Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-09
COMMUNICATIONS.
PRIESTLY ARROGANCE AND RELl-
GIOUS INCONSISTENCY.
BERLIN, December 18th. 1915.

nose, to obtain the entire control OF a nations
goods, and make chattels Of flesh ard blood,
to dictate to them in every circumstance from
cases of individual pickering to national war,
how potent and fearful to the ears of the ig-
norant was the edict "Thus saith the Lord"
The priests have made "Thus saith the
Lord" the sanction of some of the most abb
surd, unjust, and damnable practices that ov-
er disgraced a band of fools or a horde of rob-
bers. 1t sanctions theft under the garb oil
charity, and j~usliGes the picking of pockets
under the garb of the priesthood. In fact it
legalizes all crimes by throwing over them
the mantle of faith. In the language Of an
other; i~oyfully would | believe that the mil
lions they drain from men's pockets, and the
hours and the days they abstract from useful
industry are spent to some profit, but | can
not. Stubborn truth is there, and | cannot shut
my ears to the voice. Do you ask me where
the proof is to be found? Wherever a priest
is, or has been; for there have been quarrels,
there have been heart-burnings, there has
flowed human blood. | need not point you
TO the far distant East, where the crescent
g%litters, and where Juggernaut's car rolls over
the PROSTATE devotee | need not point
you to the internal Vaccinations so mysteri-
ously horrible as the Innuisition, which was
founded by priests I need not point you to
the Crusades with the millions of victims that
were aroused and sent forth 10 slaughter by
priests! | need not tell you of Socrates, who
was poisoned for his inidelity-nor of Aris-
totle, who was banished for unbelief-nor of
Calico, who was compelled to belle his own
noble discovery, and to swear thar the earth
stood still-nor of Jesus, who was admired
and followed by the people, but was perse-
euted and slain By the priests! l need not
refer TO these things, | need not point you to
the eighteen millions Of human beings sacri-
feed to appease the blood-thirstiness of the
priesthood. | will point to crimes on our
own shore, crimes fraught with more misery
than War and Intemperance, and compared
with which all others seem as mere drops in
the ocean Of human woe.
You are aware that ! mean slavery, yes,
sanctuaries of this land. Were Jesus TO a.
gain appear on earth he would not recognize
the religion of this land as christianity, but
would declare unto its professors "Woe I'M
to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites !
for we pay 1.-THE of mint, and anise and cum
min, and have omitted the weightier matters
Of the law, Judgment, mercy and faith: these
ought We to have done, and not to leave the
others undone." How little does this nation
act in conformity with that declaration of Je-
BUS BLESSED are they that are merciful for
they shall obtain mercy" Is it merciful, /
would ask to coldly fold our arms, and hear
the agonized groans of the poor slave, who
suspended between the heavens and the earth,
calls upon us by the ties of a common broth
srhood to stay the hand that Yields the bloc
dy lash and applies the torturing thumb screwl
Is it merciful in US to stand quietly by while
the dearest ties of nature are rudely torn asun-
der, when husband and wife are forever sep
Grated, when the lisping babe is torn from its
mothers arms and sold by the poundl I'M
needed are the agonizing screams of that
mother, and unanswered save by the sharp
crack of the drivers whip as it falls on her
quivering flesh. In vain does she implore
them in accents of despair to let her keep her
babe, promising to work night and day for
the blessed boon. Alas, she knows not with
whom she is pleading, she knows not that
two hundred years of Legislation and religion,
have sanctioned and sanctified that accursed
system which a Nero, or a Caligula would
blush to own.
And because you had meeting called to
ask the people of Berlin TO lend their aid in
putting down this terrible evil, all the foul
and lying epithets that ever fell from the lips
of man have been hurled at you by a Profess
tant Methodist priest, Mr.. Burgess, who at
one of Mr.. Hudson's lectures had the impu-
dence to tell some as downright lies as his
large se%cretiveness could unfold. He denied
that he took hold of Miss Hitchcock's arm
VIII en- you were here, and asserted there were
no signs of a mob, yet | had myself heard
some say they would glory in a chance OF
tarring and feathering you. He further said
that all the enormities you mentioned were
charged upon that particular church and thai
alone, while all who heard you, know that
your charges were made against the Ameri-
can Church and clergy generally. He also
proclaimed thathe had made the discovery (and
boosted that he alone had made it) that Abby