Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-01
Pic Mic and Meeting at Cool Spring.
CooL SPRlNG MEETING HOUSE, !
Aurnst 2G. 1919.

uiN nv iNb'Nh 49, 1850 ""N HllJ
and profitable time we had. 1t proved to be
a searching time. We passed two r%esolu-
lions that were far-reaching, but well under.
stood by the children.
Resolced, That it is always wrong to take
a advantage Of the ignorance or necessities Of
others TO get their property from them for less
than il is worth.
Resolred, That il is always wrong 10 seek
our own benefit by injuring others.
These and other resolutions, touching the
way 10 settle all difficulties and TO live with.
ont quarreIing, were discussed by parents
and children, with great animation, Tor three
hours. 1t was a bright and joyous occasion,
and it will not be easy to elIace the impress.
.sions made on parents and children against
war, slavery and drunkenness, and other
crimes.
To-day we have held a meeting in a beau
tiful grove, to discuss War and Slavery, in
reference to the Bible and the Constitution.
The following resolutions were adopted by
the meeting. You will learn by them the
course taken in our discussions:
Resoired, That, if there be any passages in
the Bible that sanction War or Slavegy, as
the church and clergy say there are, our re-.
gard Tor those selt-t vldCnt truths and princi.
pies OF human nature, and Of the Bible,
which secure to every human being an =" in
ailenable right to life, liberty and the pursuit
OF happiness" demands Of US that we should
reject such passages as are opposed TO natural
justice and equity-the same as il they were
found in any other book.
Resohved, That lnfdeIity to a religion that
ever did or ever can approve OF War OF Sla-
very is a sacred duty.
Resoired, That regard Tor Justice and hui
mainly, and for the progress Of man in good.
ness, and in the knowledge OF the true God,
makes it our imperative duty TO deny The cX-
is!ence and spurn the worship Of any being,
as God, that ever did or ever can sanction
War or Slavery, by precepi, by example, or
by ind ference.
Resulted, That we deem it a pleasure and
an honor 10 be called infdels ana atheists by
those whose spirit and principles prompt or
allow them TO inhict Slavery or War upon
men, for any cause; inasmuch as what they
call God is a demon Of wrath. revenge and
cruelty, and what they call religion is n cut.
rage upon man and a denial of the spirit and
principles Of Christianity.
ResO.red, That we know Of no idolatrcus
nations on earth who attribute to their gods
a more revengeful and murderous spirit and
deeds OF grosser injustice and cruelty, than
those who call themselves Christians father
upon the being whom they worship as God 4;
inasnuch as they lather upon him Slavery,
with all its crimes and pollutions, and not on
ly defensive wars, bat also wars which they
themselves acknowledge to be aggressive and
eXterminating,
The discussion and passage Of these reso-
lutions excited much interest. Slavery and
War were defined. and it was assumed as a
.self-evident truth that they were Wong. For
myself, ! will not duscuss the question wheth-
er it is right or wrong for man 10 hold his
brother as a chatte!, or to assume discretion-
airy power over his life, to Kill him for his
own benefit, and when he thinks he ought 10
die. II the Bible says that man may right.
fully and innocently be a Shareholder or "A
warrior, the Bible must he mistaken, for hui
manity and justice are against it. II there be
any terLS that require me to stone to death
my b%rcther, or hang or crslaye him, I wji
stone or lang Ike iari, aud let my brother 90
free. Wa and Slavery ever were and ever
must be a repeal of justice and mcrcy-an
outrage upon man, and, therefore, an insult
TO God. If the Bible sanctions these cruel
and bloody crimes, the Bible is opposed to
self-evident truth, and is. therefore, thus far
a self-evident falsehood. How can the clcf,
gy have the impudence TO array that book on
the side Of robbers and murderers, and against
the self-evldePt truths Of our nature, and then
ask us TO receive it all as Of God and as a rule
Of faith and practice Do they think men
are fools They array their Book in favor OF
all that is cruel and unjust, and then denounce
us as inddels if we say there are mistakes in
ii; and they father upon what they worship
as God crimes FOR which they would con,
sign a man 10 the dungeon or the gallows,
and then denounce us as atheists if we do mol
fall down and worship him likewise. BY
virtue OF our existence as human beings We
are and must be infdels and atheists TO such
religion and such a God. If we would
follow after the true God, as dear children
II we would be like him who came to break
every yoke and let the oppressed 90 free; il
we would love our ]neighbor as ourselves.
do as we would be done by, and return good
Tor evil; if we would be obedient to the fix.
ed laws o justice and mercy'under which We
are placed, we must renounce every thing. by
whatever name called, that sanctions Slavery
or War, and is thus opposed to the selEevi.
dent truths OF our nature. According to lheir
conceptions of God and Religion, is it no,
our du'y to be infdels and atheists in the es.
timation of Shareholders and warriors I
believe it is; and that the surest evidence of
our ignorance and destitution of Christianity
and common honesty, is TO be reconnized rs