Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-10-26
+" Conc 10 Meeting"

FRIEND OLIVER This is Sunday. / sup
pose there has been a time, during this day,
when, had the inquiry been proposed as to the
whereabouts Of four-ffths of the American
people, the true response would have been
found in the declaration pt the head of this ar
ticle' Good spirits have been Obliged to defer
their visit to earth, and good men and women
to stop their cars, for the deaiening roar of
church artillery, summoning the people to a po-
sition where the "great gunner may pierce
them to sleep with the sonorous cloquenec that
he discharges at them. "Gonc to meeting"
Not less could the American people do at this
time and DC guiltlcss And the eloquencc, not
Of man, but of God speaking through man-
such as induces, not sleep, but that trembling
as when God is near-that fearful looking for
fiery indignation, which gives oil the pain and
smart consequent on n revelation of the fact
that a nation is guilty Of the climax of sin-tho
nmplification of iniquity-havc attempted an
Improvement on the objectionable sin this, 1
say, is the kind of cloqucncc that should char
| acterisc the meetings We live in tho middle
OF the nineteen hundrcdth year of our Lord
we are CnRIsrrAN nation, ,cho says no, is a liar:
we are nation characterised by improvements.
True, our Master said, " 1t is enough that the
servant be as his Lord" and he fed the hungry,
sheltered the outcast, &C., but VIC have found
out !" a moro excellent way" Peculiar institu-
tons impose peculiar obligations on PECULIAR
christiats, and though the promptings of our
| totally Fpraved natures would be to open wide
our arms to the lasccratcd fugitive, yet, o Lord
give us grace to discharge this rendition duty
in thy fear, for it is thy law, it is imposed by
the powers that thou hast "ordained!'
have said tho people have "bccn to meet
ing to-day; and if the recent fugitive slave law
which is as much blackcr than the enactment of
his satanic majesty's kingdom as hell is black
or than heaven, has been referred to at all, Il
has been, in ninety nine cases out of hundred
in the strain above.
What glorious work for humanity the min
istry of this land might have done to-day
They have had the nations car-opon even to
hear the cmanations of the pulpit Had they
reiterated but the truth that lies at the heart of
every one, as well as being fundamental prin-
ciple of that religion which they essay to propo-
gate, viz: that the law in question is hagrant
violation of every law of God and of nature,
and that it is the imperious duty OF every man,
unless prepared to engage in work beftting
dare-aeciis only, and such as devils dare not do,
to trample it in the dust, together with what
ever of Constitution it has for backing-had
they done this, it would occasioncd a rcvolu-
ton such as prccedcs the liberation of the slave
the general jubilee of millions entering into the
enjoyment OF newborn liberty
Was that the ''objcct of tho mectingi" Was
the gladsome word spoken Humanity would
have prompted it--are Christians less humane
Alas for the infcrcnccs, the word was not spok-
en- !
So far from it. that hour which might have
blessed millions with riches compared to which
the wealth of California is pRoss, was spent by
one to show,
That Jordon's food the sinner must ocrAow,
Whilst other said, " Gods way was never so."
A third declared twas Gods effected call,
And fourth averred, "Ie purchas'd life for ALL"
Fifth said twas 'all who would the life receive"
And sixth well said, "who then in Heaven shall
live"
Yc discmbodied spirits. Whence those rap
pingsi May the spiritually minded infer from
thence your purpose cer long to rap open the
encascd heart of this pooplel Embodied spirits
have raped with all the power they could COM
mand, but only, to appearance, the fulling mill
raps the unconscious and co,scienceieSs flannel
entrusted TO its well meted strokes. We in
woke your aid in this contest. Men arc past
feeling Bring from thence an antcdoto-a
remedy. We can use only earthly rcmedies.-
These have all been applied by practiced hands,
but the canker hath reached and seized upon
the vitality-the national heart And ye .fends,
who have, fortunately, never been trained in
the great American School of religious and
political knavcry and hypocrisy, We will receive
at your hand that aid which we know you will
gladly confer, If, by any means, it may be said
in truth, that, in acts Of infamy, tho country of
Our Correspondent greatly ovor-rates the
number of church-goers.-- Bugie,