Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-22
ORGANIZATIONS.
"COmG Over ard Help u.s."

'FS' many OF TIE townships thus nOlIhet
have already had such meetings again ont
again, until doubtless the anti-slavery pfinci
pies as promulgated by s. s. Foster anC
others, are well understood il not a%pprecia.
ted.
Now ] wish to suggest to onti-slavery
speakers the propriety Of entering into new
fields of labor. | have in my mind several
townships that never have been addressed on
this subject, TO many Of whose inhabitants
the doctrines of coming ont from the wrong,
no fellowship with wickedness, and univer-
sal liberty, are doctrines "strangc and new"
] am aware tho above expressions are strong,
and come in the face Of politicians and reli-
gionists who have long professed 10 be abo-
l~itionists TO the very core. Especially do they
come in contact with the professional pbiIan-
thropy of the Methodist Episcopal %Ilinerant
Clergy, who carry the news of peace, pardon
and good will to all mankind-to every town
and hamlet in the land. We would %naiural-
ly suppose that after The deliberations Of the
General Conference in their legislative sit
tings, and the discussion Of the ponderous
question, "VYhat shall be done for the extir-
patton of the evil Of slavery !" that some
mighty effort was about being made which
would tend to strike the manacle from every
limb, and let the slave 20 free, or that the
ministry would with trumpet tongue proclaim
from valley and plain, from mountain and
hill top, the existence and character Of the
'evil' they ask how to extirpate. How ought
they in view Of such a concession 10 have pe- |
titioned the Throne Of Grace with long, loud
and importunate praycrfor the abolition of the
conceded evil and 30 much the more as
they declare it is not only an 'evil' hut a
.grent evil (See Methodist Discipline, Sec
ton lo.) But what are the facts in relation
to this mattcrl Why so Car from dissent
mating the doctrines that 90 Cor the abolition
Of slavery, they Scarce ever advert 10 the sub
ject at all, unless it be in those places where
anti-slavery men have born divulging facts
which show of the ministry 10 great disad-
vantage. There perhaps, they find it neces-
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abolitionisls, and were always SO, by reading
the last section of the discipline. How ever,
be that as it may have never heard. having
attended their meetings fourteen years. ont
sentence uttered in curdsmnaIion of slavery,
Nor have | heard one prayer ascend 10 lIea'
ven from the pulpit, social prayer meeting 0
family circle, for the oppressed negro. Fa
matte Graham is an honorable exception. |
is not uncommon 10 hear ministers ard PEG
pie On such occasions wander the wide worlc
over, in search of objects for which 10 pray
Sabbath Schools, Missionary Societies. Trac
Societies, &C., &C., being srereotyped, are a
easily remembered as the child's alphabet at
ter a thousandth repetition. But alas! tire
millions of boudalen are entirely overlooked
entirely forgotten. And all his, too, Will
they constantly declare 'thcy are as much "A
ever convinced Of the great evil Of slavery.
Admitting they have ever been 'convinc,d,
| would ask how mich they have ever beeI
convinced Of The evil" 5 add /
the remainder Of the tenth s, cIion from whicI
have quoted, thrir studied neglect of tire
millions Of Gods poor" degraded in PAL
by the Legislative body Of that church, an
we have the sum total Of the corroding col
~viction endured by the General Confrrenc,
1t amounts 10 lhis-all the NJ. E. Minister
may hold as many slaves as they please
the slave holding states, and The ministry
the North will say nothing abcut it (un'ess
apologize). But in the free states where II
law disallows, they shall not hold slaves.
other words, where they cannot hold slave
there Conference has enacted that they sha
not hold slaves.
Now, dear friends, what more can be dol
than is being done by the Methodist clerg
for the emancipation CT the slavel Does n
such mighty effort supersede the necessity
the Bugle and all other abolition instTumel
%talitiss
Nothing being said of lay members, the il
ference is, they may hold as many slave
North or South as they choose, without III
censure of that august body of divines :
Other denominations being alike c%ulpably S
lent the political presses dumb-and abol
zion speakers afar tf-their names adverte
TO only when associated with misrepresent;
tion and obloquy, no wonder then, the peopl
sit in darkness and have no light. Man
here are frightened at Cone-outerism, n,
knowing what constitutes it. Many in m
W town are ignorant Of the relation Il
chursh and clergy sustain to slavery. L
me relate an incident which occurred here
illustration, Watson, Of Cleveland, a colo
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