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

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THE EVANGELICAL UNION"
The 18th No. of this work contains an al
ticle under the caption of q" The Communist
and Anti-Slavery Bugle," all of which that
relates to the BugAe we place upon our first
page. When we say that it is just such an
article as we should expect from that priestly
libeller, Elisha Bates, our readers will under
stand in what appreciation we hold it.
1t opens with an assumption of clerical i'm
p%ortance which is truly laughable. The Ed
itor seems to think that every one must know
that he, the Rev. Elisha Bates, edits and pub
fishes The Evangelical Union at Mt. Pleas
ant, Ohio, and accuses us Of a want of odito-
rial courtesy because we did not furnish him
with a copy of the Buge containing our
structures upon his S~pringboro' sermon. The
fact is, when we penned the article in ques-
ton, We were not aware, however strange it
may seem, that The Evangelical Union glad
doned this world Of ours; and what We said
of the editor, was said Of him, not as an edi-
tor, but as a priest guilty of the grossest mis-
representations, and whose residence we
knew not.
The comparison which he draws between
the article in the Bugie and that in the Com
Wnnitist he designs to be favorable 10 the lat
ter paper. He will however bear in mind,
that the difference between them is attribut-
able to the philosophy of the conductors of
that paper who hold that Elisha Bates is a
priest because he cannot help being one, that
he is a defamer because of an unavoidable
necessity, and that he is not accountable for
any of his actions however wicked they may
be. If he can find in this fact any thing to
crafty his vanity, {" to manufacture compli-
ments to the C~ommunit!s!, he is welcome so
to do.
He finds fault with our report of his
Springboro' sermon, in the first place, because
forsooth! in what purports to be a mere
sketch we do not give every sentence and
word that he uttered: and secondly, because
we not only leave out what was said, but in
sert that which was not. This may possibly
be so, but he does not condescend TO inform
his readers in what particular that report is
incorrect. Many who have read it, say it is
the same stereotyped sermon whish he preach
ed at New Lisbon, Salem, and various other
places within the last six months. The ed
itor's assertions We place no confidence in, for
the pages of the Union abundantly testify,
that like the unjust judge spoken Of in the BIZ
ble,he neither fears God nor regards man. We
should have been better pleased had he given
to his readers our review of his sermon, tho
this doubtless would not have suited his pur-
pose, inasmuch as it was not his design to
have them know what could be said against
prlestly arrogance and clerical assurance.
In reference to the position of the Ameri-
can A. S. Society, his logic is simply this.
That society advocates the dissolution of the
American Union, and the overthrow of what
he calls the christian churches, but which are
truly synagogues Of Satan, and as the over
throw of the churches and the dismember.
ment of the Union must be effected before
the right of private property can be destroy.
ed, the marriage relation abrogated, govern,
ment annihilatcd, and domestic relations on,
tirely broken up; therefore-so at least con.
cludes this second Daniel-the American A
S. Society is an anti-private property, a nc
marriage, a no government, and a no domes.
tic relation society. This logic seems to us
as clear as stupidity can make it, and re,
minds us of an argument of which it was said,
if the premises had the small pox there
would be no danger of the conclusion catch
ing it.
His sneers at feminine delicacy'' and
" female travelling agents" are just what we
might expect from a priest, for it is a part o.
their calling to crush the common people un,
der foot, and especially 10 fetter and degrade
woman. Priestcrdft can't endure that com.
mon people, mere laymen, should assume tc
r be equal TO Divines, and least of all can il
endure the teachings of women. 1t is vastly
delicate and christian-like for Elisha Bates tc
!, recognize as a brother in the Lord, the mar
t who strips his female slave and flogs her or
the bare back until the blood stands in pud.
dies at her feet, but it is very indicate fol
a woman to speak of such outrage in terms
, of righteous indignation and scorching re-
buke; and if she denounces the church as
anti-christian which baptizes the act in the
. name of christianity, and the government
/, which legalizes it as unjust and tyrannical the
priests call it "drawing caricatures of the