Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-02-19
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Letter from Portage County.
DEERFIED, Jan. 2Slh, IS;

DEERFIED, Jan. 2Slh, '53.
FHIEND MARIUs Nearly cut Off from So
sieiy, NJ am, i should very seldom get
peep at my fellow immorinIs, were it not
for those chntiv little friends, the newspapers.
BY means ofiheir periodical visits, ! continue
10 become, in some degree, refreshed up in
the what's aud how's of mankind. have
experienced many powerful entoiious, while
eommuning with these dear fire-ste ins,ruc-
tors. They have warmed my heart with
many a holy aud exalted feeling; aud wrumg
il with many sensation of deep romniscr-
alton. They have warned me to mourn over
the sufferngs of the oppressed to burn
with resentment against the oppressor; to
blush for the debosement of the sensuslist !;
to kndle with indignation at the hollow pre-
tsBees Of the hypocrite, and to curl the lip
Of contempt at the cringing servility of the
swning sycopIant.
The weekly records have, it is tue, brought
me . dark catalogue of these things; but
still ench week derive from them inr more
pleasure, than pain; for am fully perslind-
sd that every wrong action is hut mistake;
q blind groping in the dark nazes of error,
in search Of TINT happiness which can only
result from harmonious consistency OF
living aud acting in full accordance will, the
laws Of the great incompreIicnsiile power
Of the universe. ] have been thinking of
those squire aud primitive tunes" when
Whist is now denon,inatcd Christianity, was
moulding itself into form. What respectn-
hle assemblies were then called together,
under the term councils! Ia those times, il
little idea happened to drop into Bishops
head, land do not think that iurge ideas can
be found in mitred heads,) why, il lie had
acquired the rare art of writing lie could
sersich il down oil n scrap of dirty pnrch-
nsnt, and present it under the imposing title
Of " the gospel according TO ST. somebody j
and il influence enough could be bought up
and paid for, in rich bencfce, or cardinals
hat; why my Lord Bishop could have the
satisfaction "f having the Gospel roted into
an amendment, according to his own snpient
idea.
Isuppose the present inquisiive and cav
ling nge, will not allow nny such liberty to
be taken with the book now! ! tnke il for
granted, that that diriest Snin; in the calcn-
der, King James, has given il the finishing
touches, and that no one now will dnre sug-
gest my addition or alteration, from this
time forth, forever. Pity, though, for ] ani
very anxious to lenr this text given out from
the pulpit, mud preached from twice every
week, in every Westinghouse;
THE proper study of Mankind is Mnn..Pops.
And why is moi 81. Alexander, us good II
Saint as the hest of them?
] dare say the Evengelicnl alliance iha,
has been sitting among you, has by this time
convinced all the good people in Salem, (nll
who were firmly convinced before, all leas', ]
TINT mankind have all fallen from grace; that
in their inmost souls they hate the Almighty
existence and are born into the world for
no earthly purpose, hut TO controven Gods
laws, asd outrage aud wrong each other.-
wsAt ] envy Them not the belief, for know
IL is not IraducIive OF happiness. ] have
repudaied Orthodoxy for more than thirty
years. / would noi, il could. save one hu-
usan being from his sins, by teacl'ing him 10
rejoice over the endless tnrlnenls of another
aud an herodox enough 10 believe. tIIat
snen best consult tlleir own happiness, when
they seek to promote That of others; that
naturally. they are neither at enInty with
God or Man; but on the contrary, that to
adore the Omnipotent Power, aud with all
their souls to love their kind, are The strong
est impulses of every uusoplisticated soul,
That was the law wl,ichChrist taught; that the
law which Omnipoience had engraved upon
his own nature He read in himself, and
he persuaded olhers TO look within, and read
also. What, in fact, was his teaching, but
90 bid men study themselves
But we are told that men naturally love
70 grovel in the darkness of transgrcssion.-
This must surely be mis,aksl think ,ha