Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-09-25
THE B U GLE.
Letter from Henry G. Wright
SULLIVAN, Medina Co.,
Sept. 3, 1852.

DEAR MARUs 81 cunie to iIlis town yes
ierday with Charles Griffing, to bold meet
lug on Slavery. In the evening had good
meeting in the Methodist house. Ispoke on
the danger of embracing nn idea, TO maintain
which, we mus, be ever struggling in our
minds TO reconcile absolute aud eternal con-
tradctions in morals. Many were present,
and more attentive audience never ad-
dressed. showed how all the political par
ties have embraced opinions, and placed
themselves in position to maintain which
they must ever he casting about in their
minds to devise ways 10 reconcile truth and
fslsehood, right and wrong; liberty and sla-
very ell that is pure aud good with all that
is impure aud evil.
The spirit Of compromise between good
and eyiI-pervades this entire nation in
Church and State. There is no outrage that
man ever committed against mun which the
priests aud politicians do not daily array to
reconcile with righteousness Theft, rob-
berry, murder, and piracy; poygamy, concu-
binsge, the abolition of marriage, prostitu-
tion, adultery, parents rearing tl,ei' children
for the market as beasts, the nnnihiatIon Of
oil domestic relations and endearments; the
public aogging Of women, aud selling them
10 prostitution; every conceivable crime and
cruelty; Church and State are ever seeking
TO reconcile with Christianity and Humanity.
What is the result? The entire destruc-
ton Of the moral sense ofthe people. There
10 not on earth n tribe or nation of men,
whose moral nature is so palzied, whose con-
science is 30 obtuse, whose reason is so
rlouded oil social and domestic rights and
duties, and whose entire moral constitution
Is so wrecked, as are those of this nnlion.--
There is not crime that stains the charac-
Ter of any savage or heaihen tribe which is
not perpe;rated by this nation; aud that too
under the sanction Of its bible, its religion,
its God and It's government. This has been
the result ofthe effort to compromise between
liberty und slavery. 1t is high time TO ask
how far this spirit of compromise, has re-
suited from the necessity, TO sustain the com
mon errors respecting the Bible, of recon-
Cling all the vices, impurities, cruelties, aud
crimes of The Jews with the pure teachings
and example of Jesus, with natural justice
aud equity, and with the purest instincts aud
sympaihies Of our nature.
Politics are all in all here. The churches
and ministers suspend their work Of saving
souls, till after election. The election of q
president is Of more importance than the
souls Of their focks. A Baptist council is in
session here TO try Elder Fink for sander
and lying. If oil The pro-savery and pro-
union priests who slander and lie were tried
and cast outflow many would be left? few
indeed. All the Baptist priests aud luyinen
about here are TO be here several days, to
purify their sect of one whom they suspect
to bc a slanderer. Not one hour can they
spend to purify it Of man steaiers and murder.
.ers No one could sit in that council one
.,ouT az have to-day and hear them ven
their hatred of one another and not feel thai
Liberty aud Humanity have nothing to hope
from them.
.ar HENRY C. WRIGHT.