Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-27
+. ON the Practical Christian.
GARRISONIAN ABOLITIONISM AND IT'S
0PPOSERS.

Convention In Boston, and participated In no other
of the anniversaries of the week, though there
were several highly interesting public demonstra
tions which we would gladly have witnessed, had
We not felt more interested at the MelOdeon. This
confession, are aware, will bring us no laurels
of popular commentator. Judging from sundry
illusions reported to have been made by certain
speakers at other meetings, and the cuntemptuous
articles which graced the Boston Traveller during
the week. the Garrisonians would seem to be the
veriest set Of "impracticable fanatics" "mad-
caps" and "disorganzers" that ever tried to turn
this "world upside down." We happen, however,
to have better opinion of them, and so stuck
rather closely to their much berated conv
Reputation or no reputation, we'll reported or ill
reported so long we prefer death to chattel
slavery for ourself and those dearest to us, we
shall consider deliberate, persistent slaveholding
worse than murder and 30 long we consider it
worse than murder, we shall prefer the company
of those who uncompromisingly dehounce and
disfellowship it such rather than that of relig
ionists and politicians who treat it as if it were
only NAL economy, an inconvenept natural evil,
or remnant of social barbarism, or at worst
merely deplorable half excusable fault
We abhor slaveholding as somthng worse than
all this,-worse than petty larceny, or any common
crimei we abhor it as fagran; capital crime. We
abhor the original act of man-stealing, by which
slavery initiated. We abhor the act Of purchas-
chasing those stolen human beings when first land
ded from Africa. We abhor the persistent holding
of them and their posterity slaves We abhor the
continual kidnapping of their children and child
ren's children from the wombWe abhor still more
all laws which assume that these foul outrages are
innocent acts. We athor yet more all political
compacts, considerations and organizations which
treat slaveholding as equally commendable with
landhoding and which league nonslavebolders
with Shareholders against their slaves to keep
millions of them in hopeless bondage. And most
of all do we abhOr relg ous and ecclesiastical or
ganziations which, in the name of God and Jesus
Christ, license savehoding or tolerate it COM
patible with Christian righteousness. In theee
views all Garrisonian Aboitionists sympathize.
So in their case, in all others, "birds Of
feather flock together"
Are we ashamed Of such moral position and
companionship? No; we glory in it. Why?
Because it is the only truthful, ust consistent and
defensible The ultra Shareholders the ultra
Abolitionsts are right. If slaveholdng is any sin
at all, it is one of the very greatest If sin at
ALL per Sc, it is as innocent and laudable as land
holding cattie-owning, banking or manufacturing.
If so it is right everywhere, and ght to be reg
ulated and protected accordingly. But if it be,a
ultra Abolitonists contend one of the greatest Of
sins per SEA capital crime worse even than
murder, all things considered, then persistent
saveholding ought to be outlawed by State and
Church, just as the United States have outlawed
African slavetrading Why not?
Now the Garrisonian Abulitionists believe this !;
and they say it in way to be understood, without
they make themselves hated, scorned and dreaded.
By whom? By prominent ecclesiastics, politicians
and all the devotees Of established compacts and
organizations. Why? Because these eccesias-
tlcal and political organizations are in some way
so tied up in union with shareholders, that they
cannot outlaw them without greater or less agita-
ton, inconvenience, Standardization and self
sacrifice For this they are not morally prepared
and therefore they hold to their com plicty with
saveholding But the Garrisonian Abolitionists
are fully prepared to tell the truth, and to rebuke
their completely with this monster crime of the
age, This is their peculiar mission. Were they
to fall away from this faithful testimony, they
would become mere moral tCaddlers, alike useles,
and contemplate as reformers.
Yet their oppressors seem to speak of them as i
their transformation into such compromising twad
dlers would be their regeneration-a glorious
translation out Of madcapism and diSorgaRization
ism into true religious and political holiness
This is the wisdom of compromisers--of men VIII
are just as anti-slavery and just proslavery a
the circumstances Of the times render most expe
dent for their beloved church, religious sect, Oh
political party. With them nothing is good, wis(
and practicable that will not in some way accommo
date itself to tho present comfort and advantage
their "Zion," their platform" their "Union.' >
With one breath they denounce slavery as the
meanest. vilest, most accursed thing under the
sun with the next they swear to give it protec
tion and defence in its strong-holds, even though
they should be obliged to shed rivers of blood to
fulfill their covenant AT one moment they villiiy
Shareholders as "tyrants," robbers" and "ruth-
ans" and split the air with their invectves ; in
the next perhaps, they will address of them as
dear Christian brother, Pan honorable gentleman"
or most patriotic citizen! No wonder that
such religionists and politicians cry out against
Garrison, Phillips aad their associates; for they
cannot stand moment before the sword of their
testimony. No wonder that those men of upright
life, pure motives, clear vision, resistless logic and
burning eloquence carry moral terror into the
ranks OF such inconsistent pretenders to wisdom
and virtue. No wonder that ultra Shareholders at
the South, in the rankness of their wicked consis
tency, spurn all Iwo-sded compromsers They
hate the Garrisonians, yet are obliged to respect
them. But they despise, as we'll as hate, the whole
race OF religionists and politicians whose boasted
wisdom consists in compounding antislavery with
proslavery in exactly the proportions necessary to
each days exigency and convenience.
"Great is truth, and will prevail" Let right
eousness reign though all the old sects and parties
should be dissolved in the crucibe of regeneration.
For then will come the "new heavens aud ne
earth," wherein shall be no more sin nor woe.
Delaware, Florida, Arkansas, and, we believe,
Mississippi, are yet without daily paper. such
is the effect of slavery.