Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-22
TIL G. e.
Specimen of Seetarian Anti Slavery.
RANDOLPH, Sept. S, 1919.

RANDOLPH, Sept. s, ls49.
Oliver JOHNSON Dear Sir-We are often
told by members OF the different religious
sects, that they are " as much opposed to sla-
very as any body" and would be as glad to
see it abolished that they only differ from
US as to the means to be used. We have
been somewhat slow to credit these asser-
tions, and many jealous friends of humanity
have not h~esitated 10 pronounce them hypo-
critical and false, on account of the entire
lack of zeal, interest, and active effort which
pervades the different branches Of the Church
on this subject. They have concluded-and
it appears to me very justly, too-that if the
Church really considered Slavery to be a sin
worthy to be classed with dancing and Sab
bath breaking, she would not long be at a
stand as to the means to be used for its over
throw. Unfortunately for their professions
il so happens that circumstances now and
then transpire which unmask their preien-
sions, leaving the real character of sectarian
An,i-Slavery fully exposed to view. An in
cident to the point has recently occurred in
this place.
A colored woman, who is a widow, with
several small children, had gone from Poland
to Akron, intending to remain there for a
time but not obtaining employment suited
to her expectations, she sent word TO some
friends in this place, desiring them 10
rent a house for her to occupy for a short
time, till she could see what farther ar
engagements it would be advisable to make.
They accordingly engaged a small unoccu-
pied house adjoining the premises of a man
who is a Free Soiler, and Deacon Of the Dis
ciple Church in this place. AS soon as this
man learned that the colored woman, who is a
person of good character and a member OF the
Methodist Church, was coming 10 occupy the
house, he went to the person who owns 1t,
claiming that it stood about one-half on
his land, (Which no one believes, and which
he never before pretended, } and forbade her
letting the colored woman and her children
occupy it. This is the man who, about three
wears ago, when the Church passed resolu'
tons declaring slaveholding 10 be man-steal
ing and that they would no longer fellowship
Shareholders as Christians, Immediately afiel
the passage of The resolutions, lit being the
Lords day,") 10 great excitement and
wrath, seized the communion table of thu
church and carried it away. | suppose hi
wanted to preserve the sacred thing from pollu
ton. Yet this man is a great stickler 70
Ordinances ";-and as they are the mali
spokes in the s~ectarian wheel, he, of course
goes unIebuked and still continues to carr
around the bread and wine every Sunday
Such is the spirit that finds a welcome ant
dweils securely in the bosom of the Church
Such the men who minister at her affairs ant
sacred ~feasts; clamoring loudly for Sabbath
and sacraments, and denouncing all efforts 70
reform. Such the religion that stalks proud
Iy through the land with &c garments dyed i
blood" making long prayers in the syna
gogues and corners Of the streets" and unde
the shadow of whose spire-clad temples ma
sells his brother for paltry gold. Too sPiI
itually proud to acknowledge any merit O
saving efficacy" in good deeds performe'
without her pale,-standing sullenly aloe
from all progressive and refOrmaiOry inhuen
ces,-hide-bound and constipated by a bal
barous and superanuated theology, and blind
ly fancying herself to be the only chosen an
ordained fundamentally for a worlds saliva
ton, it is not surprising that, to bolster u
her jostled reputation and secure a market 70
her theological wares, forged to finty consis
tency by the prosecuting fires Of centuries
the Church should fercely denounce thos
who, standing outside her sanctuary {