Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16

dox men could assistyou IN recovering your
los, relatives, you would cooperate with them
most readily; and If they succeeded in re-
covering for you your lost invaluable trea-
sures, your nature would thank them In spite
/ of your creed. How is it then that you can
not cooperate with heterodox men, IN extln-
FINISHING a more consuming fire than can be
Rindled in your Affiliations fire that is
burning up both BODY and soul and estate Of
multitndes. How is it that you cannot CO.
operate with heterodox men 10 recover the
wives and the children of others that have
been stolen and doomed to slavery How
is it that you cannot cooperate with hetero-
dox men to bring man-stealing and child
stealing and woman-whipping in America to
an end The explanation of the matter Is
simply this You do not iOpe your neighborS
as yourselves. You do not sympathise with
those in bonds as bound with them. You
have regard to your otCn domestic comfort,
to your Own social enjoyments, but TO the do
nestle comforts, to the social enjoyments of
your colored brethren, you have not regard.
You are not pepared to do TO others as you
would that others should do 10 you. If you
were the slaves, and your black neglected
brethren Of America were the freemen, you
would wish your black free brethren TO as
sist in delivering you; but now that you are
the freemeu, and they are the slaves, you are
not prepared to unite and cooperate with
the friends Of the slaves in delivering Them
Cloak it as you will, it is your selfshness
that keeps you from the anti-slavery plat
form. 1t is your want Of love that prevents
you from lifting up your voice, and employ.
ing your pen, and working the press against
the tyrants Of your race. II you had the
spirit of Jesus, it would be one of one OF
your first objects, it would be your great
endeavor, to proclaim liberty 10 the captive,
to open the prison 10 them that are bound,
and TO hasten the year of universal jubilee.
If you had the spirit of your master, you
would rebuke the man-s,ealing, the slave
holding professors and ministers of America,
with the same stern and terrible fidelity, with
which He rebuked the guilty and high-pro-
Tossing scribes and Pharisees of his day. IL
you had the spirit of your master, you would
forget the peculiarities of your creed, and
think only Of the great work that is to be ac-
complished in behalf of suffering humanity.
If you had the spirit of your master, you
would commend the good Samaritan for his
labors and sacrifices in the cause of an iniur-
ed, bleeding brother, instead of abusing and
prosecuting him, notwithstanding the hetero-
doxy of his creed. If you had the spirit of
Christ, you would be found more forward to
cooperate with an heterodoX Samaritan in
doing good, than to spend your time with or
thodox priests and ~levites, in offering sacri-
fees and defending creeds.
Again; you assign as your great reason
for not attending the Anti-slavery meetings,
and for not cooperating with the agents oil
the Anti-slavery League, that those men
have not given satisfactory proof of the or
thodoXy of their belief. We are afraid thai
this is only an excuse. If your objection
were simply against working with heterodos
characters in the great work OF emancipation
why do you not unite and form an orlhodo,
Anti.slavery League? If while absentin:
yourselves from the meetings of the catkoL,
League, you had been attending meetings o
your own Anti-slavery League-if, while
you were warning your friends against lis
tening to the lecturers of the League, you haC
been lecturing in favor Of abolition your
selves--if, while you were refusing 10 TAX,
part in the labors of the League, you haC
been labofing zealcusly among yourselves
we could have given You credit for good mo
tives; but this has not been the case. You
neither work WiM the League. nor ,cttaou
the League. You neither countenance III
lecturers of the League, nor deliver lecture
of your own. Your tongues are silent, o
speak only to abuse the lecturers. You
pens are lying idle; you neglect the grea
work altogether. Your conduct. therefore
justifes US in susPecting, that your excuse
are insincere, that your motives are not good
Again; you say you are concerned for tn
cause of God. We answer: The cause O
God was never injured by truth, and it cal
never be supported by compromise. Tn
cause of God is the cause of humanity ; an
the cause of humanity is the cause of God
The cause of sects and priesthoods, is onl,
so far the cause of God, as they are devote,
to the interest of humanity. The cause Q
God and of humanity ; the cause of Chris
and of human liberty the interests of reli
gion, and the interests of mankind, are one
Instead of i%niuring the cause of God by de
nouncing the slave-holding professors anC
preachers Of America, you would beeIieni
and further 1t. Instead of injuring the caus
of God by exposing the faults and %inconsls
tencies Of American professors and ministers
} you are injuring it by your silence and mac
tivity. The exposure and reproof of sin, cal
F; injure no cause that is good and godly. T,
: identify the cause of God with slaveholdin,
r and kid-napping.-to speak of the religion o
f men who are guilty of the grossest crimes
as II 1t were the religion Of Heaven; to tall
as if the churches and ministers who com
II NIT the greatest wrongs against men, and OF
fer the most fearful insults against God, as i
they were the churches and ministers o
e Christ is nothing less than blasphemy.
n You talk as if your creeds, your churches
s your ministers were 10 be secured, whateye
If becomes of the slave. Let me tell YOU, tha
the slave is of more importance than ali tn
creeds and churches and ministries upol
earth. The slave is a man, and the wortI
OF a man is infinite. The slave is a man
and we know nothing that is above man
Be nothing that is greater, nothing that is high
le er, nothing that is more sacred or venerabl
l. than man, except God himself. Howeye
'e great the Importance of your creeds, YOU
u churches your ministers may be, the impor
n lance oil man is still greater. Man is God
ss child and nothing is more dear 10 God ,ba
o. mans welfare. Man is Gods image an
Is i~ndignity offered TO man. is indigni,rS Sc