Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-03-25

saw vessels in their harbors, fitted out with app-
ances for the slave trade, ! marked their quick
transit to the coast Of Africa and traced them to
their homeward port by their bloody path upon
the Atlantic, and by the groans Of agony and
shrieks Of despair that continually arose from
their wretched cargoes / read upon their statute
books, laws inAicting the severest penalties upon
all who should give food or shelter to Quaker or
other heretic; looked into their dungeons and
saw youth, and manhood and age their immured,
who were guilty of no crime save belief in
faith different from that Of their prosecutors; l
saw Quaker women tied to the carts tail and
scourged through their villages saw q vast con-
course Of the venerated fathers upon Boston Com
mon, assembled to witness the execution Of Mary
Dyer, the Quaker who would not hold her peace
when they commanded saw witches hung upon
Gallows Hill; and Baptists banished from the
colony Of Massachusetts because of their religious
faith; and while desired that we might retain all
that was good aud pure in the faith and practices
Of our Puritmio ancestors, / certainly should be
very sorry to have restored the bgoted, sern and
cruel spirit which pervaded their laws and Gus
} toms. Nor do believe the preacher would him
self desire II, for f "the good ways" Of the faith
ers should prevail, the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, would be
brought under church discipline without delay, for
rigid purtanism would condemn sabbath-break-
ing, the buying of the milk which he purchased a
few hours before he delivered his sermon.
] suppose men can be brought to believe almost
, anything but it did seem strange to me that any
one possessing ordinary intelligence, and assuming
witha to be a spiritual teacher of the people,
should assert, as Mr. Ptkin did, that moral re-
forms originate within church organizations, and
: are carried on mainly by church membcrs-a
r statement which is so utterly at variance with
TRUTH not only as regards the reforms Of this, but
d Of all ages, that any one Of common observation
o and reasonably free from prejudice can see it'
# falsity. The preacher had of course, something
IS to say about these disorgauizers who would des
; troy slavery by overurning the government which
u the fathers established, and rending asunder tho
, church of Jesus Christ--the claim Of the churcl
l. of America to wear this name, being in fact thu
e very point in dispute, and which these disorgani
e zers are not just yet prepared to admit There IL
s also another thing the preacher did not seem tC
IT understand and that is that there are believers ou
of the church as well as in it-that not to be
church member is not prinia .fdcie evidence OF in
fidelity to the principles of eternal right VI
course no one would question Mr.. Pitkins rgh'
of opinion in regard to our movement but he
ought to understand it better; and II would have
seemed little fdirer, and have redounded more tC
his honor, had he expressed his views in some Of
n the anti-slavery meetings which have just beer
d held here, SO that his msstatements might have
y been corrected and his ignorance dispelled; oil
had he permitted reply in his own meeting, i
o would have been still better, unless his hearers
are like the Dutch justice who always refused t
hear more than one side of question, because L
I hear both, so confoundedly perplexcd him.
: The sermon had many good sentiments in II
and is another evidence that the church is begin
ming to feel the outside pressure. Had the preach
l. er read the next chapter Of Jeremiah he woul
e have found language akin to that which we appl
B. to the ecclesiastical organizations Of this land
&c with what propriety we do so, every one mus
81 judge from the facts Of the The verses rea
TX thus =" Trust ye not in lying words, saying, Th
le temple of the LORD, Tho temple Of the LORD, Th
u temple of the LORD are these. Behold ye trust
10 lying words that cannot profit. Will ye stea
CT murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsel!
10 and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after othC
us gods whom ye know not and come and stand b.
Gu fore in this house, which is called by my nam
lis and say, We are delivered to do all these abomn
50 tonsH Is this house, which is called by my nam
''S become den of robbers in your eyesf Behold
W even have seen it, saith the LORD"
- In the afternoon, the entire membership Of Il
- Episcopal church, publicly declared, "We hay
-. done the things ought not to have done, an
have left undone the things we ought to hay
done there is no health in us !" and from what
can learn it would be unkind, aud unfair to que
- ton the truth of this, their solemn declaration
~ There is said to be an eternal fitness in things, b.
~ do hope that the Rev. Mr. Lyons, is not tihi,
- representation of the intelligence of the Episcop
church of Battle Creek, and yet if he is not, wi
does it have him for a preacher? His dscour
was, without exception, the weakest listen'
:. to and if the Prodigal Of whom we read in Il
~ New Testament, had as poor husks to feed upon
49, Mr. Lyons gave his people this afternoon, he WI
.;e more to be piticd than had supposed. He set
=. men of straw, but had not strength to knock CIV,
them down. He thought slavery was wrong, b
proved as clear as mud that slavery existed amor
49, Gods people in other days, but then it ioaS
other days, and under different circumstances fro
those we have at present and therefore s!avehol
ny ers then not to bo judged as slayeholde
y now should be- but yet, from some reason or oths
"s when we abolish slavery, he thought we shou
adopt the mode of abolition adopted for the extr
III ton of slavery in those other times and und
,ie those different circumstances. And, in the opi
INC ion of the speaker, immediate abolition was Il
70 the right kind of abolition only think Of il,
VI would take at once twelve millions of proper
ou' from the south to cmancipate their slaves, a
W twelve millions more to educate them-for withC
'so' education freedom valueess-and what
ih tion could stand such bankrupting process.
seemed inclined to believe they would be eman
my pated in Gods own time, and when freed and Q,
Its, Gated, would 90 as missionaries to their nat
'ws Africa. Slavery, he admitted was an imports
and question, and its discussion was agtating the p
hey lie mind, and his was preached in order
)me d;root oh s,;ans ,,hot 10 do 4; .olo,; A.. =.