Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-23
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
SPEECH OF REV. MIR. HIGe1NsoN,
AT THE NEW ENGLAND CONVENTION.

resolution, claiming it my right to speak upon
resolution as to the relation between religion and
anti-savery, fret. as minister, and secondly, as
p child Of the antislavery platform,for the anti
slavery platform, | see more and more, as | look
back, was my theological school (appause), and
all I learned elsewhere was slight in comparison;
aud | rejoice to know, as do, that on anniversary
week, while the people 60 to the churches to be
taught by ministers, the ministers come here to be
taught from the anti-slavery platform. Loud
cheers The antslavery platform has done for
the clergy of New England what no other power
has ever done. The theological schools give them
the learning Of the schools, but tho anti-savery
platform has given them the power to call their
souls their own-and thay are beginning to do it.
(Cheers,) We hear great deal said about tho
difficulty of ministers being Abolitionists, and how
hard it is for them to be anti-slavery men. | say,
sir, that in these days, ministers cannot afford not
to be Abolitionists. loud applausc.) He loses
his moral training if he does not have that, most
important part of it; and all that he can know Of
Scriptural criticism, and all that he can remember
of the counsels and teachings and learning Of men
is but tr1ing preparation for the duties Of these
times without the fact of the malignant evil of
this land perpetually before him, which ne cannot
dodge if he is man. The recollection of what
Luther taught, or what Calvin taught, is distant
and far off to him, compared with what he feels
when he lies awake sometimes at midnight, and
remembers the anti-slavery duty he has not done,
and begins to turn uneasily in his bed, as if Ste
phen Foster were after him daughter and
cheers.)
we hear 1t lamented sometimes among the
clergy, and among literary and professional men,
that science ana literature anu theology are inter
fered with by this absorbing practical question |
know it is so, and thank God for it, We have
something more important to do in this age than
to be mere scholars. Without the anti-slavery
movement, our literary men would have been what
the literary men OF England IN the last century
were, savish race. They would have been what
the theolopians and nreacbers of ENGLAND in the
Established Church are now, race OF time-ser-
vers ana little men, ithout the anti i-slayery
movement, whittier and Lowell would have been
but Byron ana Moore; Wendell Phillips might
have been Judge OF Probate and Theodore Par
ker q Doctor OF Dlylnlty daughter and cheers. J
You seam lncredulous, friends. We know what
we are; we know not what we might have become.
There was once an old Turk at Constantnople,
who, looking one day from his shop window, where
he sat ss-legged, like true Mussulnan, saw
the latest arrival of French dandyism walking
down the street. dressed in the last Parisinn CO.'S
tune; and, calling his little SON. and pointing out
the warning 70 him' no said-'My son 1t you ev-
or aesert the iaitn OF your fathers, you may come
TO look IKE that tLau?hter.) saw the Rev.
cream Oheese waking Nashlngton1street to day,
with his sleek corporation and lily-white face and
said to the young divinity student by my side,
lake carf' my young irlcnu lest you lorsake your
anti-slavery faith or you may be the Rev. Cream
Cheese u, D., laughter and loud applause.
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cause this Is timc When, hoth mere ana elsewhere
the reiai9ns Oh the ciergy 10 reform are Deng agi-
tateu; ana see tnat IN Ne" YORK, the other day,
you had new plea made new rope thrown out,
i0r tne tiniid anu compromising clergy by Rev;
ur. neiloWs, ol tliIt ct.y. l waht 10 say wofu
ABOUT that matter before go iurher' NOT because
40 hot oeleVe inc heV; Df' beilows TO be true
In"n'-ait1ouSn one vi MS ptrlshiohers tolu me
the other day, that the only dlhculty about him
was that when you thouGht you had got him hrm-
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somebody called ,that desplcaDle virtue prudence.