Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-08-06
For the Bugle.
Remarks of S. Brooke,

at Tie Meeting al Green Pigin, r1ferrcd 10 last
iCsek.
Saml. Brooke said he had a few words for
them; and those who wished the Light Of
Truth to be as a lamp to their feet to guide
them into the paths Ct everlasting life, would
not object to his speaking there.
He said that a perfect harmony must per-
wade the laws Of the material universe, else
confusion would result-the planets would
leave their orbits, and world would be wreck
ed on world. The same harmony must per-
wade the moral law of the universe, or else
all would be confusion, and there could be no
immutable and Interchangeable principles and
as christianity taught a system Of morals, it
could not be true unless it developed that bar
mony which pervades the Law of God. the
moral law Of the universe. As he believed
in christianity, he believed it to be such a de-
velopment, and that according to its teach
ings, there was no conflict between rights and
rights, duties and duties, or rights and duties.
He referred TO the commandments TO love
God supremely, and our neighbor as our
selves, and that upon these two hang all the
law and the prophets, and argued that the
likeness between the two commandments con-
sisted in the fact that we were to love each
in accordance with their attributes and rights
10 love God supremely, because he was a
Supreme Being-our %neighbors as ourselves.
because they are as ourselves. If the second
is like unto the first, as Christ declared it to
be, our neighbors must be as ourselves. and
have the same rights as ourselves, then if one
individual has a right 10 life, to liberty, to
the pursuit of happiness, to worship God ac-
cording 10 the dictates Of his own conscience,
a right to the products of his own labor-ev-
cry other individual has the same rights as
fully, as perfectly, and as completely. If
many, as perfect, and as complete rights as
ourselves. She possesses every right that
man possesses. Christianity teaches this,
and that religion which makes an underling
of woman, which tramples upon her rights,
which makes her a dependent upon man, to
be governed by his whims, desires and ca
prices, is not christianity, but a religion franz
ed 10 aid the tyrant, and sanction his tyrran-
Gus deeds. In the light Of christianity, wo-
man stands upon the same equal level, upon
the same broad platform with man, with no
distinction between their rights.
A principle, said he, was also laid down
in these two commandments, and that princi-
pie is Lore. This the Apostle declared work
eth no i'll to a %neighbor, hut is the fuIfllment
to others when we failed to relieve their ne
~cessities and supply their wants, when it was
within the scope of our ability so to do. elm
asmuch as you did it not to one of the least
Of these is his language. But the question
may be asked, show much are we to do in
works of mercy?"-he said in reply, that our
efforts must be commensurate with our abill-
ties, and should we eXpend our time, our
means, our energies, in procuring such arti-
cles as tobacco, tea, coffee, alcoholic drinks,
and other useless articles, eat 10 excess, &c.,
instead of helping the needy and the desti-
tuie, lifting up the down-trodden, enlighten-
ing the ignorant, reforming the vicious, we
should violate the law Of love equally with
the Priest and the Levite who walked by on
the other side-or the robber, murderer, and
STAKEHOLDER, who, by acts of oppression strike
down the rights of individuals. 1t is as much
our duty to relieve distress, enlighten the
ignorant and reform The vicious, as it is to re-
frain from making them so, and at the same
time by sensual indulgence we merge our
selves into the mere animal, blunt our moral
perceptions, destroy our nobler powers, and
incapacitatc ourselves for truly moral, spirit
ual and intellectual enjoyment and happi-