Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-01
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

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the form and degree of slavery which lies beyond
their province, but by their relationship to liberty
! ut home. TA,ir sectarianism is tie barrier hcy
place in the way Of freedom. They have the same
employment as the shareholders, but in an adyaue.
ed location. They find fault with the slave hold.
t er's net, aud are willing to see the fish escape past
it, but they intend to catch them in their own
That is the utmost that scctarian abolition eve,
amounts to. To 60 for liberty would be to aban'
y don their sectarianism. Sccts are proslayery from
$ the necessity Of their nature.
And why do stcts cxist2 On examination, the
motive for sect and slavery will not be found dis
Q similar. They have this common characteristics
E loo lazy to work, and unjust and mean enough to
appropriate the proceeds of the labor of others
As sectarinnism obtains, the means Of spiritual
, subsistence, and ultimately of physical life, are
] made scarce. Gods order is that we shall live by
working, and hor orable people calculate on moth.
ing else. But the order of sectarianism is that its
, adherants shall live without working, and its ar
= rangcmcnts are planned with the view of subsist-
ing by lying and thiey!ug. The proportion Of
workers to oilers, determines the proportion of the
t means and the lack of means to support life. All
/? spending and none producing would quickly bring
D famine. Were there nothing to counteract secta-
rianism, such would quickly be the catastrophe
1t is in arresting such calamitics that reformers
. find their mission. To starving pliest-ridden
hordes they teach, by precept and example, the
necessity Of work, and when work brings forth its
5 fruit, when the impending famine is ayerted, and
honorable labor results in golden harvest, then
amid the rejoicings of harvest home is the oppor-
tanity FOR the oilers, who gather together for the
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to the garnered treasures, to hold in trust Of course
all for the benefit of the "dc ,r people," prepare to
take their ease, call themselves after some leading
r Workman, honor the workers of the past, not by
immitating their industry, but with idle praise,
I eat up what they have produced, and forthwith
persecu'e all who retain sense and homer enough
to keep on working, stigmatizing them as distur-
bers of the peace, as heretics and infdels, for no
better reason than that their honest labor is n
standing ~reproach to their roguery and idlencss.-
Aud while thus treating those to whom the world
is indebted for whatever it has that is good, no
sooner is a piece of new work turned off by Gods
work people, its utility demonstrated by trial, and
it becomes a marketable commodity, than Sectari-
r anism with the coolest impudence lays claim to it,
and assumes the management thereof. Lucretia
Mott repealed by Sect from the Worlds Anti-Sla-
very Convention in London, and Antionette L..
Browns similar treatment by the Worlds Temper
ance Convention in New York, are illustrative ca.
ses in point.
t Such is an unexaggerated account Of the low or
t igin, the character, and the means Of support of
e all sects. All forms of injustice and oppression
find in sect their appropriate element. Chattel
d slavery but for sect would be as fish out of wafer.
: Steam could as soon remain uncondonsed in a
freezing atmosphere, as for liberty to live in the
q atmosphere of Sect. And yet the American Anti.
Slavery Society takes especial pains to assure its
supporters that it has no quarrel with sect as such.
Its claim to be unsectarian, is on the ground that
on its platform it makes especial provision for the
= accommodation Of Scctarianism repels as a cal
r umny the imputation that it has any other object
d than to abolish chattel slavery, writes down its
CONSTITUTION" defnes-limits its object. That is
n the letter" of an;i-slavery which "killeth," the
t hie-eiving spirit can brook no such defining and
l. limiting. Those who give themselves to the spirit
of Liberty. have no choice but to follow whittier
soever it leads. The Anti-Slavery Society in lin
itina its object for the accommodation of sect, be-
Il comes itself a sect, one of the fraternity of sects,
t and as such proSlarery, Such also are all those
= N'o"hiHHtiOhoJ vi uDOllcl!uR huTj IllGIl-
perance, and the like. All unfriendly to liberty.
Not in tie least adapted for fulfilling the ostensi-
BILE object of their existence even, but n newer
phase of the old sectarianism, from which many
who are in them hoped they had made good their
escape, when they came out or were kicked out of
the enclosures tended by priests.
The members of the Anti Slavery Society can
see in other cases than their own, the reprehensi.
L bleness and the folly of this attempt to serve one
good cause, by noncommittalism on behalf of 9th
ers. Father Matthew and Kossuth are we'll
known instances. The former came to America
on a temperance mission, ard could not iorsooth
destroy his chances of promoting his good cause
n in the slave States, by speaking against their ''pe-
culiar institution" Kossuth came on the GRAND
e of promoting Hungarian liberty, and fancied he
would better promote his object, by ignoring the
existence of the American Hungary, wanted to
make allies Of the shareholders, and pledged his
honor not to interfere with their domestic affairs
All this was characterized by anti-slavery people
e as time-serving, as treason to humanity, the cause
r of temperance and Hungary included. And right
ly so. The Irish priest did nothing for temper
t ance by winking at slavery. Kossouth defeated
g his object, if that object was freedom for Hungary.
J. by his lying speeches about American liberty, and
n his c~owardly silence about American slavery. And
!, by what rule of fair dealing can the American
Anti-Slavery Society escape a similar condemna.
tom Why does Sc ,tarianism ~stipulate that the
condition of its cooperation shall be exemption to
# its cherished creeds, from the ordeal of free exam.
s nation and free exposure. Has it any better rea-
$ son for objecliog to free speech than the slavehold-
e ers have? Verify nay. Both fear the light for
. the same reason, their deeds are evil"
The ever ready objection to free instrumentality
d for the abolition of slavery is, that people desirons
y of cooperating for this Object, and coming togeth.
with the mutual understanding that for this object
q they were come together, could have no guarantee
+ that this business would be attended to. There
= would be all the guarantee which liberty could