Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-21

prietary in the direct and GO lateral line, and every
sale to purchasers. The people were bound to
grind their corn at the landlords mill-press their
grapes al his press, aud bake their bread at his
oven. lnmany places The use Of hand mills were
not free, and the seisnours were invested with the
power Of selling to tho peasants the right Of brui-
sing b%uckwheat or barley between two stones
The Coyies or burdens imposed for the maintain
anco of the highways. annually ruined vast num-
bers Of farmers. In filling up one valley in Lor-
rainc, no less than three hundred were reduced to
~beggary. And when for a redress Of those griev.
anccs, petitions were presented to the government,
the bearers Of them were hung, in The sight OF the
petitioners, as the only reply to their reasonable
request. This last fact is not recorded 10y Allison,
but other historians speak more fully than he does,
Of the efforts Of the peasants to obtain Il redress Of
their wrongs. And it is said that with the hope Of
re.inyigorating the system Of Il worthless noble,
whose excuses and RIGHTEOUSNESS had prcmaturely
brought upon him the icebleness Of old age, the
children Of the pcasantry were butchercd, that he
might 10 placed in a warm bath Of infants blood.
The priesthood, church and government, were
all united in pcrpetrating these tyrannics. All
this diabolism was done in the name Of God, and all
submission to these c~xactions was required as they
were told by the authority of the Bible, a book in
the keeping of the priests, withheld from the peo-
pie, and which the deplorable ignorance in which
they wore kept would have prevented their reading
if it had been placed in their reach. Allison
says MT one in fifty could read, and in each prov
ince they were unaware of what was passing in the
next one. And mt fifty miles distance from Paris,
they were unacqnaiuted with what was going for
ward during the most interesting era Of the reyolu-
ton. 1t is no wonder then that the Priests were
banished or beheaded, and the Bible from which
they had claimed authority for their crimes burn
ed as a testimony against wrong. 1t was not then
the word Of God that was burned, but the puoWay
Bible, which no protestant recognizes as truthful
Ii was not the religion Of christianity that was over
thrown, but the religion Of Catholicism which had
organized all that horror, itself a reign Of terror,
and ms historians tell US, in one period Of l2S years
by its inquisitiOn, tortured to death three million
Of human beings. The religion oyerthrown was
infdelity, and that other phase Of it that triumphcd
sluring the Revolution, was the legitimate child of
its predecessor, and blood thirsty and impious as
it was, it was better than that which it supplanted,
for it abolished slavery, and finally restored to man
his rights, made suffrage universal when a tax Of
two shillings and ~sixpence should be paid, aboi-
ished AriStocracy and Nobility, and decreed that
persecution should cease and the universal right
Of conscience be established, and finally recovered
from the frenzy into which they Mt first rushed,
when first they escaped from the power Of that
most false religion that had so long cursed and
maddened them, which led them to crown a court
ezau to represent the goddess of reason, and decree
that death was an eternal sleep, under the influence
of Robespiere even, who saidt0 them: THE priests
have figured to themselves a God in their own inn
age they have made him jealous, capricious, cru
Ell, %coyctous, implacaDle; they have enthroned him
in the heavens as n palace, aud called him to the
earth only to demand for their bebOUf titles, rich
es, pleasures, honurs and power. But the true
temple Of the Supreme Being is the Universe hi,
= worship virtue his ietes the joy Of a great people
l assembled under his eyes to tighten the bonds o
social affection and present to him the homage o
l pure and grateful hearts - with loud acclamatlun'
p, produced by these eloquent words, the assembly
! decrced unanimously that they recognized the ez
l istence of a Supreme Being, and Of the immOrtali
I ty Of the soul, and that the worship most worthy
of him, was the practices Of the social virtues
7 And Allison further says, that those who repIesen
these reyOlutionists as most IlOod-thirsty wretchcs
e vultures, Unsuitable in their passion for destruction
S may be well meaning and amiable, but weak anc
+ ignorant men, uuacquainted with the real workings
2 of delusion or wickedness in the human heart, anC
y calculated to mislead rather than direct future
e ages, on the approach of times similar to tina. ii
t which they obtained their ascendeucy. Thesc
facts show that the cause Of the Revolution j,
t France was a grieyous oppression sanctioned by
c false religion, causes that will sooner or later pro
f ducc similar effects, and those who seek to cover
; up these facts and beget n superstitious reverence
= Ior impure religion, and fear Of opposing it by dis
+ torted accounts Of the reign of terror in France
charging it us the legitimate fruit Of ~inldelity
o should bear in remembrance that History record,
1 the atrocities of the Holy War in Palestine, whel
the Christian warriors put 10000 unreslSting cltl
: zens to death at the storming Of Jerusalem, unC
wadcd to the Holy Sepulcher ankle deep in huma
s gore. That Cromwell seriously cndeayured to en-
e tirely ~eStirpate the native Irish Catholics, thong
e they were eight times IA numerous as the Pro
d testants. That all France previous to their lnfde
ity, joined in a cru 3alo against the Albigenses, an
f that its bravest warriors deemed themselves Sc
l. cure from eternal fire by consigning thousands
T. wrctches to temporal flames. That the linguistic
and AUTO DO FEE were religious institutions, thet crl
elites and decisions, are not peculiar to any pa
ticular age or country, or any form of religion, bt
that they are the natural offspring Of f~anaticisn
], whether in political or religious contests, as til
Is slavery existing in the church in this country, an
the misrepresentation by the priesthood of tt
Revolutionists in France, and the opponents
slavery in this country. most expressively wi
ness. Il