Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-01

of the movement. This is a grand mistake
on your part. We have no right 10 be in this
assembly this morning as spectators: we
hold a relation to Slavery which admits of no
such position on our part. The Anti-Slavery
movement is not a movement of the Presi-
dent of the American Anti-Slavery Society
alone; nor is it a movement Of the Society
merely, or Of any Of its auxiliaries it is a
movement belonging 10 the entire nation it
is a movement belonging to the entire human
family. There is not a human being on the
face Of the wide earth who is not deeply con-
cerned for the overthrow of Slavery in this
country. The most obscure inhabitant of
the island of Madagascar, the most degraded
son Of the Fejee Islands, is deeply interested,
body and soul, in the overthrow of Slavery
as it exists in this land. There is no moral
being in the vast universe whose interests
are not probably deeply affected by that in
.stitution. Yet our grand difficulty will be
10 impress upon this congregation, and upon
the nation of which this congregation is an
important part, the fact that they themselves
hold such a relation 10 Slavery as it becomes
their immediate, imperative duty to labor eff
fcctually for its entire abolition. But we are
here this morning most of US probably as
spectators. If there be any truth in the doc
trine OF human accountability 10 God, | do
not believe He sees an idle spectator in this
whole assembly. ! do not believe that there
is a man, woman, OF child in this large audi
ence of whom God does not re quire that the
slave be Immediately set at liberty, through
his or her influence and nstrumeniality. |
would as soon expect 10 stand a spectltor at
the scenes of the coming judgment, if the
doctrine OF the church with reference 10 that
day be true, as TO be an inhabitant of these
United States and be simply a spectator of a
movement for the overthrow OF Slavery in
this country. The great mass Of the people
indeed seem 20 live for no specific object
We are only lockers on in Gods world. We
seem to know not that we are created for any
particular purpose, and il we are as we our
selves think we are, it seems 10 me the Al
mighty could have been better employed
than in our creation. For what are we but
the meTest dependencies on some leader the
echoes of sentiments mol our own; fol-
lowers of d~emagogues, or OF whoever may
have the ambition to put himself at our head.
i see before me men who might WELD in
their own hands the d~estinies of the nation,
and yet doubt not they have, even at this
moment, yet 10 begin to learn that God crea-
ted them for any particular purpose whatso-
ever. Here we are in the middle Of the nine
teenth century, in The land Boosting OF more
republican Institutions, more principles of
human freedom, and more Christianity than
any other nation on the globe, and yet nine
teen out Of twenty of the inhabitants even Of
the non-slaveholding States have yet TO learn
that they are anything but the lowest vulgar
fraction ever compounded to constitute one
integer or whole number. The great mass Of
the young men do not dream that they were
made TO he aught but vulgar fractions, the
hundrodlh or the thousandth part Of some
Wing or Democratic "party," the millionth
part of some political or religious organiza-
ton. How many are there before me this
morning, who have ever dreamed that they
owed il 10 themselves. to their own humanity
and 10 their God, 10 be something more than
fractions in creation and yet ] am afraid
that when | shall come to reduce humanity
TO the owest denomination possible, it would
turn out that by far the greater part of us are
the veriest cyphers, and only fragments Of
political and sectarian organizations. We
have learned from religious and political
teachers that we were made to be part Of the
Wing or Democratic party, or of The Presby-
terrain, Methodist, or Baptist church. 1t is
not yet known in our country that we were
made to be indiridudL men and iUOnlcn, and
responsible only to God and our own indi-
vidual consciences. We aim at being moth
ing higher than parts or parcels Of organiZa-
tons and associations. We never dream
that we were born 10 be anything but Wings
and Democrats, Baptists or Methodists, or
some other f%ractiora or fragmentary part OF
those bodies and organizations. The pulpit
has done nothing more or better than to teach
that sentiment, and that alone. The minis
ter Of the Baptist church looks al the young
man and woman Of his congregation as Sc
much raw material to be moulded and manu-
featured into Baptists, nothing else. The
| Drophutnrta ~ nlarnu m N of Non Aa,L l,.l-a
upon the young man and woman as so much
raw material TO be manufactured into Pres.
byterians, nothing more ;/and the young man
and woman, supposing vainly enough that
they were created for no other purpose than
this, that as cotton grows upon the planta.
lions OF the South to be spun and wove into
cloth, so they grow up "to draw nutrition,
propagate and Tot,' into Congregationalists
Methodists, or Presbyterians, or TO become
parts Of som other kind of ~sectarian or polit-
ical associations and organizations. And SC
long as that sentiment prevails, so long hu
man society will remain as it is; unworthy
the work or wisdom Of the Creator.
The American Board of Commissioned fol
, Foreign Missions has recently, in this age
Of discovery, discovered a new principle,
which has PROFESSIONALLY done more to con.
firm the community in that sentiment thar
all other causes combined. The doctrine oil
" ORGANIC SIM" was a greater discovery to
. quiet the burnings Of conscience Of the body
polite, than the discovery Of ether or chloro.
= form could possibly have been, to destroy
I. physical pain in the apputation of limbs, and
y in the performance Of other painful surgiea.
j operations. We had walked up the p%oliiica'
: and religious spirit, and re were performing
some very severe and painful operations upoT
5 the body religious, and the body polite, ant
o they were beginning to shrek and writhe
belokening evident signs of the keepest an
guish. But the American Board, in this day