Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-06-19
Christian Anti.Slavery Convention.

AS VIC have just visited several ncighbor-
hoods in tho vicinity of Ravcnna, VIC have haG
OPPORTUNITY to judge something of the inlu-
cncc of the Convention recently held there.
Tho hearty abolitonsts of ali sorts, have re-
ccivcd from it no small measure of encourage.
mcnt. The most radical, were delighted with
tho fcarlcssness and the firmncss with which
the truth was uttered by many of its members,
ministers and others. The dcsponding have
been made by it moro hopeful, the tinid more
courageous, and the weak moro strong. While
upon the thorough pro-slavory OF the church,
this distinct ond faithful uttcraneo of truth by
the Convention, has been attended with precise.
ly the same results, as though it had been ut
tered by the Fosters, Mr.. Pillsbury or J. w.
Walker. This result, has doubtless surprised
many Of our good friends, who seem to sup
pose that if tho truth could only be told by
orthodox ministers, it would be entirely palata-
bic to evangelical sinners. Aud so il would, if
it had been so hypocrticaly told, as to mean
nothing. But happily, many of the members
in the Convention, were hearty and in earnest.
They spoke with JUNCTION. They felt the power
OF the truth they uttered, and therein consists
their offence.
This Convention has made another revelation
Of the utter hcartlcssncss of tho proicsscsions
Of many of the ministers and churches. Min
isters and churches, who, whenever n fitting
occasion presents, mako a desperately boasful
clamor of their anti.slavcry. A clumor that is
only drowned by the howlings of "inflel
nidcl!" with which they stigma;isc, abolition
lists. TAey are, to be sure tho very pink and
purity of Anti-slavcryi but then they can't
work with Abolitionists, because their object is
to overthrow the church and because they dis
believe the Bible. They would work for Anti
slavery if these abolitionists were not such inf
dcls.
But how is it nowi Hero is q CHRISTIAN
Anti. slavery Convention. No smell of hcrcsy
can be found upon their garments. Thc,minis-
tcrs who attended it are men of good rcputa-
ton, barring that worst of all hcrcsy abolition
ism. Their standing for intellect and pcty is
foremost of any inthc land. They arc cvangcl-
ical-tl cy are orthodox. They are friends of
rcviyals, and regularly authorised minister's
They have got into the ministry by the appoin-
ted door. They are graduates of our colleges,
and have diplomas from theological scminarics.
They have been regularly inductod into the
ministry by the ordination Of the Bishop, or the
| laying on the of the hands of the Pgcsbytcry.
They keep fasts and thanksgivings, sabbaths
and sacramcnts, according to most approved
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record.
After the professions of the minister's and
churches of whom VIC speak, VIC might expect
them to pour out through such an Anti-slavcry
convention, the overwhelming torrent Of their
long pont up sympathies for the slave. Their
ministers who could by no means, give notice
| of a meeting for mfdel abolitonsm, we should
have expected in their zeal, to have pacardod tho
very walls Of their pulpits, with notices of this
orthodox convention. We should have expec-
phylactcrics, all over with impassioncd cxhorta-
tons to attend and aid in its deliberations.
But how is it; Why these pastors were as
careful 10 conceal from their iloclSs knowledge
of tho convention, as though it had been a con.
vocation of the fabled dogs of Parker pillsbury,
or what would be far worse, convention o.
hearty, honest anti-slavery men and women,
assembled to listen to that devoted, but diaboli-
cally vilhed abolitionist. The truth is, they
have proved again, as they have a hundred
times before, that it is anti-slavcry they hate,
and not inidclity; that it is the sum of all viii
lainies they love, and not the Bible and the
gospel of freedom that it inculcatcs. They cry
iniidel as gliby at the members of this conyen-
ton, as does President Mahan at the American
An;i-Slavery Socicty-its agents and officers.
Rev. Messrs Gordon, and Nevins, and Walker,
and Burr now provoke tho same hatred and
fear as tho infdos who have been so bitterly
cursed Gom the beginning.
We hope this dcvclopcmcnt will teach the
good anti-slavcry men who are yet in the church,
the true cause of the difficulty that we have
not been unjust in refusing the claim of ortho-
dox pharisees to abolitionism, or in our exposure
of their hypocricy. We hope they will hence
forth cease to waste their breath in criticism oi
the earnest workers for freedom, but will faith
fully expond it, in exposing the subtcrfuges
and strong holds of Slavery.
Would that We were mistaken in this thing,
That the infdel abolitionists were tho oaly ones
to be rovilod and wrongcd. Would that these
churches and pastors did not treat t. cir orthodox
| Free Soil ministers and brethren, as oayiierly,
as slanderously and opprobriously as they have
done comeouters and disunionists. For then,
however we might suffer by their injustice, we
should havo the satisfaction to think, (and no
small one would il bc), that they were honest
in THAR attachment to their religion us well as
in their professions of anti-slavery.
| No, brethren of this anti-slayory convention,