Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-18
AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY.

The Norristown pa Olice Branch publishes
an able and eloquent DISCOURSE, delivered in that
town on the last Fourth of July, by Rev. Samuel
Aaron, from which we take the following extract
The most popular feature of American Chris
tianity is u bitter hatred to the practical lovers Of
impartial freedom and no man is hired to say
one prayer for Congress, unless he believes that
Paul sent back the slave Onesimus. The Protes-
tant Bible, and religious books and tracts, are
scattered broadcast over all the earth, and are de-
clarcd to be the leaves of the tree of life for the
healing of the nations, while tie voice of the liv-
ing preacher rings out in every tongue. In car
rying out this great mission the various govern
ments are conciliated, deceived or defed, on the
plea that God has sent n message which every
man must hear. But, 10! the Southern half of this
great republic quashes this plea, with the entire
approval Of those who urge it; shuts out from
FOUR MILLIONS of its people the messenger
sells women at high prices into prostitution to send
the gospel to China gashes off flesh from the slave
at home who would spell the namc Of Jesus, and
torturers or murders the man who would teach
him. Meanwhile, it claims to possess the pprest
religion as the warmest piety to be found on earth;
and, by the churches of the North, that claim is
widely conceded. All sins in our land are discus
sed and denounced in sermons, books and tracts,
from crime Of murder down to the gaiety of the
ball room, and ihe love Of show which sets n feath-
or on a matron's bonnet, or a ring on a maiden's
finger but the act of tearing infants from their
mothers bosoms, or of selling ones beautiful
daughter into infamy, or of scourging men and
women to dcathless toll, it is not once named in
the catalogue of transgressions nor does the word
'SlareJy' appear in the millions of pious volumes
which are diffused throughout the community
The phrases peculiar Institutions 'pious masters,
and happy servants dwe!l to be sure, on NAM
a consecrated lip. whore logic, eloquencc and
piety' combined to save our Union and the
Church.; but contempt and starvation in the North
from persons of standing and curses, hemp and
fagots, in the South, await the man who preach
es equality and justice to all throughout thu
land
To maintain the harmony Of such q brotherhood
and cherish and extend the spirit of such a patri
otism, in willing subordina'ion to the 200, 900 vot
ing dealers in human flesh, is the only way &c
cording to the teachings of Church and State t.
preserve this glorious Union;' and such an agree
ment of North and South, and East and West, i
tie Union,' tho salvation of which, our orator O
the Fourth assured us, would be cheaply Dough
by the lifo-blood of every soul in this great Com
monwealth. 'Ctcaat JudGus Apela" On the con
trary, if this be our Union. and these its purposes
the curse Of Heaven and the scorn Of earth shal
fall upon it; the Irresistible instincts of nature
controlled by the fury of revenge, shall awak
up massacre; civil and servile strife shall ripe
into anarchy, aud our boosted institutions rot int
despotism.