Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-23


remittingly fixed on the undergraduates of
Jehovah. He left Egypt, having an eye to
the %recompense Of reward in another world,
and never lost sight Of that grand object. He
was, therefore, neither discouraged by diff
culties, nor elated by prosperity. His refu-
sing TO be called the son of Pharaoh's daugh-
ter, and thereby removing the claim he had
on the treasures and glory of Egypt, proves
that he was not influenced by the secular
views in the government of the miserable
multitudes which he led out of that country.
Egypt, too, was possessed of great natural
advantages; yet, after a long course of gram
deur, and in contradiction 10 its natural ad-
yantages, the prophet Ezekiel prophesied that
the kingdom should "be the basest of all
kingdoms" and that there should be "no
more a prince of the land of Egypt" So the
event has been, and so it remains and that
this wonderful prophecy should be passed
over by lnfdels in silence, is deeply charac-
t%eristic of their minds. 1t is no, for the want
of evidence that the word of God is rejected
by them. The evil is not the want Of Light,
but the love of Darkness. (1O)
Yours for the Slave, and Friend of the BIZ
BILE, JOHN TREGO.
~ The Discipline is opposed Suppose
it is. Hiram Rigg said nothing about the
Discipline /; it was the Friends themselves
against whom his charges were brought, and
not their articles of government. Are the
Friends opposed to Slavery, Intemperance
and War! Those who know how unani-
mously they sustained at the ballot-box the
most noted iVarrior and STAKEHOLDER of this
country, comforting upon him the highest
political honor the nation could bestow, will
be able TO Judge to a fraction how much their
anti.war and anti-slavery professions are
worth under such circumstances as 10 Tenn
p%erance, we have yet 10 learn that Friends,
either in their Discipline or practice give any
evidence that they have yet discovered that
Total Abstinence is Temperance, and that
nothing short of this deserves the name.
(2) Very true but has done," is some
thing very different from is doing. What
are Friends doing for the slave We know
what they are doing for the stakeholder, and
should be glad to learn they are doing even
half as much for his victims.
(3) Is not the rightfulness Of slavery, and
the means for its abolition moral questions!
and should they not therefore be made sub
iacts for ecclesiastical action! No one ques-
tons the right Of Friends 10 discuss Wilber-
ism and Gurneyism but if they prefer this
TO doing the works of righteousness, to free
ing the captive, and binding up the wounds
of them that are bruised, they must not be
surprised if others, because Of such prefer
ence, regard their inward light as rather
dim.
% Even if H. r. said this, it does not
prove that Disunionists are infdels, and we
never knew Of a more futile attempt to sub
stantiate such a charge, and more especially
when we remember it was well known that
one of the speakers for whom the meeting
was appointed is in good and regular stand
ing in the Salem meeting Of (Orthodor)
Friends! Here are ten thousand Disunion-
lists, we will say, scattered over the various
States not one in a hundred Of them ever
heard of Hiram Rigg, and those who have,
are probably most Of them as Ignorant Of his
views on Theology as we are and we know
nothing of them, and do not care 10 know
for they no more form a part of his anti
slavery, than do the views we hold of astro-
mony form a part Of our anti-slavery. Wen
dell Phillips, the originator Of the Disunion
doctrine, we have been informed is a rigid
Calvinist; will John Trego therefore con-
tend that the Disunionists are rigid Calvin
lists? He might with much more FEASIBILITY
than say the foolish thing he has asserted.
(5) Does J. L. speak by authority! If
so, we are glad to correct the error fallen
into by the informant of Hiram Rigg.
(6) All honor 10 the woman then. We
presume her husband does not consider such
a mistake, so g%riveous to him as to demand
a public correction; but as J. Il. thinks 9TH
erwise, he is at liberty 10 make it. We trust
the believing wife may save the unbelieving
husband.
% II. II. does not say there was, but
merely that the boys were encouraged 10 do
it.
(8) Thou shalt not bear false witness a.
gainst thy neighbor.
(9) Another falsehood. Wedemand proof
Of the truth of this assertion, or a relraction
of the charge and We mean ,chal We say.-
The Bugle is the organ of the Disunionists
; in the West, and during the time it has been
published, its editors have frequently pre-
scented in its columns all the principles of
that party our files are at the service Of ]. L.
for the collection Of proof.
(lO) These theological views may all be
vary Good and yerv true. hut thew contain