Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-09
Tbe Anti 5lapcrp Bllolr.
From the A. $. STANDARD.
EXAMPLE MULTIPLYING PRECEPT.

6A hmfLE NULLlt 1lNG PhECEPT,
Though an Apostle gave us tho admontion
First pure, then peaceabe," as long ago as the
New Testament was written, the clergy and the
churches have not yet begun to incorporate this
counsel into their system. The great Catholic
Church, ana all the sects great and little that have
branched off from it, agree in their habit of ren-
gushing purity when it can he kept only at the cost
Of division or continual disquiet. There is such
written rule among the clergy as was formerly al
legged to exist among the masO s, that brother is
to be sustained in his course Fright wrong" and
probably few clergymen would give u formal assent
TO Hubbard Winslows restriction of freedom, in
speaking and printing to such sentiments only
as "the brotherhood will allow and protect" Bat
in no body is the esprit du corps more marked in
no association is there stronger tendency or a
more constant custom to lang together and sustain
the reputation of the order, a. the sacrifice of
that very purity which the order was Institute
to guard, than in the clergy; and from this habit
combined with one other cause) it comes to pass
that the few clergymen who have been aroused hy
the AbolitiUnists to commence any manner or de-
gree of protestaton against slavery continue to
counteract their own efforts, and to stultify them
selves, by the most ample Acknowledgements Of pro-
slavery persons of their own order as Christians
and rs Ministers Of the Gospel.
Instances of this sort abound every side
But for the sake of the many who, having eyes and
ears. neither see nor hear such things without a
special call upon their attention, we will specify
occurrence.
Every one has heard more or less of the strong
statements which Horny Ward Beecher has made
against slavery. 1t is scarcely two months since
in his own pulpit, he denounced those who quote
the Bible to support slavery as "pious, orthodox
infdes, and said that if he should find one of
them instling his poison into the mind of his son,
he would turn him out Of doors as he would u ra-
venng beast.
This is strong but thoroughly Just and appro-
LANGUAGE III is bItt bv N,
means abuse, AS Mrs. Browning says it is ''very
salt and bitter, and good If efficient care should
be used in behalf of ones child against wolf
who tears, or rufhan who stabs tie body, much
more against the person who corrupts his mind
and depraves his soul who gives him deformed
monster to worship in the place Of God, and
bids him labor to change himself into the likeness
OF that deformity. The proper care of ones chill
dren. In our state OF society, sometimes demands
just such plain speaking and decisive action as
that.
But MIR. Beecher has also spiritual children to
care for, whose souls are precious, whose ne.
cessities as urgent, whose dangers as imminent as
are those of his children according to the flesh
having accepted the pastoral charge of large
church and congregation, and seeing a vast throng
OF other persons constantly pressing to hear his
instructions, is he not bound, least, to provide
that the poisonei whom he would ignonniously expel
from his own threshold shall not By his aueRtica-
tion have access to them? lie has any right to
introduce the posoner into his pulpit and leave
his church to the natural inference that he re-
CARDS him as minister Of the Gospel Has he
any right, after driving the posoner from his
private dwelling as corrupter of youth, to hand
him letter Of recommendation to dwellings, and
churches in general, and to say, Understand
brother Blagden brother Wnslow that, though
a needtui care for my son welffre has compelled
me to treat you thus unceremuniously in private
yet everywhere else fully endorse you as Chris
tians and Christian ministers?" But what less
significance than this has Mr.. Beecher's recent CO.
operation with Hubbard Winsow and George w.
Blagden 1.-TWO Of the most eminent perverters of
Scripture to the support of slavery in the install
lation of minister in Brooklyn? Would he have
suffered any other sort of ininel, any defender
of robbery and adultery small scale, to join
him, unquestioned, in the public transaction of
ecclesiastical business?
Take another instance
1t is we'll known that the Rev. Nehemiah Adams
published, about year ago, n "South-side View
Of Slavery" He spent three months at the South,
saw slavery for the first time, made business of
examining it, liked it, approved it, quoted Scrip
ture in its Defence wished he coutd have it at the
North, urged the Northern people not to disturb
it. suggested to the Southern people that it
might be well to reestablish the African Slave
Trade, and, 10 give effect to all this, falsely rep
resented himself as having previously been oppos-
ed to slavery and unj just to his (whte) Southern
bretheren, and as having been convicted OF tnis
sin and converted to slavery by his residence the
South.
VI course, book so impudent in lis profigacy
was faithfully exposed by the Aboitionsts 1t
also provoked indignant comments from some 'se
cuar and some religious" newspaperS-amOng
others, the Independent But since that time the
professors, lay and clerical, of the popular reg-
ion have seemed TO take especial pains to fraternze
with DIR. Adams, and to publish to the world their
undiminished confidence in him Christian
minister. Thus, he has been chosen of the
Executive Committee of tho American Tract Soc-
ETY.; whose function includes the examination of
books and tracts proposed for publication, each
member having the absolute power of prohibition ::
he has preached the annual sermon before that
great representative of Orthodoxy, the American
Board OF Commissioners for Foreign Missions; he
presided at the opening session of that morning
-and'conference-meeting, formed by the com
bined Evangelical" churches of Boston, which
filled Winter street Church every morning of An
niversary week." he preached the sermon Ia sort
of anti-slavery minister performing part of the
exercises) at an installation at Providence Ri; he
was chosen to make a dedcatory prayer at the
opening of the new and beautiful rooms of the
Mercantile Library Association in Boston; and
last not least he was suggested by the editors of
the Independent lin their paperof Dec. 2Oth,) as a
satisfactory person to write tract upon Slavery
for the American Tract Society, and thus remove
from that body the reproach, which has become
somewhat burdenSome of late that they have never
issued tract upon that subject. The Independent
was so consderate to suggest to DR.. Adams
that such tract need not "meddle with the vexed
question Of abolition" and SO mindful of the
credit OF its clerical brother to assure its read
ers that they might expect to find such tract
clear oispassionate, earnest, .taH Of holy unc-