Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-16
CHAs. THEo. RuSsEL, Sec
THEODORE PARKER'S THANKSGIVING
SERMON.

Here is an extract from Mr.. ParLer's Thanks
giving Sermon, which is copied from the New York
Evening Post:
Still we are not n Just people; we are not q kind
people. The merchant who kidnnps between BJs-
ron and Quincy is the type Of our business men;
the man who fluids sanction in the epistle # Paul for
human scrvitude is the y PC Of our theology. As
L people we keep within us an institution Of med
iGyal t,lulry. Tie lad seen tho right of jury
trial eleven down. There wa no right 50 dear to
the American nation rs the right 20 steal men.
There was no defence of the church SO we'll illus
trated ns the defence of slavery. Slavery violates
every precept of Christianity, yet the church WAS
its warmcst defender. Within twenty miles OF
this city. within the last four or five years, how
many men had there been driven from the pulpit.
because Of their views on this subject! Nehemiah
Adams finds incontrOver'ible evidence Of St. Plul's
miraculous mission, in that he says nothing against
slavery.
Education ID Massachusetts. you know what it
is; in South Carolina. what is it? Even the
white lnbOring population cannot read or write.
At the South the law torbids the teaching the slave
the three letters which spell &c ODD" and Mrs.
Douglass, in Virginia within the past year, was
sent To jail for a m nth for teaching children tu
read. In America, one-cighth Of The population
are slaves, knowing nothing, possessing nothing
but the brute will Of Il master. Here it is a
crime 10 escape from this der ld~atiOn--the rank
Of beasts. American democracy ia great institu-
lious-fcr Kidding one.eiglth Of her men in bond
age, and making one eighth Of her women t.e
prey of the strong and the lustful.
Mr.. Parker here read. rs appropriate 10 the day
the interesting narrative statement al the suffering,
and recent escape from slavery Of Charles Ma
son, on board the schooner "Frarklin.' from FlorI-
ia, bound 10 Bath, who, being discovered by the
master, was threatened i 10 De returned 70 the South
by the first vessel that he met with going thither-
ward. ami who, To escape sach "a fate, took tue
u Mt Of the vessel and escaped to Holmes Hole.
where he was protected by members Of the Gray
He'd tribe of Adidns, and finally taken to New
Bedford, where he found numerous friends. Mr..
Parker said he had the names of the two Indian,
that most befrienled the fugitive, but he dare nO.
tell them, for do we not know that there is a Fugi-
tive Sla>o bill; that we have Fugitive slave law
judges two of them Il commissioner, a JUDI,
Of probate, who bad stained with blood his HANDS
/ United States Attorney; q marshal also, minul
GAilIif--he knew not how many. But il wa
rnnugh that the man was saved.
Two days after, Il national vcssel-nanod nfel
i man that freesoliers made y Judge, aud the demo,
era,ic party elevated to his present position of mis-
hiet-the revenue cutter "Cnleh Cushing" az
reared NJ the mouth Of the Kencbec in pursuit. q
was well supposed, OF this Aying fugitive; anG
asst week the United States government sent Il
message to New Bedford 70 gather such informa-
ton ms he might of those friends of the poor Lond
nan who had placed him in safety. But he woplC
say that the Vigilance Committees Of d lston am
New Bedford, zach with an arm stretched out