Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-03-26
Violence Of the hhnlilinniSiS.

Extract from an able lecture, entitled sSla-
very forbidden by the Word Of Cod bv the
Rev. David Young. d.. D. Of Perth, Scot
land !; delivered in Edinburgh at the request
OF the Free Church Anti-Slavery Society =
Once more, they seek shelter in the vio-
lence OF the Abolitionisis. A prrposterors
plea! Are other mems sins an expiration for
mine But where are the violent among the
AboIilionists Do they name William Lloyd
Garrison. the eXecrated of America, and. in
some circles, at least, the maligned of Brit
ain! Is he a violent man? Whose head
has he broken! Whose house has he set on
fire! Whose wife or children has he drag
ged into bondage2 Whom has he instira-
ted TO do any thing more than assert the
claims of justice and mercy They call him
an infidel: ! do not believe it. His creed
may differ, in some things, from theirs, or
from mine, and yet remain the creed of a
Christian; and ii he be breathing the spirit
of a Christian-if he be casting out devils in
the name of Jesus Christ, what right have
they to denounce him, because he follows not
with them Let his enemies beware; the
sword they are welding has two edges. If
his measures be right, his mistakes in the
faith can never make them wrong, and, if
their measures he wrong, their soundness in
the faith can never make them right. Ortho-
doXy is a sacred maine. and, just because it is
a sacred name, few things are more impious
: than attempts 10 turn it into "a passport fol
cruelty. But has this hated and estimabIt
man never been himself the victim of VIC
%lence9 He has; his character has been as
f sailed; his person has been hunted like &
partridge in The wilderness a price has beer
set upon his Lead; his life has been put in
peril and by whoml BY the emissarips OIL
oppression-by assassins clothed in ortho.
doxy--by men, who, in the poets phrase,
care scandals 10 their times,
Are at "A loss to find his faults,
And can't commit his cfimes.'
That the AboliIionisis have never done any
thing which was rash or out Ct place, ] am
not prepared to assert. 1t We're man ellous-
it were almost superluman, if, amidst the
r difficulties which bestt their path, they had
never let 20 the reins Of discretion hut sup
pose them to be as bad as their accusers cal
them, and their accuserS as good as they call
themselves, what is that TO us The cause
Of humanity is still the same and it is sure
ly better TO help a bad man in a good cause,
Than to help a good man in a bad cause. And
think Of the provocation which these same
Abolitionists had 10 endure. They found
the churches fast asleep, and disposed TO be
angry when their sleep was disturbed they
found the holders and the tormenlors Of
slaves retained in the fellowship, aud even
in the oversight Of the churches they found
' The ministers Of tie churches either speaking
evasively. or positively defending the exist
ing state Of things they found expedient:
. eagerly resorted to, whose appearance wa'
plausible, but whose aim was, at once, Il
. Ta-,r,,, tL,i- o~,.-. 81 e. ,.n--o a.. a.
! simplicity Of their friends. They found lhes,
l things going on, month after month, and yea
g after year; their sincerity was offended
: their sympaihies were shocked their pa
tipnce was worn out; and if they slime
y against propriety in word or in deed, the
did so in circumstances where charity forbid
n that every nice offence should bear its con
I ment.'
: Finally, the STAKEHOLDER tells us that We d
l not know their circumstances else we woul
4 Judge of them with greater leniency. Blu
: The tale is untrue. We do know their Gil
cumstances. We know that they have Sc
up slavery, and are keeping it up by appeal
4 10 the record of our blessed Christianity
We know them TO be 'steeped in guilt
We know thtm TO be treasuting up for them
9 selves, and for their children after them, III
vengeance of the Most High. We knol
them TO be slaves, in thtir own persons, {
y the very worst description /; for the physic9
y bondman is not so vile as the moral bono
{ man who has bound him. We know tn;
q the excuses which are ever on their lips
make nothing so manifest as their deep infa
a uaiion. In one word we know that The la
= of The Eternal is not, and cannot become, II
J creature of circumstances, bnt demands OBJ
' dience, from all men in all circumstance
: and in all places of the earth. Talk of The
circumstances Why, if there be a poop.
under the sun, whose circumstances are e
vorable to the abolition of slavery, were the
hearts bat disposed TO lhIs. it is just the pc,
= pie of whom we speak. Is not the polite,
y suffrage wholly in their hands : 1t is. Ca
they not make or unmaka their rulers as the
pleased They can. Even the man who.
S. votes are many, because he is the holder
r. many slaves, is not bound by any law to gi'
as these votes in favor Of slavery. Nay nor
B. if all the protesting Christians in the sla