Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-30

other branches of reform. Some vet live who
remember its exercise and labor on the sub
ject Of Temperance. Is it not apparent that
the popular religious confederacies in the Uni
ted States are inidel to the progressive prin-
! ciple in the Government of God, and are
proven before the world to be the bulwarks
! of American Slavery :
How is it with the Society of Friends at
the present crisis! Has the spirit Of enlarge
ment free course among usl Do we indeed
recognize God as the sovereign Lord of con-
science! Do we maintain this liberty invi-
olate? Have we a ministry unshackeled
by human authority! Who that listens TO
the strife OF tongues in our councils when
great moral questions are before us, can an
swer in the affirmative! Are not ministers
arrested in the prosecution Of their religious
exercises meetings laid down by arbitrary
powerl members Of Society %disowned be-
cause Of their active cooperation with others
in deeds of mercy and love for the benefit of
our racel Are not the doors of our Meeting
Houses in very many instances, closed against
the purest and most philanthropic advocates
of universal freedom, because 3" they walk not
with u.s.! The clear-sighted, gen,le-spirit-
ed Charming, now no more, remarked, "Tte
Quakers indeed, have protested against war
as unchristian, but are doing little in bring
ing into clear light, and sending forth with
new power the spirit TO which war is TO Weld.
Cutting themselves off by outward peculiari-
ties from the community, sccIuding them
selves from ordinary intercourse, through fear
OF moral infection, living almost as a separate
race, they are but little felt in society. They
are doing little 10 awaken tina, deep religious
interest in man as man, that sensibility 10 his
rights, that hatred of all wrong, that thirst for
the elevation of every human being, in which
Christian love finds its truest manifestation.
Every sect has as yet been imbued too much
with the spirit of sect, and has inherited too
largely the exclnsivenss Of past ages 10 I'M
derstand and spread the true spirit of human
brotherhood" The sagacious William Penn
said, "Alas for that people whose principles
sit so loosely upon them that there is danger
of their being brushed off by a contact with
the world" WIZ are the most vigllant in
the exercise Of this proscriptive spirit! Are
they not to be found among those who hest
tate not 10 mingle with the world in its
of peruniary ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, its
canal, and railroad companies, its po-
movements which 60 to sustain slave
ry, licenses the sale of intoxicating liquors,
supports a military establishment at West
Point, where the popular and fashionable
method of assassination" is taught, emploxeA
its chaplain in the Congress of the Nation
in short, perpetuates high-handed rebellion
against the reign of Christ. elbow has the
gold become dim and the fine gold changed"
In vain our solemn assemblies, in vain we
say we have Fox, Penn and Woolman to our
fathers, while we refuse to aid in carrying for
ward the works of reformation in The earth.
Friends of this Quarterly Meeting have had
much 10 endure from the operation of intoler-
ant measures. Both the letter and spirit of
the discipline have been violated. May we
cherish a forgiving temper becoming the fol-
lowers of the lamb. Other trials may yet be
in reservation for us. Our number is very
small. Discouragements ihicken about us.
1t is but too apparent that a state of r~nsettle-
ment resulting from a spirit OF intolerance, is
becoming general throughout the Society,"
Yet there are those of us who love the testi-
monies of the gospel and believe religious as
ISOLATION is good for man. We sympathize
with our brethren ard sisters under suffering
every where, and believe it may be profta-
Bile for US TO open correspondence with meet
ings and concerned individuals, in order TO
encourage each other to live upright, holy
lives, whereby we may be strengthened 10
Withstand the destroying tide which is now
not only fast undermining the genius of our
religious communion, and fastening the pe-
Rod when il will be numbered among the
things of the past, but is also sapping the
principles of universal liberty throughout the
world.
Taking a more extensive view, how cheer
ing to behold the efforts making in different
sections of the globe, for the redemption of
man! Can we view with apathy or indifrer-
ence, the Promulgation of pacific principles
in Europe by a Wright, the efforts of a Mat.
thew to save the poor inebriate from a prcma-
ture grave; while in this portion of the world
a Dix, a noble woman, panoplied with Chris
tian love, fearlessly visiting prisons, INSPECT.
ing the loathsome dungeon, where the nep-
lected maniac pines unheeded, to promote
their comfort; the untiring labors of a Bur.
leigh and a Spear, enlisted to secure the in
volatility of hannah life while a Spartan
band, whose names are familiar TO many If
us, who feel it among their highest privileges
to devote their time, talents and pecuniary
means to assist in breaking The bonds of the
slave. Shall we lend our aid, feeble tbouob
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