Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-30
ANTE.sLAVERY BUGLE, SALEM, O..


have settled down TO a state of ~lifeless for
malily, appearing to think they have done
enough, and that more would be too much !;
and have become so fearful of contamination
by mixing with the people Of the world"
that their leaders utterly refuse to attend with
us our ~Anii-Siavery meetings to assist US in
libera!ing the bondman and save our country.
And, perhaps, if one Of their members should
" violate our rules" so much as 10 attend
such a meeting, he would be offered a lower
seat in the church." l believe the like has
been done. AT the same time they may
Join the most corrupt and vulgar part Of COM
munity in a political scamper to elevate TO
The Presidency a gambler, a duelist, a muir
derer, or an invelerate stakeholder "this
once" and then again this once more"
and it passes of-so far as | perceive-with-
out rebuke from the Society. ! understand
one Of the Orthodox elders who lives in sight
Of me, with many others of both parties, vo-
ted for Brigddier General Taylor.
In the great Fandango ,huzza of 1874,
when each of the old corrupt parties were ex.
erting their Influence to get the reigns of 60
vernment into the hands of their respective
and respected STAKEHOLDER, / was talking to a
member of that Society for attending those
fandangoes he replied that he only had at
tended fWo Of them, and therefore appeared
to think himself quite excusable-quite toler-
able, and, | suppose, that the Heads of the
Meeting thought so too. But, | reckon, that
if he had attended but one Of our Anti-Slave-
ny meetings, and cast in his mite TO help us
in endeavoring to bring about a better state
of things, they would have thought it intOi-
cradle. And now, when they run mad after
such men as Clay, Polk, and Taylor, ]
should think that in any truly thoughtful
people it would not answer the witness Of
truth. Therefore, it is no wonder that the
are few through confinement.
l was lately talking with one Of their
women who, ] understand, sits high in the
church she told me that she felt she really
loved Old Taylor. suppose if he had come
upon her with his soldiers some First day,
when she was sitting in meeting with her
children around her, and told his followers to
" give them HI, d-n EN-" she would not
loved him quite so well.
II does appear to me that instead Of these
quiet-loving, n|on-committal, time-serving,
Inan-fearing preachers and pro(essed leaders,
we need some to come and do as one said
eighteen hundred years ago he came to do
'' not 10 send peace on earth, but a sword"
We need a Boanerges-one who would be
free spiritually as well as temporally-one
who would not fear to declare the whole
truth. We profess to be a free people, and
my old friend Cowper says
" He is a freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves beside"
We want a Martyr age 10 send forth a
host Of men at the sound of whose goings
the whole land shall tremble-men who will
not rest while one system or practice violates
the law of God-who will toll for Christ ae
assiduously as the minions Of Popery drudg-
ed for the man of sin, and who will withstand
established evils openly and boldly as Luther
withstood his accusers at the Diet of Worms.
The men into whose hands this work may
fall, must be men who will fix their eyes on
a complete triumph Of Truth and Right over
Falaehood and Error, resolved to see it tri-
umph or die in the attempt-whoare willing
to be despised, hated, prosecuted; and il
need be, even die with hunger and toll for
the triumph of the cause and to Withstand
popular odium incident to this work, they
will need the zeal of Apostles and the spirit
of Martyrs.