Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-09
"MOrc Holy Than Thou"

Resolved, That this is designed to be chris
tian Convention, in spirit and action, and should
be conducted as a religious convocation, attend
ing to the business of the Redeemer's kingdom
This was the initial resolution of the Chicago
! Convention. Tho idea is reiterated in tho
speeches and reports of the Convention. The
idea that there is something connected with
this effort, apart from its anti-slavcry character
which marks it as Christian and religious and
which lacking in the like efforts Of others just
ly characteristics them as 'H,fdek.' We ask, in
no captious cavilling spirit (our JOY in listen
ing to their arguments and conclusions is too
great for anything of this sort), what have these
brethren, Of christianity religion, in any good
or important sense of the terms, in their opposi-
ton to slavery, and their withdrawal from its
fellowship, which the Infdel' abolitionists
have not exhibited in doing the same work p
They have both used mainly the same argu-
ments and come to the same CONCLUSIONS
Why should they then claim for themselves
superior sanctity and purity? 1t must be they
have discovered somo adjuncts of pure and
undofilcd religion of which tho Apostle, whose
authority they recognise, was quito as ignorant
as are the infdcl abolitionists and their leader.
Pure religion and undeflcd before God and
the Father, is this, to visit tho Fatherlcss and
widow in their allicton, and keep himself un-
spotted from the world. According to this
Apostolic definition, these brethren may justly
claim for their Convention, that it was 'rcli-
gious conyocation. They were visiting the af-
hicted fathcrloss, by their lucid promulgation of
truth in regard to the sin of slavery, and the
duty of the enslavcr. They were separating
themselves from Shareholders, that they might
be unspotted from the world. They fulfilled
fully and clearly the conditions of pure religion.
They were eoneouters so far as the church was
concerned. Tho 'iyfder eOmeoutoys, long ago
assembled for the same purpose-used the same
rgumcnts-took the same position, not only in
regard to the bespotted and defiled church and
ministry, but also in regard to the corrupt and
wicked government. The one is, however, yeli-
gioa and dcIristianiy-the other, hfdelRy and
fqnaticism.
We make these remarks not that We care for
the name. Infdel suits us quito as well as
christian and much better, if christian is the
word by common consent to represent the pop
ular religion of the country; for we wish to be
recognised as separate from it,as from the system
of slavery it upholds. We do it only because We
would call the attention of those who favor
their superior sanctity-to the fact that these
newborn babes-claim superiority over those
who have comparatively arrived at the period
of vigorous manhood, in the practice of this
undefled religion. We repeat it, many of
these brethren though called of men-'Rabbi'-
have but just experienced the new birth. They
have been dead in trespasses and SINS Eel
Iowshiping the sum of all villainies. They
have given sanction to the system which
nothing else below the Almighty's throne could
possibly have bestowed Some of them arc not
yet ushered into the kingdom of light and truth.
writer in the Independent, whose commune
cations arc published under the editorial head,
after witnessing all tho light which tho Discus
sions and reports presented, has gone homo to