Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-02-05
Theodore Clupp and Uncle Toms Cabin.

From the following IL seems that Rev. Mr..
Clapp would sooner burn house or commit
murder than write such book as Mrs. Stoves.
We don't doubt il. The man who can prosti-
tute the religious sentiment and sanctify by his
utmost efforts the denominations Of slavery, as
they exist under his own eye in New Orleans,
could hardly add to the immortality Of his char
acter by tho commission Of either Of the crimes
he specifies. The Kentucky News, comment
ing upon this. says
"Now IL Rev. Mr.. Clapp would as leave
commit murder, OF burn his neghbor's house,
as to write book, what is 1t he would not do
for oil the gold in California. Look out for
such self-sacrifcing characters, and weigh what
they say, by viewing the circumstances in
which they are surro unded."
So Say we, look out for such q man, especi-
all when he occupies the pulpit.
From the Memphis Express.
"The Rev. Mr.. Clapp, Unitarian clergyman
at New Orleans in his Thanksgiving discourse
preached in that city, remarked as follows:
"a northern minister said to me last sum-
mer. 81 would not pass my life amid the sla-
very of Louisiana, even on condition Of being
made proprietor of the whole State" will
not weary you by a repetition concerning my
well known views concerning slavery. But
say with absolute sincerity that the Africans
held in servtude at the South arc, in general,
much better treated than the colorcd people in
any part Of the free States. l go further, we
cannot at present discharge our Christian du-
ties without retaining them in bondage. have
seen moro cruelty in Massachusetts, than in
Louisiana.
"In spite of the outrageous caricaturos of
Uncle Toms Cabin, there is more suffering
produced in MY native State in one year by the
ruthless breaking up of poor families and the
everlasting separation of parents and children,
than the slaves of Louisiana have suffered from
the same source during the thirty years of
my residence here. The romance which have
just mentioned is a tissue of the basest untruth
and the most erroneous injustice. would no
moro write such book, if l could, than l
would commit murder, or set my ncigl.bor's
house in flames at midnight; no not even if l
we're to gain thereby the peans of all the Abol-
itionis;s in New and Old England, and the en-
tire gold Of California. God have mercy on
the fair authoress. The time is coming when
she may weep in bitterness Of soul over the fa.
tai consequences of her innama5le folly.
Even supposing the abolitonists to be right
in their doctrines, the measures which they
adopt arc directly at variance with the ends
which they profcssedly seek. II they would
speak to us in the accents of reason, gentleness,
and Christian affection, we would listen with
patience and candor But instead of calm,
sensible, subdued, godlike augmentation,
they rely for success upon the foul ribaldry Of
Billingsgate and unhallowed fiction. tending to
kindle flame of evaporation between the
North and the South, which threatens ere long
to reduce the glorious fabric Of our Union to a
shapclcss and scattered mass of ruins. The
republic Of these States cannot be perpetuated
by the strong arm of the national government,
by paper constitutions, by legislative enact
ments, nor by military authority. Let the
sword be once drawn to enforce an act of Con-
grcss on a southern slave State. and that great
confedcracy, the worder and admiration Of the
world, will be numbered with the things that
were-' Fuit Illium of ingcns gloria Make
the inhabitants of the free and slave States
love each othcr,and all our difficulties will soon
be settled. But let this horrid, this internal
work Of ordinations and recrimnations-thi
tragedy of deadly fucds and antipathes-be
carried on little longer by the aid of speeches.
tracts, preaching, and romances, and our de-
struction will be the inevitable catastrophy-
we shall be doomed to sleep the sleep Of eternal
death in the vast cemetery of nations that are
no more"