Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-27

well employed now as they know how to be. and
when they get enlightened there will be no trou.
BILE about q machine to work with. Politicians
will find machines, and just as good ones too as
the people can work with.
Stephen will, | believe do much better in edu,
eating the public mind, in using his great talents
to manufacture Men, rather than in contriying
ways for hdf men to get at the ballot box. For
If he gets them there astride his horse, they will
jump off and mount the first iackass that bellows
out that he has a fat chance at the 'crib," and
holds out the idea that they may have a chance Mt
the Office Of %currying and feeding him.
Oh we want men, and men will find q way to
act. Haters of slavery, will fight slavery aleays,
but Office seekers will fight for Office first and not
hsht slavery at oil until it is popular to do so"
CHERRY VALLEY. Ashtabula Co. Ohio, Feb. 18th.
FRIEND ROBINSON The Friends of Human Pro-
gress in this vicinity have been recently cheered
BY the presence and labors Of that earnest I'D yocate.
OF Freedom, A. T.. Foss, who has held some half a
dozen meetings in this township. If these efforts
have no other good effect. they must at least arouse
thought, and prompt to investigation and tho
cause of truth has nothing 10 fear, but everything
to hope from free AMI open inquiry. The freedom
Of speech which characterizes these meetings is
one of their principal charms and though advan-
tage is sometimes taken of the liberty given. to
annoy the speaker by silly questions and contemp.
tible quibblings, which should be beneath the dig.
nifty of men, and certainly evince no desire to ar
rive at the truth, but are rather suggestive of the dis.
agreeable position of a person convinced against
his will".
These meetings are usually held in the different
schOnl.hnusas ,vh;ob o,o c.. -.-t
date all who dare to attend and there is vet nm.
other class who would like to hear Mr.. F., bu.
are ashamed to be seen running after such trash,
sometimes they listen for awhile without, but
probably not hearing much good of their partiou-
lar sect or party, they turn away and cry out inf.
delity'.
The iabors Of Mr.. Foss excited rather more than,
a usual share of a negatire opposition, not a manly
out spoken opposition that prompts to an effective.
defence, but such as is manifested by ridicule and
vile aspersions. Anti.Slavery lectures and come
cutters are as convenient to an orthodox conscience
as we're the Escape goats" of olden time and thew
are used for the same purpose. Heavy indeed is
the load of sins" laid upon their innocent heads
T by the ''rigidly righteous and the unco good" to
be borne away into the wilderness.
Mr.. Foss took a religious or as the orthodox
3 would call it, the anti.religious view of the slavery
question and labored to show that American Sla
e very with all its horrid cruelties is sanctioned nv
the Bible, and has grown up in harmonious rela-
lations with the religion of the land. OF course
this startling position and the array Of arguments
which he brought to support it were like a shock
Of electricity to all true believers. Yet I can see
u no course of reasoning by which to escape from
this unwelcome conclusion. Text after text was
brought to bear upon this point, showing conclu
y siveiy a thus saith the Lord for every deed of
. oppression. -
II Accustomed from childhood to the knowledge
{ that the Jews were permitted to hold property in
man, we have always been told from the pulpit and
Sabbath school that the s%ervitude.. that existed and
formed q part Of the Mosaic dispensatioD was vet
9 unlike American Slavery, that it was not attended
by such cruelty and woe as characterizes the sery.
itude OF the South. But if we throw aside these
idle assertions, and search the Scriptures" for
our authority on this question We shall find tina,
human nature was the same in the patriarchs az
ID now, and that where law gives one man unlimited
u power over one another it corrupts and degrades
both. that the one becomes a tyrant and the other a
slaue. We shall read Of a bond maid with whom
a her mistress dealt h~arshly" so'.hat she fed from
49, hHN ~ shS SSN ti ohC CaI u
re, ished. And may not our own Fugitive Law find a
ed least a precedent in the same narrative? Did no
m an angel appear unto'Hagar and bid her return
~ unto her mistress, not as a sister beloved, but as
d. slare, and submit herself to all the harsh treatmen
ire that hatred and jealousy might prompt.
:alI Surely Abraham was q slavhoider when he re
of ceived 'the promise y and his defendants afte
suffering centuries of oppression in Egypt, an
were miraculously established in the promise
land" embodied involuntary servitude among th
-. code of laws which they claimed to receive direc
from Heaven. Among all the deeds of barbarisr
=. enacted upon the plantations of the Carolinas c
Georgia. there are few that may not find a sanctio
" under thisl huma ne ~ law of Moses. "If a ma
4, smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and h
die under his hand, no shall be su rely punished
-. Notwithstanding if he continue a day or tpo, 1
shall not lie punished, for he is Aisimoney'. Exodr
2lst' 20 81.
Were we to search the statutes of all the Slay
DOL States, can we find a larger license given to til
in evil passions of the modern oppressor? And ca
ur- we reasonably doubt that the Slavery that exisie
ich under the Mosaic dispensation lacked any of tn
'et' revolving features that characterizes its young
sister American Slavery? Mr.. F. showed concll
{. sively that the slave had nothing to hope from ii
efforts of church or state in behalf CT emancipation
both "being leagued with the oppressor and wor
at ing in the same harness to strengthen and upho
Ind the peculiar institution thus showing incidental
fly the falsity Of the assertion that ''all christendom
tor leagued against the South on this question:.
ted feeble effort was made by one church official to d
cry nv the fact that the church shared in the prelude
rn- against color but in the face of self.eviden
'ro- facts to the contrary, such a denial has no fore
no. and needs no arguments to show its untruth. L
the churches Of the United States put thenlselv
to in hostile array against this giant evil. and its da.
lin are numbered but SO long as they continue
ent throw around its hideous form o robe of righteol
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