Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-09-07
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the iron heel Of slavery. Is this TO worship
God We are sometimes complained Of fol
misrcprescnting the church and religion of tho
land. 1t will require not long argument to
refute these charges. You know that II the
churches of the day were united in demanding
no matter what change in our laws and institu-
tiops, it would he granted knowing this If
could not give you single instance of the
churchs recognising slavery, and yet slavery
existed, that alone would be enough to con-
denim it. DO you ncod that l should bring
further proofl Hore arc your churches right
in the face of slavery, having power to re-
move It, and yet slavery is permitted to ro-
main. II would be an insult to your common
sense to give more arguments than these
Need bring you Moses Stuart's " Conscionce
and the Constitution" Il should think his
conscience was black enough to be coupled
with such an instrument as that) to justify my
statements This church, why what immense
sums itspends in the mere decorations Of its
churches How much Il will lay out to carry
the Bible to Chinese, Now have no objcc-
ton to their doing this, provided they will send
thom with the right means, and they will
preach the right doctrine; but it is hypocritical
to send missionaries to the far-of Isles when
we have heathens at home. Is not the soul Of
Of the Hindoo Cdrolinian as good as that Of
the Hindoo Of Ceyloni The charges then that
VIC bring against the church are just. Our story,
II It Is old, is true. Have you ever answered
our inquiries You ask, what shall we do ,
You know very well what to do, when any
thing is to be done that you desire to accom-
plish. 1t is because you desire something else
to be done moro than the emancipation of the
slave, that you ask such questions. If your
hearts were earnestly set upon it you would not
inquire after the tooy. If you wish to put
Zachary Taylor into the Presidential chair, you
are not at loss to know in what ,cay it is
to be done you plunge right into tho work /;
you can find enough to do then. Every defeat
will teach you how to do better next timc.-
Just so with the rclgionists, they will seek the
world over to make proselytc. II tho work
is within the reach OF human powers, they do
it. If you win only give as much zeal to this
great work, as you do to tho petty sqabblos of
party aud sect, you may accomplish the object
in TAR less time, than you bcstow ON these petty
controversies. Slavery is to be abolished by
change ofpublie opinion; by change of this sem
timcht that plays around tho head, but docs not
enter tho heart: by the dissemination of argu-
ments which will zeal it. Keep it before the
people, thai HiS nation ro5s man Of his mdhhood,
and that on the grand scale will abolish it,
Keep it before the people that the North and
South are conncctcu together in the traffic in
human flesh. Keep it before the people that
you are all pledged kidnuppers of the slave OF
the South. Keep it before the people that you
are oil in the army of dcspotism. Keep it bs-
foro the people that you are 6oand to be Tories
in tho future revoluton-that we arc trampling
labor to the dust that is the way to work tho
desired revolution. Determine, and carry your
determination into effect. Wherever they turn,
keep the sunlight before them. What is the
way to do this wonderful work; You can all
talk. BY the foolishncss of preaching the
world shall be converted. 1t is the utterancc of
truth that is to accomplish it. You can help
others to speak II you cannot speak yourself.
You can help that silent speech which the
press is daily and nightly putting forth. You
can all assist to work the needed revolution
in public sentiment. Whether yo have any
right to shrink from this, judge ye. We have
not como here to help you accomplish our work
and our enterprise, VIC have come to help you
in your cause and your object. Is the slave
any moro my brother than yours Why should
you not sec that it is work Of you al, and ac-
cspt it as privilege for you to perform your
duty in it, And if it ought to be done, you
should combine your action, unite, organize
You leave the slave to perish in his chains, be-
cause you do not sympathise, do not remember
those in bonds as bound with them. Suppose
that Abolitionists were what they are some
times alleged to be- what is all of that to the
question whether you are fit to labor in the
overthrow of human slayeryi If 1 am fit to
60 to the gallows it is no excuse for you to
pick your neighbors pocket. If slavery is SO
bad as to excite the sympathies of fanatics
and atheists, how can you look upon it with
complacency and indifference do not intend
to consider these objections to Abolitionists-
however pernicious Abolitionists may be, it
makes no sort of difference to you and your du-
ty. Do your part, and when you have done
all, and find that the end is not yet accomplish
Cd, then turn around and ask US what you
shall do, and not tn then.
Nm. GARRIsoN.--At our meeting last evc-
ming, endeavored to show why, in the discus
sion of this question, VIC met with so much oppo-
sition. If We review the history of our coun-
try, we shall see that slavery has increased from
seven hundred thousand, the number at the
time of the formation OF the Federal Constitu-
ton. to three millions, The reason of the in
crease Of slave population is because zoe TOOK
slavery into partnership. We put it into the
Constitution, and therefore it has grown like