Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-02-28

"c Society nlhy nave lhu III pfOmOllng III
Anti-Slavery cause, it is moi in any degrc
owing to the Anti Bible measure. No abe
lition lecturer, as you say yourself, (unde
the control of the Society," ever attempted :
show that the Bible sustained slavery. Yo
say Of Mr.. Garrison in the Liberutor, Jal
Both, I" 1t is worthy Of notice, that in all hi
course, Garrison has never quoted the Bibl
To sanction slavery but has ever used tha
Book with great power against it," This
one prominent reason why Mr.. Garrison
so potent in the Anii-Slavery cause; h
wicds the sword of the Spirit, which is tn
word of God, with great dcxterily. WHY dc
! you not follow the example of Mr. Garrison
and use the Bible with great power ngains
slavcry. We agree with you that "lLe rea
enemies Of the Bible are those who array /
OIL the side of shareholders" You have In.
ken the hint aud thus array it. Shame :
Shame!! Henry C. Wright, it is perfectly
childish for you to say, because slaveocrats,
endeavor TO ensconce themselves behind the
Bible, as their denicr resort, thus taking a
death grip o. the horns ofthe altar on which
accounts you would destroy the Bible We
tell you, you cannot destroy the Bible,it is in.
vulnerable. No weapon formed against twill
prosper. lie that in llcaven sits, will laugh
at your puny efforts! Your blows will re-
coil on your own head-you deceive your
scli-in surprising Bible-men are at their
wits end, TO protect the Bible against the
heavy blows Of Auti-Bblc men-you could
not please pro-slavery men better, than TO
shoot at them through the Bible-you do
more to strengthen slavery, than all the pro-
slavery Doctors Of Divinity in the land. Had
We not too good an opinion of your honesty
and good sense, we would suppose you were
n pro-savery tool, or monomnnical You
deserve gold medal from the slavery
community, for your efficient labors in their
cause. Because, loresootli, Moses Stuart
wrote pamphlet two years ago, to show
that the Bible sanctions slavery, and the Flu
gilivc Slave Law, therefore, the Bible does
slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law,
because Moses Stuart said so. We know
you don't believe it, although you appear to
have unbounded confidence in Moses STU
nrl's opinion. You know there is an express
Statute in the Bible against the Fugitive
Slave Law, Deut. %, l5-l6. Moses Stuart
TO the contrary, Notwithstanding. And
Christ expressly says there was no slavery
under the Mosaic Law. Will you receive
Christ as testimony? or will you reject his
testimony? because Moses Stuart said he
slavery and the Fugitive Slave
Law! Hear Chrs's testimony Math. Z,
II, "Thcrciorc, all things whatsoever ye
would that men should do TO you, do ye even
50 TO them, FOR THIS IS THE LAW AND THE
PROPHETS" Now could this be true, if the
Bible sanctions slavery?
II is not true "tlInt the entire church and
clergy of The nation presented the Bible us a
of slavery" There were many of
Ihe clergy and aily of different denomna-
lions, who were amongst the first TO de-
nouncc slavery. Rev. George Bourne of
The General Assembly Church, wrote short
treatise, printed in Philadelphia, Penn, 1916,
entitled the Book (Bibe)aud slavery irrecon-
rable, in which he denounces slavery in
the very strongest terms. And even in the
Slave States some have spoken ont boldly
against slavery at the eminent risk of their
ives,--Ihis they have done many years ugo,
nj least 30. We could multiply examples of
This character both in this aud the antece-
lent century, but let this suffice. There are
nj least five or six denominations Of Chris
Iians which have excluded shareholders from
church fellowship, one adopted this rule in
1881, the Reformed Presbyterian Church,
Covenuntcrs,) not only exclude shareholders
from its communion, but all who participate
in the administration of this government, and
always has done so since its first organiza-
lion in the United States. One principle
reason of which is, the support the United
States Constitution guarantees to slavery
There are not only seven thousand, but sew
cn hundred thousand, in the different bran
ches of the church, who have not bowed the
knee 10 the Moloch of Slavery. Aud ma
jority of those who composed Anti Slavery
Societies for many years after the question
was agitated were members of some branch
of the church, at least they were generally
believers in the Divine authority of the Bible
This is true of the members ofthe American
Anh-Slavery Society, as manifested by lis
Of sentiment.
The most conspicuous and successful op-
posers of slavery, have nearly all been Bible
men. 1t was the unbending opposition of