Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-05-29
American Christianity.
SALEM, May 7, 1852.

DEAN MARiUs: The following letter was
written just years ago this day. Will you
insert it in the Buglel 1t is applicable to slave
holding christians of all times and places.
trucr picture of American christians generally,
was never drawn. All who profess to believe
in christianity and retain their ecclesiastical or
governmental alliance with shareholders are in
exactly the position described by the eloquent
writer. They habitually sell at acution, in the
persons of slaves the very being whom they
profess to love and worship as God. They hab-
itually herd with brutcs, those for whose saliva
ton, as men, they say, their God and Saviour
died on the cross. They daily hunt, with dogs
and guns, as savage beasts and as the
carths greatest criminals and scourgcs, the very
mon, women and children, with whom they
expect to dwell in eternal love and peace, and to
sing anthems of eternal praise to God of love
and justice in the kingdom of Heaven.
What spectacle to the universe is presented
by this christian republican nation Its consti-
tuition, its Bible, its church, its religion, its
government and its God are but instruments of
cruel and bloody tyranny to crush and ruin for
time and eternity, the bodies and souls of three
and half millions of the poor and dcfcnsclcss.
As there is God Of justice the church and
state of this Republic must be Llottcd from the
earth. HENRY G. WRIGHT.
How does The Free Church regard and treat
American Slaves!
This question is dnscred in he JoLloi0ing lciier
Of George Thompson, Esq, 10 Henry c. fright
LONDON, May Z, 1916.
My Dear Henry Yours Of Tuesday, from
Edinburgh, is before me the pamphlet also.-
The latter leaves tho question where it finds it.
As fur as it touches that, it is but repetition of
the stale libcls cast upon our holy and blessed
Christianity by those who go to the Old and
New 1cstaments for their warrant to invade,
sacrilcgiously, Gods family, and run away with
part of his offspring.
o, What a God must the God Of those be,
who represent him, virtually. as saying, "You
must not onslavc my clitc children, for made
them 'frco and equal : but heVo some poor
black curly-hoadcd ones, and, os don't much
care about them, you may help yourself and do
as you please with them. True, have en-
bracc6 even them in the oonvonnnt Of my
grace and mercy, and they shall be mine (if
they believe the gospel) in the day when make
up my jewels. This is enough. ete,nity is
theirs; they are yours till time shall be no long
or. Ny Word, preached by prophets and apos-
ties and patriarchs, is for you, and for the Chi
ncsc, the Hindoos, the Mussulmcn, for all the
straiSht-hoired races but as for these, having
searched the Scriptures for yourselves, you may
deny them the power of looking into the 'wilr
of their Heavenly Father, and tell them no
more than suits your convenience. They MAY
READ IT WHEN THEY GET TO HEAVEN. You
may point them to mansions on hgh-you may
tell them tina. they shall walk with their Sa-
yiour in 'white'-you may promise them
crown of life and lit their hopes to a crown of
glory, where they shall be kings and priests,
and tread the city of the saved in robes Of light;
but here, you may make and keep them sIdres
Their names are written in the Lambs book, but
YOU need not strike them out Of your ledgcr.-
Their bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost;
but the temple, if not the tenant, is yours, to
do with as you please. l stand at the door and
if any one opens, l enter and 'abide there But
never mind me. The house is yours, you have
| ifc-lcasc though the guest is the Son OF God.
Tell them they may lay up treasures IN hearen;'
but all they haze and are, arc yours, on earth.
Tell them that Christ hath said, If any do the
will of his Father in heaven, tho same are his
mother and his sister and his brother but that
Christ has no objection to his mother his brother
or his sister being slave. Tell them, that in
their origin, their destiny, and their faculties,
ito be hereafter unfoldcd, they Orc but n little
lower than the angels, but that for the present,
you may mako them little lower than the
beasts. Tell them that they wcro redeemed
out of spiritual bondage by tho precious blood
of the Son of God, but that you may sell them
into temporal bondage for such corruptibie
things as silver and gold"
But whittier am l runningi My paper re-
Dukes my rhapsody. My thoughts were with
the slave on earth, and with the free man in
hcavcn-running up and down Jacobs ladder,
from the plantation on earth to the New Jerusa-
lem in glory-from the horrible bondage of the
slave below to the glorious liberty of the Son of
God above. Forgive me! l had anticipated
the day-"the day for which all other days were
made"-when Christ shall knoy his own
when the Shepherd shall claim MS shoop =
the day when that temple shall be built in
heaven, the stones whereof have been fashioned
| by the Divine Architect on earth. In that fold
/ see the negro /; in that temple sec tho negro
"a living stone. Outside of that fold, and cx-
cluded from the materials of that temple, me-
thinks l see those who claimed the child of God