Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-08
From the Erie True American.
IMPIETY OF ABOLITIONISM.

The New York Day Book-the pious, evangel-
ical Day Book, has recent article on the 'impie.
ty of Abolitonism.' 1t gushcs out in the follow.
ing effective stran;-
1t is, however, remarkable fact, that nearly
all the full grown Abolitonists are Infdels if not
Atheists, and it may be set down as an nvariable
rule, that the nearer a man becomes an Abolition
st, the closer he approSimates to Infdel. This
proposition does not admit af single doubt as
can be readily illustrated The Christian, who looks
devoutly to Gods words aud works to His will as
revealed in the Scriptures and in Nature, takes
things reverentIy as he inds them. He would not
out of its appropriate sphere single being He has
formed The Abolitionist, however, would over.
throw Gods works-he would force the white man
to hideous equality, and thus defacing what God
has created, endeavor to form n set Of beings accor
ding to his own mind This is the impiety Of Alb
oliionsm. Its commencement is Infdelity. Its
end Atheism
You see, reader, it takes the goddess, the prost
tuted and the debauched, to nose out nfdeliy
and 'impiety,' and expose them They are often
the very stoutest and stickiest defenders of the
do this work no more bravely than they. Such
paper, now, as the N. Y. Herald, will always be
shocked at nothing SO much as a rebuke of ecles.
astical completely with wrong. And such n won
derfuliy outrageous sheet as the Day Book can
stand almost any thirg but Abolition impiety.'-
What would be more natural than that system
Of religious practice that engages the comp mpanion.
ship and defence of such notorious and God.de.
flying prohigates, should call forth the rebuke of
impatient men-should engender what is comon,
ly termed 'infdelity'? And if this should be the
result where does the blame lie? When we sober
ly survey the field Of facts-when we see our Amer.
lean religion prostraed at the feet oc this Internal
Moloch of Slavery; many of our great Nation.
al Societies-our Tract Societies and our Mission.
ary Boards controlled by this power see the
Bible welded and interpreted to shield this most
devilish of crimes; see revivals in religion and
revvals in the slave trade going on harmoniously
together hear the discordant clank of chains and
Of church bells at tho same moment; see eminent
dvines preach and kidnap men--give thanks and
rob Gods own afflicted poor, would it be a strange
thing if some earnest and sympathetic men, who
fear God and remember those in bonds as bound
with them,' should be infdel to such religion p
1t is painful and terrible truth, that one Of the
most prolific causes OF distrust of religion ex
lists in the fact that it is used by its espousers 10
foster and shield hagrances and outrages, from
which true and philanthropic men shudderingly
recol. These men feel that if religion is so little
better than morality, they have no especial need
of it. So we think there may be infde Abol
- ba
yet it is better to be infdel Aboitionist than
orthodox defender of human Slavery
Nevertheless, we say to the Day Book and it.
kind, that Abolitonism is neither nfdelty' mol
atheism unless. indeed, belief in sav eholdine
christianity be such. 1t is rather an attribute Of
churchanity, and we hold that it is a necessary at
tribute. 1t is the spirit and of the Golden
Rule AS no man would consent to be himself
slave, so no man can be true christian who holds
or consents to the holding Of any other man as g
slave, If doing to others as we would have 9th
ers do to US be any part of christianity, then the
opposite of this cannot also he christianity. Every
man who will put his soul in the slaves souls
stead will be an abolitonist for himself-and il
for himself, then he should be for all others
Whoever believes in the Fatherhood of God, and
the Brotherhood of Man, is a practical abolition
ist Yes, the hideous equality of the human
race is a christian no less than a philosophical
doctrine. In speaking of abolitionism we IN ak'
no reference to any proposed method of abolishinl
slavery. Men may honestly differ on this point
But he is an abolitionst whether he likes the ap
pelasion or not) who claims for all mankind alik'
the freedom he claims for himself. Any man wbC
does not do this. is not true man-canno, be ,