Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-07-14
The least of two Evils.

There is no more blasphemous sentiment
than that which is forever calling men to for
sake the path of duty and follow after that
unknown God" familiarly termed 'the
least of two evils" And yet no sentiment
is oftener on the lips of men who profess re-
gard for truth, duty and right. The least of
two evils! Who ever saw this almost uni
versal Divinity What devoted follower was
ever saved by his power? We confess. we
have faith in no such god. 1.-The least of
two evils" is devil and, if not Beelzebub
the prince of devils. is at least a devil whose
name is Legion. No man ever followed him
but to destruction. No man ever will. Men
will, we trust, sometime learn that there is
no god but Right, that there is no good worth
purchasing at the sacrifice of duty, consis-
tency and honor. When they shall learn
this, they will cease to talk of choosing "the
least of two evils" The true man will trust
in God and Right, and take no evil upon
himself out of fear that the devil may send a
greater. There is no greater evil than apos-
tacy and treachery to ones honest convic-
tons. There is no good which can compen-
safe a man for pollu,ing his soul in the en-
braces of vice, oppression and wrong. Let
every man do his duty, and he shall thereby
not only do the greatest good in his day and
generation, but he shall also most surely re-
ceive the greatest good to his own soul.
TO choose 'the least of two evils" is to
serve the least of two devils. 1t is to for
sake God, Duty, Truth, Right and trust in
that which wars against all these. None but
a practical Atheist will ever do it. God is
great-Truth is mighty, and he who trusts
in these need have no fear. He who believes
in them will trust in them and, trusting in
them, he will he true to duty. never doubling
that God, in whose hands are all consequent
ces, will be- true to him. If il be ever neces-
sary to violate principle, conscience, duty
if it be ever right to do wrong, then there is
no God that 'rules in Heaven and among the
inhabitants of the Earth" Then is Truth a
lie, and Right an igniS fatuuS 10 light the
sons of men to death. Wherefore, o, Man /!
whoever thou art, be true 10 the light that is
in thee. Be true 10 duty. Trust in God,
and know that wrong-doing will never save
thee nor serve thy country. Think not to
please God by serving any devil, albeit he
be a small devil, and ask but little at thy
hands.
That is good doctrine, sound morality and
it is to be hoped that the "lndepondent De-
mocrat,' from which the article is copied,
will make an application Of il, not only to
the Wing and Democratic parties, but to all
political parties acting under the Constitution
Of the United States.
There is no party, except the Liberty
League, but what admits that the Constitu-
ton to a certain extent furnishes safeguards
and guarantees to slavery but then, say they,
we must sustain it, for though it is by no
means perfect, and has some evil mixed with
its good, yet it would be a far greater evil to
have no Constitution. Does not the editor
of the Democrat take this position; and is
he not therefore continually choosing what he