Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-18
Tbe Anti- 5laperp Buole.
DIR. MoNOD AND THE TRACT SOCIETY


Rev. Frederick Monod, an Evangelical French
Clergyman has it seems been travelling in this
,o,ntrv and ILL n most othe, Euronean Abolt;on.
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renee oil slavery tnrouSh the ueceitlul hnuences oi
the institution in this country, especially through
,h ;na,ences nf rho Raverend and sanrt6ed mn
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America lie appears as the special ana specious
defender of the gross proslavery enOrmites of the
American Tract S,cety Enormities which have
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press In this country In late New YORK lhue'
pendent Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe reviews his
,o.;,;ons in n manner which NAV he userul to
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nv,ne, we therefore, copy ner ar'oie.
aa7 little while since the Iudepeident had the
pleasure of publishing circular signed by all the
pastors and elders IN France and Switzerland
against the sin of slavery.
One of the earliest names appended to this let
Ter was that of the Rev. Frederick Mon 3D. brother
of the late amented Horace Adulphe n Monod,
and probably no one signed II with more hearty
good will. b. ...t..... .-.. a.-.1.
In this letter the American Churches were ad
dressed in tones OF earnest and alarmed expustula
ton The letter said. practically Brethren of
America, what mean you by your completely with
slavery? Your example is endangering the very
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shame on us who profess it. Ne are told that the
greatest Protestant nation on earth defends slavery
and th, is made an argument hy iniIels against
the Christian religion itself Pray, awaken take
more decided measures and oppose th threatening
evil
Well the American Church, though verg slow,
w. had awakened-awakened to the fact that eve.
nv one of the organized means through which thew
could address reconnaissance and instruction or ar.
gument TO the Christian community had come so
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word could be published against il by one Of them
The Sunday School Union, the Tract Society
supported by the funds OF the Christian Church
were pledged 20 say nothing about it. Nay, ere
there was practced sy ystematic plan of revision
and mutlaton by which every book borrowed
from foreign lands, OF from the wisdom of past
ages was skilfully deprived Of every passage
which expressed or implied rebuke of slavery y,-I
If good woman like Mary Lundy Duncan cele
bratei the anniversary Of West India Emaneipa
tion with thanks to God that the lash of the driver
and the shrieks of the slave no longer heard,
that passage, worthy OF noble English wO
mans heart. was omitted.
If DR.. Cotton Mather, in his essays to do good.
recognises as an evil the institution which our pi
Gus fathers-many Of them-regarded with hor
ror, that passage is smoothly etaced, 1t DR.. lar'
ris of England enumern ting the ans of the age,
classes slavery among them, the word slavery is
dropped out. Tho system thus pracliced was in
fact slowly and gradually wipng Oui all testimony
against slavery from the religious literature Of the
land, wiping it out with sponge dipped in the
waters of the sanc.uary-as ii the testimony had
been sin which needed ablution.
Even political men, men OF the world, were cry
ing out shame upon TINS courseas cowardiy and un'
christian and the Church was beginning to see
that her children were oeirg brought up on lit
erature when gave them not tue sHsntest prepara'
hon against the great demoraiizing lanuence tha'