Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-01

and he tells the people of the United States that
they may look for judgements no less TERRIBLE
Finally ho examines the spirit Of christianity, and
shows that il is absolutely opposed to slavery.
DR.. Chcover delivered these discourses Just before
the election Of President IN November, 1856 and
he wound them up with the following thrilling APP
peal to his countrymen thoawfulness of the cri-
sis:
we can almost see the great God of our fathers
warning for the last time we can almost hear
the voice Of incarhate divine compassion, Oh that
thou hadst known, Mt least in this thy day, thy
decisive visitation the things that belong to thy
peace But now they are hi& from thine eyes.
How often would have gathered thy children to-.
gether as hen doth gather her brood under her
wings, but ye would not. Behold, your house is
left unto you desoac! We can almost the
spirits Of our fathers bonding down from
their bright abodes, to sec what shall be our de-
cision in this hour of solemn trial, Oh that God
would in mercy guide us Oh that he would con-
strain us to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with God ! But if we will not then there
is a conflict before us, such the nations never
knew. Every step Of the way we have got to
grapple with Gods word, and with conscience and
we cannot overcome it. lie has set it within us,
and it is on Gods sid,, and We had better have
ten thousand devils outside opposing US than con.
science within. And God will still work his word
will break forth like volcano. You have even
now the conscience Of twenty millions under the
light of Gods word, against the conscience of
three hundred thousand Shareholders drugged by
sell.interest and sophistry The conscience of the
twenty millions God will continue to stir up. lie
will make his word like fire in the bones and a
fire in the heart, and fire in the brain, and the
whole Pacific ocean could not.put it out nor all
the mountains of profit and eXpediency keep it
down. No small part Of our country, thanks be
to God, is all conscience on this subject, living
conscience outraged conscience, conscience bur
denied and ngonized, and crying up to God. If
you undertake to silence suilOcate that con
science, you will have such convulsons, such vol
canoes as the world never saw; and if you under
take to put down the volcanoes thon you will have
earthquakes, and your institutions will roll and
totter like raging sea, as wheu God takes whole
cities bv their towers and beats them against one
another. When God and his justice pledged
against Il nation in rebellion in this one sin, you
cannot question who will conquer. God has
thrown down the gauntlet against this wickcdness,
and, at this late period of the world, the nation
that dares to take it up will be blasted with the
fury Of his wrath, not less terribly than his peeled,
scattered and eSterminated people of old"
1t is well that both pr. CnEEvER and the slave
holders Of tho United States should know that
every word Of the arguments and appeals of this
volume ("God against slavery'') meets with appro-
baton and sympathy from the disinterested people
OF England. In their judgement two blackor
stains never rested on any nation, Christian or
pagan, than the system of slave-brceding and the
atrocities pcrpetrated in Kansas to force the
tension Of slavery. If the people of the United
States should maintain their own conscences, of
the rcprobation of the whole Christian world, and
of the spirit and precepts of the Gospel.