Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-12
A Great Slide.

- l ne buffalo Correspondent oflhe National
Ora, f%eiefting to the discussion of the Amer.
tcan soafi OF Foreign Missions recently held
In thai city, says
"lhe Rev. Mr.. Todd. a retntneJ Mis- .ior.
airy however, defned-his position on ,bis
point, and exhorted the board to take In. Same
view OF IT,. He said the interest manifested
oy many christians for the sufferinrs of the
o'VVV'Ooo OF slaves in our own land was yerv
"eii' II lhelr suferlngs were as great as thev
were represented; but, said he, we must lool
al the whole world-look at the 100000 Ooo
ei heather who grosn under the hotrid su.
Perstitlons of the old world. We must ON.
large our benevolence Worldwide, and. in
our IoVe Tor the whole world, strive to FORGET
tne ',oVo' ooo--no, said he, | would not saw
org out, IN the comprehensiveness of our
"o"iu"iue oeheVolence, zoe mus. rise so high
snde oTer the 100000 Of sLdres! Thus
uo ueHheu ms position, and made a most pa
thetlc appeal for funds TO carry ON ENLARGED
operations for the ensuing year"
wen is 1T for the heather, if not for our
homeland, that this Mr.. Todd is %, rr.
turned MisSionary;" better still had il been for
mem, we suspect, had he never gone forth =,
II this is a fair specimen of the morality he
taught; though we cannot say that il will
not pear comparison with the moral code of
tne Board which sens and sustained him
N'hat better would Hindoo or Chinarsnn be
tor putting away their Budha and Confucius
and taking the Christian Missionary as their
teaeher, with such principles in his heart and
upon his lIPsl Not in a %captious or sneer-
ing mood, but in seriousness is this question
put.
What bond links US to the swarthy son of
india which binds US not, at least, with equal
cIoseness and strength, TO the dark proved
american! III may ''pass by on the other
side" (''slide over'' seem. the more approved
and modern phrase,) Of millions Of heather
here-ihe plundered and outcast slaves, and
atone TOT 1t all by a kind of sublilnated, alb
slNcl love for the race, why may not every
other group Of sufferers Share the same fate I
rh9 Tact Is, the PROSTATE slave has been slid
ever too long by power. seekers and money
seekers In Their race for gain. Heavy and
rough shod has been their sliding, toe, till
the llfe-drops seem almost pressed out from
his aching heart, as he lies "wounded and
halI dead by the way.side.'' This policy of
etInlng all rebuke Of home-sins, and all sym
Pathy Tor our suffering brothers here, TO spend
alone ON those of foreign lands is more popu.
lar IMAM Christian. This sHding rule of NOR
nlity measures nearer The practice of the
PTlest and Levite than that of the Good Sauna.
rilan Or the Great Friend of the friendless.-
"We must rise SO high as 10 slide over g.
100000 of Slaves" must we! Knows not
this Missionary that in rising above them,
ne aoandons hnmaniiyi-that they arc bound
TO the race, and that in leaving one brother
to perish, he wrongs alll As all stand on
me same plane OF human rights. and are equal
iy children of One Father. Hears he not
those thrilling words of heavenly love and
compassion that fall through the jar Of ages,
smoother and sweter than an angels song,
"Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of
these my brethren, ye have done it unto mel"
is he willing to ''slide over" a Saviour in
his agony! to pass by Jesus in his loneness
and suffering! Would he deny that Christ
who has said, "Him that denielh me before
men. will | deny before my Fdtherl" Then
let him beware how he denies the claim of
the slave, and leaves him unheeded to bleed
and die. Let him remember that sit is not
our Fathers good pleasure that one of these
little ones should PERISH
What need we expect from the people,
when their ''holy teachers" openly teach as
religious duty a h~eartless neglect Of the mil
lions of human brothers in Slavery1
We say again, it is a serious matter for
reflection, whether such teaching will purify
or demoralize heathendom.-Pa. Freeman.