Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-06
TREAT.
Non ReSiStance another branch Of Alb
hey KelleyiSm.
FRIENDS EDIToRs:

FRIENDS EDITORS:
As yours is a paper dedicated to the cause
Of universal freedom, and is hostile 10 human
tyranny in whatever form it is displayed, |
request permission through its columns to ex.
pose the glazing injustice Of attempting to
make Disunionism the depository for doc
trines, advocated by Disunionists relative
to different subjects. 50 gross is the
moral darkness, so obscured the mental vi
sion, or else so voluntary must be the depfa-
witty of particular classes of community, that
they are disposed 10 brand comeouters with
infdelity. deism, atheism, and every thing
which they call heterodoxy, solely because
they are Disunionists and espouse Disuuion
principles as if an aversion to a pro-slavery
government, and secession theIefrom, togeth-
er with an utter misunderstanding Of man.
peddling churches and hood winking priests,
had the least shadow of relevancy to the
question of deciding whether there is a God,
or whether the fundamentals of the scripture
are well grounded, or its doctrines unworthy
of credence.
In listening recently to a pulpit declama-
forcibly impressed with the truth, that the
most brawling devotees of s~ectarian religion,
are the vilest enemies Of truth, when | heard
it affirmed by him that Non-R Resistance is an
other branch OF Abby Kelleyism, using the
latter term as SYNONYMOUS with Disunionism
lie spoke %derogatorily of the doctrine Of Nom
Resistance, perhaps because it condemns the
course he has been pursuing so zealously in
prosecuting men for retaining their hats upon
their heads when his bare-headed religion
and supercilious self-majesty demanded they
dicating, or attempting to vindicate his char
acter against the charges which he apprehend-
ed had been brought against it, that he virtu-
ally declared it to be right to compel men TO
do right; thus presupPosing that the predom-
inant party is always in the right and the
weaker in the wrong, and incapable Of judg-
ing between right and wrong thus uphold
ing a system Of mental tyranny, the demoral-
izing tendency of which is as P~alpable as its
advocates are Ignorant and depraved.
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l wish to revert to the principle of abusing
a doctrine by heaping upon it apparent errors
which legitimately flow from other sources.
Non-Resistance another branch of Abby Kel.
leyism! 1t is this false and ungrounded ex.
preston that | would expose. Not that | re.
pudiate the doctrine of Non Resistance, OIL
consider it unworthy the advocacy Of Disu,
~nionists; but what should arouse the virtu,
Gus indignation of every true Disunionist
are the efforts Of men TO voInit out upon Dis
unionism whatever appears %repugnant 10 MeiI
sense Of consistency. If there be any sucl
thing as wickedness or voluntary sin, thel
certainly that ecclesiaslic 10 whom | have al
ready referred, must be grossly wicked in de
claring what he knew 10 be a glaring AM
positive falsehood, after having almost imme
diately invoked the aid or heaven 10 enabl
him TO promulgate truth in its purity. ! can
not see what must enter into the composition
Of his nature TO prompt him 10 display sucl
unbounded hostility to truth and humanity
The probability is, that it is caused by seeing
that cOmeouters are not so much opposed Il
mental freedom as 10 prohibit men from EN-
bracing Non-Resistance-a degree in the
scale Of Christianity 10 which his r~esenting
propensity will not permit him to ascend
What egregious folly and fanatacism, what q
display of inconigible depravily and ~iniquity
for protesting christians, avOwed expOunderl
Of Cody truth, to declare that which mill
,ates so powerfully against conscience, Il
abandon all regard of God by suppressin!
truth merely for the purpose Of stigmatizin!