Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-26

DIR. CAMPBELL then rose ana salu ME- |
Chairman, MIR. Girnett tells us, that If we |
are TO benefit the oppressed, 1t must not be
by diuting the waters of justice, but by pre-
serving them in their purity, and declaring
the truth in uunlistakeuble language. Now,
Sir, must say, that deem that which con-
sittites the very essence of the resolution
proposed by the subcommittee TO illustrate
the meaning of our friend-it is soft zephyr
breezes. Forsooth, you only disclaim"-
" disclaim all sympathy" Very gentle Ian
gunge this Is il the language which ought
TO blend with the clanking of chains, the
gronns of the oppressed, the walls OF NH
lions? Will it satisfy you simply to y" dis
claim sympathy 2" Will you not deprecate,
will YOU not denounce the inhuman sys-
TEN that catalogues such men us that-an
honor to humaniiy-with dogs, horses, oxen,
goods, and chattels, aud as an article OF bar
ter at the aucton-block? For my part, Sir,
| eau he no party to the adoption of such
resolution. / consider the times we live in,
as it respects America, have assumed very
serious aspect. Remembering the conduct
of the American President, the enactment oil
the Senate, and the speech of Mr.. Webster,
there is everything to arouse aud alarm the
| friends of humanity aud when we add TO
| this that the most eminent men, nen best
i
ed England, trod our shores, mingled in our
assemblies aud received our hospitallties,-
your Tyngs, your Springs, your Stuarts, your
| CoXes, when we find these men coming
! forth 10 plead, not for the oppressed, but for
! the oppTessor, and TO stretch the broad shield
OF Christianity over deeds the most inhu-
man. it is time for men in every land 10 lay
aside soft phruseologics to abjure mtigated
sentiments, aud TO declare the truth i'll its
own appropriate language. Sir, when
heard the sentiment which has recently, n
moug many others, reached Inc across the
Atlantic, that one man who has been famed
for sauelity declared, that it Que prayer could
set the fettered free he would not offer il,
| felt n recoil which | cannot express. j hold
such language in abhorrencc. The prayers
of such u man must be an abomnation.-
Such man should never be pastor of mine.
The man who will thus talk,--the man who
would not breathe prayer to melt the fet-
ters of millions, if by that prayer hc could
effect it'll hope, Sir, that man will pray no
more.
The Rev. J. w. Chickering, n Delegate
from the Congregational Onion of Maine, TO
the Congregational Union of England and
Wales had announced himself sound on the
question of slavery and was invited TO
speak. His speech was devoted to apology |
for his pro-slavery brethren at home, and
complaint of the rebukes he experienced |
from British Christians. His wincing, and !
contortions are somewhat amusing. Take |
the following for example:
The Rev. J. w. CmcKERING, Secretary to |
the Congregational Union of Maine (U. S.,) |
IL. 4 10, lao cnnnrnu,tinnul Hin |
ion of England and Wales, TO make few
suggestions as to our terms of intercourse,
perhaps ought TO say the question of that
intercourse; and as to what Christian iideli-
ty, love, aud courtesy require of you, it yon
decide to hold intercourse with any Ameri-
can Christian body. i speak, then, OF
churches where there is no slavery-church-
es which have by their State bodies, and
many of them 10y counties or separately,
borne testimony in various terms against
slavery, as our great national peril, reproGch
aud sin-chuTches whose ministers aud
members preach and talk against slavery
aud pray for its eXtinction,-are ready with |
their votes on any occasion, when they think .
vote will accomplish anything for free
dom,--and, in short, are known aud read OF
all meh as opposed TO slavery Except those !
men, aud am sorry TO find English morals /
and politics, as well as American, tampered |
with by such so-called reiormers,-Inen of u |
malignant lanthropy,-appearng 10 hate |
the church OF Christ more than they hate |
slavery or Satan himself, and who are better |
pleased to make out the church in favor of
slavery, than TO recognise and use her inill- |
ence against il. Now, dear brethren, sub |
NIT it, in all kindness, and with all conf |
dence in your kindness, ofwhich have al |
do hoH No, oh
es aud their delegates ought not. TO be held |
! free of your Christian custom-house inspec
ton. With clean bills of health at your &C.
| clesiastical quarantine, bearing primo .fdcie
evidence OF soundness in practice rs in iaith,
and having an "inOlienable right TO go out
and in among you os unsuspected, unpointed !
at, unmuZZed, unreproached, aud unletter-
ed visitors to u country as free as their own |
New England, aud 10 churches which, il not
| pilgrim, may bear, at least, that other name
which we humbly boast-Puritau. Now,
then, il things ought SO to be, it is very clear
that the right has not yet wholly prevailed,
even in Broad-street Chapel and in Exeter
Hall. Few Congregational ministers from
| New England would have reason TO feel less
personal sensitiveness on this subject than
myself
But while Mr. Chickering thus disclaimed
all occasion for feelings Of personal sensitive
ness on the subject of slavery, he gave a
graphic and good-natured sketch of certain |
things connected with his otherwise most
gratifying reception among us;-the exami- |
nation by subcommittee; the subsequent
captous questionings of one or two indv- !
duals at the dinner, among the very pleas |
ant and pleasantly-met catechising which
Mr.. Chickering, Unexpectedly called upon
| FIR a anepch uronOsah of hiq oxvn accord
and the frequent and pointed illusions to
American slavery, aud TO him, in some cases,
the only recognised and introduced Ameri-
can on the platform, thus directing, as he
said, 1000 eyes towards him, snd setting in