Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-11

as to equality It Is perfectly absurl-men are
not born equal in anything, physical, intel
%lectual, moral, social or political condition.
and TO assert it IL to assert absolute nonsense.
lie defended the African sldve-traio as right
in Itself, though now accompanied with some
abuses. resulting ifOm the iniudicious attempt
TO suppress il, anI thought 1t should be rcg-
uhaied by law, that it might be carried on in
a humane manner. He denounced the hy-
pocrisy that would pronounce the slaye-trade
piracy in Africl, aud license il at ho;ae-lnd
said, II 1t was piracy to buy and sell slaves
there, 1t was pirafy in Washington or South
Carolina; but the trade was humane. for it
introduced savage and idolatrous people into
a land Of civilization and Christianity, aud
both Slavery and the Slave-trade were au-
thorized in the Bible. His whole proof was
drawn from the Bible, and his argument pro-
we'd that he had studied Dir. Wayland and
Fuller carefully. He went over the usual
commentary on a few passages in the Bible,
disposed to make the great law of lore
bend to a single text, rather than make the
text bend to the spirit Of Love. lie conten-
ded that God established slavery among the
lsraeiites, when they Were free from it; that
1t was no liberation or permission OF a long
established custom, but the commencement OF
a system OF Slavery by authority of God,
UNI AK 2"'ht was OlSO iut 81 ite SidNG-
trade. For this reason, it could not be sin,
or an evil Of any kind. Jesus Christ never
condemned slavery, though always surround
ed by it, nor could he have done it, for he is
God, and as God, had already authorized the
establishment of a system of slavery to con-
tinue forever" Some one asked him if
the Bible authorized ensldvlng 5iachS. 81
do not know" said he, - that it made any
difference in color, and we are not at all partic-
ular whether they are black or lutjtc, proyi-
ded we can make them work wrll..' He de-
Tended the policy of South Carolina in i'm
prlsoning colored seamen, as necessary. and
asserted that they would never submit to any
attempt Of the Federal Government 10 pre-
vent it. Nor would they remain in the
Union an hour, if the protection of the Ma
tional Government was taken from slave
ry. lie was ready for the North to dis
solve the Union as soon as it chose.
Mr.. Wiglhll was ii fluent, and at times an
eloquent speaker, and had an air Of nanknpss
and sincerity about him that almost convince
ed us, that he had deluIed himself into the
belief Of the monstroSities which he assert
ed. lie had a very unilvorable audience to
operate upon, for they were mostly abolition
lists, and he evidently had bat lizzie sympathy
from them. He told US that his argument
was only addressed to those who believed in
the divinity of Christ. To Unitarians he
nau no'nlh% 10 say. -, Jesus, hou beautl-
full Lover of Man what Cruelties and
Crimes are done in thy name!
The morning session was closed with this
speech. But the afternoon was chiefly oc-
cupied by iona. Walker and Parker Pillsbu-
ry in reply. | caHnOt report these speeches,
but will only say, they We're worthy Of the
heads AMI hearts from which they clne.-
Mr.. Pillsbury with great power drew the at
t]ention of the audience TO the evidence we
had seen OF the depravinG influence Of sla-
very in the spectacle we had Just Witnessed,
of a naturally noble aud generous man,
blinded and 6enunbed in his moral sense
till he could defend that system of untold
cruelty and misery, in a strain Of solemn
earnestness and with a subdued tone, as
though lamenting over the cold remains Of a
dear friend who had fallen a victim to vice
he pictured the ruin that slavery had wrought
on slave and master, and b~Jrrenness and
blindness it had sent into his soul, who had
done outrage to his nature in defending the
crime. He noticed The effect of our false
religious teaching, in the moral perverse-
ness Of such men who had drunk it in
from childhood. =
Mr. Wales n Democratic noIiticionl came
upnn the stare, and rave a lonr, frothIy and
bom5astic spccch. in favor of polite. Il ac-
ljon a"J ,Se D"mocratjc Dartv in General,
and If Mr. polk and the annexation Of Tex,
as in particular. He was followed by one or
two othcr sneakers. wbe, Mr.. Pillsburv
oroip tonk the d,or. lie alluded 70 the res.
%oIulions ius, adopted. unon Mr.. Rorers. and
smoke Of the sirenrth Of his lowe for him.
and Of the sn0ering and sorrow he (Nr. P.I
had endured, in consequence of the late diff
G,ultv in relation TO the H,rald. MIR. Pills
bury Sid from this topic to the general sub
ieef, and cave a most searching and strin.
gent exposure of the pro-slavery religion of
the land, and d~issectei Doctor Maryland
and the American Board with a sklllul
knife. This brought up Rev. Mr.. Fillmore
again, who attempted to act as a shield 10