Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-30

a splendid battery of a brain, full charged
Leyden jar, aud he is uncommonly fluent,
never recalling word, sharp and ingenious
IN his distinctions, persuasive and decisive
in his conclusions, and tolerant of no difieren-
ces of opinion from himself lie is we think,
quite as fully convinced of his infalliblity as
Pope Plus the Ninth, and il he sat on seven
hilled Rome we arc not certain put his bulls
would have horns as sharp and hoof as hard
as those Of that venerable personrge.
| But though no sectionoists, we must say,
the latitude and longitude are suspicious
virginia aud the sermon on the Mount Slave
ry and the Golden Rule! Selling men and
the Lords Pnyer Duelling and " Love your
enemies, bless them that curse your Breed
ing men and women for the Southern market
aud the Beatiiudes! Seventy thousand OF
the chosen seed Of fAnglo-Saxonism that can
not read and write, and "thy kingdom
cor1e" A night of ignorance and heathen-
ism dark as Erebus brooding over the poor
laborng slaves, and "except your righteous
ness shall exceed the righteousness of the
Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case
enter into the kingdom of heaven!
The Sermon on the Mount. we submit, is
not in sufficient harmony with the slave and
minion" to have a fair chance of interpreta-
ton by Virginia Professor, who upholds
with might and main that system of wrong
and retaliation, or any portion of it. We
| should look TO the negro field preacher and
exhorter with his broken lingo, cross be-
tween the Congo dialect and the Queens
English, for gospel tone of commentary on
| this sermon of Christ, even sooner than we
should to the learned teacher in the Virgil
MIA University. Blessed" says this very
discourse, "are the poor in spirit, for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven"
The North is amazingly good natured and
incredibly Indifferent. II an Ohio Pro-
fessor should squint towards any appreciation
! Of abolition, any emphasis of freedom, any
eulogy of the " Higher Law" provided he
got chance to preach in Richmond or Nor.
folk, no would he waited on out of the State
by committee of gentlemen in less than
tweniy-iour hours, il his black coat saved
him from worse handling.
| But the Northern States are invaded every
summer by platoons and regiment of South
ern divines, who say their say from Dan 70
Beershoba, denounce abolition, denounce
Free Seilism, jeer at liberty, and mock phi
lanthrupy," and amalgamation, and hot q
dog wugs his tail, not pig squeals above the
usal note, in all the coast thereof W.
woutn hot lynch, of course, the rankest de-
defender of the patriarchal institution, but
we would say TO them, please to keep your
doctrines at home where they belong. II
they prosper well there, so he il. If the de-
cenniul census shows that slavery works bet
ter than freedom, so be il. We proceed at
the North on different principles, aud we do
mt al. ..f.
slavery sermons on the battle-feds of indie
pendence, by the free lakes and rivers, by
the health giving springs of Saratoga or
within hearing OF the thunder of Niagara, or
Trenton, or the roar of the Atlantic, or in
sight of the eagles of the White Hills, or the
torrents of the Green Mountains, or anywhere
else where nature and the God of nature
teach by every cloud, and bird and waving
leaf the glory and beauty of universal free
dom.
So much for our exposilor and his latitude
at home, and his latitude when he visits our
cousins in Ohio"
Do not misunderstood us. The Professor
did not preach directly in favor of slavery or
directly against freedom; he has lived him
self in younger and better days i'm this State,
and he knows the sririt of the Western Re
serve, and even of "benighted Ashtabula."
lie knows that spirit too well to take the
name of liberty palpably in vain before an
Ohio audience. But his sermon ,cdS a plea
for the good old ways, a rebuke Of "mock
philanthropy" and sentimentalism, a keen,
cute and cutting satire against progress of
every kind and in every direction. lie en-
dorsed capital punishment IN toto; rebuked
the Quaker doctrine about oaths flagellated
the Universalsts for presuming to swear Mt
all blew few notes OH the war-trumpet (;
secuted the "lligher Law" inserted his
metaphysical scissors ingeniously between
love to your enemies or TO your friends, or the
"rest of mankind !" distinguished between
self defence and revenge, and showed in
general that Christ's fulfilling of the law and
the prophets meant the present hanging, be-
lligerent, slaveholding, resistant, doing-to
others-as-they-do-to-you methods Of socie-
ty.
We will acknowledge that he did rebuke
well and nobly, proianeness, dishonesty, lack
OF patriotism, aud some current vices, while
at the same time we must believe that the
general split of his sermon would perpetllate
customs and institutions that breed revenge,
duelling, profaneness and that work worse
evil TO our native land than Arnolds trea-
son.
HUNKER ELoQUENcE The Albany STATE
Register-ihe mouth-piece of the New York
"silver Greys"-is rabidIy vexed because
the Legislature of that State has recently
made an appropriation of some $4,000 for
the aid of the New York Central College.
The pinch of the shoe is, that the Central
College is a free Institution, and admits col
ored students within its walls. Whereupon
the Register flies off into the following un-
surpassed strain of grandiloquent wrath:
We protest against the public fund being
appropriated TO any such offspring of Garri-