Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-07-28

perhaps, and difficult TO grasp. To-day |
have stepped a little out of the common way
of the pulpit, for | could not be still. am
Of no patty. | have my preferences, il is
true, but | take no active part in politics, and
will not, because | fear that il | did, | could
not stand before you in justice. [ should al
so become a partizan and seal my lips and
speak no more upon such things. But called
to stand in a city where there is so little ius-
tice and respect Of right, where the dollars
weigh down the rights of men, to address
every Sunday large bodies of men, most of
them young men, many of them Younger
than myself, all Of them earnestly looking
for the right, | could not be silent, at the
opening of the war to tell them what it would
cost, at the close Of the war to tell what il
had cost. | could not be silent on the ma.
tons birthday. am here TO teach religion.
You put me here to teach universal religion,
goodness, piety. But you put me here also
to apply that religion to life, to private deal
ings in the streets, 10 public dealings of the
nation. Where are morals ard religion TO
be displayed, if not in politics. Therefore |
speak Of politics as the index of national
morals, Of national religion. If | do inius-
tice TO either ~party-and two years ago men
complained that | hurt the feelings of the
Democratic party, and last week that |
hurt the feelings of the Wing party
if | do injustice 10 either, impute it to
ignorance, and not to my will. never was
on the popular side. | never failed to be on
the side Of the people | should be amazed
to find myself not on the side of the people.
| should be astounded if | found myself OH
the popular side.
could not be silent standing here, with
the groans of three millions Of slaves in my
ears, and with the taunts of the widows and
orphans, made such by the Mexican war,
without hearing the voice of God Almighty's
Justice saying, Go, | put thee in the pull
pit, and thou hast taught twelve years almost,
and what hast thou done! When a theolo-
gical subtlety was to be explained, thou
couldst sling stones TO a hairs breadth in
a matter of literature, thou hadst learning
enough, diligence enough, and the trick Of
speech, but when thy brothers. blood called
out of the ground, when his chains clanked
in thy ear, and sin with iron hoof trOd through
the streets, what didst thou utter! Thou
vert a dumb dog and saidst nothing" The
spirit of Justice has not said that to me, and
when | am an old man it will not do so.
When the sun rises next Tuesday men
will ring bells and fire cannon, all faces will
wear a joyful front on the nations birthday.
| call on you to remember your duty
to your country. Remember the men whose
blood bought your independence, whose pray
ers, tolls and tears laid the deep foundations
On which the church and state must rest.-
And ] call on you to remember the great pro-
,lem God gives this nation TO solve, to make
deal Christianity actual, 10 make ideal de-
the government of the land. And
emember the evils of your day. Think Of
his war, what it has cost you, and the havoc
has made,-the slavery, the party rage
them all, true TO your W conscience
rst, and thereby true to your country. But
hough il is a small part which you shall
LAY, remember this, that every good man,
very true man, every good word and. every
deed, is so much towards the salvation
# a country, so much towards the ending of
war, towards the delivery of mankind
rom tyranny and wrong. 1t shall help you,
md also those toiling nations on the other
side of the world to lift up your prayers to-
neither.