Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-03-04

IJect fOr TINS, despOtlsms temporal ana spiritual
establish their bureaucrices and ramify their agen
cies to the remotest corners Of their dominons.- -
When action, and speech, and thought are all un
der the perfect control of this all comprehendinJ
labsoluteism, when the pen, and the press, and th
tongue and the sword move not but as the centra
| power permits when the people, body and soul
live and move. and have their being only as thi,
police administered authority prescribes, that they
regard MS heaven upon earth To roalizs this, Eu
rope is kept under the discipline Of the sword, for
this, what VIC are accustomed to call patriots arc
pining by thousands in loathsome prisons, or ban
ished from their homes families, and friends, tc
strange and inhospitablo climes; while those whom
we should regard as Of the highest worth, are shot
in cool blood by platoons of soldiers.
fmen were made for such discipline MS this
why was that love Of freedom so planted in ouI
souls, so deep and strong--so ndistructabe that
those nations to whose condition have just refer
red, are as a vast grumbling, heaving volcano?
Abandon all this outward law, oil the parapha-
MALTA of porchmcnts and blue books--nl the law
yer and pricstly oficiasm. and allow this inward
law to take its place. For the espionage of spies
and the care of constables and soldiers, substitute
'AS Spib VI thc hNHlS bOu FROM lle cAUenc Ol
absolute subjection to human authorities, 60 to the
extreme Of absolute freedom from them ALL to serve
only the one living and true God. There, rs in
other cases we should find extremes meeting. All
that appears plausible and good in dcspotism, we
have here without particle Of its cruelty and in
justice. The one grand, all-comprehcnding author
ity, everywhere central as the infinite God One
Lord, every conscience this faithful agent. One
FAITH faith in the unseen, the unroalized but faith
in the infinite provision of the infinite God. One
Baptism, the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Peace, Law and Order are beautiful words, but
shamcfully prostiuted by lower law oficialism.
The stagndfiOn Of death they call Peace, the as
cendancy of falsehood and violence they call Law,
and the subsection of the people to whatever au-
thority happens to be uppermost they call Order.
But those words have true as well as q false
Specification. There is the Peace of progress, the
Law Of liberty, and the Order of life. Every soul
having no other business than to consult and obey
this law of conscience, step by step, one onward
march, all health and energy and life, by direct
connection with the great Fountain Of life.
AS to the alleged controversy confusion, anarchy
and heresy, that would result from this individual
soyeroignty, this exercise of the right of private
Judgment, this supremacy o. conscience, and which
is urged by all forms Of oficiaism as IN objection
| answer, the world has been making experiments
long enough in the two opposite methods of man
aging human affairs, to have learned something of
the respective merits and demerits of the two sys
tens Was the world made to stand still Is
stagnation Gods order? Can our bodies live with
out food or exercise, or souls without freedom
Can those yearnings after the infinite unknown be
ignored without death to our souls ? As January
Searle has it, "0n, on forever is the battle cry
which the invisible dcstinies Of man continually
roars in the ears of time" OF course, none Of
this onward movement has been gained without
this controversy, and its so called confusion. Ven
cradle authorities as popular in their day as was
Diana, whom all Asia and the world wOrshipped
have been overturned and destroyed in regular
succession to the present day. Laws supposed to
be as immutabe as those of the Modes and Per
slams. have had to change, and change, and ever
change and have not done changing yet. Christ
came not to bring peace on the earth, after the
manner which many call peace. But out of all
this dust and apparent confusion Of controversy,
where thought and speech have had freedom,
there come the most glorious results, questions
which once disturbed the false peace of the world
have become settled by controversy, and the whole
world very complacently accepts Of the benefits Of
such controversy. Whether the earth turns its
sides to the sun or flies round the earh was once
question to disturb the peace of the church. Dissent
against rum, and agitation against slavery have in
like manner disturbed the peace of churches, and
this latter question especially, it is said has menac
cd the stability of this Government and the per
manency of this glorious Union but controversy
and its confusion goes on the heresy of free thought
and the anarchy of free speech pursue their thank
less tasks, and we rejoice in the daily enjoyment
of the practical blessings they bring us. Those
rocks that form the foundations of the everlasting
hills we're once floating elements deposited in their
resting places by the winds and waves Of contro-
versy. The question of slavery and numberless
questions besides, will never to agtate this
country till they are all settled right Then, but
nerer til then, will they find their resting places.
81 looked aside the dust cloud rolled
The Master seemed the builder too;
Up springing from the ruined old
l the new.
"'Twas but the ruin of the bad
The wasting Of the wrong and i'll;
Whate'er of good the old time had
Was living still.
"Tho outward rite, the old abuse,
The pious fraud transparent grown,
The good held captive in the use
OF wrong alone.
"These wait their doom, from that great law
Which makes the past time serve to-day,
And fresher life the world shall draw
From their decay.
Take heart the Master builds again,
A charmed life old goodness hath,
The tares may perish--but the grain
Is not for DEATH"
And what part are we taking between those two
opposing authorities that are continually contend
ing for human allegiance! If we are not mere
urood ihn rassira snnrt Of circumstances n