a corrupt govern.
ment will be clung to by the political dema.
gogue and religious hypocriie, because, through
their aid the most efficient means possible, i:
rendered for accomplishing whatever wicked
schemes may be devised.
If, then, the government OF the United
States embraces in its Fundamental Law O
Constitution, principles that are at war witt
the law of God, leaving US the only ~alterna
tive of proclaiming hostility to one or TIT
other, against which shall we declare, frient
W.! Which government shall we abjure
The government of God, or the governmen
of the United States! And where is the dan
ger that "civil and religious liberty" are t
receive such a "shock" as You contemplate
when their hottest principles cry out, as
raise my hand 10 take the oath to support III
U. S. Constitution, "HoLD! That instru
ment requires all who take that oath 10 re
turn the : fugitive to strike down the slav
in his hottest struggle for liberty, to pay dou
BILE honors to him who does the greatest bu
siness in robbing men, while w denounc
those acts as traitorous to the government G
God"
But you will say l am begging the que:
ton. From the fact thatit is not in the spir
and design of our sacred Constitution tn,
slavery shall De perpetrated,' civil and rel