Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-01

good deed de ever did; Yet this snmc man
makes poor Paul declare that they that do well
shall receive praise. The very opposite IS, and
has been true.
"Thoy are continually attending upon this
very thing" If we know anything of what the
powers that be arc continually attending upon,
it is upon their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT, their own
popularity, the destruction of their political en-
emies-in a word, on the loaves and fishes of of
fec. But still we must obey, and it is tho duty
of Christians to support and take Office in a wick
cd, inhuman, and dcvilish government -
Jesus Christ himself is made to sanction this
most terrible of positions. He paid taxes-oc-
knowlcdged the rightfulncss of wicked govern
ments, SC. Of course, tho only reason Jesus
Christ did not hold office in the Roman Govern
mcnt, was because he could not get it! He
would have been content with any Office from
Tctrarch down to tax-gathercr. l will not mr.
que this. We have too good an opinion of the
Messiah to believe him both a liar and hypo-
critic.
We believe he occupied our position exactly.
He paid taxes-he submitted, because the wick
cd, unprincipled Government compelled him to
do so. Jesus of Nazareth was the foe of the
government, and for this cause he was put to
death. He was charged with treason, and the
" ministers of God, for good,' commanded his
execution.
The next position of the Rev. brother is, that
the Comeoutcrs are only using the Anti Slave
ry cause for the overthrow of the Bible. And
he complains that they do not write arguments
and books in the defence of the Bible. Is it any
wonder, if the Bible teaches the doctrines held
by the American Clergy in general, and Edward
Smith in particular: We publish such books
as we think the people will read, and were We
to write such Bible defcnccs as our assailent, we
believe the people have sense enough to let us
keep them for our trouble.
"The Bible is the sword of the Lord-God
gave us this weapon to slay the monster with"
And yet, with the Lords sword in their hands
for centuries, the monster has fattencd and in
creased ffty-fold; and it must exist forever, if
Mr.. Smiths view of Bible morals is correct
But is it true that Comcoutcrs do not use the
DlOlc as III lllSll lllC W ucSIIO1 fpluNCTy We
appeal to the thousands who hear our lecturers,
and read our books and periodicals, if they are
not "mighty on the Scriptures"
But you publish no defence of the Bible-no
Bible arguments against slavory-Parker Pills
bury writes against the Biblc-they all reject
the Bible from Garrison down to Pillsbury-
every one of them discards the Bible!
Such shameless profligacy is seldom cqualled,
certainly never surpassed. 1t is true, some of
the members Of the Anti Slavery Socicties-lke
Lysander Spooner, of his own party, to whom
he is indebted for the little shadow of argument
his address contains-rcject the pricstly pretcn-
sions set up for the Book. But we know of no
man who rejects the Book-of none who do
not make a better use of it than Mr.. Smith.
The Society is charged with being responsible
for "Pious Frauds" Has it como to this that
if a man is a member of Temperance, Anti Sla-
very, or any other society, he is to be debarred
from expressing his views on any other qucs-
ton? And if he does, is the society to be held
responsible: Monsaoms! But Mr.. Smith says
ale went into the Depository in Ohio and pur-
chased P~illsbury's Book. In this Mr.. Smith is
as far from the truth as in most of his other
statements. We hare no Depository in Ohio
The Am. Society has no more profit or control
of the Salem Bookstore-where we understand
the books were bought-than Mr.. Smith has
First, he would hold it responsible for the publ
cation of a book of which it has not the slightest
knowledge or profit, then charge the Society
with the sin of q public Bookstore for its sale
And then he asserts, that the Disunion Agents
are circulating this book; while he himself
is spreading it abroad! TIL keepers of the
{" depository" assure us that Edward Smith
Uho has bought it from them By the do=ea-is the
only man protesting anti-slavery to whom they
have ever sold it, except by the single copy =
Verify, Edward, thou vert hard pushed Al
l the same time we would inform Mr.. Smith, that
G when he wants any moro of those books, if he
will 90 to the trouble to enquire, he can be fur
: nished also at the Salem Bookstore with as
many Bible dcfences and Bible arguments
l against slavery, as he plcases.
= But we must bring this article, already toe
l long, to a close, by saying, that for a strong
man, we are surprised at the folly of Mr.. Smiths
position. We hope our readers will bear in
mind this Theologian's position,-That if the
government is as bad as come-outcrs say it is
: it is right to support it. What do the come
: cutters say of this governments That it is ga
u league with death and a covenant with hell
" This you may support and be innocent b.
Serious Accident.
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