Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-29
THE LEGREFs AND ST. GLARS.

exceedingly popular, and should be particularly
pleased to know that tho Subscription list Of The
Bugle WINS large, and continually Increasing. II
Disunionists sought popularity, they doubtless
could purchase it at the expense of principlej and
to make the Bugle a much more popular paper
than it now is, would only require little abate-
ment Of faithful rebuke, a small admixture of un-
merited praise, and a prophesying Of smooth
things. Fr.H
There is to all reforms, q popular as well as ain
unpopular side. The man who wishes to stand
well in community as q temperance reformer must
direct his attacks against the grosser and more
repulsive, and therefore less dangerous forms of
drunkenness. lie may denounce the low groge-
ries, and even speak against rum-selliDg in genteel
hotels on the Sabbath. But If he desires to stand
fair in Society, to maintain a character for chris
tan charity, and amiability of temper, he must
not war upon those highly respectable hotels
which furnish fashionable liquors to persons not
known to be drunkards, nor criticise too freely
the wine bibbers of upper tendon, or censure
those judges and college professors who occasion
ally partake of public champagne suppers.
The Legrees of slavery, the degraded, brutal
wretches who WELD the whip with Implying hand,
and mercilessly scourge the backs of their scanti-
ly clad, over-tasked, and uuder-fed, victims
not caring whether slavery is right or
wrong, but determined to maintain it
so long as it suits their purpose 80 to do, are the
men, that up here in the North, and to some ex-
> tent 10 the South, it is popular to denounce. But
e these are not they who give to slavery its support.
If there were none but Legrees to sustain the
8 system, it would DO buried in it's own corruption
i n nsukt oco. a. - l.. 81. c.
q Glars, who give to it the responsibility and stand;
ing it possesses, and by their influence measurably
t cover up lite deformities, and palliate its outrages.
i Some of these even lament the existence of slave
t ry, looking upon it, however, as q necessary evil.
f They treat their slaves ~passably we'll ms chattels,
clothing them, perhaps as comfortably Us the Ia
boring man Of the North clothes himself, fogging
|. them no more than is necessary, exacting from
them but a reasonable amount of labor, and only
. selling them when they have greatly misbebaved,
or when their price is needed to replenish an ex-
hausted treasury. Such shareholders it is not
popular to denounce; but on the contrary it is pop
= ular to fellowship them as christians, to appoint
them to deaconships, and ordain them to preach
n the gospel.
In looking over the field Of anti-slavery reform.
Disunionists find it necessary to war against the
influence which the St. Clairs are exerting, and
81 in order to destroy it, they oppose, ala matter Of
logical necessity, as we'll as of duty, those who
strengthen and su:tain the ST. Glars by giving
them either political or religious fellowship. 3
The Democratic party-so far as slavery is con.
A cerned-is made up of the Legree elements
There it stands-outrageous, odious, and rsrulsive
Its character can be seen ard read of all men
and be who mistakes it for democracy, will be jusI
as likely to affirm that the earth is a plane. and
q that the sun actually rises and sets, as was sup
- posed in former tines. The St. Clair elements
are to be found in the Republican party, which
, because of these characteristics, is more dangerous
to the cause of freedom, and a greater hindrance
to the spread OF anti-slavery principles and prac-
tice than is Legree democracy. Hence Disunion-
lists feel continually called upon to expose the
: short comings of that party, to present it to COM
munity in its true character, and to especially
warn all abolitionists connected with it, against
the dangers to be apprehended from its st. Clair
y ish influence upon the cause of freedom. To do
u this, and at the same time bear a faithful testimo-
ny against the Democratic party, places the Disu-
e niOnists in a very unpopular position, and subjects
them to the charge of uncharitablsness unreason,
ableness, impracticability and fanaticism, all Of
= which they are willing to endure so that the truth
% be spoken in plainness, and u faithful adherence
l to principle BIO conscien!iously maintained.
The same reasoning will apply to church or
>, CARNATIONS. Those which are openly and unmis
takably committed to the support of slavery, and
- which have "Legree" written all over them, have
less power to harm the cause of liberty, than those
= which pursue a temporizing policy, protesting to
be anti-slavery but to~lerating slaveholding--
d preaching freedom, and practising slavery.
And what is true of organizations; is equally
true of individuals. The Cheevers and the Beech.
ers whose denunciations Of slavery are as strong
If as words can make them, are to-day a greater
hindrance TO the adoption of anti-slavery practice
than a car load of Parson Brownlows could posi-
10 bly, be. Not because they do not hate slavery
n for they do; not because they are not anxious 70,
it's overthrow, for they are; but because
of their religious fellowship with slave
holders and the apologists of slavery acts as q
conductor to carry off from the institution The
le moral electricity of their indignation, and dissi
le pates it harmlessly upon the ground. They proba,
rs bly, would not endorse Parson Brownlow as au
exem plar of christian virtues. as q living epistle o.
ir christian graces, but they endorse the christianity
lie of DR.. Lord and DR.. Adams who do endorse
Brownlow; and thus. although they stand thu
highest in q scale of three, they exert a greater
influence than do either of the others in giving
respectability and religious character to slavehold
ing. Without their aid, and the aid of such q,
n they, slaveholding would loose its religious char
N ac.er, and cease to be respectable,
If we mistake not, OUT orthodox bretheren hold
to the belief that that man who is the neares,
t. right in doctrine while retaining some heresy, ex
erts a worse influence upon community, and
should be more carefully watched, and more con-
stantly labored with for conversion, than he who
is altogether heritical. ~. oil
Paradoxical as this may seem, we are not sure
but its philosophy is sound, and that its reduction
Or to practice would hasten the conversion of the