Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-25


of Ohio-through their accredited agents at
Washington! This case has given rise 10
much excited discussion in Congress, in
which Captain Sayres and his associates have
been branded as guilty Of the vilest crimes,
and all who sympathized with them as ac-
cessory to robbery and outrage. TO these
accusations of the Southern members, those
of the North have been generally mute, Civ
ing them their silent acquiescence. Two or
three. we rejoice TO say, had manhood enough
within them TO reprove, to some extent at
least, the denouncers of those noble men,
who hazaTded so much, though unsuccess-
fully, to deliver him that was spoiled out of
the hands of his oppressor. And there was
one at least, who stood forth boldly for the
right-faithful among the faithless and faller-
ing and timid. Joshua r. Giddings in this,
as well as in all other cases which have &C.
CURED IN Congress touching the question of
human freedom, has stood up in the dignity
and manhood of a man; and our only regret
is, that he has so long consented 10 place
himself in a position which, from the nature
of the obligation it imposes upon those who
occupy it, renders it impossible for him to do
what he otherwise might. The oath which
he has taken to support the U. S. Constitu-
ton binds his hands and compels him TO stop
lar short of what his duties as an American
citizen and a man would require.
Nothing has occurred during the year in
the ecclesiastical organizations of the coun-
try, to change the character of the American
Church essentially. Still, as in former times,
the church may be justly styled the bull
wark of American ~Slavery-still it continues
to baptize and sanctify the practice of making
merchandise of men-still it invites the man
stealer to its communion, and lsbors assidu-
ously 10 counteract the efforts put forth 10
enlighten the public mind in relation to the
sin of oppression, and its W participation
in it. "The American church is still the sane
tuary of slavery, the city of refuge to which
it may fly from before the avenger Of the
blood of the innocent, and be safe, The
World, the Parties political presses, Legis'
l%atures, and Congresses are in advance of the
! Church, the Sects, the Religious Press, the
Conference, the bly,, and the Con ven
ton, in moral sensibility to perceive, and ir
moral courage to expose, the crafty cruelty oil
this trampler on human hearts,"
There are, we rejoice to say, manifestation
OF dissatisfaction in various quarters, on the
part Of church members. Many are dissatis.
fed, and are becoming unwilling TO remain
silently in a position hostile to the slaves re.
demption many are leaving the corrupt re.
ligious organizations with which they have
been connected, and are standing forth free
and untrammelled, determined to expose the
hypocrisy and infdelity of that church which
sanctions the sum of all villanies, taking un.
der its special protection the most deadly sin
The Covenanters stand almost alone, among
the American churches in maintaining a con.
sistent and decided testimony against slave.
ny. Other smaller bodies are beginning to
take higher ground than formerly, and a pow
er is at work in the church, which will, soon.
er or later, develop its corruption, and effec'
its conversion, or, what is more probable, its
overthrow. That the time may hasten, mus
be the prayer of every friend Of the slave.
Among the cheering signs of the times, is
the commotion in the Political world. In
nothing more than this are the effects of the
Ahd-Slavery agitation observable. The nomi.
nation by the Wings of General Taylor, and
of Lewis Cass by the Democrats, for the
Presidency, seems to have aroused a spirit o.
opposition to the encroachments Of slavery
in the breasts of a large number of the Wings
and Democrats of the North, which, it is t.
be hoped, no a%rtifce of the slave power ant
its mean allies will be able to allay. These
nominations, on the part of both Wings anC
Democrats, appear like an experiment 10y
which to learn how great a weight of outrage
and insult the people Of the nation are willing
to endure. Thanks TO the anti-sIavery spiri
which has gone abroad over the North, ther'
is a length in ssrvility, and crime, and mean
ness, to which a large portion Of the people
are not disposed to GO. The man who re
commended the importation of the Cubal
blood hounds-the hero Of the Florida slav,
hunt-the leader of the band of marauder
who murdered the women and children 0
Mexico, and wrested from her her domain
upon which TO establish the hateful system @
human bondage-the owner of two hundre
and eighty slaves-has little chance at pre-
, sent of receiving the unanimous support {
the Whiga of the Northern States and Lew
is Cass, who, though born and educated a
the North, and having no immediate intere
= in the slave system, yet has become the wi