Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-04-26
Religion and Politics.

rapidly advancing TO that point OF enllghten-
ment and moral energy ut which it will be-
come victorious over the system of human
cllattelization, is seen in the fact, which can
not have escaped the attention of any care
filI render of the newspapers, that pulpits
aud ecclesiastical bodies which have long
maintained n gniltv silence on tbe snI,iect.
have a, length been palynnized into at least
the nppeornnce of EIa and comnelled for
the sake of their own credit nud reputation,
il from no higher motive, to swell the stream
of moral Indignation which, bursting spon-
taneousiy from the hearts of the honest yeo-
manry Of the North, is dashing its waves
against the Bloodhound Law recently enact
ed by Congress. The cool dabolism of that
law has been as trump OF resurrection
sounding in the ears of the dead Conserva-
tisni of tue American Pulpit, compelling it
for the moment to cast aside its shroud of
conventional decencies' and utter words of
remonstrance against our Nations blacke ST
Crime aud Of sympathy for the flying bond
mau. Tie measure which our crafty poll
ticians intended for an opiate to the national
conscience, aud which they hoped would
luIl the people into permanent aud DEATH
like torpor has caused an explosion so start
| ling ms to drive sleep from the eyes aud
slumber from the eyelds' of Somnolency
itself.
The moritication aud despair of the pro-
slavery politicians and presses, now that they
iind themselves the victims of their own
boseness and cupidity-compelled like Ha-
man, to dangle from their own gibbel-nre
TOO overpowering to he concealed, and form
n spectacle too interesting to be overlooked
by the philanthropic observer. or the whole
tribe of political journals whose interest in
| Cot on invariably submerpes and oyerwhelms
| .li ,ec,rd c,r f,,,sc;o,oa o mn, oyo,
~ wv w"
benne"s htrd'd-has iound a'iower deep
of basene SIS aud seryility Than the .Ne,U York
] Erpress. It's nrinc;nol Editor ia n member
- c,s. 80 -, .o,,..o H.. 80, r.,
'lihl can pe salu Is, 'ha', aHer NC hau sou
himself to the Slave Power, he played the
| sartfll ,lodrcr' and neanIy shrunk from cast
;,,, liz ,o,o =, G,or =, ,io C,,o;,;,,I
5 ,,
ih"' such cre"ture, "rl'ihnS uhuer lne re-
Dukes OF an awakened Pulpit, should put OH
the airs of moral instructor and set him
self to the task of defining the relations of
Religion to Politics, is lust as natural as The
cry of sion ,lief, from, the mouth of the
/ ro,ne who, with his pockets full of plunder,
sees the sheriff ut his heels. That he should
shrek out his despondency over the disas-
expected would be fatal to the friends OF
liberty and humanity, is precisely what we
might naturally anticipate. Its wailing,
however, is music in our ears. Listen to
the docii'l strain:
PROGRESS OF ABoLITIoN.-"W We have
sco'I,'e' u'e s''"Ne' no' h''Ieu IT. we are
nIn lv ,I,e ,oo frco,,cnt olIusion 10 ~. AZ
ctisson of questions connected with the in
silin,ion OF slavery. But when' at mo
ne'" inv "le nese'i' :m ae",e''1 % "uam I'oM 't
.Norb nud FROM vasT M,J,R,ry or rur
puLPiTs OF THE FREE STATES, that law
must be repealed by Congress, aud that Con-
s,oss mus ue noouo" WV" po''"o p'L ;M :" 1
~. P.I'' I.. C,,'' ",'"
o ,;,'' ''',.t,i' ',,;I ,i' ,.,, a nc 'I
non "n'I" !1l"'ou uo e"a. W., '''s ~, '',c
Jaw, "'" 'o' '''e s'P'e',"'! VI '',o "a" "se"'
II the passage oi tue fugitive Bill ana It's
nccompaniments has 'scolcheF the abolition
n,ovemcpt vc ,Link the .k;Jy;nr, uust Ie n
-. ,.r.L,c., .,;a tt.
''os' 'e's'"'' oPe' "'''" 4" ''e ''''''S'
ana would therefore beg the eXccutlOnerS TO