Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-02

and forming their complaints. are srra &c
sympathy, and are made glad by premises
and by deeds for relief. Under tile VIM ~
her influence, no severity or responsiveness TO
The needy is fostered. In his bosom Of love,
no wrong ~nestles; nor thought can dwell in
favor of artificial distinctions among men-~
or class legislation-or monopolies-o, ire.
sponsible power-or idolairy Of rank and
weallh-or the sacrifice of the leas, right Of
any individual. In her vision. Man is a
MAN, and every where treated as a Man.
To her, the American slave directs his i'm.
plofing eye. Before her aliars, and her
throne Of nrace-amidst her solemn vows and
sacred assurances, he clanks the calling
Gains which bind him. From her proceeds
the reliable response, be of good cheer, the
time for your release hastens and when the
influence of this association of good and holy
men shall be judiciously concentrated, when
they can utter the voice aud lift the power Of
united counsels and effort and when no
longer crippled by false connections, then
shall the light Of noon pour in upon the ma.
chinations Of tyrants, and upon the whole
area Of human rights, like the eliminating
rays Of the morning; and every blow for
Emancipation shall tell like the onward tread
Of embattled legions. Such men are The true
Church Of Christ; they profess his spirit;
InPy live al the fountain Oh UIVl0e lTutl ! lncy
habitually battle In the pelluced ocean of hui
mainly they discern the right and follow it;
and they have meekly studied the doctrines
of human brotherhood till they have learned
their own equality with their own mothers
children. Through the influence Of such,
are all reformations from sin among men to
he effected. And the blessed work will adj
vance as they shall succeed in reforming the
bodies Of which many of them are still mem
bers, or cOme out from connections where
their reformatory principles are smothered,
and their zeal checked.
A religious organization assuming the
name Of a Church, Is not, Of course, to be reA
cogniZed as the Church Of Christ. The de-
signation is merely nominal, if the body sus.
tain or countenance immoral acts. Slavery,
or the chatiel principle, is, in and Of itself,
sinful. The body which ~sustains slavery,
does, in fact, uphold a system of the most
gross and revolving iniquity-0 combination
unsurpassed in wrong. Calling such a body
the Church Of Christ, does not make it so.
II this body embrace pious men, they should
understand that the body is essentially cor
rupt in their associated character, a mass Of
evil doors. The proof is that it comprises
shareholders, or sustains slaveholGing. Sub
terfuges on this point vanish, and logic is
dumb, the moment yourself is the slave, and
subjected 10 the chains and the lash. To
have Christian fellowship with a slavehold-
er, is a sin. Just so far as the Churches in
the United States practice this fellowship, is
the practical Christianity of the country cor
rupt-deeply, loathingly-but I'VE hope not
lrrecoverably. So long as the Churches &C.
cupy their present position, in reference 10
immoral acts, while the Pulpit is so paftial,
SO destitute OF moral courage, so unfaithful,
so servile in counting the favor of men, they
cannot reform the world, nor but partially
claim the honor Of being the worlds bene-
{ factors; nor through them can deliverance
r ever be extended to the crushed slave
While these Churches in their creeds, and
g in their covenants boldly condemn the wrong
doer, he finds shelter unde their wing, in al
most every form of sin. And thus will il
5 continue 10 be, ill the Pulpit demands that
= we live out the commands of Christ, who
taught his disciples to love one another, even
as he loved them, till there be Christ in the
preaching, and Christ in the members.
The guilt Of the Churches, and the recre.
ancy of the pulpit in reference to slavery, en-
ceeds conception. Since 1920, there has moi
I been a year in which the united combination
: Of the Church in this land, might not have
given the death blow TO slavery in it. The first
: purchase of slaves was made under her con.
5 %nivance. In l776, fifty six years after the
| first purchase, four years after the decision OF
: the highest English Court that slavery could
not stand under British law, and when the
Statesmen of the country had so far come in
to the light as to publish to the world the
= Declaration Of Independence, the Church
2 should have demanded that the noble act
: which sundered the BOND which held the COL
onies TO The British throne, should have also
cut the chain which held the black man in
slavery. But this duty she neglected.
Down 20 the present time, a period Of seven
ty years, has the Church neglected her du-
ty, and connived at this a~trocious iniguity.-
She might have checked its progress at any
stage during this period. Even now, the
slave power would very soon die. if the
Church should withhold from it support, pro-
nonnce slaveholding sinful, and exclude from
her communion all who are aiding in it,
But this duty the great mass of the Church.
f rs refuse TO perform. They persist in hold
ing a sustaining connection with it-thcy
treat it as a favored sin-a pet-to condemn
which, with a view to its certain and imme-
date overthrow, exposes 10 the frown and
: rebuke of the Church. In this course of
apologizing for Shareholders, and sustaining
the chattel principle, the Nation has lost its
: conscience on this subiect-lhe Church it.
self has become CONSCIOUSNESS, the vast ma
, jority Of her members doing the bidding of
Shareholders at the ballot-box-speaking
lightly of the sufrerings of the slave-and
contemptuously Of the black man as not
worthy a place on the platform of citizenship
closing their pulpits against the earnest
advocacy of his rights, and rejecting The
claims Of humanity in the person Of the slave.
The Church should ever be in The van, and
faithfully conduct the world in duty and up
r 10 God. That the Churches in This land
: have not done this in reference 10 slavery, is
the palpable, whitening fact, and s%cofrers join
the world in pressing the charge upon them