Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-21

1t takes pro-slavery priest who has once been
professed aboitionst, to excel all others in viru-
lence and falsehood. An ample illustration will
be found in the following review by Dr. Samuel
ii. Cox, of the slavery question in the General As
semby of the New School Presbyterian Church.
From the Christian Observer
THE SLAVERY QUESTION IN THE GENE
RAJ ASSEMBLY.
After II was that action was inevitable, our
Committe thought that the wiscst and the most
proper way was to refer all the documents to n spe
cal committee ard this was adopted ly the house
For this no apology is needed We are not obli-
gated to be infallibe; and acting honorably, and
rs wisely and as generously as we knew how we
that more erceten ray should have been adopted
about which have yet conviction.
now proceed to characterize the documents,
generally, with only one exception.
|. The idea of 'sn per Sc" more or less pcryaded
the whole of them; that is that It is a sin in its
own nature, for the relation of master and slave
according to law to exist, in all circumstances
This fanatcal lie this jcsutical nbsurdity, this
gross political blunder, as / have said, pcrvaded
and characterized them all, though i'm forms and
degrees less various as more or less strong
and dense, more or less express and Obvious
And this error is the protonpseudos and the ideal
proto-rast of all the ianatical, and the impractc-
able, and the inhdel agitation in our country. 1t
thousands in this nation owing his sway to his
seraphic countenancc, and even iniatuating many
OF the ministers of Christ like n certain allied
parsonage in the apocalypse, whose tail drew the
third part OF the stars of Heaven and did cast
them to the earth. If a man will be such n sim
pleton, it seems to me, that, with the Bible opcn
before him, he deserves rebuke more than argu-
ment, for his stupid perversity; even if he is in
other things a sound and good Minister of the
Gospel. But such ministers, know exist among
nd oft nnn1.Ia, Al
inspired adage that WISDOM is pRorIrABEE TO d.
RECT, wisdom-not zeal and partisan impulse sci
ence-not steam for the guiding radiation Of the
good ship OF the Church, is dcridcd, spurned away
rom tnet, ana treated as an obsolete and exploded
dogma IN tins famous age of light and progress
In reference to this error, and in illustration of
its folly and its falschood | pronose TO saw more
IN the treatment of the subject. before | Close
H. indeed, ought to be forbearng, with my
Drethren especially who hold it, on the ground
that was once myself infected with it, and which
own with humiliation and regret. for / reriLy
thought ought TO do many MiD0s contrary to what
know now to be right, let it be remembered that
very peculiar circumstances and ve-y peculiar in
nuehces' induted 1t: that had not then examined
the subject or understood il ms now do: that |
was neither incorrigibe nor lonc in the hallnci-
nation that left it as soon as propinq all things,
found 1t was not good, and so not to he held fast
or hcld at all and that in this rectifcaton, the
ploHlllalG % cause was merely the calm pcrusal of
applying the golden rule by their fruits you shall
know them' to such knaves pharsac, and faith
less us were IN Boston and vicinity the chief Sab
h-breaklng' churchdespisng, minister-hatng,
ooe-ueiyi1S leaders Of the proposed national agi-
tation. Men who derided the Constitution and the
laws of their country. who confessedlv would
sooner uestroy this glorious Union by far than
support ana prolong its blessed Jurisdiction 1;
whose actions and whose measures are about as
a,sorgan,1hg ana as ungodly, as they well can be;
'hFIG nj = r-I
and practical corruption; to say nothing of
their fanatical illmanners and reckless audacity.
Those are not the men to awe or govern, or lead
the Church and the Ministers of God Farthest
from them is best There are worse enemies
of all Righteousness, no worse traitors no worse
counselors, no worse foes to the slaves. in the
world, than they; those very prime ministers Of
the abolition enterprise; those exalted hypocrites
and inhdels forever nping tho glories of phan-
thropy and piety. We might as well have "char-
ity" for Tom Paine. and Joe Smith, and Plus Ninth
as for them and if good men and ministers would
relgiously consider their ways, in regard to them,
am sure they would come om from them and
be seperdte rs Gods people, MS no more, by their
example and their sanction, to uphold so carious
an enterprise-sO bad n causel
2. AS one error leads to another-a selfprOpa-
eating brood So n natural consequence to the
foOlery Of sin per doctrine is-that the bare fact
Of ones complication with slavery is Just cause Of
discipline; and that it must be so rated, and
ucuUeu Dy tne Juulcaofles ol the churcn.-
And this is prima ,facie evidence Of crime =
Hence
g. There must be progress" in all our ecces-
sastical action. This looks to measures ulteror
and eventually or soon, to exscinding. at retail
If not by Wholesale in reference to all the Presby-
tories and the churches south OF Masons and Dix
'on's line, and of the Ohio river.-This is the
'horrid and the crowning matter of those scnt-
rments and their aims.
These three characteristics show not only the
real animus of those abominable documents but
they are too justly the exponents of all our own
infected districts and compromised presbyteres
give the facts and the state of the matter as it
appeared to me then, and as it appears to me news
as with great conviction write it, that it may be
known and in the name of God, l denounce the
folly and the delusion, and tho malignity, of id
genus totn,, as contrary to his word, and doctrine
and his cause, and comforting mainly to the deca
and his angels.
Yes this trio-sin per Sc ecclesiastical disoip-
line for it, and progress" in the matter of agita-
ton, progress every year, shows why was sick at
heart, as / read these shortsghted documents,
written by pious ounces, for the main part; so
sincere, so devoted, such martyrs, and such tanat-
les, that and scripture were as it were as
eertained by them, that the cords Of truth and
soberness no longer proper for the church and
the ministry of God, If there is a right and q