Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-17

Of silence in regard to this great wckcdness
u and the duty Of every Missionary Association
n under tho great charter and commission of thi
- seventy-second Psalm, to speak out. 1t wns
II great and powerful remonstrance against Thu
Is wickedness, when tho American Missionary As
Is sOciation was formed on the basis of that dntag
# onsm against oppression, which, in tho seventy
% second Psalm, is declared to be u fundamental
II element in the missionary work. Every year ih
voice Of remonstrance has been growing louder
II its power stronger. Every year greater number
J. OF ministers OF the gospel have been among thl
:. leading men in the formation of Anti-Slavcry 30
h cieties, and some Of them have; in every crisis
and in their general preaching, denounced slavery
= and have taken sides with this Society in orpOs
e ton to all completely with slavery on the part
u of missionary and other benevolent Institutions
1t is Just 10 the history of this great conflict, aud
S to those ministers Of Christ who have been faith,
It lul to his gospel to give prominence to these facts
We remember; ALSO and acknowledge with gtau.
] tude and JOY, the increasing number Of churches
that sustain the principles OF Gospel Anti Slavery
= Christianity, promulgated in the seventy'second
e Psalm and in the preaching and teaching of the
e Saviour, in whom, and in whose right
eous kingdom, the whole Of this glorious Psalm
5 hath its fulflment.
And now we put it to the conscience Of the peo-
a plo of New England, and of such "A community as
. this of the city Of Boston, and Of this present
y vast audience, how can you look on in silence
D while this tremehdo struggle is going forward,
and refuse to take that open, positive and aggres
t sive part against this sin which Gods word de-
, mands, and to which your own profession ol
] Christianity pledges you? Will you let the glory
OF this cause. the defense even of your own ree'
dom, and the application of Gods truth against
: the oppressOr be taken from you, and assumed
and carried by men whom you call infdels, but
!; before whom you, in your silence, setting
al example of practical infdety in the fear Of
man, and the betrayal of Gods cause into the
hands of his enemies? When will you throw
Oft this reproach, and stand up and speak out in
this cause, if not nowY
Within two years the progress of the slave des
posm has been appalling. For while it was
somewhat slow and doubtful now it rushes
plunges, and sweeps all before it, like ground
wave driven by an earthquake, All the dykes of
Justice, all the tribunals connecting Earth with
Heaven, every enshrinement and entrenchmont
of righteousness and truth, all the barriers of
constitutional law, all the sentiments and axioms
OF freedom and humanity. are flung down and
rolled into the cataract. Every defence Of liberty
and right has been torn away, and with cloan
sweep the tide of this wickedness rours down
like an avalanch from the top of the Jungfrau
' Alps. The Constitution itself, in spite of the
, Declaration OF Independence impressed into this
terrible service, goes crashing
sciences, liberties, and rights instead of protect
ing and defending them The constitution is like
u strong locomotive that has been used to drag n
> heavily loaded train up an inclined plane but
the summit being reached, the obstacles conquer
u ed, the train itself takes the supremacy the
y other side. and, instead of being drawn. drives
y the locomotive before it. just SO. the Constitu-
u ton being fettered to the slave.despotism has
dragged tho whole train slowly and with ifculty
= up the inclined plane of compromises conscience,
u and the peoples unwllingness; but tho moment
it has reached the summit which it has done,
: when the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, with the
u flag of the bred Scott decision steps on board,
> then there is no more difficulty or delay: then
the train governs, crow wds, drives the Constitution
" before it, and it rushes down headlong. The
= y Judges themselves remove the brakes, and sit en-
= thrOned upon the Constitution, governing 1t, not
y governed by it, at the whistle of the President,
u whose sole magnificent business, as Chief Magis
trate of the United States, has dwindled down
. to that Of engineering Tor the slave ocrncy.
y Now there is but one power under heaven that
y can stop this iniquity, or do the least thing
J towards its stay or hndrance, or hold out the
J truction By it, and that power is the Word with
the Spirit cf God upon the individual ard public
y conscience. The claim shat the Constitution and
> laws under Interpretation OF the Supreme Court.
are to be obeyed whether Gods Word sanctions
{ them or not is monstrous, so blasphemous
e against God, 50 destructive of his authority IN hu-
Is man affairs that it seems incredible that such un
u idea could have been brOached in any Christian
l. community. Yet Professedly Christian mcn do
not hesitate TO set the Constitution thus perverted
II and the bred Scott decision it'll it, and the doe
+ trnes of devils growing out of that decision in
u the place of the throne of God and the individual
conscience is ordered at all hazards, to bow down
to it, So as of old, "equity is perverted, and
p Judgment sprngeth up hemlock IN the fur
- - rows of the field, and oppression becometh the
Z law and the statutes of Omri are kept and all
u the works of the house of Ahab, and yc walk III
y, their counsels.'
=. It does not need that man should be an ackno 0l
ceded villain TO do this, or pirate or an arostatt
IN from Christianity, United States Marshal ol
( hangman or Slave Commissioner and Judge OF Pro
s bate, whose living depends on the support oil al
unriphteous government but prOfessed men OF
,r God circulate these doctrines and prophets dea
r treacherously with them, and cause the people tt
/, err by them, and troops of robbers wait for q
=, man. SO the company of priests murder IN the way
: by consent; by silent sanction and grey haired
II and eloquent ministers. and Executive, Commit
A tees and Publishing committees, out OF whom
n God cannot find single gapman Tor his truth
d throw themselves into the breach Tor the defence
;, of slavery and denounce as fanatics th use
a who in Gods name call It SIN Ihey pend
h their tongue like bow for lies, Lut are not val
a lent for the truth They hate him that rebnkeih
II in the gate and the reproba;ou OF sin ls III their
q view greater sin than the SIM if the si9ners say
"a that unless the sin be admitted, they will not re-
ceiye the gospel They bind the Word ot God,
and seal mn lis thunders, and muzzle the Tract
!. Society and the pulpit, and the American Board,
, and suffer no man to speak above his breath, when
q this niquity is to be dealt with
The fact that good men are involved in this con
spiracy Of silence, is what makes 1t SO fearful SO
Y powerful. If they were openly bad men, or had
n not GAINED the respect and confidence "t the com
}, muniy their connivance at this sin and their de-
If fence Of it would not be endured at ALL 1t is thus
a that they are guilty of doable treason against
e God in using the reputation which he has eivep
z them, to give currency to wickedness, sud lying
a Under such examples the sophistry of the apollo
}. gists for slavery prevails with most pernc'ous
d power. Their doctrines glaze and glitter upon the
9 people till thoir charm is like that of the serpent,
IS whose eye fascina,os its victim 50 that after a
little trembling and luterirg all resistance is at
}. an end. Under such examples, the conscience OF
10 the country is debauched and parayzed' and the
D. peopls are prepared endure the most atroclous
r ou:rages with tame acquiescence and SUBMISSION
IT Tho ministry themselves. thus afraid and senced'
or persuaded into the policy of silence as pelng
e tho way of safety peace, and prudence, lose all
iheir mowers as the Conductors Of heavens lire,