Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-25
WHOLE NO. 615..

fewer riots2 tell you, surely as there 10
I God unless those who are nc the head of society
set better example. and reptove this enormode'
wickedness they will not be able to govern the fag.
end To uphold slavery and denounce lesser
crimes, is to confound all moral distinctions, and
our nation is rapidly reaching that position. Great
wrong being sanctioned by the grestest names, pet
ty devltry aud small knavery must fourish IL
reduces itself to the of the father who is him
self living in the practice of the grossest crimes,
who takes his child and Aogs him for stealing an
apple. If man swears twenty times day, will
he whip his son for saying 'D-niPf This is-
the state Of things in this nation at the pfesers
hour. | say if this were done,as it must bo done.
we should all perceive in our country very clear
diminution Of those many crimes that are now
stalking abroad, and we should see every interest
that belongs to the permanent welfare of this
country advance at once. On this account, these
men have no reason to be ashamed of their plat
form,
Of what avail is il, that you point your fingers
at them, and say, you are trotors-destroyers of
your ntry,--Overthrowers of the Church Of God,
you are disastrous to the welfare of people'f-
Is it so? Depend upon it, if all we ask were done
every thing good under heaven would be promsted.
We all know it would be so.
But then it is said by these who feel al liberty to-
certain eztent-We cannot do this work at sncey
and therefore, we disposed to do il by such de-
grees as we are able. You are impracticable fell
lows; We are very practica we are for accomplish.
ing some things that can be DONE Now, believe
there are two kinds of fimpractcibility syringe
from the want of will, the other from the want OF
way. ask you if any thing we demand is nos
practicable, provided there the will to do iv1-
Is it not practcable,-the whole of it-so that
this Society should be abandoned, and its danger
Gus characters dismissed from the platform at onceE
Nothing is wanted but the will. 'Ov says yous
there is not the will in Congress, in the nation. in
the government in the church, there is not the
will in the great body of the people, Then my
friends is there the will to do right. or is there the
will to do wrong? But you say, What will you
! doP You are opposed TO this glorious Union OF
ours Is your Union Unioa to uphold liberty
or to W hold slavery? If iii Union to uphold
liberty, we would neither destroy it if we could,
nor could we if we would. Is it not so?-we would
not destroy it if could, and We could not if we
would. Is it not Union to uphold slavery? If it iss
I.submit to you all that it is Union that ought to
be disavowed that ought to be dissolved that every
honest upright man, every true Christian and pat
riot and Republican, ought to say at once, Il can.
not and will not support Union which Is used tor
the peruose of uphoding slaveryP Now, ,yourmay
settle that question for yourselves whether theUnion
as it isis for the u2hodng of liberty or slavery.
tell you, that if this Union were not regarded at
the South upholding slavery, it would be abolish
ed at once by them. If it be Union that upholds
slavery, we ere bound TO oppose it-we are bound
to use our utmost exertions againstit. A few hon
est men do this now, and that the time will come
when you will all be obliged to do it; for if
you are not willing to take the ntiatory etepr you
Will DC lOrceu 70 IL Dy VI cAuNoiJ
( apoH yeur own rights and liberties.
i You say we are opposed to the Churss. k The
Church pledged to give countenance to slavery e
for ie ii is, we ought to be opposed to it. But il
the Church is opposed to it, as to every crime in
the decalogue, we cannot injure the Church. The
) Church can inlure itself, but cannot injure il
! it is impossible.
But, say yos, If you insist upon these measures /,
the Union must be dissolved What if it should
be? Will the sun ever rise again? Will the moon
shine? Will the stars give their light by night
Will there be any more produce out of the bosom
u of mother earth? Suppose we are obliged to dis
solve it to abolish slavery-would not the gain be
greater than the loss, and whatever is good in the
Union be preserved2 But suppose, by upholdiDg
the Union, we uphold slavery. Slavs,y eats out
and subverts the very good for which the Union
was originated. VIII you go for that Slavery
will not let the Union stand. few years more
will roll away, this tyranny persstcntly marching
forward, till finally the avalanche will come down
upon you all, and you will be obliged to take the
very ground which we now say you ought 10 take
upon principle. Just as surely as the sun rises in
the east and sets in the west such will be the fact
A Union that upholds such crime cannot stand.
Union that uphods such ends will become or
intolerabe curse to its own doyotees-it cannot ba
otherwise.
You say, if We insist, it will break up every
Church in the land. What a confession is
this! The Church of Jesus Christ. the Congrega
tonalist the Presbyterian, the Epscopalian, the
Baptist, the Unitarian, the Universaist Churches,
all broken by doing right--by doing that which
we should all lift up our hands and Seg Of
our dearest friends to do if we had wife or
child in bondage Do not own it my friends =
yes own is but with sorrow. Ministers would
preach themselves out of their pul lpits-they would
not be tolerated, would rot be heard there ! That
would be very uncomfortable and very disagree
able; but how can man look in the glass
and see his own face, and feel consciousness that
he is afraid of such result as that? 1t is O sad
Ia 4. III.
such puppet as to fear to speak out in rebake of
crime, lest he should be deprived Of the support
of those beneath him ! What position is that
for Christian minister, one called by God, sent
by the Holy Ghort to preach without fear or favor,
and call men to repentance viii you confess III
But, you say, it is not expedient. Whyf The
Union will be dissolved. 1t is not expedient. Wbye
We cannot call on large and powerful party To-
accomplish any good. 1t is not expedent. Whyf
The Church will he sundered and it is not expedi-
ent that preachers should preach Themselves out
| of their pupits. For doing what For doing what
ought to be done, and what must aud viii be
done aud il only remains to be seen whether you
will allow those who have worked on this plat
form, by their internal fire producing this higher
heat in the atmosphere, to work on uDaided, or
whether you will yourselves take part IN the
work, and sctwith them.
1t is siad we are impracticable. Now, practical
ability depends on what men undertake to accom-
plish. 1t is not practicable to dig stones with
cambric needle it is not practicable to make u
fine shirt with an iron bar but it is practicable
to dig stones with an iron bar, snd to make fine
shirts with camdric needle 1t is not praetica-
BILE to raise an apple tree that shall bear twenty
bushels of apples in five years, but you may do IL
in fifteen or twenty. Our work is before u.s.
What is tina. work ? Is it to abolish ministers.
or churches or constitutions, or laws or existing
public opinion No, it is to correct them all
make them all feel ashamed of the wrong. if they
do not feel an honest conviction against it, Ii ia
to stir them all to feel honest conviction against
it, It is to stir them up that they cannot resi-
by night or by day until they have put down this
great evil, This is our work. You may say that
twenty-five years have already been spent. and the
work is not accomplished, Suppose ii is the work
of half century is it not a work necessary TO be-
done Why did we not hear this voice from the