Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-02

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ligious sentiment of the American people
Well, now, here is a duty for the abolition.
list to perform before he can hope to topple
down this great Bastile of oppression and in.
fanny; he must get the religious sentiment on
his side, nothing less can gtapplc with it,
Every thing else it can bride, everything else
it can oyerwhelm, everything else it can bull
ly. When he shall once bring to his side
the religious enthusiasm of the old Puritan
stock, with all the vigor Of that aye when
they took their life from the European side,
justice and humanity shall triumph. This is
the only way, according 10 all human prVba-
blllty, IN which it will ever be done. OF
course we speak with reference to the manner
in which things are usually done in the
world, or the manner in which history in
forms us they have been accomplished in all
past ages. We have no idea what the an
gelic state of man may be in future times
The period may come when he will act upon
higher principles; but if man is TO be what
be has been, there is nothing that cannot out
do so powerful, SO subtle, so determined an
institution as slavery, but the religious sem
timent.
The mistake of some abOlitionists is that
they 60 cap in hand TO the door OF what they
are pleased to call a church, almost asking
pardon for what they call schismatlc move
ments. When the Pope communicated
Luther, Luther did not apologize. He ex-
communicated the Pope! the world will de-
eide which was in the right. We are bound
to exclaim with Melancthon, ave are the
church, whoever separates from us, separates
from the church," Christianity is always
the highest idea of the age. 1t is always the
leader Of civilization. Why | recollcct a year
ann ilIs tnnntI, tho Now \nrL Evnprnliat
said in a long article, that the church had
been recroant in its duty; that reforme1s not
connected with the church, not even profess
sors Of religion, had anticipated the church.
1t said tile church was asleep, and | am sure
| will not dispute that. But the so called
church is not the vital embodiment OF Chris
tlanlty: 1t Is not Gods representative on earth.
You VIII remember what the Scotch chieltain
said when invited to quit his seat at the foot
OF the table, and take the head Of the FEAST
He replied, "Where Macgregor sits is the
head of the feast" And so it is in relation,
where good is done, there is the church,
lnfidelity never fathered a noble action: |
claim them all for Christianity. A noble
thought has never come up from her. Eve
ry good and every perfect gift cometh down
from the Father of lights. There can be no
Christianity except in what is ChGist-like,
, and TO imagine that any thing out-does the
church of Christ is blasphemy. | know no
apostolic succession except the men on whose
heads Gods own hands have rested, the Luz
theirs, the Paschals, tho Oberlins, the How
ards, Elizabeth Fry, the Clarksons, and 9TH
ers, through whose works God has called up
Christianity step by step in its onward march.
Christianity does not exist in an idle or
ganization, mark me | am not saying that
tho churcb examination of ttio land 10 .n
idle one, and | will try shortly to prove to
you that it is not, | am laying down a few
rules by which | will try to prove which is
the infidel, which is the head of the table.
Christianity is ever active. 1t cannot ex-
ist in an idle church. The Master comes TO
the door and knocks, in the voice of a neiu
idea. lie says TO the church, come up high
er. lie wants the world 10 take another step
In the direction of right, justice, eternal truth.
II Is now the cause Of the dmnkard, now Of
the slave, now OF the battle field, and now
the cause of moral purity. No matter what
1t is. 1t knocks at the door, ifthe sheep hear
The shepherds voice, they will answer it and
come out and follow him 10 the wilderness.
II there be no answering appeal, then their
religion is a matter of habit and not of prin-
clple. There never was d man who loved
truth and Justice and humanity, whose heart
would not have leaped in his bosom at the
mmOn to do battle in behalf of a higher
phase of Gods Providence, no matter what
the consequences to him personally may be.
An illustration Of what | mean is suggested
by the circumstances in which ] stand. In
Great Britain the Friends were a noble band
in behalf of the slave, before the earliest times
of WilberfoTce. They did their duty well,
and 1t was to men whose names an ungrdte-
iul world has forgotten, wo owe it, that the
vessel OF antl-slavery reform ever reached a
safe harbor. 1t was TO the Aliens, the Dill
wyns and others whose money was poured
out like water, who never counted day nor
night, that the negroes owe their liberty
The Friends in Great Britain now have no
abolitionism in them. | will tell you why |
Judge them SO; if they had a spark of anti
slavery in them when the question of tory
and whig; and the corn laws, the charter and
all the other liberal aud republican questions
came up, their hearts would have leaped in
the cause, and they would have been like
their fathers, found battling in behalf of free
dom, justice and humanity; but they were alb
oli,ionists by habit, and consequently their
hearts did not leap in the cause, and they
were not found following in tho footsteps
of their fathers.
Now there is another difficulty and a very
great difficulty too, which the abolitionist
meets with at every turn. We come to the
American people with the idea that it is the
wisdom of Christianity to serve the human
race, and ask them their idea ofour slave sys-
TEN. Well they are stepped to the lips with
the idea that the negro is property, we can
not get this idea out Of them. Ii you argue
with a man till midnight, and finally succeed
in enlightening him so far as TO enable him
to distinguish between man and british
beasts. he all at once learns that Captain Say
res helped a man 10 gain his liberty, and asks
you If you approve of stealing slaves, if you
approve OF aiding the slave TO escape, 1t is
impossible TO get il out OF his mind, that be.
tween him and the negro, A shadow of the