Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-05-21
From the Pa. Freeman.
Christian MurdererS and Christian
LiJ~at0r.
Thieves.

Every body has probably experienced tho
domestic annoyance Of sitting at a table pla-
ced on an uneven floor, and had an exercise
Of ingenuity in trying 10 keep i, steady: you
put a knife or a chip, under one leg, and away
goes the next corner; then that has to be prop
red M by a fork or a spoon which lifts the
next leg a little too high, and SO YOU no on
adjusting, shifting, totling, propping and
trembling, never feeling secure, and afraid to
rost your hand upon the table, lest you knock
away tho foundation which 1t stands upon.-
Inc church and the st,te are like a table
standing on an uneven Goor; they arc gon-
tinually juggling, ~toltering aud shaking they
want to be placed on a firm and even basis.
that those who depend upon them NAV feel
secure, and be saved the trouble of trying 10
support their own supporters. The whole
tiue OF churchmen and statesmen Is taken up
IN making shifts to steady their Institutions /;
TIE legs OF the church and state have to be
supported by bits oil sticks and old files 10
keep them straight. Abolitionists, in the out
set, petcelving the need of a firm foundation
for their principles, rejected at once all The
wretchcd eXPedientS generally used by Sec
tarIans and politicians in attempting to sun
port abstract truths on actual falsehoods, pls-
ced their t1bles Of the law on the level and
b"u ground OF consistency, and have known
no trouble si1ce.
The twists and turnings, and miserable
subiertuges resorted 10 by churchmen and DO
i~Iticians, in their endeavors to reconcile their
actions TO their principles, are an unfailing
source Of wonder and amusement. AT the
North, our editors and statesmen have their |
hands full in trying 10 reconcile their profess
cd opposition to slavery, with their practical
support Of The system by adhering 10 tho Con
%stitution as it is, and advocating a war for its
support. At the South, tho clergy have a
hard time Of it, in trying TO prove lhat the
Bible sanctions man-stealing, oppression, muir
der AMI every species of wrong and cruelty |
the legs Of their table have to be continually
propPed up with all sorts of 1imsy materials,
ana the more 1t Is supported the more rick
city and Insecure 1t becomes. "A Northern
man with Southern citizenship" who avows
himself a "pro-slavery colonizationist," be-
sides, is trying to prove, by a series Of es-
says In the New York Courier and Enquirer,
that
"Slavery in the United States has result.
ed, and Is destined still more and more 10 re-
salt, In the permanent good and advancement
OF the Negro race, and human device cannot
make it lastlonger than the good Of the slaves
ItHulltSs dtu hNliidil utNlCG CIH-
not hasten its termination by any other means
than the shedding Of blood. White popula-
iionis supplantiag colored population, wheth-
er free or bond, by an irresistible law. Thus,
and thus only, is 1t desirable, for the good of
any party, or possible to terminate slavery in
the South"
His essays are full of the most palpable
and daring nconsisienciCs and falsehoods, as
may be judged from The above. To think Of
IA sane hulna being putting upon paper such
a declaration as dis! 'Uhite population is
supptanfing coiored population, whciher bond
or free, by an irresistible lar )" with a know
ledge Of the fact, that the slave population of
these States at the present time, exceeds the
entire population of the county, white and
black, at the lime Of the Declaration of indie
psndence! In the next sentence he says, ~
W whatever | know and believe, to the in
fuences of observed truth"
Here are some of his remarkable observa.
tons, for which he is indebted 10 = observed
truth"
at is no small matter which is on the tap
is of the civilized world in this our day, re-
speeding tho continent Of Africa, and the Ne
gro race. The freedom of speech, the free
dom of the press, and the freedom Of slave
holding, are all %impregnably fortified by the
Constitution Of our land"
$50 abhorrent is the idea of ~slivery to in
telligent minds in Northern %cIilnes, that no.
thing but the meekest submission TO the whole
OF Gods revealed will, can save from error
In this particular-can save those who are
without from interfering between master aud
slave. THE meek will He guide in iudg.
ment; and the meek will He teach His way.'
A md urfthout tbiS than ..;lI 4 .zuLLS
and consent Rot to wholesome words"
Here is a discovery of a new kind of free
dom. The freedom of speech The freedom
OF the Press! and the FReEDoM OF SLAVE
HOLDING =! This sounds well. Some of our
clergymen and lay members of the church,
are claiming for themselves the freedom OF
killing, Of setting fire to towns, and putting
women and children 10 death by cannon balls.
The last essay Of our "Northern man with
Southern citizenship" is as full of wicked
nonsense as a sermon by a slaveholding par
son. But we can afford room for only Two
more extracts.
40 that love of liberty, and hatred of
oppression, which characierizes Northern
chimes, the iallacy Of supposing that slavery
is oppression, seems almost instructive"
"a New England member seems to be
laid under a necessity to act against slavery,
simply because II is wrong, that is, morally
wrong. And this is precisely that thing
which, IN the relations imposed on him as q
member of the Congress of the United States.
he has nothing to do with"
We have read in one Of the religious na-
peFs published in New York city, that las,
week the Episcopal Bishop of that diocAse
went over 10 Governors Island, accompanied
oy some dozens Of Doctors of Divinity, 10
eohSecIs'e a chapel erected for the conyen-
istt,s OF 'he soldiers, and called the church
CANT Cornelius, the Centusion." Oyer
SAs SeFshee to the esspsl is placed a shield