Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-12
Ibe Antt- 5lauerp Buele.
RAREY ON BLINKERS.
BY GEORGE B. cuEEvER, D. D.

Taking up the New York Observer to look at
tho editors remarks On President Hopkins views
Of the the relations of the American Board to the
subject Of slavery, lighted in another column of
the paIer (whether it was secular or religious
column cannot tell), on an article concerning
Mr.. Rarey's views on blnkers. 1t seemed won
derful discovery that horses can do without blink.
srs, or blinders, we used to call them in New
England the discovery may possibly be extended,
end it may be found that as well as horses
are quite as safe without binders, and will run
quite as we'll, quite as intelligently Mr.. Rarey
states according to the Observer) that the use of
blinkcrs is rapidly disappearing in the United
States, and predicts increased usefulness in the
horse when this folly of the nineteenth century is
abolished in London.
In London they taking the blinkers from the
men and putting them on the horses in this
try they taking them from the horses and put
ting them upon the men. To go safe and be kept
ander management in this country institutions.
corporations, boards. churches, pupts ministers,
need blirkers. In England, where they are half
the time under fog, the method of treatment mus;
of course be different, beginning with the horses.
In this country. where the human chatels espe
eially are in danger of being blasted with excess
of light. blinkers cannot be dispensed with, and
the proposition to abolish them savors of radical,
ism Indeed, it is unsafe here to propose the ab.
clifton Of anything
On the subject of slavery, some Of the friends of
the American Board think we cannot get along
without blinkers. Even side views of the Gospel
against slavery they think will startle the whole
team from its proprety. 1t ought to be driver
straight in the direction of pure Go5pel without
aiming at any sin in particular without being per.
mitted to notice any sin in particular and under
tho one plain rule of giving no offence anywhere,
but especially at home; and therefore, in order
that it may drive right in the mids: of all manner
Of sin, and not be disturbed by it, or run against
it, all vision but that which is foreign, and in a
straight line with the pole Of the carriage, must be
excluded.
The inventions to gain this purpose, in more
than one of our Ecclesiastical Corporations, are in.
creasing. and some of them are very ingenious,
and will be patented. Some of the best of them
were the result of much thought in the putting to.
gsthsr of some twelve or fifteen of the best and
wisest heads of the country in committee. For
example, the plan cut out tor the Tract Society to
issue tracts concerning the moral duties that gro
.
. very fine specimen of the blinker. The point Of
excellence claiming the patent in this case was tho
exclusion of course dispensing with the use of the
vexatioss word sin, whether sin per Sc or merely
Sin prohibium.
The methods of the Tract Society, with its books,
eontriving that men may drive straight through
them from beginning to end, as a man of fashion
might drive span Of horses down Broadway, with.
out 80 much knowing that such sin as slavery,
or tho rebuke of it, existed, are good ingeni
Gus specimens Of blinker. The covering up of the
word slavery. because il is no bigger than six.
pence, is a very fine example of the blnkers. In
asmuch as they cannot put their blinkers on their
readers, they must put them on their books there
is no alternative. Blinkers there must be the
world would go insane without blinkers; all eyes
would be dazzed without blinkers the most OBJ
fusosted, stesdest old fogiss would become skitish
% unbroken colts without bnkers all our conser,
vatives would startle at their own shadows without
blinkers.
sa Biinkers there must be; you can never tame 60.
efsty without them you can never subdue the ca
perinRs and prancngs of free wild "erusers," 90
- to make the highways of trade safe, without
them. Nothing 10 so safe, as when men are har
messed in The domestic In institution moving at the
touch Of its rens. with their vision so barricaded
that thy can nothing but what is straight ber
fore them, and are compelled to walk according to
the range of thei, bnkers, turning neither to the
right hand nor the left. rG
The expunotiop, by the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, Of the article forbdding the buy