Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-03
SOUTHERN PRODUCTS.

There seems Just now quite a rivalry between
NN,orth and South, in setting forth the superiority
of their respective productions. In our antagon.
ism with slavery, we intend, as far as in us lies, to
do equal and exact justice to our enemy. And
that it may lack no credit which of right belongs
to it, We hasten to acknowledge its superiority in
one staple, not set down in Mr.. Stevens recent
speeches. We allude to the superior number Of
revivals of religion got up by them over those OF
their fellow-laloiers in the Northern Churches. We
take for truth, the statement of the Presbyterian
that Southern churches are more blessed with
these seasons of refreshing" than their Northern
sisters. Bind we copy the following reasons for
this state of things, from the Presbyterian:
"'PREsDYTERIAN THANKSGIVING PRoposED.-A
correspondent of the Southern Presbyterian pro-
poses to the Presbyterians of South Carolina to
meet together and spend q day and two nights in
thanksgiving services, on account of the gracious
outpourlngs of the spirit which have been enjoyed
nearly one-half of their forty-seyen churches
having been blessed with revivals, and many hun
dreds of persons having hopefully passed from
death unto life
"Our religious papers tell us of not q single re-
ligious revival in New England, or but one. I'm
der ordinary circumstances, such facts would call
for no special comment; but we cannot refrain
from asking one or two questions in reference TO
them. If the New England clergy had preached
the Gospel alone, and politics and denunciation OF
the South not at all, would there have been the
present spiritual dearth in the New England
churches? Are not the ways of God in pouring
the special influence Of His spirit almost exclu-
sively upon the Southern churches, worthy the at
tention of those who seem to teach that the North
is the favorite Of heaven, and that all the Chris
tia"ity of the land is on this side of Mason and
Dixon's line? Would it not Oe well for those be
novOlent societies claiming to be American, and
yet which have recently confined their men anC
their money almost exclusively to the North anC
to the West, because the people in the slave State,
were hopeless TO consider the significant facts al
luded to, which we believe have not been confined
to the present season ?"
Such facts as are stated above are among thu
hopeful incidents of the times. That the spirit Of
the bloody Moloch, whom shareholders worship al
God, is not as copiously poured out upon our Nor
thorn churches ms of old-that these slaveho!din 9
churches are losing cast and influence, and thu
power of selfperpetuation by means of REVEALS
in which humanity and justice are iguored,-thes
are facts for the friends Of freedom to rejoice over
while South Carolina Shareholders give thanks for
their revivals, and Northern Presbyterians mourn
over the desolations of their slayeholding Zion.
A MIsTAKE.-The paragraph we published las
week, stating that Jackson, the recent Boston flu
gitive, was in Worcester, and would remain there
is incorrect. The Worcester Spy says that Jack
son came to that city from Boston, but was advised
to leave, and did leave, by the first train, that al
tcrnCon.
GRAHAM FOR FEBRUARY is as usual on hand il
good season. Its FIRST picture, the "Se-saw," woul'
give even a cynic q fash of good nature to look a
it.