Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-11-09
COld-BlOOded Inhumanity.

The Presbyterian .4dpocaie of Pittsburgh
notices the inhuman Slave-catching Bill and
its effects as follows;
"FUGITIvE SLAVE BuL.-This bill hay-
ing passed the House by q vote of 1IO to rs,
aud having received the sanction of the
President, is now the law of the land II
has been well remarked that il is conceived
IN spirit of great rigor, and indicates dis
agreement between public opinion and the
Legislative power.
The effect of this bill on those colored
people, who, having fled from bondage and
being residents of these cities, is seen in the
TACT that large companies have fled north
ward in the direction of Canada. They are
reported to have left by night and armed to
the teeth, intending to sell their lives or buy
their freedom"
We had supposed that this bill had reach
ed the climax of cold-hearted barbarism, but
we find by such notice of il in proiessed-
ly religious paper, that there is yet point of
heartless inhumanity beyond that attained by
the bill ITSELF Let it be remembered that
these paragraphs of studied hedriieSsneSs, were
written in the city of Pittsburg, from which
some two hundred colored people have been
driven by the develish legislation of Con-
gress. The most heart-rending separations
were Witnessed, to an extent that called
forth the deep sympathy of merely secular
papers. Some of those poor creatures are
no doubt humble christians. In their per-
sons Jesus Christ has been hunted from the
city of Pittsburgh under the very eyes OF
his professed minister who edits the Advo-
cate. Yet this same proiessed minister has
nothing more than this to say of the master
he prolesses TO serve, thus outraged, in the
persons OF his suffering poor ones. Of what
consequence is it to him forsooth, that few
"nggers" should be hunted under this blood
hound law. His paperi is religious, and there
fore should not be expected to meddle with
such secular matters. His business is to de-
fend pro-slavery orthodoxy, and TO "split hairs
between the North and Northwest points
on points of doubtful disputationl
After all the Advocate is consistent. II
"Slaveholding is no bar TO Christian COM
munion," what particular harm Is there in
slave catching The latter is but the off
spring of the former, for if there were no
slaveholding there could of course be no
slave-catching or kidnapping. If the rela-
ton between mnster and slave be sinless, as
the Advocate and its masters profess to be-
leve, then ii is harmless TO enforce the rela-
ton. The rightiulness of the relation, Inn
plies the lawfulness of the exercise of all
povcr necessary to carry out the objects o.
| The relation. Hence when an unbclieving
slave, who skeptically rejects the doctrine
that his master has scriptural title TO hold
him in cIattedom, violates this "relation"
by running away, it is but piously initiating
Paul, (if these pro-slavery interpreters are
correct,) to send him back TO his CHAINS
These legitimate consequences of the sim
lessness of slaveholding, show the utter falls
ity and wickedncss of the doctrine.
The thought that always rises in our mind,
in perusing such paragraphs as those quoted
from the Advocate, is, no wonder Intidelity
triumphs at this day. If Christianity can
stand the advocacy Of such ".4duocdtes," it may
salelY defy all other assaulls.-Efee Pres.