Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-10
his wife and child was a mcmher of nnr

owned his wife and child was a member Of any
church. This, at the suggestion of Moss, he
refused to answer but the question being re-
pcatcdly pressed upon him, he finally answered
in the negative. He then said he did not lee
ture on the question of slavery he professed to
follow the example of Christ and the Apostles,
who never engaged in such business, and he
thought that the slaves would be much sooner
liberated by "preaching the gospel" J. ].
Moss remarked that they had come to "tcst the
come-outerism of Randolph that we now
had an opportunity to aid this man in purchas-
ing his wife and child, and if we really felt for
the slave as we protested to feel, there would
be contributed by the audience at least twenty
dollars. lie proceeded to remark in a very Of
fcnsive and haunting manner, that he considered
all the profession of anti-slavcry on the part
of those who had left the church to be hypo-
critical, and it was assumed only Us a cloak UNI
der which to attack the church. In reply, it
was remarked that the Abolitionists had ever
objected to the purchase of slaves, as this was
virtually admitting the justice of the slave
holders claim-that to pay a man for q slave
was only furnishing him with the means to pro-
cure another that, if we were under obliga-
ton to purchase one, we were equally under
obligation to assist in purchasing the three mil
lion-that the object of the true friend of the
slave was to create a public sentiment that would
make slaveholding disreputable and criminal,
I and thus break every yoke and let the OPP
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some three or four dollars was contributed by
the audiencc-the greater part of which J. J.
Moss affirmed was given by the church, and as
it was evidently a scctarian gift they will doubt
less have their reward.
Two weeks after tho above circumstance &C.
Cured, q fugitive slave came to this place and
held meeting. He, with eighteen others, ran
away from Kentucky, and on arriving at San
dusky were ovcrtaken by their masters and put
in jail. This man broke out of the jail and cs-
capped, but his wife and two children were taken
back into slavery, and he has never seen them
since. His master was q member and cxhorter
in the Disciple church of Mayslick, Ky. We
informed the church of this place that a slave
of one their Ketucky brethren was to speak
but it happened somehow that in the short space
of two weeks they had lost all their anti-sla-
very zeal, for not a soul of them attended.
l had the pleasure a few evenings since of
listening to a very able and truly eloquent dis
course on man, by a Disciple preacher from
Cincinnati, or thereabouts. He took the very
radical position that all who participated in the
spirit or practice of war, or who were voluntary
supporters of a government based upon the
sword, or who relied on the sword for defence,
unchristianized themselves and were traitors to
the government of God. Though he is proba-
bly, orthodox on most theological points pecu-
liar to the Disciple sect, and is ostcnsibly sailing
under their flag, still his discourse savored too
much of "in6delity" to meet with any re-
spouse from the church here, which is composed
principally of Democrats and Taylor Whigs.-
He gave opportunity for criticism and remarks,
but no member of the church had a word to
say. After he had left town however, I under
stand that the Deacon denounced him as n hy-
pocrite, and on the following Sunday the elder
of the Church reviewed his discourse-explo-
ding it altogether, and proved from the Bible
that all baptized Democrats and Wings had a
right to vote for Gen. Jackson, Gen. Taylor or
any other military devil they chose.
The worshipers in our Presbyterian zion had
the rare privilege not many days ago, of listcn-
ing to a noted divine who is a rabbid Taylor
man, and who expatiated to them on the fol-
lowing significant text from Solomon "As the
tree falleth, whether to the north or to the
south so it lies" He stated that Solomon cvi-
IDENTIFY intended in this text to ~inculcate the
doctrine of the eternal damnation of the wicked.
At a temperance meeting held in this place, this
reverend divine publicly commended that Deliri-
UNI Tremens resulted from no natural cause, but
was a special judgment sent by God upon the
drinker to give him a ~fortastc of the torments
reserved for him in the future world. What 6
pity that tho people must be cursed with such
a stupid and besottcd Clergys 1 think hat to
elevate themselves the first important step is to
spew these theological blockheads out Of thcii
mouths.
Yours, in the cause of common humanity
and common sense, J. F. S.
GEORGIA WHIGs.-We have been told BY
whig papers, that the wings of Georgia were
beaten at the late election, on account of theil
anti-slavery principles. We have before us the
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