Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-01-21

States Constitution, or rather upon the riuht
Of individuals 10 construe the document az
they would, and swear 10 support, not what
the Supreme Court decided to be Consti,u-
ton, but what they choose to cnH Cons,iiu-
ton. A Baptist preacher who was present
ives inclined 10 believe that the positions we
took in reference TO the government were cor
rect, but was exceedingly disturbed by what
we said against the churches Of America gen
orally, and especially a, what we said in res
pect TO the Baptist denominations; and assured
US that the Baptist church at Pori William
was an,i-slavery, and had passed anti-slave-
ry resolutions. Necessity is said TO be the
mother of invention, and it is certain that the
preaching of truth 10y abolilionists hao made
many individual churches feel the necessity
of seeming 10 be anii-slavery in order to save
the shattered fragments Of their Ipputaiion.-
And ii any people ever deserved credit for
their ingenuity and a patent for their inven-
ton, 1t is they who manufacture anti-siqrery
churches out Of Pro-shrery members. Before
leaving, We had some conversation with one
OF the members Of this same anti. slavery
Baptist church, who told US tina, he knsw
''of at least two Of its members who were az
pro-slavery as the Devil would have them 10
be-" So much for the anti. slavery Of tue
Baptist church at Port William.
ANTIOCH.
Some Of our friends told US that the pee
pie Of Antioch were honest and conscien-
tious, and that if they did not 40 the right, il
was only because they did not see it,. Du-
ring the two days that we were there, we
sndeavored 10 expose the wTongfulness Of
their position, and especially TO enforce upon
the members Of the Disciple church, whose
house We had, the necessity of their doing
more for the slave than they had ever We,
done. We attended their religious meeting
ON Sunday morning, and found in Tho pulpit
a defender Of slavery, a preacher from a
slaveholding church in kentucky. And this
was tolerated by the members Of a body
claiming TO be anti-slavery, and a majority Of
whose voters, we were informed, voted with
Liberty party. After preaching, the bred
and wine were passed, and the representative
OF Kentucky Shareholders partook of it with
the rest of the brethren In the Lord; and al
though this fellowship might have surprised
those who knew only Of the profession of The
Disciples at Antioch, yet 10 us, who had been
acquainted with il fact which wo shall pre-
sently refer TO, it was only an evidence of
their consistency.
WHOM THE Disciples FELLOWSHIP, AND WHOM
THEY REFUSE TO FELLOWSHIP
We understood that the Disciples had a.
mong them three offenders against the law Of
Christ, and when we learned that at the con-
OF the meeting some of the brethren
were to be cut of from church, fellowship.
what could we expect but that the three would
be ex-communicated After other mai
tiers had been attended to, the preacher sta
ted that brother A.. had been guilty Of pro-
fame swearing and threatening to fight, and
desired that If any one knew why he should
not be cut oil from church fellowship, the
reason should be stated. As no one believ-
ed that swearing and fighting were christian,
a. was ~disowned, ex.communicated. Ard
his brother offender B. against whom the
charge Of getting intoxicated was preferred,
with the same fate. But the case of D..
a sIdrehOidtnS member, a Disciple who lives
upon the money which he steals from his
kentucky slave was passed by in silence, for
tla nVaarhar 80. H. IT
anything in his deed of robbery calling
Tor such action as they visited upon the 9TH
err offenders.
Before the adjournment, Of the msetinr wa
iook occasion to give our views ofAmerican
and told the church that while tick.
communicated swearers- and fighters, and
irunkards, and held communion with defen-
OF slavery, and permitted ministers of
'IavehOldlng churches 10 occupy its pulpi,
md take part In the religious services of the
body, and retain an actual slave.claiman in
membership, 1t was teaching the world that
'uearing was wrong hut than mqn-stealing
was right, that fighting was an,i-christian but
o~Onran-whiPping christian, that the drunkord
vas a sinner but the cradle-phnGerer a saint.
In the meeting we subsequently held, we
to deal faithfully by the church;
md hope that the seed there sown has fall
en- upon good ground, and will bring forth
consistent christian action.
New VIENNA.
At New Vienna we met with large con-
5regation in the Baptist church. Our doc.
.flnes were new to most of them, and they
listened with close attention. and vba,