Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-05-14

lTulu Is not OclTlcllOn.
[CoLERIDGE.
Ono State stands sure bu, on the grounds
of Right" UDAvID.
The reader will not expect from me a full
drawn portraiture If War. il would cover
too much paper. I have briefly enumerated
some Of lis physical evils; il would be both
interesting and profitable to exhibit also its
dirker featrres-its moral desolations. |
should like 10 introduce you into The camp.
to show you its discipline, its scenes. its in
tprnal regulations; hut you can doubtless
form some Judgment as 10 what they are,
wi en- yon reflect that every camp, even the
mos, orderly, in the common acceptation Of
the term, is a school Of profanity, irreligion
and vice, a resort Of prostitutes, a seat of
drunkenness and scnsuality, a hotbed Of pol
luton and moral death. That such it mus,
be, is evident from the nature Of the case;
that such it is, testifes all history. Such a
camp was Washington's, such Bonaparte's,
and such, also, is Tdylor's. | know that
Chaplains are employed-"pious men -
who sing psalms and preach "orthodox''
sermons Of war, standing amid lockers of
shot, with their feet planted upon mounted
cannon. ] know that our Christian Army is
headed 5y Il W's,ionary General, who seems
10 sc ~ENLIGHTeNiNG the bcnighted Mexicans
with wonderful facility ly the agency Of
Springfield muskets wadded with the leaves
Of the Bible. | know that even now (as late
advices announce,) prayer meetings and re-
vivai scenes may be transporting on board some
Of our squadrons. So much the worse!-
Sanctity war by the solemn ordinances of
Religion, and you render it doubly hellish.
Inspire the minds Of your men with the
thought that they are fighting under a Banner
consecfated by prayer to a sacred cause, and
demons will laugh and leap at the havoc they
make. Any warrior will tell you that. SUI
peradd the presence and appreciation of VEN
Grated men, and you have removed the last
restraint that the lawless desperate knows.
Murder and robbery and rape are terrible in.
deed when perpetrated under such auspices.
The sixty-ive Thousand gallons of whiskey,
which Government long ago found it neces-
sary to ship to the Army CT Occupation, cam
not, Of course, mend the matter much.
1t was my desire to dwell at length upon
the business itself of war, the infliction of in
jury, and that alone TO discuss its funda-
mental maxim-that the end j~us,ifes the
means; to analyze the character of the war
rior, and TO speak of the influence Of his pro-
fession upon his principles. was also anx-
ious to examine the laws, the morality. the
religion OF War, and 10 compare them with
the precepts, the morality and the religion of
Jesus Christ. Yet why should |! For in
all these items I take it to be self-evidently
true, that War is essentially sinful.
Finally, then, in view of the age we live
in, and the spirit of that holy Religion we
profess to love, what, / ask, is the character
OF those public men who have plunged the
Continent in War? ] know not what name
others may afix to them | call them Trai-
tors, and their conduct Treason. call them
Traitors, because they are the authors Of a
measure which necessarily paralyzes the
Public Industry; a measure which always
misdirects the Productive Labor of any peo-
Pile; a measure which they know must result
in the immense destruction of public and pri-
vate property T; a measure which occasions an
expenditure of national wealth withou: secur-
ing corresponding national advantages; a
measure which unnecessarily increases the
which is rs likely tc fail az to succeed, and