Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-10-16

precepts have been so perverted 10y inter
mixture with those of his followers, as to in
duco so many to reject them, ns insufficient
to secure universal Justice. Tnking adyant-
age of the popularity of his religion, anIbi-
tious and tyranical men have used it us an
instrument of gaining oscendency over their
fellow beings.
Knowing Gill well that a man is but half
conquered when his physical body is sub.
dued they have artlully thrown around his
pure system of morals, las explained 10y his
iollowcrs) such ma unquestionably sunctty.
with such an unpardonalle criminaity ut
tnched to the least departure, that lhey bound
the conscience, with tenlold stronger chain,
than is required to bind the body.
When we look around upon the christian
world, and see man crushing his brother uian
10y every species of scrviiudc, aud claiming
his authority for so doing, from the religion
of Christ; we wonder not that the plilan.
thropist questions that authority. But among
all the dcspots, from the orliul Constantine
who canonized such of the early writings ss
gave him divine authority over his subjects,
down to the Rev. Mr.. Mandc,iIle of Albany,
who recommends nippng the Woman's
Rights questions in the bad, none have re.
ceycd any such authority in the teachings of
Christ Let tic opposcr rs his soul re-
volts at the abomiuablc abuses tolerated by
christian churches, remember that il was
mol Christ that said, "Suhmit yourselves to
every ordnance Of man for the Lords sake,
whether it be to king rs supreme, or To gov
ernor; for this is tho will of God.n Itwas
not Christ that bid every soul he subject to
higher powers: because all those powers arc
ordained of God. This license to yraus is
diainetrically opposed to the commands of
Christ to his diciples. When they disputed
by the way, which should be greatest, MS our
sccis de- at the present, he expressly Forbade
the exercise of authority one over the other.
The shareholders license, "Scrvants obey
your masters" is not from Christ. lie taught
us to call no man master; and expressly de-
clarcd it to be his mission to preach deliver.
anco to the captive, with peace and good
will to all. The license 10 crush woman,
bidding wives be subject TO their husbands,
to keep silence in the church, forbidding
them to teach, is not from Christ. The itlen
of mans being defled by woman, and the
recommendation of ccIibacy, received no
shadow of authority from Christ. From
this idea originated such ahominnble cor
| rupIions, in one branch of the christian
church, that rulers were obliged to have re-
course 10 licensed concuhinngc among the
I priesthood; which Hume says, may be con
sdered an appeal from civil and ecclesiastical
tyranny, 10 the more just, and more yirtuous
laws OF nature.
Assuming natures God to he true TO ma
lures cains it is utterly inconsistent to sup
pose TINT lie would institute sy stem OF
moral government HntagonisIic TO natural
laws. In nature we find the masculine and
feminine elements completely harmonizing.
| From the lowest trnco Of sexual distinction,
in The vegetable kindom, up, through every
variety, one sex is MS fully, aud us perfectly
developed as the ohcr.
The same order is observed in the natural
relations of all animnls, including man. An
equal number of each sex are ushered into
being, promiscuously distributed in ihnilies
with no natural barrier 10 separate their So
cial intercourse, or retard their equal devel.
opomcnt. Although what are termed the
masculine qualities, predominant in man,
and the feminine in woman yet both ore
blended in their individual constitution; for
both possess the same passions, and uflec-
tons. But man has rendered this distinc.
lion arbitrary, aud unnatural, by claiming
the masculine qualities of his nature, MS
slperior,and rejecting the feminine Ms Inferior.
From his very infancy lc is taught lhis-
Even his boysh plays have reference to tie
distinctive election of qualities suited TO
what is termed true manhood. IT, by sudden
emotion, he is overcome and weeps,he com
plains of being unnamed. 1.-The manifest a
high degree of sympathy, or love- he is called
womauish that is, unmauy. Thus his best
affections are forbidden utterance, while his
educational dcprayity is everywhere mani
tested in warfare and domination. On the
contrary, in tho education OF woman, al the
masculine qualities are suppressed, aud the
feminine, though cultivated to the extreme,
are confined aud forbidden an influence
where they ure most needed, that is, 10 bal
ance the masculine qualities of the other sex.
1t is no longer n subject of wander, that
mnl's baser passions prcdonuale which
will ever he the case, while arblrnry cullya-
ton perverls the order of nature. Man has
always claimed his Creator to be nasculinc; (;