Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-26
Vbe Anti 5laurrp Buele.
From the Free Presbyterian
THE NEW PRO SLAVERY CHURCH
SOUTH.

By the proceedings we published last week, our
readers will have learned that the southern sece-
ders from the N. S. Presbyterian Church have per.
fected their schism by giving it organic form. The
salient point of this whole affair is that the new
church has really and avowedy but one distnc-
tive principle, and that is the sanctity of American
slavery. The seceders allege no other ground Ct
difference with their brethren from whom they
have separated. They profess to agree with them
on all points of Christian doctrine, and church
order. The sole offence laid to the charge of their
former associates is that they will not recognize
slavery as approvngly ordained of God, and as in
sll circumstances holy and desirable institution.
We say in all circumstances, because the N. S.
General Assembly have always admitted that in
some circumstances slayery is innocent. In the
Detroit resolutions they specify three crcums tan
ces which, in their ud ,ment, justify the holding
OF men as property by the members of the church,
and their last Assembly enacted nothing nconsist-
ent with this. Bot because they hold that slave
ry, under other circumstances, is evil. DR.. Ross
and his srhismatical adherents have withdrawn,
and organized what they call church, on the
ground that slavery is always and only good, and
ehall enjoy the fullest and most undisturbed fcl-
lowship and sanction Slavery is therefore their
corner stone, their sure foundation their bond of
union The right of the master to buy, sell, work,
scourge and kill his fellow men. to separate them
from wives and children, parents, brothers and
sisters is the sole right for the maintenance of
which the new organization has been formed.
1t is difficult to find words to adequately char
acterze the moral enormty of this whole proceed
ing. Slavery in the abstract and in the concrete
and under all circumstances, is a crime that stands
alone in unapprCachabe atrocity. 1t is literally
the sum of all villainies." There is not u crime
on the catalogue of human guit--sacrilege bias
phemy, idolatry, murder, incest, adultery robbery
or ra2e-which slavery does not license and all
OF these crimes are perpetrated from time to time
by masters upon their slaves. Some of them are
perperated habitually, from the very of the
case, others of them occasionally. All of them
may be perpetrated With perfect impunity by mas
ters on slaves. at any time and at all times. Yet
here we have a convention Of the proessed min.
listers and members oc Jesus Christ in his name,
and Ostensby by his authority, separating from
those with whom they have long associated. on the
sole ground that this atrOciUus system shall not be
discussed aud shall not be condemned And after
separation they proceed to form an organization,
and call il church, on the avowed principle that
God sanctions this concentration and embodiment
of all conceivable guilt and infamy.
And these men have the terrible effronterv and
blasphemy to call themselves Christians and Chris
tian ministers Christians indeed What posi-.
BILE point of affinity can be traced between them
and the meek and holy Jesus? Behold that Di-
vine Savior, as seated on the mountain side, with
his mild eye all burdened with the weight Of hu-
man sympathy, he proclaims, blessed the
mercful for they shall obtain mercy" "There-
fore all things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you do We also to them, for this is the
law and the prophets" Behold him again in the
synagogue with the book of the law open before
him, proclaiming 1.-The Spirit of the Lord is up
on me, because he hath anointed nc to preach the
Gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal tho
broken hearted, TO preach delverance to the cap
tves, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at
liberty them that are bruised" The very soul of
love and pity for the poor and oppressed breathes
in his words and acts. "All bore him witness u
we told, "and wondered at the gracious words
that proceeded out of his mouth" Their souls
were lost in delightful worder at the more
than human love that like halo Of heavenly
light pervaded his presence. and breathed around
hrn. His distinguishing mark of his own dvini-
ty and Messiahship was his love for the poor, and
his zeal to pre- ch to them the Gospel. Wherever
a hunan heart lies crushed under oppression, there
yearns His bowels of mercy. Wherever a souls
tolls weariy under the weight Of sir and sorrow,
there sounds his voice of love- bidding the weary
and heavy laden come to him and be at rest.
Turn to the other side of the picture.
In the city of Richmond, where, day by day the
hammer of the auctoneer falls heavily on the
crushed and broken hearts of the scattered and
peeled poor Of ,his land assemblies convo
cation Of the nominal disciples Of this blessed and
compassionate Savior. Do they, like Him. fee
that their mission is tn "proach deiverance to the
captives, and the opening Uf the prison to the
bound? Nay verify. Their open and avoweC
and only object is to perpetuae the captivity, ant
bar more securely the prison doors Of the Cypress
ed. Under the shadow of the lofty temple where
they meet the Saviour, in the person of some o
his poor heart-broken disciples, lies chained anC
bruised in the loathsoms slave pen. These pro
fessed ambassadors of that very Savior meet fo
the sole purpose of organizing nominal churcf
in which those who buy aud sell, and chain, and
lacerate Jesus Christ may be fellowshpped as goot
Christian brethren In that fetid slave pen lies
the wife and mother. She has been ruthlessl
parted forever from her husband. and from
her arms has been cruelty torn the babe
over whose little form her heart yearns with
all the deathess love that the mother only
knows. AS she lies there in chains, memory
brings back the image of the little one. She sees
the sweet smile upon it's innocent face. She feel'
ats warm breath and the pressure of the dimpled
hand upon her bosom anG then. as she recalls
the dreadful truth that she will see It no more IN
this world. she subs as if her very heart strings
would burst asGnder.-And there almost wthir
hearing of her wall, those professed ministers o
the loving Jesus are ordaining that the fend il
shape of man, who inflicted all this terrible
weight of VICE. does nothing whatever inconsist
ents With the character of the Christian !! AnC
these men preach, and pray, and talk pious cant
and then, like the aduerous woman, wipe thei
mouths and say, 1--WE have done no wick dness !
Let these men fill up their cup of iniquity, and
by all means, let them be consistent, and oper
wide the doors of the sanctuary they are found
ing. Let them send one delegation to the leprou
saints of the Salt Lake Valley, another to the see
thing brothels of the Five Points of New York
and a third to the Thugs of India, bidding th'
Mormon aduiterer, the New York pre- stitute, an'
the Indian assassin come to their fold and ali
them in celebrating this marriage of death anC
hell. We conceive of hut reason VIII!
they might not thus greatly increase their some
what meagre number. and that is. that the Nor
mon. the Prostitute and the Thug might spurn tn
invitation. and resent rs an insult the attempt t
place them on level with DR.. Ross and his adher
ents. We can hardly cay that they would no
have just cause to do SO.
UP AGAIN, BROTHER.