Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-22
"The FOrlOrn Hope of Slavery"

Prs Religion" When the facts contained in
these works were meAsurably spread before
the world, the church was ready 10 exclaim,
" my punishment is greater than I can bear
Dut nov we have a work from Parker Pills
bury larger, and containing more facts than
! either of the others, which brings up the his
tory of the pro-slavery action and declarations
of the church TO a later date than TIE others
have done; and then-ihe unkindest cut of
all-it has been written particularly for cir.
c~ulation in Great Britain, while it happily
possesses the almanac quality Of being cal
culated for other meridians. The church
doubtless feels that it is bad enough to have
her character understood at home, without
her reputation abroad being destroyed, which
"The Forlorn Hope" is well calculated 10
do.
The writer has divided his work into three
parts which exhibit
The Church-As 1T WAS,
The Church-As 1T IS, and
The Church, as by its own admissions and
assumptions, IT MIGHT BE.
Some Of the facts which he uses, have of
course been used by Birney, Foster, and
Brooke in the compilation of their works, but
many others are fresh from the mint, some
no; yet "A tw~elve-month old.
The work covers 9G pages, and is mainly
a solid phalanx of facts, the writer prefrrring
to use but comparatively little argulnen,, Civ
ing the church and its members an opportu-
NIFTY of speaking for themselves, that out of
their own mouth they may be condemned.
Here is the conclusion Of the last CHAPTER,
Such is The account the church renders Of
her.cif. No witness has been examined but
such as she must approve, nearly none but
such as sine has furnished. And they have
given their testimony 10 their own way. No
keen and subtle cross-questioning has embar-
raised them. No opposing counsel has been
by, 10 distort and pervert their words
Throughout, the examination has been as
just, especially TO the church, as can be the
trials of the great day of account.
And what Is the resultl The Rev. Or.
Johnson. Of North Carolina, asserts that,
"when in any country, slavery becomes a
part of its settled policy, the inhabitants,
even Christians, may hold slaves without
crime.
nr. Winans Of Mississippi, publicly de-
%clares, Christian ministers ought 10 hold
slaves, and to be dilfused throughout the
south. Presbyterians, Baptisis, Methodists,
should be shareholders. There should be
members and deacons, elders, and bishops
too, who are Shareholders. The interests of
the slaves require it,"
And DR.. Taylor of Yale College, at the
head of the Theological department, i~ns,ructs
his pupils, candidates for the ministry, that
sit Jesus Christ were now on earth, he
would, under certain circumstances, become
a Shareholder"
Professor Stuart Of Andovcr Theological
Seminary, writes to President Fisk of anoth-
err Theological Seminary, that - slavery may
exist, without violating the Christian faith
or the Church." And President Fisk writes
back again, "this doctrine will stand, be-
cause it is Bible doctrine"
The Justly Rev. ]. C. Potsell of South
Carolina, eXhorted the citizens of Orange
burg and vicinity, at an immense gathering,
or this wise:-
"Shun aJoIitiOnism as gnu wouH The deriI.
Do your duty as citizens and Christians, and
in heaven you will be rewarded, and deliver
ed from abolitionism."
And the American church, from Maine to
Mexico, and from Cape Sable TO Vancouver's,
rings out her loud and long Amen, To doc
trlnes 81 horrible, so shocking to humanity.
The ct urch has told us what she w1s, ,uhqi
she is, and what, in her own judgement, she
mi@M be. Half a century ago, she knew and
affirmed, that slavery was the sum of every
abominatien. And if in the dim twilight Of
that period she saw thus clearly its charac-
ter, how false and absurd is her present de-
Tense, that she ,caiiS for hgM and inteAi-
gence.
But the church moreover admits, that she
holds In her hands the power TO set every
captive free. She holds the key to his pris'
on. She can say TO The swelling tide of woes
that has for generations been beating upnr
the slave, thus far shalt thou 90 and no far.
Their. On her own admission, she has hut t.
speak and it is done. One of her brirhtps
lumlnaries declares, that, "if all the minis
tiers and members of the churches were to d,
so simple a thing as the society of Friend.
have done, the system would come TO al
end"
If the church believes her own admission,
and declarations, what language can expires.
the heighth and depth, the length and breadtl
of her depravity ! All The excavations of Al
outraged universe, should, and soon will, ial
on such a religion.
And yet they tell us this is the religion
that is to give the world Its millennium. II
speak lightly of it, $50 we must believe.) il
the sin that "hath never forgiveness" Ii i:
the "blasPhemy against the Holy Ghost
Happy is the people that shall escape it,
dead influence. Happy the poor sons ant
daughters Of Africa who do not become it:
prey.
10 the plenitude Of her strange assurance
the church even demands that the abolition
of slavery be left to her guidance and control
Her gospel, we are again and again told, is
the remedy for slavery and all existing evils.
The Anti.Slavery enterprise she denounces
as an unla W fol and unwarrantahla interfer.