Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-18
SALEM CoLUMB1ANA COUNTY OHIO SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

is not to I've used against moral evil, what shol
we use This is much like sending II distressed
letter to fort where soldiers ore sleeping under
arms Brethren, rouse, for heavens sake--th'
5ty is being taken-nnd you sleep !" Then wher
every springs up to his gun, the cry, o, Io'
PHYS sake, don't your guus--theIe1l be an ex
plDsion-j Just combat fight generally!
/ SO our French brethren cry "ROuse-hght"
but when the great gun o! the Tract Society Il
spiked, will they take off their hats and thank COG
because there would have been such noise had j
gone OFF,
DR.. Monod without knowing it is going thu
rounds Of every pro.slavery paperas an advocate o.
slavery. For he is not the onlyradvocate OF slave
ry who defends it-but he who will have nothing
said against it. Everybody bates slavery in the
abstract--everyhody condemns till they have some
reason to the contrary, and then they are silent
DOes DR.. MJnod wish to know how the American
Church got into her present helpless state? BY
tins very silence which he thinks SO wise. Because
each organization, each church, each college
each school, each private individual, had
something other to do, which they thought vau
able or useful, aud which could not be done if that
exciting topic was broached--that was all.
! When we we're in Paris last year, French breth
rem, with all their national warmth, said, Pray
tell us what can be the matter with your American
Churches, how can thoy be silent how can they
consent in any way to be connected with such a
system
We answer, They are connected with it as we
mush fear our French Churches are becoming
connected with it, They want means and money,
and men say. BE silont about slavery" and we
will help you. In otherwise, Satan comes to
Cbrists afianced Lribe, not grim and sooty, but as
polished ard religionrs Chri-tiln, and says,
Fair Lady, | will build your walls, and set up
your gates and garish all your borders with preci
Gus stones. will build all your waste palaces,
only be silent on one thing, where your speaking
would be death to me. do not forbid you to pray
nor to have your private opinion, nor to abhor
you may abhor to your hearts content but testify
you must not"
If the waste places in the French Churches are
to be built by such compliance, France will have
deeper occasion to mourn than she does. In
fdels will say, just as we told you all religions
alike betray the cause of freedom to carry their
own points"
The influence of this is the moro unfortunate
because even politicians. men of the world, from
the influence of natural generosity and conscience
have often been more consistent.
When cer'nin leading Democrats in the free
State of Ohio, whose prospects among their Irish
voters bad been disturbed by Daniel O'Conneirs
denunCiations of slavery, money to him to help
his favorite projects of agitation for Irish l5ety,
and promised to send more, if he would be silent
about slavery, he Indignantly returne, the donation,
telling them that he wanted none of their blood
stained money, in vain they protested that, being
inhabitants of free State, they had personal
interest in slavery, but only wished silence for the
general good lie answered, that their desire to
protect slavery from his denunciations must arise
from ''clear, sheer disinterested love Of wicked
ness''
Let Dr. Monod only see how this cource Of ST.
lence which he so much applauds in the Tract So
ciety works. He and all the French brethren
conjnre us in the name OF a common christianity |
to fight against slavery. We try-fght accord |
ingly, and we to the Tract Society-a great
religious organization, representing the religions
literature of every denomination IN the country,
and having access to millions of minds win you
circu late protest? say we. Oh no can't, /
we are anti slavery to be sure, but cant be.
cause the excitement would inI nre our Society.
We 60 t1 the Sunday School UniOn. which forms
the youthful religious literature of the whole /
American Churches. Can we get some book S
published here which shall introduce the rising
generation in the evils of slavery and the wrongs
of the slave Oh no, no, no! To DE sure, the
wrongs Of the slave are dreadful, and we are all |
strong antl'savery men. but the topic is SO excit
ing it would ruin Union. So we 20 to the !
Methodist Book Concern--to the Baptist Book
Concern-to the Episcopal Book Concern and
you get the same story. Then you think You will
go to iHdicidHdt men, and you try DIR. A. You
tell him stories OF wrong and oppression enough
to raise the dead and he shudders and turns pale,
and then you ask him, Will yoH write give
public address on the euhjcct? My dear friend,
he says, would be GLAD TO- but am connected
with Theological Seminary, and if mix m self
with SO exciting topic, it would in measure in
vOlve my institution, and so must content my.
self with privately abhurring. Another is pas
tor of Church, and he cannot say anything
Another is teacher in AN academy. Another
IS something else and the result is that all the
work of organizing, printing, circulating, is left
10 men who, in their fierce disgust Flcaye all
Churches, and denounce them, and stand wholly
,loof from all religious connection, and are called
nfdels
This course of silence makes such men infdels
by the score makes them of some of the most
generous, most humane, mos. courageous men |!
All how many such has the American Church
expelled from her bosom by this accursed policy
We hope and trust that the French Churches
will beware in time, of the rock on which the
American Church has wenigh fOundered. and
say: 30 my soul, come not thou into their
'ecret-unto their assembly mine honor be not
hou united %