Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-07-23

Christians TO do the same. In the pulpit, on
the platform, in the Sunday School, in the
social circle, the principles of freedom and
equity, Of temperance and charity were still
on my tongue. never relied on speculative
theology for n reform Of abuses, as my writ
ings testify. My aim was to make the church
and the priesthood nn army philontllropsts.
Still Ind horror of worldly, unconverted
reiormers, and ] spoke accordingly. That
foolish horror have lost. Inow think more
of one worldly, one truly human, unbelicyiug
or untrammeled reiormer, than of all the
orthodox ministers on earth.
Jesus did not cry, nor lit up, nor cause
his voice to I've heard in the street, says Mr..
llnrizell, but, like woman putting her leaven
into the meal, he quietly gave his Gospel to
his dciples, and left it to work out the worlds
salvation in silence. But say what you will
Mr.. Hnrizell, men cannot reform the world
thus quietly and silently. Reform and re-
formers will make a noise. Reformers have
made noise, and created agitation, from the
beginning. The wiser portions Of the Bible
favor this doctrine. They represent God as
saying to his servants 'cry aloud, spare not,
lift up thy voice like n trumpet, and show
my people their trausgressions.' And whether
Jesus cried aloud or not, he was preceded
by one whose very name was that of voice
crying, 'prepure the way of the Lord But,
come what may of that single passage You
quoted, Jesus himself cried aloud And he
liiled up his voice in the streets. II the
Gospel story do not niislead us, he thundered
in the ears of the guilty theologians and
seciarians, rs loud os any one. And his
language was terribly severe. 'Ye serpents
ye generation of vipers; how shall ye escape
the damnation of hell? p 'Ye are the chill
dren of the devil, and his works We do. Like
him, ye are liars and murderers. Painted
sepulchres; fair without, but within full of
rottenness and all uncleanness' And Paul
cried aloud. Aud so did Luther, and Fox,
and Penn. And so have all who have done
much for the cnuse of truth, and the salvation
ofmankind. The men who abolished slavery
In the English colonies went through the
whole land, crying aloud against the cruel,ies
and denominations of the system in every
place. The men who forced the iyrnnts of
of England to abate the political slavery Of
the people, did the same. They called pub
lie meetings, held public discussions, and
circulated tracts and papers till they had filed
the land with their cry, and reused the in
dignation Of the masses TO such pitch that
the tyrant aristocrats and priests were afraid
And the men who afterwards wrenched from
the heartless landlords the food monopoly,
and opened the ports for the free importation
of grim and fruit, thus saving the toiing
millions from want and starvation, did the
same. They called public meetings, and
addressed the assembled masses in every
part of the country, and sent ont papers and
trncts by tons at time. They shook the land
from its centre to its circumference. The
English and Irish liberals followed the same
course,when they forced the protestant opres-
sors TO do something like justice TO their cath
olc fellow subjects. Your foreiathcrs here in
America did the same,-and something more.
They did not emancipate themselves from
the despotism of England without noise.-
They were not content with lifting up their
voices; they Numbered with their artillery.
They not only called public meetings, but
gathered armies. They shook both the earth
and the sea. They disturbed the peace of
the world.
"To whom are we indebted for the amount
of antislavery feeling now pervading the
country? To your silent churches and
presthood' Your church and Bible men
had allowed slavery to seize the whole land.
Your silent system had given the shareholders
the whole power Of tho Government, and
put the nation to sleep in the arms OF the
bIackest oigarchy on the face Of the earth.
And to the hated and slandered aboliionists,
Ito the abused aud prosecuted Garrison and
his helpers are We indebted for our present
wakefnlness. The shareholders know their
enemies, and they know friends. They know
who endanger their accursed institution, and
they know who prop up. 1t is not against
your Bible and theology that they rage. II is
not against your churches and your clergy. 1t
is not against Alexander Campbell and his
followers. 1t is against the hereiics md
unbelievers ;-the men who give utternnce
10 the voice OF their own true hearts, and
that echo the thunders of the law of God
1t is in our doctrines and doings that they see
their doom. 1t is not for your head TINT the
Shareholders offer their five thousand dollars.
II is not you, Sir, they are SO eager to hang.
You had made yourself SO obnoxious to the
shareholders you told me,that you were afraid
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