Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-12-03
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self in particular. Were the "BuelO'sh war.
like notes only heard in those parts where
Bushnell Is known, a correction OF his mia,
representations would be wholly unneoessa.
~ for at home me people generally know
how to appreciate any thing he may say OF
the church, or myself. From his chaotic let
ter, have made out the following FIVE item.
OF complaint, viz {; He complains
LIST. That he was denounced for not fel.
lowShiping shareholders.
ID. That l denounced him for presrmiu4
TO call a vote of the church 10 appoint him,
scif, and two others committee to prepare
a little anti-slavery creed, which he calls a
proposition" FOR the adoption of the church.
Sd. That / denounced Aim and this little
creed.
9th. That I bad chsrgsd him with cove
n,nt breaking, for tho non-psyment of his
subscription, when no had paid 1t to the poor,
and for the support of the tablo, (which was
according to the letter Of It."
5th. That In the Disciple Church in Hart
ford, It Is a crime TO be an sbolttionist, and
n the sixth place, he congratuiates himself
and wife on their happy escape from an i'm
pure to a puro church.
We will attend to the above items nunet.
ioally.
LIST. 1t it not true that Mr.. Bushnell was
denounced for not fellowshiping slavehold.
ere. No stakeholder ever applied for our
fellowship at Hartford and such are the Bi.
Ole principles Of church organization, that no
one congregation lie held responsible for sine
committed by another. See the seven letters
TO the seven churches In Asia, IL Revelations;
and all the epistles of the apostles assume
the zane ground. l never saw a slayehold.
or in my life, nor DO ! think Mr.. Bushnell
ever did. The nearest approach to one | ev.
er saw, is Mr.. Bushnell himself, in his Of.
forts to rule or ruin. All he lacks lie, the
powsr to crush. Mr.. B. in making this
charge, with full means of knowing its incor.
rec!ness, has placed himself in an u~nenvia-
bic position.
Cd. He has been called "inscne," not for
''calling a vote" to appoint himself and
two others a committee, &c., but for his man
ner of doing it, viz Let. He gave no pre-
vious notice Of the intended move, conse-
quen,ly the meeting was small, and he, as
the president of that meeting, made the fol-
lowing motions: 1. al move that a commit
tee Of three be appointed, &C.; and Q. CS.r"I
move that s. Bates, S. D. Watkins and
MYSELF!!! be appointed that commit.
tee"
For calling him insane, on the account of
the foregoing nnovs, he prosecuted me for
Islander, before a tribunal of his own selec-
ton, but when the day of trial arrived, hav-
ing learned that Islander meant false report,
maliciously circulated, he withdrew his
charge and covenanted to hold bis peace
Has he kept this Covenant
Sd. never expressed an opinion on the
mailer contained in his little creed. Having
taken the Holy Bible for our counsel on the
subject Of slavery, as we'll as every thing
pertaining to faith and morals, we needed not
bis bungling speculations, whether true or
false. Besides, the creed was unanimously
rejected by the church-BushneH HIMSELF
voting against it. So if there DO any censure
due for its rejection, he is as guilty as the
rest. have studiously avoided denouncinE
him, being assured that bitter hard speeches
(see Jude. 9, 10y and railing denunoiations
are BETTING only such men as Mr.. b., who
having forsaken the Bible, and given some
what loose rein to his tongue, has finally
comp,eted his degradation by bowling to a
human religious creed, and uniting with a
church which a shor. time previocs he sad
was "rotten to the CORE"
4th. ] did charge him with covenant brea.
king, and would have proved it, had it not
been found convenient, just then, to have the
subscription paper lost. But he paid it to
the poor, &c." We'll, ! am glad Of it, for ]
have heard that same poor man complain be.
fore that Bushnell had oppressed him so in
his efforts to be generous Mr.. B. would have
made out to be just, had he not broken his
covenant with the church and myself. ]
have read Of a class of men, (Math. 6, 81
who sounded a trumpet before the giving Of
alms,bu it has been left for klr. B. to employ
a"Bugle" to sound his afterwards, ''as youI
fathers did so do ye." He also sought tc
induce the church to break covenant with
me, and in my absence to discharge me from
it's service. The "ROman InquisitiOn" woulC
always grant a man some kind of trial, bu
the philanthropy Of Mr.. Bushnell forbade
any. ] am neither first nor las, among hi
acquaintances in charging him with cOvenan
breaking. .
5th. The Disciples Church at Hartfor
never NEEDLES with any mans politics. no
will it suffer any man to bind his politics o
the church as a term Of communion; both