Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-28

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the slaves are thus held, and hence are to be given
up.
Mr.. Burleigh proceeded to show that the clauses
relative to the foreign slsvc trade, and that mr..
ranging tho basis of representation necessarily in
cluded, if they did not exclusively refer to slaves,
according to the language Of the Constitution
itself.
At the conclusion of Mr.. B Irieigh's remarks, the
meeting adjourned till h~alf-p,st 6. p. NJ.
EVENING sEssioN.--srNoAr.
Jonathan Walker addressed fhc meeting. lie
gave u brief account of his arrest and imprison.
ment, trial and punishment ir Flor; Ia, for nh at
tempt to carry seven human beings away from Sla-
very at the close of which {. G Burlcigh read
Whitticr's thrilling lines. wei ;r.;r Mr.. Walker
to Massachusetts. entitled, "Thc nndcd Hand"
Josephine S.Grifing addressed the meeting. She
said, it is embarrassing to address an audience
like this yet she felt constr.i leA to occupy n
small portion of the attention of the audience.
feeling that
"1Ie that has n truth and keeps II,
Keeps what not to him belongs
But performs a selfish action,
And his fellow mortal wrongs"
have no new ideas, no new truths to utter;
truth is eternal. We have no new doctrines. We
appeal to you as men and women. We all as
sent 90 the doctrine that man, wherever he exists,
has n right to be free, and to ENJOY the light, tho
air, and all that God has provided for the develop
ment of the faculties lie has given him. Yet tie
fact that three and II half millions in tits land are
robbed of all their rights,--that On every southern
breeze comes up the cry of grief, and despair and
inadness,-the fact that the people know, and hear
these things, yet are not telling necessarily for tho
removal of the system that produces them, makes
it necessary for us to speak. We ask you to listen
to our exhortations, willing to receive whatever Of
truth we utter. that you may prepare your minds
for the highest truth, and the use of the best instru-
mentalities for the removal Of Slavery.
This system of Slavery is an anomaly. That
such 4 system can be upheld, sustained, apologized
for by the American people is indeed strange. 1t
~tramples upon all mans rights, violates all tho
commands Of God, that it may deal in His own i'm
age rs an article Of merchandise. No one here
doubts the Infamous character of the slave system.
r or the sintulncss Of engaging in its practices or it's
defence.
4 Grave charges have been brought agains. tha
| churches of this land. Mr.. Foss ventured modestly
b to hint that he knew of no Anti-Slavery churches
n in the country, aud few thoroughly Anti-Slayery
G ministers, thus showing that there is nothing to DO
e hoped for the slave from the religion Of the land.
No one dares to deny that the church is welded to
Slavery. The value of slave property owned by
n the church is two hundred millions Of dollars.
Yos, the church allows Slavery to exist, holds
slaves, Apologies for Slavery, sanctions and de-
tends it. lIolce, the church breads nothing 50 much
N as the agitation Of the Anti-Slayery question. She
would rather look far away to distant countries
ie for objects 10 aid and bless, than to look upon her
own members in chains. So much does she loye
u the distant heather that she sells her own children
at home to send the Gospel to lar off climes, that
b~enighted nations may be receivers of the Gospel
We idings. Can we expect sympathy Or aid from an
organization such us this?
We have good reasons then for holding Anti
he Slavery meetings for if true to the promptings
res Of our hearts we cannot cease to speak for those
Sc who cannot plead their own cause. Our work can
on never be done till the last felt r that binds the
as slave shall he broken. Us yet the hearts Of the
h" people are almost untouched. 1t is truly declared in
r'- one of the resolutions before you that,i if the Ameri
dc can Church is the Church OF Christ, then the slav'
e' has nothing to hope from Christianity.
he Let US turn from corrupt Churches and priest
l' hoods. When man learns to Look within his Owl
ne heart he will learn to deny the right Of man II
The ~tranple upon his brother. But he listens too Otter
the to the " thunders Of Sinai. " ~furgetful Of tn
promtings of his own spirit. lie has to learn tina
I" within his own heart is the future; and that h
IN must unlurl it as IL sail. Now. he is too much gov
arS trnec from without, he looks to crecds to clurche
ION to laws. Some men obey even the fugitive slav
law, few look beyond the Constitution.
sly THE proper study of mankind is man." Io'
cry few pursue it; quarrcling aboIt forms and cerem'
EN- MES, men are false to hum unity, and false to Coo
'p'e We have studied man as we used to Study Geogr'
ply, first the map of the world then the Cuuntr
was then the State, aud last the county and ~neiShbo'
'stl- hood where we live. So in studying man we b
nch 81 n with theology, with God and the angels, III
come down toward man, perhaps never gettin
will, there. ,mayininr we love God whom wo have n,
seen, while we hate cur Li,tLer, and the wor
is filed with war. intemperance, licentiuusness al
ex- Slavery. The necessity Of change, then, is a
ngs. parent the voice of reason and of nature tells
Their Of this law Of change, not as the greatest evil, b
the greatest good. We see necessity for change
the condition of the millions who are in chains
,ree- our land. The slave asks chow long Oh Lord he
IN is long 2" who can answer? Not the people who a
hat looking up to God rather than doun to the slave
his degradation.
and What is true of the church is also true Of the
bar litical parties. There is no adaptation in them
reach the condition Of the slave. 1t requir
am something calculated to touch the heart, to rea
the the ~iniquity Of slavery. For say ing these things
itve are called disorgtnlzers by the Government, d
err of turbers in Zion, ~"inidels, by the Church. We
what dis,rganizers-we are infdcls, in a certain sen
lpon. We hold that man is above religion, before religit
ltion better than religion, more sacred than all religion
only an1 &c will be false to religion and Goyernme
so, if need he, tn; W Gay be true humanity.
sus- c.. G. BURLEIGH, said a question had been 3
niStS l;ro ,,;b tba ranna,, that In shnrld anvvar II \