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


For The Bugs.
In Evenings at home," under the caption
'Sunday morning" may be found an inter-
esting article of which the following purports
to be the substance. A Mr.. Ambrose led his
son Edwin along the streets of a village at
the hour when the several denominations
were repairing to their respective places OF
worship. The observing boy, noticing the
variety Of forms used in the performance of
I that which each and all conceived to be a du-
ty, e%nquired of his father why they did not
assemble in one place, and manifest their re-
verence for the one God after the same man.
ner, seeing he had informed them what was
acceptable worship. The father satisfied, at
least %silenced, the son by saying that the in
structions on the subject regarded the shirt
rather than the mode.
. 1t CHANGED, at the dismissal hour of the Sc
veral congregations, that poor man fell dead
in the street in an apoplectic fit. Though
his wife and children were around him thew
were powerless to relieve. In this emergen-
cy an Episcopalian sprang forward and rais-
ed his head, a Presbyterian wiped his face,
with his pocket handkerchief; a Catholic la
dy was prompt to apply her smelling bottle
TO his nose a Methodist lost no time in pro-
curing medical aid; a Baptist provided for
the widow, and a Quaker (friend) took the
children to his home. Mr.. Ambrose turn
ing 10 Edwin said, "Here is a case in which
mankind are compelled TO agree" As the ar
ticle ends here, let us suppose the inquisitive
boy asking, "Why? How, compelled -
Would not the intelligent parent arswer, ''In
such cases the untrammelled, unsophistoca-
ted, symPathies OF our nature are in full play.
For the time, we have no thought, no feel
ing, no wish but simply TO do rightly, and
this is all Pervading, and all absorbing"
The excitement of yesterday gave rise to
queries not dissimilar to that of Edwin
Why is it that our citizens, irrespective of
sect or party, evinced such a generous noble
interest in the fate of one little girl, PERSONAL
ly unknown to them, and in whose destiny
they have no special interest? Simply be-
cause they were thrown on their Unborn, I'M
taught sympathies. Why then do they not
e%vince, at least, equal interest and zeal in the
eradication IF tie system which victimized
her, and not her alone, but a sixth part of the
population of this christian republican {" land
Of the free 7" The religious sect or political
party 10 which they are attached, must be
consulted. Had a politician, addressing him
self to one from his own rank and file, who
participated in the stir of yesterday, said,
- OH must not cooperate with those wings
democrats, or liberty men, or disunionists,
you will impair the interests of our party -
or had a sectarian said to a fellow member,
Come out from among the 10! here's, and
10! there's. They follow not with us'"-
think you it would have been needed? No,
The indignant answer would have been.
mentally at least, "Speak not to me of party
or sect while | am acting out the dictates of
my conscience, for ! know that the interests
of truth and humanity are paramount to par
ty interests, and obligation to act righteously
incomparably greater than that of conformity
to sect" If this be true in looping off the
small branches Of evil, how equally true, and
infinitely more important, to extirpate the
root whence their nourishment is derived
Reader think of it soberly and act consistent
ly. B. G.