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

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very, but in hatred of it; and Lewis Tappan has
mittee, and membership in that society ever since
its formation. The American and Foreign anti
slavery Society has q name to live, but is dead.
The Anti-Slayery movement has always been
progressive. The abolitionists have not b~een.slow
to learn wisdom even from their enemies. 1t was
well tina the church attacked anti-slavery on account
oil its allowing women to labor with men. For this
called acknowledgements sphere; and truth was
elected such as we might have been long in learn
ing; truth, too, that helped the progress of free
dom; for the man who holds his wife or sister
in mental or physical thraldom is but half q refor-
mer, and can never work for humanity with more
than half a heart. We also rejoice that, as they
had the heart to do so, the priesthood declared that
even the first principle of the abolitionists, namely
that staUery Is necessarily a sin and a crime, was
itself rank rebellion against the authority Of Heay-
en- and had no Sanction in the Bible. They thus
have shown the world how designing priests may
use the Bible, to sanctify %iniquity and change sin
to holiness. Their Bible is their sword and shield
a sword not two edged merely, but which cuts in
every direction,-a shield that has saved them too
long from deserved exposure and disgrace. Their
Bible they make the strong hold Of slavery. Drs.
Fisk and DIN and Stuart, aud Campbell, and Lord
and the rest, have proved from the Bible that sla-
very is ordained of God. We are beginning to
learn to have no quarrel with them as to this. We
knoiO that slavery is a crime aud an outrage. But
say these clerical defenders, God sanctions, aud
the Bible approves it. Well, they ought to know
what their Bible teaches aud their God approves
a Bible which they warped and fashioned to their
purposes-a God in whose image thoy are, for they
have created him in their own likeness. They
look into the concaye Of the heavens above them,
as men look into the concave mirror, and see the
same thing-the magnited image of themselves
and they call The hideous likeness God. No doubt
they love bin aud know and obey his commands.
1t is but to love themselves. and OBEY their own
base passions. Slavery in accordance with the
will of God Be it SO. 1t does not affect the
question for it happens that it is not God but
man that endures its horrors and its curses. Lei
then human nature speak, and that nature, with
all its million echoes, responds that the system is
an outrage and a crime against humanity, whether
a sin against God or not.
We have learned from the State rs we'll as the
Church. The abolitionists were charged from the
first with laboring to destroy the Governmental
dissolve the Union. For years the charge was
false, but it is well that it was made, for it drew
our attention to the guilt that our connection with
slavery involves. We found the Union to be a
covenant with death and an agreement with hell
ana took for our motto "No Union with Slave
holders"
And here w stand to-day. We have been true
to our convictions of r~ight,-have rebuked the sir
of the nation and the result is that the Church
does not love US, nor do the people call us good OIL
great. We can bear this, as we did not expect
their praises, and were not working for them
When Daniel Webster declared himself unable tc
believe in any higher power than the President o
the United States, and laughed at those who, he
said, believed in a law an eagles flight above thu
Allegheny mountains, II suppose the American
eagles at that we were not cast down. We sup
: posed this the greatest height Daniel Webster
could conceive of, and a greater one than he wa'
likely ever to reach. True the nation called hin
the God-like. He stood intellectually like the oal
among trees, and morally as the deadly Upa
freighting the air of heaven, with pollution an(
, death. But we neither sought shelter in the GAL
trees shade, nor breathed in the prison that drive
men mad. Even the church's anathemas and tn,
f priesthoods, lies have not scared us from our pro
t priety. They have done their utmost. Their go
S ny is departing, and never again can they befoo
5 a simple hearted people as in the past. Let then
do their worst. A spirit is abroad that will defea
S their efforts to sanctify iniquity and baptize sim
The night, all hideous with ghosts and spectre
y and fearful shapes. may be dark for a time
$ but the morning bright and glorious will come.
> Concluded neat week.)