Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-24

thelr Tod from the Bible, and they are loud
and long in their condemnation Of the deeds
Of those who profess TO derive their God from
nature. Slavery is a fiat denial Of the exist
ence Of a God of Love and Justice. Every
STAKEHOLDER and apologist for slavery is a
bLdsphemer against Him whom | worship as
God. The being who can approve of war
or Slavery, ! cannot and will not recognize
and revere as the God whs made me, and
my fellow beings. That being is a demon
Of cruelty, injustice, wrath, revenge and
murder. ] spurn him and bid him defiance,
as | do Bacchus. Mars, Jupiter, Sera, or Jug
gernaut. The Being that says ,rdr, or slave-
ry, is consistent with love and justice, and
with the immutable relations and obligations
Of man 10 man, though called God, and wor-
shipped as such, by this nation Of slavehold-
ers and slsve-drivers, is a liar and the truth
is not in him. He is opposed to the self
evident truth that the God Of Love and Jus
tice has written on the human soul and he
is a self-evident liar; and all who worship
him as God, worship as God a selfevident
liar and 6end. 1t is a self.evident truth that
God made all men free; and whoever or
whatever says that God ever made a STARE or
a shareholder is a selfevident liar. God makes
human beings the spirit of fends makes
slaves and Shareholders.
il is asked what are my views Of the Bible
in reference TO war and slavery! do not
believe there is one word in the New Tesla
tnent that can, without perversion, be con-
strned into a sanction of war or slavery. !
believe that the spirit and principles of Chris
tianiiy, as they are illustrated in the life and
teachings Of Jesus, are in perfect accordance
with the Nature Of God, and with the rela-
tions and duties of man to man. believe
that Christianity is identical with Humanity,
Love and Justice, and that no man can be a
Christian and a STAKEHOLDER. No slavehold-
er can be a Christian, nor a just and honest
man. ! care not what human laws and con-
situations may throw their sanctions around
them, all Shareholders are, ever were and
ever must be sey:eridsnt and sey-conricted
hends and villains, because they themselves
would call others fiends and williams who
should do to them Just what they do the slaves.
Yon may as well talk Of a Christian, honest
thief, robber and murderer, as Of a Christian,
honest STAKEHOLDER. The very deeds which
he does to others he would call fendish if
done TO him. The same | say Of war and
warriors. Every warrior, and every advo.
cate of war, is ever doing to others, OF advo-
eating the right TO do to others, the very
deeds which they call robbery, plumber, ar
son, murder and piracy, if done to them .
and it is the design of wal to do to others
what all denounce as the blacklist and blood
lest crimes when done to them. Instead OF
being Christians or honest men, such per.
sons are self-evident and s~elEconvicted rob-
bers and assassins.
But the advocates and perpetrators of war
and slavery cite the Old Testament to justi-
fly their deeds of robbery and murder. No,
one step has been taken to eradicate these
two giant crimes Of earth from among men,
but the Old Testament has been cast in the
way. Thu church and clergy have made the
Bible the browning obstacle to Anti Slavery
and Anti-War. Talk of Liberty, or Peace,
talk of human love and brotherhood, and in
stantly the church and clergy strike you dead
with text from the Bible.
1t is time this war of terts should cease
, 1t never should have been begun. Non
; Resistants and Aboli,ionists never SHOULD
e have Joined issue on the Bible, as to the in
/, justice and innate wickedness Of slavery ant
3 war. l shall never 60 to that Book, or =,
4 wrong. l shall fall back upon sey-epider
g truth. That holding and using man as
chattel-that killing men, women and chill
dren at the discretion and for the benefit G
o those who kill them, and tina, assuming tn
right to do these deeds, are wrong, is sell
evident, needing no other proof than the vii
v ness of God in the soul Of every human b,
ing. ! shall go to no Bible TO prove it
e wrong for me or any other to kill or enslav
innocent human beings for my benefit.
IF know it is wrong every human being know
i is wrong, and | care moi what the Bib
70 says about it so far as this point is concer
m ed. No book, no power in heaven or cart
IS could make me believe it would be right +
me to %enslave or kill another, that never i
jured me. If the Old or New Testame
~ teaches that wal or slavery is right, it teac
a. es a selfevident falsehood, and is unwortf
" Of confidence.
I'd ! leave it to the pro-war and pro-slave
" clergy and churches 10 settle the meanil
IN and divinity of the Bible. My business
ne to vindicate the justice and goodness Of Go
er and the brotherhood Of man, against their 70
,e and filthy b~lasphemies, when they assert ii