Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-11

Divine Religious Revelation The Jews
made this assumption, its hus saith tie Lord an
excuse for robbng, numbering, plundering, and
enslaving their weaker neighbors Aud on the
tradition of these praces rests the Peculiar Ipsii
tuition. just let the sentiment standing at the head
of our Declaration Of Independence, have its full
force upon the minds of the slave population,
land it would if it were not for this false religion
and all Heaven, Earth and HELL combined, could
not hold them in sorvitudc longer. But the South
crn church is constantly preaching "Sldres obey
your masters, for This is rgh IN the eyes IF the
Lord" and the northern church is acquiescing in
the GREAT TRUTHS qf his Gospel, Of Fear, Siarey,
and Mrdcr, while northern doughfaces bow and
scrape to this Divine (unholy) Religion, and north
ern laymen vote them into office. Take the au-
thorty, or rather influence of this system from
this nation tonight, and tomorrow morning Free
lom's Sun would arise for the first time on free
America We must strike at the root Of the tree,
if We would surely kill the tree itself AS reform
ers the world asks us to do III the interests, tenn
poral and spiritual, of millions of oppressed and
down trodden men, women and children, now liv-
ing, and yet to live, cnl upon us to throw of the
yoke of religious thraldom from the necks of this
People, in order that nature may assert her right
10 and in man. She has written Liberty, and
Equoiay Of rights, upon every human form, and
her voice speaks in the inner Temple of mind
maa he free. Why is she not heard? She is, but
50 loud is the voice Of Ecclesiastical and Judicial
Tyranny in Churches and Legislative halls that
her sweet tones are for the time somewhat over
ruled. But the Great heart Of free humanity
shall not beat in vain. There is n mighty moral
power deep in its gigantic bosom, which will ere
long burst forth into the outer world and the mo-
mentary ruin which win follow, will be proper
toned to the amount Of crushing weight pressed
upon it, in the shape of Religious error, legal
codes, and bad social organizations. Legislators
and Legislatures and creed workers. are only heap
ing up wrath against the day of righteous indig-
nation Of the plundered and defrauded millions,
who noic ask, bW then will TAKE their freedom of
body and SOUL The southern church is the hand.
maid of slavery, and the church north'its guilty
opologist. Politicians acknowledge their religious
authority in fact il not in principle, and build
laws drawn from it, rs binding upon ALL Human
nature when mislcd by a false Religion is the most
abiect thing in being. As its religious susccpta-
bities and faculties are, when rightly directed,
Nuc oouISe Va tht ulSutoA pleueuItS anu nsuhV, Ol
the most exalted emotions and sublmcst thoughts
so when mislcd, they become the scorpion scourgc
Of societies. nations and the world When free
they utter TRUTH but when cnslaycd falseIood.
! No wrong either in Religions or Governments
could for a moment be sustained, except by special
pleading on some far fetched precedent, or mon
strous assumption Of authority. Slavery can moi
be sustained, and il is not attempted to be, by an
appeal to nature. The laws Of equality, if rightt
and privileges are never thought to be proved by
rerelation or precedent. They are based upon an
ever present, ever tangible truth and intuition OF
mind; yea, they are inherent in the physical and
spiritual organization of the individual. They
make their appeal to God ADORE, to brothers of 4
common form and organization, and even Interest
around us. Not an act Of ours, do VIC put forth
but teaches the individual sovereignty of eacl
being of humanity Individual sovereignty, is the
only true foundation of Governments A right I,
govern ourselves is the birthright Of being-of ex
istance itself. All laws antagonistic to this ar,
based upon unwarrantable assumptions of power
which constitute the very soul Of all tyranny ans
oppression. The least removal from this point
endangers the liberty of all whose power is to,
WAN w N'llc WIN @Ahu tils - AHt
ciple which rules he world to day. 1t is anothe
form of the idea of the right Diciae Of Kings t,
rule. Religious tyranny has made kings and ty
rants and that alone sustains and defends them
Or in the language Of Pope,
Force first made conquest and that conquest law,
Till superstition taught the Tyrant dire,
Then shared the Tyranny then lentit aid,
, And Gods of conquest, slaves Of subjects made
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lends its power to defend and perpetuate.
has seized the souls and bodies of men, and regio,
so called now is striving TO hold them as chattels
Some there are in the churches who are laborini
for abolition; but how they can remain still ther
and do it, | cannot imagine. But even many o
this class are believing horesy and inGdety agains
the truly free abolitionist and thus wasting thei
strength in yirulent personalities on laborers i
the same field Of reform. Oh Religion! wha
goddess crime has been committed in thy name, b
thy bigotcd deyotecs! Wilt thou never be cothe
in thy true garments Of love, brotherhood an
equality? Must the earth still be drenched
blood to fill the measure Of thy misdrected life,
p more truly, that hideous Dagon, sci up in temple
=. dedicated to thy sacred name? Now, even nov
its days are numbered, for the moral power
mind,-tle stream of inner life so long obstructC
s in its flow through the souls Of men, by false rc
ion and false legislation, has arisen to level wit
II the objects in its channel, and soon will sweC
IS them off upon its bosom, wrecks Of wrong. Ma
must he will arise and claim his individual sove
n eighty as a child Of God. The question Of this a.
), is the question of the religious authority Of Il
Q Bible, the creeds and the churches. This is II
T. 4
= Of all nations and tribes and colors of men,
=, Nicholas Of Russia to-day fances he is doing Go
service in his attempted cncroachments upon Tur
q ish dominions. lie thinks and declares that
T. means to convert the whole Fast to his Gree
Church. lie fancies himself the vicegerent of G,
on earth, 10 do his most holy will among the heatht