Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-02-05

Inc following letter, first published in
the Liberty Advocate, was written for, and
sent to DR.. Bailey's Cincinnati Herald bu,
as 1t was not inserted, the author would fain
presume it miscarried. We presume no such
thing. We remember how our friend Bar
nahy's communication Of last summer was
suppressed and this, like that, probably con-
tained too much unpalateable truth for the
editor and readers of that paper.-EDRs.
For the Herald.
DIR. BAILEY 1T is cheering to anticipa,e
receiving Your paper from the prea, Capital
OF this slavery-ridden, blood-siained nation.
J our position will be important and c%onspic-
uons as 1t will be interesting, perhaps DANCE
rous. But | am more alarmed for your in
eSr'fy, and the integrity of the Liberty party,
from the temptations and wiles of tie Derii
and his agents, willy politicians, than | am
y the danger. RecoIlect, God has not pro-
missed TO be with you unless you = teach all
thlngs he has commanded you " nor will he
give you "a crown of life unless YOU con-
ilnue faithful unto death" This is a crit
zeal epoch with MS as a party. We publish
ed IN 1912, at Buffalo, " that our hopes of
success were in our righteousness, and our
conformity 10 the ld,o Of God" Now it re-
CURES but a superficial observer 10 see that
instead of the 'h,o Of God," human expe-
dlency and POhticai tactics are likely soon TO
compromise the integrity of the Liberty par.
". 1t has passed through a peculiar crisis,
particularly in Ohio; hundreds of your most
devoted and intelligent Liberty men either
DID moi vote, or voted under a very trying
case g conscience. | trust DR.. Bailey, norlhe
Liberty party, will ever again place them
selves In so inconsistent an attitude before
God and the public eye. What! shall we
do evil that good may come !" Shall we
continue to nominate for office, men who hold
the closest connection and fellowship with
The man-th'G, who takes the consecrated ele-
ments from the blood-stained fingers of wU-
man-rhiPperS and cradle phunderers {? or what
enhances lie quit, hold ecclesiastical commu-
mon and christian fellowship with the man
thief! God Jor6id! What! have we for
gotten our early and most prominent position,
That The American churchesEare the bull
warks Of American Slavery! :" The moral
character Of a country is never in advance OF
It's religion, nor will the people be better thar
It's Priesih0od! Sir, the political powers o.
earth and hell, combined in the beast witt
seven heads and ten horns led on by the dra
lgon power, backed by the popular tyrant @
dis nation. headed by James X. Polk an
his suballerns, to subjugate Mexico and plar
on her free soiI the bloody standard of Slave
ry, are as pueriie, when compared with tn
ecclesiastical Combinations of our dav, ds til
puny breastworks of M1tamor0s TO the sea
girt, fortified Rock IF Gibraltar. Sir, all ma
lions, in all times, in their civil and politica
character, have been just such as the churc
hierarchieS have permitted them TO be the,
have generally held the keys of St. Pete
over the heads of the civil power with stuff
cient terror 10 make them bow the suppl
knee and kiss the toe of the ecclesiastical
GOd. Witness the late movements of tn
protestant churches or StcfS of this country
they sdW that the grOlCing spirit Of reform il
the Anti-Slavery organization would interior
with their rod mdmmO so it must be pu
down. The first ecclesiastical regimen
which moved to the rescue, was the polite
learned, and orthodox Old School Genera
Assembly in lS45-one hundred and ski,
four to twelve, contradicted their former pro
f%esslon and voted slavery, :" the sum of al
vlllanies." no Sin-'' no bar to Christian com
munion." Next, the American Board, NJ
f.. Church, New School, Free Church, an
most of the large ecclesiastical bodies, fol
lowed suit; and 10 cap the climax, and com
plete the drama, a convention is called in III,
centre of the protestant world one thousanC
delegates, representing different ecclesiastical
bodies. met in convention in London aite
some discussion of the evidencps of christian
character, the American delegation, siXty-tw'
out OF slxIy-three, representing twenty -thre'
seclS, poised the standard Of the 1corH anC
brought Them 10: they voted in substance
that the man-thjsf, the plunderer of his spe
cles' might be a uery good member IF
V0rfd'S EUangclcal ANiGnceu All this wal
done in courtesy TO our pro-slavery American
delegation, mostly from The free States!-
an hell shouted gIoryi And a minister pros
tilnted his sacred office by volunteering, will
one hundred OF his sheep, TO proceed 10 Mex
Ice and hiss on the dogs Of war! | have ye'
to hear the first minister (rxcept one) Of any
denomination from the pulpit rehuke this un
holy war: like National Guards, they seen
willing TO prop up and sustain all the pillars
OF Satan's kingdom. And is the Liberty par
ty TO adopt the l~et-alone policyl Nay, peri'
81 but like Sampson, should we be shorr
OF our strength, let us grasp the pillars anc
tear down the temple of Dagon. Sir. there
is no man in Ohio l esteem more than Mr.
Lewis, except in his unholy connection; bu'
am pleased TO hear from a mutual friend tina
he will not long sustain his inconsistent po
s%itlon."
r. HANNA.