Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-30

laving no large halls or meeting. houses profrered
o them, to be compelled to hire n hall so large aud
magnificent MS this, at very great cost, SO that the
VII ole expense of holding this anniversary would
70 say about $500. A committee had been appoint
I'd, at a preliminary meeting last evening, who
would 90 around and solicit contributions, and in
he meantime Mrs. Lucy Stone would make o few
remarks.
EVENING SESSION.
The meeting again assembled at I 10 o'clock,
Nj. The room was more crowded than during
the morning session. Mr.. Garrison took the chair
and called the assembly to order. lie then in
Rev. j. II. W. Sloane, Pastor Of the
Third Reformed Presbyterian Covenanter Church
of the city Of New York.
Mr.. Sloane said he gladly accepted the invita-
ton to speak, which he felt bad not been tender
cd SO much as q compliment to himself
as a compliment to the religious denomina-
ton to which he was attached, which had
ever been opposed to the foul sin slavery, and the
Constitution under which 1t existed. Other re.
ligious denominations had uttered their protests
against slavery, yet he believed that the old Cove
nanters alone stood forth as refusing to accept in
toChristian fellowship Shareholders and refusing to
vote or hold Office under a Constitution which toll.
crates slavery. The old Scotch Cuveuanters had
ever held that doctrine, believing that it was the
only hope for the release of the bondman from his
chains. They refused to accept the COnstit ution
of the United States, not because they were OPP
posed to government, for they believed that Gov
eminent was n divine ordinance not because
they were not Republicans, because they were re.
publicans to a man but because they could not
swear to support a Constitution which permitted
millions of their fellow men to be robbed of their
Just and inalienable rights. The progress of their
ideas was extremely slow, but they were cheered
by the fact that now many accepted the principle
and stood on the platform which, but a few years
since. few dared avow. The Anti Slavery Society
hao flung their banner to the breeze, on which was
inscribed uncom promising hostility to slavery, and
untiring Efforts to extinguish that foul blot from
American soil. NO Union with Shareholders was
their motto. Their forefathers had asserted the
principle when they planted their feet on this soil
Nc union with ,yrants, politically or ecclesiasti-
cally. That principle he had learned in his
youth, and living or dying, he hoped to abide by
lie would not stop to prove that slavery was a
sin. L, was felt to be 50 by the universal moral
sense Of the world, and by the whole voice of the
Church, except in the Interpretation of pro 81 a.
very divines. As for attempting to prove slavery
a sin, he would not insult the sense of his audi.
he would not insult the sense of the nation,
by doing so. Argument was wasted in the at
tempt. All that was to be done with it was to cast
it, with n mill stone about its neck, into the sea-
Their object was to uproot this slavery. Our
loreiathers sowed the dragons teeth, and we were
the armed men. They sowed the wind,
were reaping the whirlwind. What was there
in Slavery that we should desire to pespetuate it
1t had robbed three millions of men of their rights;
It had reduced millions of men to q condition
little better than the slaves il had corrupted the
Church and had suborned the press
There was n higher law than the Constitution of
the United States but a man who had sworn to
support that instrument could recognize no higher
law, and with him there was no higher law, and
with him there was but this alternative, either to
obey the Constitution and disregard his consCi.
ence, or obey his conscience and forsake the Con-
stitution. Slavery held dominion over the whole
domain of this country ruled the North as well
as the South. To talk Of staying the encroach.
ments of slavery was worse than madness. While
politicians had been talking, .yrants had been
working. The whole North had been turned into
a hunting-ground and Southern bloodhounds had
been baying on our soil, and this iDiquity had cul.
minated in the late infamous decision of the Su
preme Court. Nothing was left to US but war,
and it must be carried to the heart of the enemy,
cam p, to the throne of the grim, ghastly tyrant.-
But let there be no trust in politicians. There
was nothing to hope from them Their feet were
entangled in the net of the Constitution. The
best of them might confront the monster, but
none dared strike him on the face. There was as
little hope in the Church, for the devil in she
State was not likely to be an angel of light in the
Church. With regard to slavery in the Chdrch,
the commandment Of God has written in letters oil
light on the brow of the armament Come out Of
her, and be not a ~partaker Of her uncleanness a.!
lie would not bring a railing acc usation againsl
the churches, for the salvation of the world was
committed to them, and he would adllit that in thu
church were many great and good men, of VIII on
he could only regret that they did not see that NJ
half ground was to be taken in the matter Of sla
very. IL would be ask ed, if Christians separated
from the churches, what would become of them
They would follow in she track Of the Jewisl
Church when they prosecuted and cruc flied tb,
Saviour, and the Romish Church when it forsool
Christianity. They would falkland God wOulC
not care.
And what, they were often asked, would become
Of the Government? Why, it would fall as al
old decayed tree, when its props were taken away
and we should afterwards, under any circumstan
ces have a better Government. for a wors ave coulC
not have. America was regarded by Americans
and multitudes in the old countries, as the hope o.
the world. Hope of the world, indeed! 1t wa,
cruel irony. lie did not believe that there was
any true Republican in the whole world who turn
ed his eyes towards this country with the idea that
there was anything to hope from it. The Consti'
tuition, ana all the political Parties that fourished
under it, were rotten at heart. They have been
weighed in scales of Justice and found wanting.
The dissolution of the Union was a matter that
was becoming fam liar to the Northern mind
The fact was, if we did not dissolve theUnion, it
would dissolve itself. 1t was a mixture of iron and
miry clay. The handwriting was on the wall and
only those were the sayiouIs Of the nations
who preached deliveranco to the captive, and let
the oppressed 60 free.
In that, and that alone, could the Union be pre-,
served. 1t was proclaimed to them, as its safety,
as with the voice of the eternal God, from a
thousand cities that were once powerful and pros
porous, but which had been trodden into dust By
the footsteps of an avenging Deity. AS a minis
ter of Christ, he would say to our ecclesiastica
organizations, in the words Of the Most High i
ye will not hearken unto me, | will make you
sanctuary a desolation-eurse ye, Meroz,-curs