Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-06-14

might touch upon more holy relations III
life; upon virtues without which there IS no
home and no domestic sanctuary; without
which there may he children but the sacfed
institution of the family is gone. But for
bear, only desire to awaken your attention
10 the great duty OF extending the domain OF
conscience over politics; of holding public
men answcrablo lor those vices which II Is a
great nsnomer to call private when they
Hre committed IN the face of the world
" The pulpit is false to it's trust" II il does
not follow aud rebukc them, under whatever
robes of official dignity they may hold their
revels.
Three great stages of development belong
TO the world. First, there was the period OF
physical development, when the tallest man
was crowned king, when the strongest mus
cles enacted the laws, when brute force was
"IIis Royal Majesty" and claimed and re-
ceivcd the homage of mankind. That age
has passed, and how contcnptlble does all
its greatness now appear. Ihen came the
age when the mind lowered above the body,
when n nations power no longer consisted
in the millions of its men, but in the treasu-
ries of its knowledge; when the intellect
took up the vastest concentrations OF animal
strength, which seemed omnipotent before,
lifted them off their fulcrum, and they be-
came. like feather, in the breath OF its pow
er. That age is the present. The Moral
Age is yet to be ushcrcd in. In this age the
intellectual forces shall still retain all their
dominion and supremacy over the physical
world; but the moral shall preside over the
intellectual, and move them as God moves
the stars, bringing them out of Chaos, and
wheeling them in circuits of unimaginable
90 linn
yet inconceivable. In that day, the Lawgiv-
ers of the land shall be no longer "compro-
msersn between Duty and Alammon, and
the Judges shall Judge in righteousness. In
that day, the Merchant, for the lucrc OF trade
shall not pay tribute in human beings, and
send his flcsh-tax across the free waters. In
that day, the Gospel of human brotherhood,
of doing as we would be done by, aud of
loving our neighbors as ourselves, shall not
be doled out to us 10y priests of the broad,
phylactery sort, in homeopathic doses, redu-
ced to the five hundredlh diution. But in
that glorious day, the men who sit in the
Areopugus of the nation, clothed with the
ermine of the Lnw, shall be- us the heathen
of old figured the emblem of Justice, blind
ia the outward eye; and all they know Of
color shall he to give no color to the lnw.-
In that day the Successors of 81. Paul shall
preach asho preached, standing sin the midst
of Mars nill,na God of equity aud righteous
ness, OF justice, of benevolcnce; the God
who made of one flesh all nations of men,"
who, alas! TO so many in our day is i" the
UNKNOWN GoD."
IN that day, when n whole people are
aroused TO ponder, with unwonted intensity,
upon the great principles for which Sydney
and Vauc bled for which llampdcn smote
the tyrant OF his day; for which the heroes
Of the revolution pledged fortune, life and
sacred honor; no voice shall strive to seduce
them from their sacred work by its Beliul
cry, "CoNQUER YOUR PREJUDICEsw