Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-12-25
HOW ENGLAND MAY AID Us.

Tho last (London) nti.Slaeery Adrocate has an
article proposed national protest By the Brit
ish people, from which extract the following:
THOUGHTS ON THE NATIONAL PROTEST.
"In an attempt like that in which the Anti: Slar
rery Adoocae is engaged, to obtain the sympathies
and aid of the British public in behalf Of the
American Anti Slavery Society, ncas oaas be more
painfully conscious than of the greath of our
object compared with the nsu ffcioncy of our
means for it's attainment Efforts for the abolition
of slavery have always been popular in England
Notwithstanding the powerfuland ralthy interests
which so long succeeded in postponing the aboi'
ton not only of British Colonial slavery but even
of the British slave trade But the slareholding
interest in England, however inaueniiub never
had any hold upon the fears or sympathits of tds
great mass of the English pe5gle either as poll
ticians or professors of religion. Far different is
it in the United States. From a dread Of bssak-
ing party ties causing schism in tho grea, relig
ious denominations, which generally look far more
TO the Numbers, power, and prestige, than to the
purity of their organizations, the siaveholaer, II
wealthy and pious is, with rare exceptions, re
garded with far more fsyor--even in the Free
States-than the most single minded and labori.,
Gus laborer in the ant.slavery field. The abolip
tionists apt to be regarded as the marplots of
political unity-as troublers Of the churches peaee
Obliged as they have been to expose and protest
against the grave inconsistency Of anativn of frss
men being the chief supportssS and propagators Of
slavery, aad Of rsillioas Of loud professors
of evangelical religion, habitually sanctioning aud
supporting a system ct war with the SIMPLEST
measures of morality and humanity, the abolition
lists have dangerous and extremely onerous duty
to fulfil No wonder that their numbers are sw,.
and that the enterprise remains in the hands Of
handful of brave spirits, who, in spite of all diff
lculties and discouragements maintain an ihvin,
chile persistency in the path Of duty, No wonder
that being regarded with small favor by sse
churches at home, the churches in Great Britain
are not Jealous in behalf Of cause which is often
regarded as hostile to ths cause of Christiaaity
itself, since its champions have been compelled BY
their duty to the slave to show how futile is pro.
fession of religion when it fails to protest aganss
a system SO inhuman aud sbomfrsbls 40 slavery.
Nevertheless it is our deep persuasion that he wdd
has God on his side is majority in any enterprise,
and we therefore 90 in full faith that. whether or
not we may live to see the day. the time waf sure
ly come when she Arerican people will no longer
disgrace the name Of Christ and the cause of hu>
manity, by upholdng an institution which brutal.
ICES large portion of the human family, whilst
its effects upon the oppressors, and those who con.
sent to and support them in their tyranny nss un-
speaka5ly disastrous to the onward march Of civ
lizatiCH.
We have been led to tirese somewhat irreIsvsns
remarks by some Communications We have reoeiv.
ed respecting the National Protest which sppesrsd
in our last number, all Of which have resohed us
from the members Of the Leeds Young Meme
Slavery Society. with whom. we believe. ne
idea Of the Protest Appeal, or RsmoDstrsnss Ast