Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-12-20
WHOLE NO. 326.

reek with human blood And while oar
fellow men are groaning aud praying for de-
liverance from more than Egyptian bondage,
where are the ministers of the Gospel? Are
they ready TO take and slny the prophets of
Baal so that none escape? Nay, verify
Have the American Clergy no zeal for tho
honor Of their God, their country, and their
fellow-menf Some have cried aloud, and
their voices have been in tones of stirring
reprooE But others have gone with the
multitude to do evil. Some have thrown off
responsibility, and like Judas of Old betray-
ed their high trust TO God, refuse to plead the
cause Of the poor, lest they should desecrato
their priestly office by meddng with poll
ties Thus ignorant and dumb, whatever
iniquity may be pcrpetrated in high places,
no rebuke falls from their sacred lips. Can
il he that millions shall drag out miserable
existence in the rice-swamps of American
Slavery, and yet ministers of Christ have no
protest TO offer in the name of their Master
VIII they suffer the grand principles of
Christianity to he buried beneath the black
waves Of this monster demon, that had his
origin and birth in hell Will they traitor
ously stand by and suffer Jesus Christ to be
bought and sold, hondcufied, and flogged, in
the persons of his professed followers? Will
| they, as Americans, fold their arms in cold
indifference, and suffer the flag of our coun-
try TO wuve in solemn mockery over the OPP
pressions of signing millions?
Upon the American clergy rests an i'm
mcnse responsibility. Signs and groans and
tears ascend on high, and call for vengeance.
Jehoval,'s voice Is heard in the thunders Of
Sinui-"Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt
not steal !" but the uniaithfhl watchman ut
ters no wnrning,nnd when destruction comes,
| blood will he required nj his hnnd.
But, thank God, all are not so. The faith
tul ambassador lifts up his voice in trumpet
tones and loudly procams the words of
warning Tie nay be called a fanatic, an
enthusiast madnlan, but none of these
things move hin, and rather than betray his
cause, he dies in its defence.
Slavery is dreadful sir. II is fast hnst-
ening us Oh to ruin and destruction IL
darcs TO rob man of all that is dear TO him
as man! II reduces him TO brute. Ii has
not only, dear reader, transformed him into
a brute in law and religion, but nearly so in
fact. II has put instead of the vigor, enter.
prise, honesty, intelligence, patriotism and
purity of well pnid iaboring population, the
sloth, tl,ievislIness, Iicentiousnoss, ignorance,
mnlignity, fhnaticism and sullen brutality of
condemned felons. The order of heaven is
broken up; those high and holy motives
which were meant TO bless aud sanctfy the
toll of property, leading the human spirit up
wards and onwards to the glories of its eter-
nal destiny, are forever cut off and in their
stead cowardly aud cringing FEAR is instill-
ed-FEAR, the nurse ofHYPOCRISY, and
the murderer of FAITH and LOVE. Heath
enSm is a feni term, dear reader, for the
description of that moral degradation which
American Slavery has produced all over our
country. There is no heatlIenism on the
face of Gods earth like it. 1t has all the
dreadful elements of heathenism and some
that are darker yet. Slavery has not only,
like henthensm, fallen foul of the relations
of man to his God, hut it has trampled in the
mire of parental and filial instinct. II there.
he any truth in the apology for Slavery, as
doubtless there is too much, that the separa-
ton Of fmily ties causes but slight and tram
sient grief nothing more need be said to
rouse every lover of his kind to eternal and
uncompromising hostility TO slavery. Tho
peace of earth, ifnot the hope Of heaven, is
founded upon the feelings which cluster
around the family hearth. The violence
which is done TO these safeguards Of society
by turning men into marketable commodi-
ties, is the highest social crime. The guilt
which is daily accumulated on this score, by
the system of American Slavery, is indescri-
badly great. Hard hearted aud wretched
must he the man who dares to approach il
with an apology yet, reader, there are those
in Our land, who profess to lie commissioned
of high heaven, to preach deliverance TO the
captive-bound prisoner, who advocate this
helsh sy stem. Men who clnim TO be tho
dispensers of light and truth to a sin ruined
; world, daily and hourly, quote scripture for
: this soul-destroying aud soul-damning sys-
tenn.
Torture the pages of the hallowcd Bible
To sanction crime and robbery and blood,
, And in expressions hateful service libel
Both man and God!'
f 1t is asserted, "That the agitation of this
question, if persisted in will dissolve the
Union, and lei d TO civil war;"
II there is an Aboltionist who does not
deprecate these tremendous evils, have no
fellowship with him. | love my country;
and ALL her people, and political institutions,
TO the full length and breadth of their de-
Inocracy. Aud this is the very reason for
, making no peace nor truce with slavery and
sluveholding churches. The gallant ship is
on fire, aud must burn to the waters edge
, unless water be let into her hold. Shall we
refuse 10 do il, lest she should 60 TO the boz
tom? Slavery, IL left TO the shareholders,
will ruin our country, and that soon. Our
country is in n state of ruin already. Her
honor lies blighted aud blood-smeared in the
dust. Most of our population is made up OF
starving, terror-stricken slaves, and bluster,
| ing prodigals. Such state of society is, ia
all common SENSE, state Of perpetual des
tmction. Dreadful calamities will sooner oil
Inter befall our land. II shareholders nnt
0 their adherents will be foolish enough to dis
s solve the Union, and tnke up arms agains
g selfevirient propositions, TO the certain des
. truction of their own darling system, lei
them take the responsibility. The cours,
we propose, as Anti-Slavery men, and &c
L which, If they will not themselves adopt, we
A n,ean n, drivn Lv tho froxyn of nm indipna nj