Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-31
From the Liberator.
Satan RebukiDg Sin.
BY sHARPsTIcK.

NJ
Suppose, ,-contrary 10 the nnticipations
expressed in my last, ,-Kossutll's mission TO
America should be successful, aud he should
get handsome loan from our government,
coupled with the promise of being protected
from the paw of the Russian bear in an ef-
fort to liberae his country aud suppose the
long purpose and stawart arm of Uncle Sam
should be interposed to break the rod and
yoke Of the oppressors of Mogyarlnnd: sup
pose the great Western Republic should
thunder from the cunnon's mouth its hatred
OF injustice in the ears of the great Eastern
monarchs would not the spectacle be
l0ughabie, IT it were not so mourniul p
Would il not look qneerly for our rulers to
! eXhort unto righteousness from one corner
OF their mouths, and order wickedness to he
pcrpeiratcd from the other corner? r?--demand
of Austria and Russia that they loosen their
grasp on Hungarian Iliroats, while tightening
their oiCn grasp on African throats repro
bate Hnynuuism in commander at Pesth
with iorcible words, and reward Hnynnuism
in commissioner in Pennsylvania with IS
extra fec tissue bullying proclamation
against the rescue of black man in Boston,
and Bullying pr0nunciamcnto in favor oi
up MS traitors before its partial Judges and
packed juries those who shoot iugiliye-hun-
iers cn It's own soil, and call out its army
and navy for the express purpose of shooting
! iugi,ive-huniers on foreign .oil?-declare
that ITS atrociously cruel settlement of
questions affecting human liberty at home
must stand untouched aud nnquesiioned, aud
help forward with its whole might an at
tempt TO disturb the settlement of similar
questions abroad?
In The sight of nn impartial observer and
before the tribunal of true Christianity,
would not this nation, if the course above
skeiched were to he adopted, stand in the
attitude of Saiuu rebuking sin? Would il
not resemble the selfstyled evangelical
churches, which nre so necessarily engaged
in drumming up for funds to convert the
heaihen at the nntpodes and yet so rarely
make even faint aluson to the cnuses of
heathenism right under their very ewes, or
rather so often league in with the monsters
slavery, rumselling, cOvctousness Ia trade
Would nH this seem like mcddling with the
notes in its neighbours eyes, when its own
visual organs were dreadlully obstructed
with beams?
Now, do not believe the best way for
this nation to promote the principles of free
dom is to undertake the regulation aud re-
straint of other nations which violate those
principles. | do not believe that ilinging
stones prolilSely is the filtest possible en-
ployment for n glass house tenant, or that,
in crusade for cleanliness, pot slould he
Obslreporous in bawling 'hlack' at the kettle,
at least, so long us its own SCOT sticks out
feet Liberty, like charity, ought to begin
nt home. She should purify her own prem
ises, before ecturing other housekeepers on
their dirty condition. Let Brother Jonathan
hem in the Slave Power in his midst, and
wipe nwny from his escutcheon the horrid
blot of human bondnge-let him show n
supreme regard for the right aud true at home,
on all occasions-let him do unto the Aifi-
can aud the Indian as he would be done un-
TO in their crushed circumstnnces-let him
stop the aggregation of public lands in spec
uintor's clutches let him quit plundering
and ravaging the weak nations near him
let him employ honest servants about his
establishment, and guard against 'Galphin'
gougng and lnileage swindling of his funds
let him support institutions for turning
out teachers instead Of fighters, and in every
possible manner encourage the arts of peace
aud discourage the brutallies of war-let
him, in two words, be a genuine and con
slslent PRACTICAL CHRIsTIAN, ana ne VIII
bring about the millennium more speedily
and effectively than by any amount of blus-
ter, with ball cartridges to back il. Jesus of
Nazareth, that model relormer, first lived
blaneless life and next attacked the iniquity
that was close to him. lie might have spent
his breath OH the Fllibustering practices of
the Romans, or the bloody, idolatrous rites
of the Brtons--and these two nations were
unquestionnbly wicked enough to merit Sc
we're rebukes-hut what would the Messial's
mission have amounted to- had he gone that
way to work? How much impression
would even his mighty words have made on
the world, had they been iriliered OH far dis
tant wrongs leaving Pharisnic Journalism
ana extorlion TO curse the land of Juden us
terribly as ever' Surely, the example of
him who was so wonderfully endowed with
wisdom from on high is worthy of imitation
by people claiming to he his foremost dis
ciples. Aud l hope ere the United States
government sends over any remonstrance
against Austrian aud Russian tyranny, that
hwiil manifest some signs of needing the
remonstrances of humane persons against its
own more intolerable tyranny.