Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-13

CINCINNATI, Feb, 18th, 1916.
DEAR FRIENDS -

CINCINNATI, FSU.S lOllJ AotO' e
DEAR FRIENDS: -
Having a moment, !
shall attempt to uFe it in writing to you but
scarcely know how TO begin. | feel op-
pressed here am in a city surrounded by
a~filuence and fashion on the one side, and
wrotchcdness and want on the other. The
streets are thronged with the busy multitude,
all is bustle and haste. This is the surface
Of society, and did we look no deeper we
should feel some pride in being, but he who
looks beneath sees the penury and want, the
gaping wounds" of the hundreds who once
foated on the tide, but who alas! have sunk
10 the bottom. There | find a multitude
Of churches, whose towering ~steeples look
down on poor humanity with a pious ave.
The building Of these dens of oppression is
what has sunk thousands in the mire; strange
the people don't see it. But they are SO stul-
tilted with religion that they can't see, can't
move. say again, | feel oppressed | feel
that l could cry for the slain of my people in
this enterprising but priest-ridden city. To-
day is the Sabbath; the streets are full of
church-going people, and the bar-rooms and
gambling garrets have their supply. In the
latter are the profane and drunken, while in
the ~synagogueS are the Pious adulterers thieves
and robbers.
Eondor in Iull view stands a huge mass If
brick and mortar in the form OF a Cathedral;
it is not yet finished, but it has already cost
thousands and thousands Of the peoples mon
oy, and will cost thousands more, and all for
the sake of Christ and religion! Shame =
Christ owneth it not, he is not there, but has
been turned out of all such edilices. What
Christianity b Hiding such places ?No, Chris
tianity tears them down, and will tear hdown
yet. | have not been inside of this religious
Cathedral, but | am told that it is very splen-
did and contains much gold. am afraid to
enter it lest my indignation rise too high
Only think Of much gold being necessary to
the worship of God!! Is it not disgusting ?
What must God think of his Cathedral and
his Cathedral-going people7 But these are
only a tolerable sample of all other church.
going people. All agree in one thing, that
is, to add splendor to their worship just as
fast as they can grind it out of the people,
Talk to these churches, point them over the
river yonder, tell them that there is a bandit
ii who have struck down the God-like form,
and ask them to open their doors to the cry
of the oppressed, and they are dumb; not
dumb either, but an angry frown terrible and
frightful stares you in the face-you are lock-
ed from within and commanded to depart.
But although this city is given TO %idolatry,
there are a few chosen spirits here, who dare to
think and stand aloof; and there will be more
yet. Society is fast ripening for a change;
God speed the day.
The "Liberty Party alias semi p~ro-slav-
cry party, are preparing for a campaign, and
have a prospectus for a campaign paper
l saw it yesterday, and it gave rise to a con-
versatlon which resulted in a desire on the part
of DR.. r. G. Carter to have the A. S. Bugle.
Send it to his address, and send mine hereaf-
ter TO this city. l expect to procure more
subscribers in this place. There are many
people who are beginning to find that they
cannot vote RIGHT into existence.
Yours for the rigM and the true,
AMOS H. WILLIS.
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