Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-09
Prom The Vanguard.
COMPROMISE,

COMPR0MlSE, l.
Tho history Of compromises is that Of q success
The cruci6 xion Of Christ was q compromise be.
tween Pilates sense of justice, which prevented
him from shouldering the responsibility Of the act
himself, and his fear of displeasing the ecelesaisuc
powers of Judea, which deferred him from furnish
ing that fearles ISrIDEL and ardent spiritualist
with the requisite protection from the coid.Diooueu
malice IF cunning priests, aud the blind Jury oil q
superstitiOus mob. Of course, nobody was Sails
fed.
Aftor Christianity had secured C. fcothold' it was
thought advisable, in order to insure It's iurtne.
progress. to blend with it heathenish tgments anu
platonic mysticism. The outgrowth % this COM
promise was Romanism in particular, ana ortho
doxy in General-thus embodying hatred ana rear
instead of love, as the ruling principle oil acuon.-
Hence, Christianity has failed to produce the ben
r6cial effects which. but for this compromise with
Judaism, Heathenism aud platonism. would have
resulted from it's general pre- valence IN those uays'
and, having lost its inv ard lille and iden'ty' sue,
ceeding centuries became as ages OF darkness; anu
left a scar on the worlds history when VIII ye'
require centuries of growth to etface. >.
Thus CROPPED tho so.called Christian woria IN
utter darkness through long years oil despo'ism'
uutil arose earnest men who iearlessly TOOK 'ne
bull by the horns, but while attacking the heau,
quarters Of despotism the Papacy-compro"iseu
with these very principles Of authority ana seiI'
Abneaation from which it derived its power to over
awe and crush. These men, after announcing the
right OF private judgement as a leading iuen VI
their faith, introduced authoritive creeds but iitue
inferior in absnrdity to those which they h"u o.
recently rejected.
Orthodox Professionalism, while protesting free
dom, practices despotism. Janus-like, it has TWO
faces; in controversy with the Church OF Rome, it
defends, the principles of free thought, ana the
RIGHT OF free speech, while to the free thinker IL
extols the advantages of q fixed standard OF faith'
aud seeks TO deprive Of their civil rights those VINO
receive it AS such, or who interpret 1t IN q different
manner, as in the case Of the Supreme Court OF
North Carolina decided that the testimony OF a
Uniyersalist is not admissible in their courts Of!
law.
But the inconsistency of this course is becoming
generally obvious; hence, the numerous deiecnohs
from the ranks of orthodox Professionalism 10 u
somewhat consistent d~espotism (Rome) on the one
hand, and a thorough freedom Of thought ana eA-
preston on the other. People cannot remain long
satisfied with compromise; there must ever De a
currert running backward to utter Absolutism, OF
forward to entire Self sovereignty. The streamo o,
Zine has it's whirlpools, its side-currehts "ru
counter.currents bat its main body rolls resistiess-
ly onward, dashing into fragments the petty oui'
Carks which conservatism and com promlse nave
erected, and flows rapidly on to the broad ocean OIL
Freedom.
Orthodox Professionalism lies helpless in the grasp
of Popery, on the one side. and Free Thought on
the other. The arguments used agrnst the iauer'
are turned BY the former against itself; and vice
versa. IL
Thus it ia made to commit suicide; its blows
are redoubled on itself. Hence, it is dying OF q
galloping consumption-a helpless compromise De-
tween Radicalism and the Real Presence. .
The Revolution of l6S0but scotched the snake OF
political d~espotism IN Great Britain, instead OF XII
ing it as the result, Whiggery and Conservatism
have. since that period, misgoverned halt the
globe, increasing Land Monopoly IN the British
islands to a frightful extent.
That of l776 was also a failure. because, while
advocating THEORETICALLY, the widest iberty-as
,erting the right Of oil men to 'life. liberty, ant
the pursuit Of happiness, it compromised with thu
slayeocracy, for the sake Of q supposed temporal.
benefit.
Thus a Union composed Of a people. the majorit
CT whom are opposed to chattel slavery. IS maue
through compromise. to sustain the a'roeiou' e'
sctments Of a slave-driving oligarchy.
This Union, which in Europe, paralyzes the ar
of the political patriot, is here on embodiment
fraud, and serves to crush every attempt at poi,ti
nj progress, so far as the general government ma
tile power. So far MS it fails to do this, IL IS I
cause Right is too strong for the alliance OF dc
pots.
That shadow Of q shade, the Missouri Compr
mise was an attempt TO compromise n compromis
TO prop up o falling building with rotten tlmoer
which has turned out a more gorgeous ia'iu
than the ragged patchwork which 1t tried 10 pat,
with rags moro rotten than the garment 10
Matched. Yet, unconvinced by these repeat,
demonstrations of the ~inutility of compromise, Il
PATCH party in religion and pOliticn, are u
remittingIy Industrious in getting up new ones
many of the leaders of the Republican party pr
fess q holy horror of the idea of meddling wi
slavery 10 a Slave State, and while opposed to Il
extension of chattel slavery they have no obJectiC
to a tenfold greater evil-that of Land Monopoly
Their temporary tactics have met VII
their lust reward in the election of a Pro'Slave
president, who processes, however, to be oppose
70 the greater evil of Land Monopoly.
Let friends of Progress in religion, politics. al
education, take warning by these facts. Let the
,taud on firm ground Of Principle, and success
sooner or later. is theirs. Let them attempt
compromises with the sects, with existing soc'
institutions, or educational systems. These t.
latter are the offspring of orthodoxy--the q
clothes of n religious despotism, and in proportl
as men would free themselves and their childr
from the shackles of o false theology. and a fan
less, ~truthless. slavish, political system, they shor
not fear the stigma which inevitably attaches
the consistent and thorough radical. They shou
not temporise with the elements of despotism. G
il, social, and religious, but unshrinking'y p!a
themselves in the VAN of progressive movemen
among the fearless, the loving and the true: