Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-28
NJ JOSEPH TRRAT.
Gal. 6: 7.-God is not mocked.

Pilgrims on the Rock of Plymouth until now,
there hath never an acceptable Thanksgiving
been kept unto God-there hath never been a
Day Of Praise in the New World And there
never will be- till the foundations of the present
system have been apheavcd and overturned
There mutt ts Repoiutioni
,'The upper ten thousand" of the people of
this nation keep yearly Festival. They hold
meetings, and cat suppcrs. They give thanks
for Peace, Plenty, Liberty, and Christianity
He who sttcth in the heavens looks when they
should render their praise, and 10, they offer
only mockery. Let the Indictment be tried
First Of all, they give thanks for their Chris
Ganity. This they account their first and great
est blessing. But how do they treat the Hea-
then They make three millions of them at
their very doors, and the hundreds of millions
in foreign lands they send to their graves with
out light. They live not to convert them. But
they live to minister to self, crafty pride, fol-
low fashion, and gain the world. They live to
worship gold, buy land, build houses, set sump-
tuous tables, dress in fine linen, and take their
ease. And they cannot be thankful for this
very Christianity, even on Thanksgiving Day,
without wasting moro on carnal feast than
the majority of them give to the Heather du-
ring the whole year Thus do they come be-
fore God with lie; they mock Him with a
vain pretense. They keep not Thanksgiving.
Not ha shall they give thanks, to make their
voice to be heard on high.
They give thanks for Plenty. How do they
treat the Poor' In the country they think not
enough Of them even to invita- them to their
Thanksgiving suppcrs, but in tho city, will
have it now, as God will one day in his gIcat
Chancery, that they actually rob, starvo and
murder them by the thousand. There they arc
in the city. crowded together in lanes and alleys,
forced into garrcts, and cellars, and novels, liv-
ing in the midst of filth and contagion, in utter
destitution, and squalid poverty, in famine and
rags, the sick, tho lame, the old, the blind, the
insane, beggars, widows, orphans; the children
of the Incorporate. Of paupcrs, and of convicts,
foreigners, colored people, women in low situa-
tions, and mean employments, scamstrcsses, and
the tens Of thousands whom absolute starvation
has compelled to a life of infamy. There they
are, and they are dying. They are dying Of
hunger and cold, disease and want, of racking
unpitied, uncared for, and like dogs. They
are dying because they are slain, killed, muir
dercd. And the cruel Rich love to have it so,
for they make it so. And naughty Priests, and
purseproud Ministers love to have it so, for they
let it be so. They rebuke not the hard hearted
elders, and wicked deacons, and covetous church
members in their congregations. Nay, they Of
ten take the lead Of their Hocks in this thing,
treating publicans and sinners with scorn, look
ing down on criminals and harlots, stirring up
prejudice against colorcd people, and snecring
at "Woman's Rights" Ard besides, they
wear on their backs, and cor sumo in their own
houses, enough to save scores of these poor
alive. And yet they go up to their holy houses,
and pratc about their thankfulncss. They arc
liars when they do it, and SO are thor churches,
and so arc the Rich of the City, and so arc all
the Rich Of the land who do this. Were Christ
on earth, he would say unto them" Wo unto
you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites for yc
dcvour widows houses, and for pretence make
long prayers: therefore yc shall receive the
greater damnation." No, it is no Thanksgiv.
ing they keep. And it is no Thanksgiving
they ever ,oiH keep, till there be Revolution
Not till the Rich make themselves Poor, to
make the Poor Rich-not till all alike know
PIenty-will the thanks of the people come up
before God.
They give thanks for abundant Harvests. Yet
to multitudes they deny those Harvests, for they
deny them Land. They do it as individuals,
and they do it as Government. As individ-
uals, they take land themselves because they
arc able, adding tract to tract and farm to farm,
more than they need, or can use, and then the
poor, because they arc weak, they warn off
these acres AS Government, they lay claim
calling it after their own name, accounting all
others trespassers, and forbidding them homes
there. Foreigners como to our shores the ma
ton not only deprives them Of land, but also of
their votes. Women-embracing half the en-
tire population of the country-the nation not
only deprivcs of their right to the SOIL and their
voice in the government, but also through that
government, subjects to numberless positive in
aictions of wrong and outrage, legal, social, and
personal. Thus do people deny to multitudes
the blessings of abundance, giving them evil
and wrong instead, while yet they mock God
with professions of gratitude. Not without
Revolution shall their mockery be converted
into praise. Not till they abolish Land Monop-
oly-not till they recognize the citizenship of
Foreigners, and the Equality of Womcn-will
the Judge of the earth have respect to their
prayer. Not till then will they keep a Thanks.
giving.
They give thanks for Blessings bestowed on
Criminals. They are criminals, and the things
for which they give thanks are Gods treatment
of them as criminals. Though criminals, he is
kind to them, blessing thsm, and doing them
good. And nc commands them to treat their