Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-03-05
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and its author to severe rebuke. DO not,
! therefore, friends, set down as exiravagant
every statement which your experience does
not warrant IL may be that you and l have
not studied the signs Of the times as accu-
ately as the speaker. Going up and down
the land, coming in closer contact with the
feelings and prejudices of the community,
he Is sometimes n better Judge than you are
ofits present state. An oboliionist has more
motives for wetching aud more means OF
finding out the true state Of public opinion,
than most OF those careless critics who ieer
at his assertions to- day, and are the first TO
cry, Just what I said,' when his prophecy
becomes fact tomorrow.
Mr. los thinks, also, that we have thrown
away opportunities, and needlcssly outraged
the men and parties about US. Far from il.
| The nnti-slnvery movement was a patient
and humble suppliant nt every door whence
| any help could possibly be hoped. lf we
| now repudiate aud denounce some of our
institutions, it is because we have faithfully
tried them, and found them deaf TO the
clnims of justice aud humanity. Our great
Leader, when he first meditated this crusade,
did not
AT once, like a sunburst, his banner unfurl'
o, no he sounded his way wnrily forward.
Brought up in the strictest reverence for
| NHHiCn MS UfSt eliOft was 10
enlist the clergymen of Boston in the sup
| port Of his views On their aid he counted
confidently in his effort to preach immediate
repentance of all sin. lie did not go, with
malice prepense, as some seem 10 imagine, up
| 10 that attic where Mayor Otis with diff
Guilty found him. lie did not court hostility
or seek exile. lie did not sedulousy endea-
vor TO cnt himself of from the sympathy
aud countenance of the community about
him. o, no! A fervid disciple of the
American Church, he conferred with some
OF the leading clergy of the city, and laid
before them his convictions on the subject
Of slavery. (D lie painted their RESPONSE
bity, aud tried to induce them to take from
his shoulders the burden of so mighty
movement. He laid himself at their feet
lie recognized the colossal strength of tho
Church; he knew that against their opposi-
ton II would be almost desperate to attempt
to relieve the slave. lie entreated them
therefore, TO take up the cause. But the
Church turned away from him They shut
their doors upon him! They babe him com
promise his convictons-sInother one half
of them, and support the Colonization move
ment, making his own auxiliary to that, or
they would haye none of him. Like Luther
he snid-' Here stand; God help me can
no oIher3 But the men who Joined him
| "S'S wv BoiSuuutu tnut ttlc CuSt WIS SO Ocd-
pcrate. So they returned, each to his own
local Sect and remained in them until sone
Of us, myself among the number-later con-
verts TO the anti-slavery moyement-thought
they were slow and ialteriDg in their obedi-
ence to conscience, and they ought to have
cut loose much sooner than they did. But
patience, that old sympathies would not al
low TO he exhausted, associations planted so
deeply in YOUTH and spreading over so large
part of their manhood, were too strong for
any mere argument TO dislodge them. So
they still persisted in remaining in the church.
Their zeal was so fervent aud their labors so
abundant, that in some towns large societies
were iOrmed, led by most of the clergymen,
and having almost all the church members
on their lists. Ia those same towns now,
you will not find one single abolitionist, of
any stamp whatever. They excuse their fall
ing back by alleging that we have injured
the cause by our exIravagance and denunci-
alton, aud by the various other questions
| with which our names are associated. This
might he good reason why they should not
work with Us, but does il excuse their not
working at all? These people have been
once awakened, thoroughly instructed in the
momentous character OF the movement, and
have acknowledged the rightiul claim of tho
slave on their sympathy and exertions. IL is
not possible that a few thousand persons,
however extravagnnt, could prevent devoted
men from finding some way to help such
cause, or at lensI nianifesting their interest
| in IL. But they have not only left us, they
have utterly deserted the slave, in the hour
when the interest of their sccts came across
his cause. is il uDcharltable TO conjecture
the reason?
AT the early period, however, TO which ]
nave referred, the Church was much exer-
cised by the persstency of the aboliiionsts
in not going out from her. When l joined
the anti slavery ranks, sixteen years ago, the
voice of the clergy wus, win these pests
neper leave us? viii they still remain To
trouble us? If you do not like us, there is
the door!' When our friends had exhausted
all entrea,y, aud tested the Christianity of
that body, they shook off the dust Of their
feet, and came out of her. Afterwards, MIR.
Garrison called on the head of the Orthodox
> denomination "a man compared with whose
: influence on the mind OF New England, that
: of the statesman whose death you have just
Inourned was but hs dust in the balance, in
u Q) The writer accompanied Mr.. GARRISON.
: in 1929, in calling upon number of prominent
j. ministers in Boston, TO secure their cooperation
u in this our expectations Of important
!, SiStance from them Eere, at that time, rery san
: giiiae.' Testimony Of WILLIAM GooDELL. in a
e recent ,cork entitled SLAVERY x NTT-SLAvERY.1 !
! In ar address on Slavery and Colonization.
. delivered by Mr.. GARRIsoN. in the Park Street
! Church, Boston, July 4, 1929. (Which was sub
sequently published in the National PhiiantIro-
= pist,) he said-'I call on the ambassadors Of
= Christ, everywhere, 10 make known this proc.
1 lamation, "'rhus saith the Lord God of tn,
Africans, Let this people go, that they ma,
J. serve me-" ask them TO proclaim liberty &
II the captive, and the opening of the prison h
,, them that are bound" l call on the churche
: of the living God to LEAD in this great enter
o prise
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