Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-16
WHOLE NO. 54l.

road ana have him through IN lightning speed
If Kentucky feels aggreyed let her ladies' retail
ate Let them set up sewing societies for the poor
Ohioans; and as hospitable Kentucky, is better
than picayune Ohio, let them send ten for one Of
our people to Texas, Kansas, or any such place
they desire to emigratc. (Applause and cries Of
order. ..I
No. poor Kentuckians, even the most destitute,
find friends and counsel here. Fer al these peo-
rle on both sides Of this cast, Kentuckians..-
The only difference between them is that while
they Cooking towards the slaves) are heroically
strogglinE for freedom. that matt looking nt Mr.
MarshalO comes into Court, his Lands all dripping
with warm blood, and asks TO take the father Of
that murdered infant back into interminable sla.
very and the grandfather back into everlasting
bondage. Applause, and cries of order.)
But the gentleman says the Constitution Of the
L. 5. gives him a right to these fositives.
Oh star.eyel science, hast thou wandered there
To bring us back the message Of despair?
That straight line is the ,hortcst distance be-
tween two points, is an axiom. The proposition
on which | shall base my argument is no less
plain. 1t is; That egeyy man on earth has The right
10 do ercry thing that God has made his duty to do,
Or, as | am not here theuogian to discuss diff
fcult points, but only as civilian asserting rights
and as some duties are more clearly stated in the
Bible than others, will vary the form, and say
That every man On earth has the right TO do ev-
erytbng that God, in lie Bite, has clearly made il
his 3Eiy to do.
God made it the duty Of Daniel to pray, though
the Persian Empire forbid it--of the three holy
children to refuse to bow down before an idol--of
the Apostles to preach the doctrine of the resurec-
ton--o Cranmor and Ridley to refuse to bow
down to the sacrifice Of the Mass-and in doing go
they all assert their right. Right and deity are
correlauvc terms, rs inseparably mingled the
light and heat Of the sun. Sir Ito the Commits
5ioner) it is your right, sitting there a Commits
sioner of the e. S, to love God with all your heart
and your neighbor yourself. 1t is your right to
keep a conscience void of offence. This is right
for which the martyrs suffered and for which
fathers poured out their blood like water-the
right Of every American citizen to take the Bible
rs the man of his council. You have right TO
love that old man, quitting his hand on the head
Of old Simon,l as you love yourself, and to do TO
him you would have him do to you, and tits
your duty sitting here in the temple Of Justice, TO
exercise that right.
Your oath to support the Constitution imposes
an obligation to support it aU not only the Sd art
Gle of the " section. bat the 'choie Constitution.
The Constitution says list Amendment) Con
gress shall make no law respecting an establish
ment OF religion or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof" This may embrace the religion of Chi.
and of ihelIind0os but il certainly does embrace
the Christian religion. What.the is the Christian
religion? Its vital principle is to love God with oil
your heart, and your ne.ghbor as yourself and
every law that nterferes with this Jas do the acts
y
rian religion as the spear of the Roman soldier
pierced the heart of Christ on the cross.
Should Congress pass a law iOrhidding you 20
read the Bible, does any man doubt that it would
be unconstitutional? When Congress passes q
law forbidding YOU to obey the Bible, is rot THAT
unconstitutional? What binding force would
law have declaring that there is no Goaa How
much better is an act which says there is q God,
but you shall not obev him n The Bible commands
to feed the hungry-clothe the naked-shelter the
! ~. u.
outcast-to break every yoke and let the oppless-
ed 90 free. The Abolihonsts-the hated, the de-
spised-have for the last % years been assersing
these rights, unconscously bearing upon their own
shoulders the rights of the whole American peo-.
pie.
y few years ago all Christendom were indignant
because the Madiai family were Imprisoned for
reading the Bible. Bat what difference is there
between imprsoning for reading the Bible
in Italy, and for obeying il in the United States
All men have religion, no matter whether
members Of churches or not-deep down in tho
heart of every man. is sense Of responsibility to
| his maker. 1t may not show itself till called to
do some gigantic wrong, but then it rises up to re-
strain his hand
! When called upon to decide upon n question like
! this, it is your duty to listen to its voice.
| That man quitting his hand on young Simon) ID
here prisoner, guilty of no crime, his wife in jail
| in delicate situation, needing her husbands aid.
and Mr.. Marsha asks you to tear him from his
wifes arms. His three children one an infant at
the breast demand his care, and you are asked to
tear him from both wife and children that this
man may take him into Kentucky, to sell his flesh,
blood and bones, and soul, the auction block
Do your duties as a christian, interfere with that
Can you do it and keep your conscience void Of Of
fence Can you do it and maintain for the Peo
pie of the U. S. the right of religious freedoma-
When We consider the great question of religious
freedom involved in it, the rights of these people
Ibecome insignificant. 1t is your right and mine
IN, bistorv of iurisprulenpa hns
ton of such Importance been submitted to the de-
lcision of = single man. If you sustain these
rights, you sustain religious freedom for all; il
not, you betray humanity:
! He then considered the rules of construction by
which this Article of the Constitution was to be
interpreted, and the purpose for which IT wa.
made. Now, said he if Congress cannot pass
law compelling you to worship God can they pas
, a law compelling you to sin against God
The trouble is this. The Congress of the Uni
, ted States have endeayored to pass law deelar
, ing that wrong was right. There is danger u
thus disregardmg rights, Tor every Law that sup
ports slavery strikes down some right Of the slave
holder The principal that gives you right t
your slave, may take away your right to you
: land.
, lie then read from the Bible the account Of tn,
creation of man. in the image Of God created
he him" "to have dominion over every living thin(
that moveth upon the earth" Can man, the lorC
of creation. be made property Wherever mar
3 is found-no matter how degraded his condition
even the naked negro basking in the sun or lynn
in the palm trees shade-he is still the lord of ere
, alton The distinction between man and thos
over whom he rules is this: that man everywhere
no matter how debased or ignorant, can be taugh
to love and obey God; brutes never can. Congress
: had no more right TO pass law that man shoult
bow down before man than that he should bow
before the consecrated water. Both are heresies
: Ono of America and the othCr Of Europe. What
right had Congress to enforce ono heresy and re-
fuse the other 1t is an article Of religious belief
in me that man cannot hold property in N IN.
take il from the Bible. Catholics and Mormons
are protected in their creed-Why not in mine?
1 The law of so The Fugitive Slave Law) com
mands YOU to treat those people as slaves the Bi
bic as men. As slaves they may not learn TO read
q the Bible-nor attend divine service--nor preach
s the gospel to every crsaturc-nor bring up thai