Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-02-12


But in the true meaning Of tho term, men
ought to be ambitious. Ambitious to over
throw all cruelty and wrong, to drive away all
error and superstition, and introduce the sons
OF men to all the glory and truths of Gods
vast universe.
Mr.. s. says: "Your position will excite
greater prejudice against you, than any other
you could have taken, ard will utterly deprive
you of access to the minds of the muses. Of
the people" If you me IN the Anti-Slavery
Society, it has taken no new position. But il
it had, what thoni would that be any reason,
if they thought the position right, why they
should not have taken iii Christ could not
have taken position more calculated to preju-
dice the people than the one he took, or one
that shut him out from access to the people
more constantly. But ought he not TO have
taken the position he did 1t was just the
same with Luther, Wesley, Penn, and all re-
formers. Besides, if the principle were true,
then no man ought ever to take position till
ho knew it would not prejudice the people
against Aim,as he can never know that, he must
never advance anything radical or new. The
pro-slavery churches and political parties have
always raised this argument with their people,
I and against those who have seeded. But it is
folly. Reformers may drive from them the
intolerant and bigotcd, but they will attract
around them the good and teachablo of all
worlds.
Mr.. S. says "All the desponding classes Of
our race had claims upon your energies, they
were appealing to you for salvation from thrall,
but in this movement you have cast pail of
darkness over them. The heaven of their
hopes is overcast, and not ray of light beams
upon their minds" Then they arc in n sad
and pitiablo position. But are not you and the
masses of the people still with them' Have
the nddcis taken all the light with them l
trow not. But why have those whom you call
that it sustains slavery, poligamy and other
crimes. They believe that the Bible is the
bulwark of American slavery, as also other
wrongs that torment and afiet the race. But
have those friends abandoned the cause of the
slave; Arc they less laborious than others
who believe; Arc they likely to be less dc.
voted in the future; hope your fears arc
groundlcss. So long as God lives thcro will
be light, and so long as man lives there will be
laborers. Mr.. S.-"But to live in harmony
with all the knowledge derived from this
scourcc, (nature) docs not require that We
should reject the Bible" Others thirk differ
emily They think that many OF the teachings
of the Bible, favor war, slavery, lying, incest,
concubinagc, and other forms of wrong, and
therefore will not receive it as divine.
Then Mr.. $. himself, speaks in, favor of the
course of those he condemns. lie says:-
Gould DC persuaded to the belief that the
constructions of modern doctors of divinity
with reference to certain portions of the Bible
are correct. and that the general tenor thereof
was in harmony Herewith, should be as ready
as any of you, to reject it, and spum it as a
base fraud"
! These men whom you think have caused the
oppressed to faint aud despair, have come to
the above conclusion, and of course have done
what you would dc. Buff you were coavinesd
would that add or dctract from the worlds light
or hope; The following quotation is a rare
compound, and snvors n little too much of
priestly dosmatism:
"When look into the future and see your
earnest efforts TO pcrpctuate your position and
TO make it common, l think see the movement
withal dying out in infamy, as many similar
ones have in other days; and instead of the
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of peace. sobrety and purity, enrapturing the
listening throngs of heaven and earth, will be
heard the rafting chain aud clanking fetter-
the wild tones of despair-the bloody wailings
of wal, and the mocking of the unsaved thou
sands, with one united voice bowling forth the
rcquium of the most fatal movement ever en-
gagged in By so many giant minds; and instead
of eternal glory. wreaths crowning your heads,
and millions rising up and blessing you as the
faithful toilworn laborcrs in the right, all the
sad realities of misspent lie and of misapp.ied
talents, will settle down upon your Names"
The idea Of men whose lives have been spent
in the cause of the crushed and oppressed ol
all lands, whose labors and writings have caus-
ed the tyrant to trcmblc. Who have already
had many to rise up and call them blessed
looking back upon misspent lives. and feeling
only what those can feel who have squandcrcC
+ their talents, or cursed their fellows by the
proAiga,c lives, can do nothing more than caus'
a laugh.
Mr. Sclby says: 81 cannot so with you il
, your present movement. Imust again dsband
for can no more fellowship your position
than could pro.slavcry church" DisbanC
r from whom From the Ant-Slavery Society
They have not changed their position, the posi-
{ ton of thorough liberality. From what then
The Bible Convention; You never was
f member of IL; From the iSdividuals compos