Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-29
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

tends the right, loves man. abhors tyranny. Have
you got i'll IL so, then there is n tremendous
strife going on in the land with municipalities,
and powers, and spiritual wickedncss in high
places The autagonistic. ekr6esis Of heaven
and hell are now in 6erco conflict, and a blood
stained Church and State are shaken to their foun-
dations, as by q mighty earthquake But does
any body tremble Never more easy Is cor.
ruption terrified Why, it goes soundly to sleep,
and snores over it. Loud laughter and applause.
A genuine revival Of religion would scare James
Buchanan so that he could not sleep ~o'nights
daughter and applause)--and the whole South
would be up in arms to resist this invading spirit,
and if possible, to lynch it.
Now, when all is calm and peaceful, in the
midst Of all.Obandoning corruption, how dare you
say that the spirit of the living God is at work
How dare you say that we have q revival of the
religion of Jesus Christ, the Redeemerf Let
exceptional cases be granted--that, here and there
a man may be changed from an evil course to a
good one-it does not affect the general fact-it
does not invalidate the statement, that the revival
of which we hear so much is spurious and worth.
less, because it gives no trouble to the corruption
the demagoguoism, or the demon spirit of slavery
in the land.
You Know they are determined on having the
piratical foreign slave trade rc,opened, and arc
looking for the time, not far distant, when it will
be made a legitimate branch of American com
merce. Yet among the very people who are thus
DESTROYS to extend and perpotuate slavery, and t
renew the African slave traffic, tho revival il
spreading, and converts arc multiplying in all di
rectionsl They have prayer meetings in Wash
ington, in Richmond, in Charleston, in Savan
nah, in New Orleans, they pray earnestly to theiI
God, at the same time that they prey upon thei
poor manacled slaves, and are determined to have
more victims. (Applause.) say it is q shame
Now let any one who wishes to hiss relieve his DO
som. There was a very significant silence
broken at last by loud applause.
If any religion leaves q fetter upon ny limbs
| shall denounce it as spurious, call it by wha
name you please. As every other human being il
by creation entitled to the same rights as | am
any religion which leaves any man in bondage i
equally deserving of execration. (Applause.)
GMr. Garrison proceeded to illustrate the natur,
of the revival in Boston, by referring to the activ,
participancy in it of the Rev. Nehemiah Adams
Of that city, the author of "A South,Side View O
Slavery'-a book which be pronounced to be al
false, deceptive and goddess as was ever publish
ed. lie referred to the prayers that had beer
offered in the meetings in Park street vestry, tina
God would put a hook into the jaws of Theodor,
Parker, or remove him out of the way or smit'
him with impotency, and paid q merited tribute t.
the mental independence, moral intrepidity, ant
philanthropic and progressive spirit of Mr.. Parker
which ELECTED warm applause. lie then said;
Ijudge the present revival, and determine, it,
true CHARACTER, Dy q very sure tesU. i an an Gu
itor, and my exchange list embraces papers from
every part of the land. These | examine with
watchfnl and constant sOiicit"de, from day to day
My finger is constantly upon the pulse of the ma
ton. | know, if any man can know, what is the
heart of the American people. because the press
is TIE general exponent Of their real feelings and
sentiments and, therefore. | should lie a dull
scholar not to know what is the lesson it teaches
Everywhere revealing to me the fact, as it does,
that the present revival is viewed with compla
cency and appreciation by .he most pro-slavery
divines, by unprincipled political demagogues. by
the satanic journals, by all who are hostile or in.
different to the cause of down,trodden humanity,
/ am sure it cannot be Of God, whatever excep
tional cases there may be in any part of the land
for if it were, they would assuredly be alarm.
ed by its prevalence, and attempt to suppress
it.
All this talk about coming to Christ is. t.
my ear, ss melancholy as q wall for the dead, be
cause it defines nothing, it means nothing, excep
in a sectarian senses; it gives no aid to the under
q standing, it does not reach the heart; it is dest
. tute Of moral courage, and seeks only conformit
to a ritual religion. Now, the Christ who is nc
/. despiscd and rejected Of men in a thoroughly col
q rupt age, whose sympathies are not with the poo
r and oppressed, and to whom ostentatious homag
n is paid by the pharisaical and time'serving, cann(
\ save us here or hereafter Throughout the Soutt
o they offer up prayers to Christ, and profess to yer
crate his name; but do l exaggernte when | say
: the Christ they adore is o slaveholding, slave
breeding, slave-trading Christ? And is not sue
the Christ of America to-Gay. as interpreted an
y accepted by the American pulpit and Church?
glory in the Christ of Judea, because he wa
o willing to be made of no reputation for righteous
J ness sake, and dare not confront popular iniquity
and expose a rotton religion, to the sacrifice {
g his life. How my pulses leap, how my hear
r glows. as 1 read his history =! How divine wa
; his spirit-how world embracing his love! 'Bt
e hold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin
p of the world His spirit we need; we want tn
G same moral heroism, the same abiding faith i
n the living God, the same willingness to 'endur
:, the cross as he exhibited; so shall we find salvi
v ton.
s l am for a genuine revival of religion-for n
compromise with crime-for emancipating ever
s slave-for man universally, and God the Fathe
e Of US all. loud applause.)