Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-02

hundred of the p~rettiest white. yellow and
negro women in the South, buys them, if
you please, from among the daughters of
church members and clergymen, who appro-
pirate the money 10 send the gospel to the
h%ea'hen, and sets up for himself, after the
fashion OF his pious prototype-l presume
friend Baldwin would think him very p;ous.
IT he only said he loved God, and his Word.
and souls. "By their fruits we shall know
lhem," not by what they say.
let all this is much less criminal than 10
reduce a woman to slavery, for 10 that act
you annlhilate her personality, tell any Polk
or David he may violate her, sell her, whip,
hire her out for a prostitute and buy hymn
BOOKS with the proceeds, tear her babe from
her bosom-ihe child Of some Yankee David
-lacerate her bleeding bosom, and rake her
back with the cat for weeping over this
beastly outrage of human affections.
What an lndia-rubber texture is given to
the religion Of the present day The high
est criminal known to the law of God is CO.
vered with the ample folds of that religion
which is to renovate the world and bring in
universal peace and holiness. To talk a, the
present time about Christian shareholders. is
like talking abouta Christian piraie-a Chris
tan ro65er-a pioUs devil-or a holy soul
selIer-for, in fact, the crime Of slaveholding
involves every scoundrel guilty Of it in the
guilt of all these crimes.
But | must return. Some one at the az
ternoon session introduced a resolution, de-
claring that the STAKEHOLDER was not a Chris.
tan, and it he continued in the crime ill
death his eyes would never see the kingdom
OF heaven. This brought out Mr.. Baldwin
again, against the reception of such a resolu-
ton by a Liberty meeting, declaring that the
Liberty party had no business with any mans
moral or religious condition-that a political
party had no refOrmatOry power in it-said
the anti-slavery movement had always suf-
tered from two SORTS of ultraists, the one were
a kind Of lshmaelites, their hands against ev-
cry man like VIM. Goodell, who had re-
Gently drawn off from the Liberty party in
New York. ] did moi stay TO ascertain whe-
ther The meeting received the resolution; but
this | hnO,C, that the Liberty party are hope
lessly sunk in the mire of a pro-slavery
church-pay their hundreds and thousands a
year to preachers that pray for righteous ru-
.lers and then vote for the most con,emptible
villains in the nation. The party is hope
lessly, Incidentally corrupt-its vitals are
snitlen with a pro-slavery church cancer
a l~leeding fungus; their politics are horri-
fled at the idea of voting for a stakeholder
" good Christian" though he be-and yet
their piety seats them at the Lords table by
the side of the flesh monger. With upturn-
ed eyes they gorge their pious souls on the
symbols of Christ's broken body and split
blood; and on next election day cast a vote
that pronouncesI the man with whom they
communed unfit for the office of compound.
ing stray cattle" A thorough anti-slavery
preacher has, and would again, starye on the
bounty Of the three hundred Liberty party
voters in this county, and so of the Reserve
tho preachers and editors of the entire party
are practical sfurraiionists, while the cash
paid to papers and preachers of the pro-sla-
very church,
The priestly %locusts feed,
Who, in their tasseled pulpits, thank the
Lord,
That from the toiling bondmen's utter need
They pile their own full board.
Yours, for "pious thieves"
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