Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-23
PhariSeeiSm Rebnked.
FROM THE KEY TO UNCLE roN's CABIN

Suppose n fro bursts out in the streets o.
Boston, while the regular conservators Of tho
city, who have the keys of the frc engines ant
the regulation of fire companies, are sitting to-
gcther in some distant part of the city, consult.
ing for the public good. The cry of Gre reach.
cs, them, but they think it a false alarm. Tho
FIRE is no less real for all that. 1t burns, and
rnges, and roars, till everybody in the neigh
borhood sees that something must be DONE
few stout leaders break open tho doors oI
the engine-houscs, drag out the engines, and
begin, regularly or irregularly, playing on the
fire. But the destroyer still advances. Mes.
scngers come in hot haste to the hall of these
dclibcrators, and, in the unselect language oi
fear and terror, revilc them for not coming out
"Blcss me says decorous leader Of the
body, "what horrible language these men
use !"
"Thcy show very bad spirit" remarks an
other; we can't possibly join them in such a
state of things.
Here the moro energetic members Of the body
rush out, to see if the thing be really so and
in few minutes como back, if possible more
earnest thon the others.
30! there is fire Ia horrible, dreadful
fire The city is burning-mcn, women, chill
drcn, oil burning, pcrishing Come out, come
out As the Lord liveth, there is but step
between us and death
al am not going out; everybody that goes
gets crazy" says one.
"Ive noticed" says another, "that as soon
as anybody goes out to look he gets just SO
cxcitcd-I won't look"
But by this time the angry ere has burned
into their very ncighborhood. The rcd demon
glares into their windows. And now fairly
aroused, they get up and begin to look out.
"Well, there is fire, and no mistake" says
one.
Something ought to be done" says another.
"Ycs," says q third; "if i, wasn't for being
mixed up with such crowd and rabblc Of
folks Id go out"
"Upon my word" says another, there arc
,comea in the ranks, carrying pals of water =
There, one woman is going up ladder to get
those children out. What an indecorum II
they'd manage this matter properly wo would
join them"
And now come numbering over from Charles
town the engines and fre-companies.
"What impudenco of Charlestown," say
these men, "to be sending over here-just as il
VIC could not put our own fires out. They have
fires over there, as much as VIC do
And now the flames roar and burn, and
shake hands across the streets. They leap over
the steeples and glare Economically out OF tho
church windows.
"For Heavens sake, do something!" is the
cry. Pull down the houses Blow up those
block of stores with gunpowder anything to
stop it,
See now, what ultra, radical measures they
are going at" says one of these spectators.
Brave men who have rushed into the thickest
of the FIRE come out, and fall dead in the street.
"They are imprac.icable enthusiasts. They
have thrown their lives away in foolhardiness," {"
says another.
So, Church Of Christ, burns that awful fire !
EVermors burning, burning, burning, oVer
church and altar; burning over senate -house
and forum burning up liberty. burning up
religion No earthly hands kndlsd that fire.
From its shested fame and xTssths Of sulphur
Gus smoke gla'ss sut upon thee the eye Of thst
lKEMr vhs was . murderer from the begin
ming. II is . hfs that SvANs 10 TIE LOWEST
HELL!
Church OF Christ, there ,Oas an hour when
this ere might have been oxtinguished by thee.
Now thou standest like mighty man aston-
ishsd-like mighty man that cannot save