Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06
A FIELD FOR MISSIONARY LABOR.

Those who have a. heart the conversion of the
heather of other lands, find no way 90 easy by
which to operate upon the sympathies Of the peo-
pie, as by presenting the inhuman and bloody fea-
lures of the heathenism they wish to destroy.
The Suttee's funeral pyre has been built stick by
stick before our eyes We saw stretched upon it
the d~ecaying corps and the living body; and as
the curling flames assembled, we heard the shouts
of exultation from priest aud worsbirpers. drown
ing the victims shrieks Of agony. We are taken
to the waters Of the Ganges, upon whose shore
stands one whose religious feelings prove stronger
than her maternal love with an agonized soul
she sacrifices to her God tho being who had lain
nearest to her heart, and whom she had 30 pas
sionately loved, and cared for. We are shown
the mighty car of Juggernaut, and we hear the
crushing Of its porderous wheels as they roll
over tens of thousands of self inundated victims,
crimsoning the earth with human blood.
These, and scenes like unto them, are furnish
ed as an exhibition of the spirit and practice of
that religion whose presence curses 80 many mil
lions of the human race. But Sutteeism with all
its horrors, the infanticide of farthest India, the
bloodiest worship of the heathens' mightiest God.
present no atrocities equal to that, which a por-
ton of the Democratic and Christian people of
Missouri perpetrated upon one, whose alledged
inleriority and defenceless position should have
been his protection, to say nothing of the circum-
stances Of his unfortunate education which hal
been forced upon him.
We are told that because the religion of India
enforces or tolerates deeds Of blood in it's rites of
worship, therefore it should be overthrown, and
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reason we affirm, that because the religion OF
America tolerates, or does not prevent, the burn
ing alive of negroes at the stake, therefore that
| religion should lie overthrown, and the Gospel OF
Christianity established in its stead. As the
North american truly observes, the particular in
stance referred to is not an isolated case-there
have been many such, and we fear there will be
many more. We know not what was the political
or religious, social or official standing of those
who offered the human sacrifice at Marshall, but
we know that on other and similar occasions, men
eminent for their piety, CONSPICUOUS for their god
illness were approving spectators, if not active par
ticipaTs. 1t will be remembered that Parson
B~rownlow-the Boanarges of Southern Methodism
is an endorser and full ~justifer of such deeds
and even, in his internal desires, going beyond the
wretches who piled the faggots and tortured the
victim.
We commend such facts as these to the atten
ton of Home Missionary operators. Let then
fill their publications with a record of the deed
of the Bloody South; let them present their pic
lures not Of voluntary Sutteeism, not of agonize'
infantacide, not of selfimmolatiop, but of deliber
ate murder-of human hate, which with malic
aforethought, ties the struggling victim to tn
stake, and kindles the faggots which surround him
and this too, in violation of, the religious faitl
which they profess, but don't believe, and in def
ance of laws they have themselves enacted
When such cases are fully and fairly presented
they will furnish a stronge ground of appeal TO
foreign effort, and a field is shown which need
more than any other the humanizing influence o
Christianity, and it will be seen how necessary i
is for those who have a beam in their own eye, t
remove it before they attempt to take out the mo.
from their brothers.