Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-18

and CRASHED their teeth against those who remind.
cl them of this duty, but held fast 10 the slave
holding brethren. Now, when DIR. Chcever, n
Of their own, says the very same things
that Garrison said twenty seven years gu(respec
ing the utter opposition of God, aud Christ, and
the Bible to slavery, they applaud him, and echo
him, and urge their hearers and readers to
mark him, and write his speeches IN their
books". But instead OF following up this position
to its necessary logical consequences, and admit
ting their own past error and folly in having con
ceded Shareholders to be Christians, and taking i'm
mediate measures towards their removal from ev-
cry institution tho members of which are &c obfciO,
assumed to be Christians, they act and speak as H.,
after all, DIR. Cheevers " ords were moi true, and as
il slayeholding were not Incompatible with Christ
ianity. To refer to two of the cases in which the
inconsistency we are speaking OF has been most
gross and obvious, The Independent, of this city,
and The Congregdtionalist of Boston, still admit
Shareholders, and defenders of slavery from the
Bible, to be Christians and Christian ministers.
The editors of these newspapers further abuse
the widespread and deer.rooted influence which
they exert in the double capacity of editors and
clorgymea by turning the newly awakened inter
est of their readers and hearers in behalf of The
slave away from those channels in which it would
practically operate to aid him. Thus, when an
immensely important question comes up, whether
the millions of readers of the American Tract So
ciety's publications sball have the truth in rcla'
ton to slavery spread before them, by placing six
opponents of slavery on the Publishing Committee
instead Of the six defenders of it who now consti
tutc that body, the editor of The independent OK
presses his confidence in the Christian character o
Sou.h.side Adams and volunteers the public state
ment of his opinion that the Tract Society, il
seeking "to promote the interests Of vital godlines
and good morals" is not called upon to cnjoin i'm
mediate emancipation as the duty of Shareholders
and the editor of The CongregdtionaliSt as opcnl,
saws that he"would not have the SOcicty--take VI
| tho nuastiOn pf admitting gIayp.OwnprS 10 the com
munion-table' that topics of this character
should be ruled out as one-sided and partisan
and that he 'does not want an Abolitionist ON the
Publishing Committee.
Are not sentiments like these utterly inconsist
ent with the declarations made by DIR. Chcev e1
and applauded by the editors above mentioned
that slaveholding is n Sn--that every Shareholder
is a man-stealcr-that if the Church and the min
istry fail to proclaim this truth, they consent to sin
that there is no apology for their silence that
it is owing to Meir unfaithfulness that slavery was
not long since abolished-and that if they still
seek, like Jonah, to cvade the utterance of Gods
message, lie will provide a whale to swallow
them?
As Anti Slavery laborers, we have nothing to
do with the Churches or the clergy except in their
relation to the slave. We have been faithful to
them in warning, admOnition and rebuke, ioi
their long-continued and aggravated completely
with Shareholders in their ecclesiastical relations
and we have never failed TO give due credit TO thu
few Churches and the few clorgymen who have ia
ken the anti-slavcry position which religion an'
humanity alike require. But, in view Of the lon,
course Of years. during which all the Churchc
and preachers of the popular religion have com
mitted Jonah's sin of silence, in relation to thi
' matter, and in view of the tardy, hesitating, weak
defective, selfcontradictory and inefficient uttel
ance of the few who have yet begun to speak upo
= it, it would not be strange-it would at least be
r fine example Of retributive justice-if Anti'Slaver
were the whale which God has provided to swa
y. low them.