Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-24


instrument 10 applied TO keep then uRder =
ministers Of religion, J am sffaid, want the
couraRe to discharge ikeit whole duty In this
matter. Their position between two 6eJy
and impeiuous torrents Of party feeling IL OF
ten one, ! know, Of great weakness, and they
need to consider, when they put on their ar
NOR, v neither they can meet alone one that
come,h against them with twenty thousand.
But i, cannot be necessary that the duties Of
the ministry in this ield should be totally
neglected, as they have been in many places
Hitherto, OF, IL il be, We may well despair Of
our country.
Parry discipline 10 90 strong ard peNrnbtc.
~ among us, that moral considerations and.
restraints are OVERCOME by IL. MeB sre ell
ways irresponsible when they aci in masses.
Conscience belongs 10 the individus and
when all individuality Is lost, conscience 10
lost too. \ do not complain that we have
parties. 1t may be difficult TO dsviss any
means by which il could be avoided. But.
in the name Of God and all that il sacred, |
protest against Tie doctrine that every man
shall do what his party appoints, and justify
v hat his party does. 1t lie the worst form Of
papacy ever invented. ASdI how dfeadfully
evident is it that the party discipline Of our
country, irresponsible as il IL and. must be,
sweeps like a melstrom round the personality
Of our people, engulphing men and churches
ia its dismal vortex. Few men have the
nerve to resist il. Their seruples are over
ruled, rhe7 ave eoRviRcsd against their reason,
the spirit Of the multitude expels the spirit of
God-it is their duty--ihPir party 10 most as
suredly TO be the salvation Of the eountry-
the voices Of the multitude and the chief
priests prevail, and Christ is crucihedl
The prepondeIant influence Of slavery IN
the institutions Of our country is a powerful
cause of the result we are deplorihg. With
a population inferior to tina, Of the free Sta,es,
and rapidly increasing, Il is yet demonssra-
BILE that Slavery has hitherto horne role in
the nation. ] saw, but a few days ago, a ta-
BILE e the Presid ents and all the chief officers
of State in our country, since the adoption Of
the Constitution, showing that in the highest
grades Of Office, at least fve-sixths Of the
incumbents have been from the slavehol-
ding States! laid the record down with
feelings Of Indignation, shame and grief, that
cannot find oIds 10 express-fRdigsAtion
that the lordship Of slavery has assisted so
effectually the ~lordship Of ofice-shsme that
We have suffered il to be so-grief at the dis
covery that slavery is the Characteristic and
dominant power Of our country. It, was no
relief 10 remember that Virginia, die. breeder
of slaves, a distinction at once cfasb and in
famous, has also been the chief breeder OF
Presidents-as little that The great slave mar
ket of the nation is the nations capiial-as
little, nay, less, that northern leaders have
there conspired, for so many years, TO siifle
the prayer Of freedom in the halls consecra-
ted 10 equal rights and human liberty. o,
my country hang Thy head and blush over
this desecrated name Ia name which thou
hast emblazoned before mankind, but hast
made a fiction at home, in Thy republican
slavedom!
Slavery being thus predominant in the pol
itics Of our country, they have grown as ire
sponsible, as destitute Of conscience, and re-
mote from the fear of God, as slavery would
require. The moral deterioration of which
| have complained here al the North, has
been visibly due, in no mall degree, to the
asslmilating power of a southern influence.
Slavery, as such, has no principle-ii loos-
ems all the evil passions of human nature. Its
law is human will. The style of southern
politics has accordingly been signalized by
responsibility from the first. And the South
has been steadily travelling northward, bring
ing its license with il; expelIing the ancient
time when merit Heigncd among US, and ma
king US familiar with the lawless spirit Of
political adventure and rapacity. Our evil
communications have corrupted good man
ners, till now, the separation of politics from
the fear of God and the CONSTANTS of moral
obligation is becoming national in our PEG.
pie.