Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-06-22

teinperate nlenstlre: because il is the parent
of wealth because by il the cheerful labor
er builds his house, rears his children, ana
gives them the means of knowledge. By
Labor the North has subdued Nature, chang
cd a parsinonious soil TO fertility, bullt
dwellings, for almost her whole population,
raised the school-house, established the
church, cncircled the globe with her ships,
and made her books and her papers to be as
blades of grass and leaves of Summer for
number. But, in the South, MS if unredeem-
ed from the primal curse, Labor, a badge Of
shame, is the father of misery. The slave
labors, but with no cheer; it is not the road
to responsibility; it will honor him with no
citizens trust; il brings no bread to his iami-
ly; no grain to his garner; no leisure in af-
ter days no books or papers TO his children.
II opens no school-hOuse door, builds no
church, rears for him no factory, lays no
keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With
sweat and toll and ignorance, he consumes
his life to pour the earnings into channels
from which he does not drink into hands
that never honor him, but perpctuolly rob
and often torment
This vast abomnution, which seethcs and
smokes in our midst, which is enervatlng
and demoralizing the white by the oppression
of the black; in which adultery, fornication,
and concubinage so awful exist, that, IN
comparison to it, a Turkish harem is a cra-
die of virgin purity; which every hour does
violence TO nature, to the sentiment OF Jus
tice, and to the embodiment of that senti-
ment into national law; system which
makes home impossible, and the word
family ms much misnomer as it would be
to stable or sheep-iold; which subsists on
ly by keeping the subject ignorunt; which Is
obliged to rank and treat the qualities which
our community most esteems-indepen-
dencc, ambition, sell-reliaucc, thirst for
knowledge, seli-respcct-as most punsha-
bic crimes in the slave; system whose
practice requires what its laws recognise,
that manhood must be subycrtcd-that the
slave must he intelligent only for work, and
religious only TO the extent of obedience n
system which, taking away all inducements
to labor natural 10 man, is obliged 10 enforce
il by suffering, or the fear of suffering;
which DENYING to the faculties of the soul Il
natural expression, forces tho miserable
wretch to cunning and craft, to lying and
subterliIge; whose whole natural tendency
is TO produce labor upon compulson, and
laziness by choice, lying and tlieving under
q sense of Justice, and truth and honesty
with a feeling Of their injustice: and which,
at length, ns its worst and most damnablo
result, so subyeris that instinct of liberty
which belongs to man the world over, that
the slave agrees TO his condition, grows fat,
and laughs and sings, pref6rring slavery with
indulgence to en-. and drink enough, TO lib
erty, if he must pay the price of that liber-
ty by sustained eXertion this huge, INFER
nal system for the destruction OF men, soul
and body, must not he mentioned in the pull
pit, lest the Sabbath be desecrated and the
peace of the congregation be disturbed!
We should be glad, according to the Pat
ent method of the journal, TO teach men
how to act upon Christian principles, in their
political condition, without saying word
about the subject. We should heartily re-
joice if we could inspire Christian honesty
in Commerce without ever discussing mems
commercial duties. The Journal evidently
knows how this may be done. Will it not
bless the world with the secret? IL has
in mind doubtless some Gospel that will free
men from evil and not disturb them; that
will snatch away their sins while they are
asleep; some chloroform Gospel; some
GOSPEL that will convert the African slave
trader without sayinga word about the slave
trade; that will send Bruin and Hill to the
altar and tho communion table, without say
ing word about the slave-pens and their
weekly purchase and sale of Christian girls
and Church members that will convert the
thief, and by some charm lead him TO abhor
stealing without saying word about theft
that will make men intelligent in all their
relations to their fellows, without saying any
thing of their duties; that will turn the hea-
then from idolatry, from iornicatian, and in
cest, from niantcde and cannibalism, and
the whole retinue of denominations which we
name heathenism, without one word said,
except about the literal "Christ crucified,"
which the Journal says must be preached,
"whether men willIhear or forbear. 1t must
be preached in its purity and power, who
ever may be offended. 1t is not mans mes
sage, but Gods, and must be delivered faith
fully. The Sabbath is eminently the day,
and the pulpit the place, for this solemn act"
1t must be Gospel of doctrine, of abstract
truth but by no means Gospel to disturb
him from practical sins And we almost
believe Lowell 10 have stolen his doggerel
from the Journal,
"Tm willing aman should go toll able strong
Agin wrong in the abstract, for that kind o
wrong
Is always unpopular, and never gets pitied,
Because its crime no one ever committed
If the excellent editor of the Journal of
Commerce were doomed TO be a member of
our congregation, we don't know how we
could reconcile our sense of duty with his
notions of the Gospel unless he would con-
sent to take his hat and slip out into the en-
try while we were discussing his real sins,
and come back in time TO hear our opinion
of total depravity end the doctrine of origi-
nal Sin.
The Pulpit is the Dispensotory of society.
The minister, physician. Preaching, a
prescription of medicinal truth for heart
evils. There is not an evil which afllicts
life, nor n temptation proceeding from any
course of life, which the pulpit should not
study. The sources of right conduct the
hindrances, the soductions of business, the
influences of public life, the maxims of So
ciety, its customs, its domestic, commercial
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