Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-17
WHOLE NO. GG6.


and become like 40 many sticks Of commercial
seaOng-wax. The electricity Of thought, of truth
OF freedom from the word OF God, stops where il
first touches it is insulated, it cannot pass to
others; there is no Spontaneous conducting power
lrauTltorily, perhaps it melts the sticks OF one
end, but their very capacity for being melted
serves only for sealing up and keeping close; and
thus tue ministry become, in regard to this tree
meudous, remorseless all deyouring inquity no
better than the devils sealing Such is their
uprightness, such is their conservatism. Its
very law and principle are the wisdom of the god
Of this world to keep Gods light from the con.
science. Instead Of a manifestation of the truth
to every mans conscience III the sight OF God.
their method is coneeslmont, and under it iniquity
and lalsehO1d run riot.
The crisis to which we have come makes it I'M
perative upon every church, minister and mission
arg institution to speak out. Even Mt tho South
returned missionaries sometimes bear their testit
mouy against slavery. How happens it that al
most every man at the North is silent? Nc voice
IS raised at the anniversaries Of our Missionary
Boards, though we hear, by letters IRON our own
miss sionary brethren abroad, how their hearts are
filed with anguish at the dreadful prevalence OF
this sin, and how this stumbling block Of your in
iquity lies in the path Of the Gospel and yet, the
moment thoy step on these shores, aud pass
through the ordeal Of our conservatism, 1t is u
perfect dephlogiscation Of their souls the spirit,
the anguish the fire Of Indignation dies ont the
power almost of sight and feeling, in regard 10
the lniquity Of this sin, is taken from them, and
the only condition on which they eau escape the
charge of imprudeuce, characterization and fanat-
ica zeal without Knowledge, the only condition.
ON which they can keep on good terms with the
leading men and enjoy their confidence is that of
profound silence in the presence OF that hdeous
crime which is the Dagon of our nations worship.
Other men speak out DR.. Livingstone is n
witness in print and thore being other presses be-
sides that Of the rrac. House, we get his testimo-
ny without mutilatiou, concerning the atrocities
which at home are fostering But the moment
a missionary sets his foot upon the soil Of that
republic where slavery is the law OF the land al
though like DR.. Duff he may have come from a
country where they freely denounce this abomina
ton, and where he himself has spoken against It,
the spell OF silence il upon him ; he is bitten with
that pastoral hydrophobia described in Isaiah,
under which men become dumb dogs that cannot
bark. Even such men Of powerful eloquence VISIT
our shores at the most solemn crisis In our long
and dreadful conflict against the despotlsm OF
slavery, and depart without opening their lips in
Gods name to rebuke that iniqnity, which they
yet tell US from abroad is the greatest human
obstacle to the spread and triumph of the Gospel
Whence is this How is this ! What means
this Must their very letters pass through 6
quarantine at the Missionary Rooms, and are they
themselves carefully instructed, and their utter
hnces strained through the aembic OF irnden-
tial Committee, the presiding genius OF whose
wisdom is represented in the loving kindness OF
the Southside yiewf Must their words on this
one subject be uttered in under tones and anxious
whispers as though great imprudence were COM
mitted in even adyerting to it ls there any such
completely in the American Board with slavery
itself, that even their own foreign missionaries
cannot speak
think, until we can show some faces Of hint
in the chuvch; the ministry, and our Tract and
Missionary Societies, it becomes us to be modest
in speaking of the dough faces in political life
Everywhere the power of bribery and debauchery
in behalf Of this sin is present, and everywhere
almost omnipotent No political party can be re,
lied upon. nor any Christian society-airaid OF
the Word Of God, afraid to say that sin Is sln'
But the Church, the Ministry, and our Mission
ary Boards ought to cut themselves free from such
double dealing to come forth entirely from all
entangement with such iniquity, and all shadow
Of the sanction Of ithaving no fellowship with tue
uniruitful works Of darkness, brt ratheT reproV-
ing them The american Missionary Association
by this testimony ss to the sinulness Of saveryby
refusing, in the name of God and his righteousness
10 enter into covenant with any OF the churches
where it s sustained, by rejectins their offerings
as God himself in his own word, rejects thcm'
and by procailning his truth against the sin, are
dealing a mighty aud continued blow foE the rep
rotation and overthrow Of tho system. The time
has come when such decision aud oponness are
requisite on the part of all Christian associations
in whatever shape and certainly, when the sys'
TEN of slavery, which in its beginning, coutinu'
ance. aud propagation , is purely and solely man
stealing, is setup in the name OF heavens mercy
ny Gods Missionary Institute as we'll as enshrlned
in the iudgomentseat as the perfection OF nat'ohai
Justice and law, every association Tor the spread
of Gods truth, and the Advancement Oh Chrst
kingdom is bound to make known ana act upon
Gods abhorrence Of such boundless impioty and
crime.
If we do not obey Gods Word, and suffer it to
be applied without partiality and without hypocri
sy to this rational iniluity, and to root 1t OUT
Gods Word will root us out the iulhiimeht oi i'a
predictions will destroy us; Its righteousness
would be our ruin. 1t is not to be supposed una,
God will suffer his attributes to be belied his "oru
,lanGered and ialsiGed, his promised Millennium
turned into more than Papal indulgence Tor SIM
in order that that tho supreme dominion oi tno
slave power may be successfully established. ny
the coming Of the Millennium the OppressOF shah
be broken to pieces and /: 10 for the oPp'essoS
himself TO say whether he will take that sentence
our in broken heart and a contflte spirit re-
nounciug his iniquity, his OPPRESSION Mt the con-
quest of love- beneath the su5duing, melting fen,
ovating power of divine grace, or wnethef ne VIII
ooyk it cut ia Gods wrath against HIM whether
he will fall on this stone and be broken in submls.
sion in faith in repentance or whether IL shan
fall on him and grind him to powder.
The children of the needy are to be delivered
from deceit and violence, and the opprcssor Is to
bo broken in pieces We have reason to believe
that Gods lorg suffering and ioTbearance have
nearly come to an end in this matter ana per
hams he will not suffer another generation OF lh-
mortal beings to be trodden from their birth under
the huof of such cruelty, in the name OF God and
the Gospel Ii the millennium is coming then
either our repentance, or our destruction Is NJ
hand God will deal with us. in tins worK' as
nation. Tho train of his divine benevolenee to
the poor and the oppressed is rolling on and we
must conform to it, or GET out of its way or ese
Gods avenging providence will toss us from the
track and leave us spectacle o! retribu'ion'
by word Of contempt warning TO the universe
TIE CHARTER OAK PLACE TO RE UT or,Iine
r,mous Charter Oak Place the old 'Wyllys
Place" in Hartford has been Sold and it is TO be
cut up into numerous building lots on speculation.
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