Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-08
ANTI-sLAVERY BUGLE, SALEM, o.


anything more gorgeous than he could
create into being and | believe that in
the noble influences which he has given
as,and which we call religion, in that beau
tiGul book which has come down to us and
into which he brcathed the breath Of life,
| believe there is something more trans
c~endentally beautiful than the most beau
tiCul imagination ever dreamed, or the
widest fanaiicism for liberty ever fam
cied. | believe, too, that religion. pro-
perly interpreted, means something so
high that our noblcst aspirations never
reached il; whereas, American religion
is something in which when we come TO
carry out the dreams Of Il fruitful and vi
tai sympathy, we have to look back into
the twilight of distance to sec whether
she will con3csccnd to follow us into the
dreamy regions, as she terms it, Of mere
IN human bcheuolcHcc. Now this is not
religion. and we do not believe in il but
we mean to indict the Church and the
State ill we mako the religion VIC believe
in possible with Lcggett, we believe
there was nothing, however right, that
could not be reduced TO practice {; and.
God willing, we will reduce it TO prac-
lice. (Applousc.) We may die in the
attempt, but we shall plant the seed in
your minds, and what one man thinks,
another shall say, and a third shall exc
cute. Now distribute this truth by the
way side, in your own conversation, in
your preaching everywhere, spread il
broadcast in faith. You may die with
out seeing the white harvest, but no mat
ter for that, your children will reap it,
your grand children, if not before, will
witness the realization Of these hopes Of
ours, and the fugitive slave, when no
comes to Massachusetts, will not have to
appeal TO the humanity of New England !;
he will stand erect on the soil Of the pill
grims, and proclaim his liberty by law
Until that is done, the Anti Slavery work
is never finished until that is accom-
plished, until this hold of the tyranl is
broken, until New York and A~fassachu-
sets are made to break away from their
sister States, and sweep away into an Or
bit Of their own. circling round the mag
nificent principle Of American pr~gress
for their central sun, acknowledging no
distinction Of race, welcoming every man
TO their soil, proclaiming that when they
cease to protect the rights Of their citi-
zens they cease TO be a Government
till they can do that, there is no safety
for the slave, there is no end TO pro-sla-
very aggression, there is no end to Anti
Slavery war, Accomplish thar, no mat
ter what it costs. Fear not what goes
down in the struggle nothing Of good
will go down. If the church is divine,
it will tower like the rock in spite of its
pro-slavery character. (Applause.), If
the State is divine, it will survive, what
ever effort is made 10 prevail against it
if it is an organization Of hell. her ii
never can survive The onset of right and
truth. Nothing hat God ever touched
or baptized can yield to mans attack
Whenever you attack an institution which
our fathers acted upon, if it is Of God, it
will live but if it dies, il is not Of God.
and far better it is 10 be rid Of it. Whe-
Their that be the American church or
State, shall fold my arms in confidence,
knowing that whatever sincere convic-
lions God has planted in my heart, what
ever, with a good motive, he has allowed
me to do, whatever truth he has given
me TO proclaim, il can do no harm 10 his
universe :; for, when He, in his infinite
wisdom marked out the lines Of truth and
duty, He saw that the right should be al
ways %eXPedient, and that nothing good
should ever suffer from the influence Of
the efforts of a good man. (Applouso.)