Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-02

Al NuIIisOhldhs support lilS GOVeTn-
ment by paying taAes and voluntarily patro-
nizing tie Post Office.
3. Therefore they do no anti-slavery
work according to your own showing. az
now present a fifth reason for discontin.
uing your paper:
For giving place in your paper to commu-
nications that are inlidel ia their language
and influence. Such is the one in rhyme
from VIM. Hick. Though | utterly condemn
the connection ofthe VI. +. Church with slave
ry, yet | view that communication as coming
from one whose heart is at war with special
efforts put forth to bring souls to Christ. (6)
D. II. MILLER.
~ We suppose our correspondent be-
lieves that Chris was God made manifest in
the flesh, and that one Of the objects of his
mission was to present TO man a practical en-
hibilion Of the means by which truth could
be best established. If i; could best be done
by a union Of political action with moral sua-
sion, then, instead of Jesus being the Car
%penter's son, born in a Bethlehem manager.
his birth would have been heralded from the
mightiest palace Of all the Roman Empire as
The future ruler of the realm. Butinasmuch as
Truth depends not upon political power, he
who was sent as the embodiment Of All
Truth, was one who possessed no worldly
authority, and needed it not for the accom-
pIishment Of his mission. Our correspondent
thinks that Christ did not use political pow
er because he could not, because he did not
possess it. 1t would be more in conformity
with the philosophy Jesus taught, and the
truths that he practised, to say that he did
not possess it because it would detract from
his moral greatness and weaken his moral
power. The character of Jesus would have
lost much Of its simple, child-like nature if
he had entered the political arena and mingled
in the strife of parties. If, however, political
power was necessary for the establishment Of
or even desirable, does not our cor
respondent believe that Christ would have
possessed all that was needed, and have ex-
ercisej ii!
(2) We deny that Christ was a member
Of the government Of Rome. 1t is true he
f.om a people who were, in a measure,
to her laws because they were a
tributary nation. Until we received this
episile we were under the impression that
Christ had set up a government Of his own,
not, it is true, after the fashion of the corrupt
kingdoms Of this earth, else would his Dis
have fought, but "A spiritual kingdom,
upon which was written mo union with
Shareholders, or other workers of iniquitv,"
a sentiment which is entirely too orthodox
and too ultra for d. II. NJ. to adopt. The
government of Rome was a fighting and ty-
.rlnnical government, and the conversion of
any of its members 10 christianity, was in
fact a conversion of them out of its fighting
and tyrannical spirit, although they might
10 retain their nominal connection.
Besides, the government of Rome did not re-
quire its members TO swear TO do certain
acts of wiciedness as this govern
ment does. 1t eXacted a general oath of al
legiance, similar in its character to the pro-
mise contained in the marriage ritual of some
sects, that the wife shall obey the husband.
And by this, no one understands that she is
to obey him il lie commands her to do wrong.
And finally, the subjects of Herod-the
members of the Je,oiSh government, were not,
properly speaking, members of the Roman
government. Judea had its king, its laws,
its institutions but, like the Disunionists
who pay tribute TO the American govern
ment because Of compulsion, IL paid tribute
TO the government Of Rome and as, because
of its weakness, it could not do otherwise, it
suffered an officer, bearing the title of Go
vernon, to be appointed by the Emperor, and
TO reside within its territory 10 see that the
conditions it was compelled to make were
faithfully observed.
(3) ID. H.. NJ. may call this our argument,
but we decline the honor he would confer up
on us, and would much prefer that he should
himself father his most lame and impotent
conclusion. We freely admit that the Dis
unionists pay tribute as Christ did. Our
correspondent is not content with this, but
goes and becomes a part of the government
that exacts it Of them, and swears to uphold
it in all its oppressive and pro-slavery enact
ments; and when rebuked for so doing, when
his inconsistency is pointed out to him, he
asks, in justification, "Did not Jesus pay
tribute 7" Had he lived eighteen hundred
years ago and possessed the ell, ctive fran
chise and acted upon the same principle he
now does, although he might have voted
against Pontius PLATE, he would have con-
sented to his Inauguration provided he had
received more votes than a candidate who
would not have consented to the erucifxion
of Jesus.