Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-08

They clothe themselves with hlies as with a gar
ment, and the truth is not in them.
Mr.. Garrison denied in the Liberator this charge,
in behalf of Thompson and the abolitionists gen.
orally, and for himself declared that SO far from
wishing tho slaves to cut their masters throats he
was opposed to violence and blood. And he proved
from the New Testament, that evil s~houldDbe over
come with good hatred by love, and violence by non
resistance that all blood shed was anti-christian.
This was giving the priesthood more than they
b~argainod for" AMI now they tdenouncd him rs q
disbeliever in christianity because he was opposed
to cutting threats
Then noble women had felt their hearts moved
within them to sympathy for the slave. For Eliza
beth Margaret Chandler had asked,
Shall we behold unheeding
Life's hottest feelings crushed;
While woman's heart is bleeding
Shall woman's voice be hushed
And strong appeals foi the bondman from the
tongue and pen of Lucretia Mott, and Sarah and
Angelina Grinke, and Abby Kelly, and others,
were the answer.
And now the American priesthood, as never be-
fore, were fir frightened from their propriety. If
those who fashioned the silver shrines for the
goddess Diana, turned pale at the words of Saul
of Tarsus SO did the American priesthood trem-
bic and quake with aAri ght at this new develop
ment; for now, as never before, they knew that
their craft was in danger; and they broke forth in
the most terrible denunciations.
Thus for avowing the great truths os the Bible
Garrison was hated by those who prolessod to love
the Biblo. For proving that there is no christian
Sabbath connected with the observance of one day
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For adopting tho only doctrine peculiar to Jesus
Of Nazareth, that evil is to be overcome with good
and hatred with loye-hc was denounced ns n
reviler Of the Nazarine rcformer. For declaring
with st. Paul, that in Christ Jesus there is neither
male nor foh Ne, an dean VI ding for both sexes the
same rights, and from both the same duties to the
slave, for doing this instead of adopting the
semi barbarous doctrine of the same apostle (wbo
was always half a Jew, and never so much as half
a ohristian) that a woman is not to speak in the
church or teach in public, they denounced Gar
rison with curses and howlings, such as they will
never equal again this side of their final abode
their own tabled rcrdition-where there is to be
weeping and Willing and g~nashing Of teeth"
But tie abolitiouists were in earnest, and went
fearlossly forward in their work. They showed
who were the amalgamationists, who the enemies
of truth and righteousness. Those high in the
State joined in the defence of the church. The
rabble from the streets came also to the rescue
Why not ? Ii was an honor to be on the side of
such worthless as Wilbur Fisk, D. D. and Moses
Stuart and DR.. Lyman Beechcr. Yes DR.. Beecher
the man who in 1884 drove Marius Il. Robinson,
and Theodore d. Weld and nearly a hundred other
young men from Lane Seminary because they
would not close their lips and hearts on the sub
iect of human freedom the man who arayed him
self against the anti-slavery m ,vement because as
he sailor his children for him-he would not
play "second fiddle to Garrison" Second fiddle
to Garrison whore is DR.. Beecher to day ? Play.
ing second fiddle" to the hangman, and the dance
lisa dance of death Yes Lyman Bcecher, his
head all hoary with sinful years, has of late again
and again appeared before the Legislature of Mas
sachusetts to disgrace his country and his race
he could not disgrace his religion or himself-by
attempts to prevent that body from abolishing
capital punishment! lie has stayed in the world
till now to become the shoStly ally of the hang
man, and %sanctify and sustain a brutal custo m Of
a barbarous age. Thank heaven that he did not
join the Anti-Slavery movement in It's early days
if with him should have come a spirit such as
this.
Thus while Plummer and Anderson and others
prominent in the church at the South were declar
ing that if the abolitionists should go South they
would be burned at the stake, or hung as high as
Haman and while Southern Legislatures were
offering large rewards for the head of Garrison, and
Arthur Tappan, those high in church and State al
the North with the mob to aid them, went forward
in their career of violence and persecution. and the
martyr age was begun. The first mob in Boston was
led on by gentlemen Of property and standing
in broad day light and in broad cloth" 1t wa.
directed aga inst a womens' anti-slavery meeting
Garrison was dragged through the streets with a hal
ter about his body, and the mob was hungry for the
blood of G. Thompson, who by accident was absent
from the city, and thus escaped their fury. In N. Y
City, at Utica, in Philadelphia and elsewhere over
the North a demoniac spirit prevailed. In the lat
ter city, Pennsylvania Hall, a beautiful building
dedicated to free discussion, was burned to ashes
by the mob, and the mayor and other leading mer
looked on ap?rovingly while the deed was done. In
THEY'VE est at Cincinnati and elsewhere, the abolition
lists were at the mercy of the vilest of men, who were
invited and encouraged to attack them. The pres:
of the Cincinnati Philanthropist was thrown into
the Ohio river, the colored people driven from the
D city, and their friends left to the tender mcrcieS
of the mob. AT Alton, Lovejoy fell a martyr to
the cause of the slave. And the the leading infu
ences in Church and State were with the mob, and
Y against the { riends of freedom.
Even those in the Church who had espoused the
9 cause early, forsook it when the hour of trial came
y Phelps, st. Clair, Cox, Fitch and Towne, Joined in
: the cry against the abolitionists as infdels. These
men had retained their connection with the Church,
! and the whole history of the Anti Slavery cause
i is evidence that men while in the church are moi
4 to be trusted. In a country like this even an or
l thodox creed is almost a fatal barrier against Anti
t Slavery. Such a creed, whether bad in itself OIL
D not, leads men into bad company, and 'eyil com
t munications corrupt good manners"-and goot
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