Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-08
WHOLE NO. 73d.

naium in SC, a sin in itself, let rs feni nd hti bf
two features in its character: COS
l. Il is bigh-handed insult and gross disotc-
dience to the Creator. God made Man and mdde
him in bis own image. lie assigned him the fiace
be occupies in the scalS Of being aud e.i,0wed
him witH teasoh, eonscen6S aid Immortality, iEus
constituting him free accountable agent. and de-
manding from him rs such. the Homage Of his heatt
and intellect, and the service Of hfs hands. But
the STAKEHOLDER, with cormorant greed Of Gas6
and gain, rGbudiates The authority Of God, and
drags Man down from his place, and herds him
with the brutes that perish. He stands between
the slave and his maker forbids what God COM
maude, and commands what God forb'ds, 6hd
thus usnrps tie prerogatives cf tfs Efost High
God commands the S!dve Father, as Man to
cherish his wife, and train up his children argh..
But the STAKEHOLDER trartpes down the Divide In
stitutfcn Of f'artiage, seiaidtes tie ihSbahd and
wife, whom God hath joined together, and sells the
children for money. God enjoins upon all men to
search the Scriptures" as the great fountain Of
eternal life. But the STAKEHOLDER, with his twin
brother, the Catholic Priest, (par mobile dtrum y
fcrbids by law the exercise of this 'nd!ehablo
right and the perforhiance of this universal duty,
anu bOul VI ius blaNc III
the gloom Of ignorance. He enacts law; as id
Virginia. and consisns to the Penitentiary as d
feOn, tie faithful Missionary who teaches the slave
to read his Pbe, and thus obey and reverence the,
God who made him ID this all no sin Yea;
verify, and sin of mighty magnitude AS in that
aims to dethrone the Almighty Himself.
2. 1t is the deepest inj6ry one ritaf cat inhict
upon another. God gave to Man as Man, d war
rant Of authority exercise dominion over all the
creatures earth, in the air and in the sea. say
ing-"the fear Of you and the dread Of you shall
be upon them ALL" But the STAKEHOLDER exercises
absolute dominion over man himself He tramples
down his btother's iuaenable rights in tie ddsti
and then turns round with Satanic impudence and
justfes the wrong. lie even goes SO far as to take
advantage of the slaves ignorance and weaknessi
and dares to quote the authority of God for the act
Why the very beasts Of the fed fear God nero;
and understand theology better, than Hunker
Doctors of Divinity; for the African lion recog-
uizing the Divine commission given to man In Gem
esis : 25, and 2. will sink away into the jun
gle from the presence of black Hottentot. Tho
horse and the OK on the earth, the eags
and the th!ture In the air. and the mighty
whale in the ocean, all flee before the God
like look of the rusaved Man; just as thief
do from the face Of his oppfessor. Their
conduct honors God more than the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred
Scott case, for they admit that the black man has
rights which they will feel bound to respect as
much as they do those of his oppressor. The
Stakeholder, them is fobter, Tot Of gold that is
comparatively baube, but Of the sacred rights
with which the eternal God has invested Man.
To prove, now, that all enlightened conseiences
feel this judgment we have given to be correct, is
there STAKEHOLDER on earth that would be willing,
under any circumstances, and for any purpose. to
take the legal position Of the siayef Is there q
living father mother, who would not infinitely
rather see q son or daughter put 10 DEATH in any
form; than to be reduced 10 the condition OF d
slave? Not one. This, then, is the verdict of hus
nanity in the case, that wifiu, Intentional slave-
holding, such as it is defined to be by the slave
laws, and the practice under those laws, is maluHt
in se-the most dating insult man can
offer to his God, and the highest chino one
man can commit upon another. The General AS
sshbiy oe 1878 was right therefore, when they de-
clared this sin to be clear violation Of the Law Of
God in every precept, and totally inconsistent
with the Gospel Of Jesus Christ The fathers Of
the Presbyterian Church were right. and had God,
conscience and the Bible on their side, when they
quoted the definition Of GrOtius, ard embodied is
in their Confession OF Faith that slaveholiing was
man-steaiing. And yet, when thousands of hu-
man beings, for whom Jesus Christ agonized and
died ON the Cross, and for whom He is now inter-
ceding in Heaven, are put upon the auetion-block
and sold as property. liable to al the incidents and
concomitants of property, Dr.. Hodge, of the
Princeton Reperory, tries to cover over the lniqui=
ty of the act by course of special pleading, dis
graceful to county court lawyer, and says that il
is only the mans serpices that are sold, and NOT
the man himscifi When the law itself declares
that slaves, not their sersices "sha he deemed and
taken as ehatttls personal IN the hands Of their
cyners', proiessed Minister of Jesus Christ will
throw dust into the eyes of his brethren, and
make tkem believe that such crime against GLd
and man as the STAKEHOLDER commits. is no sin !
We have said before and now repeat IT. that be
who defends and jusfes the slaveholding relation
is q far greater criminal than the STAKEHOLDER him
SELF because 10 justi6es the wrong on principle on
in the abstract Therefore is that such man as
7 Dr. Adams who lives in a country unconsaminated
$ with the evil. is a greater and a meaner sinner
d than the vulgar and brutal Legrees Of the Southi
who trade in the souls and bodies Of men. Legres
drives his accursed business, separating husbands
and wives, parents and children, but he does il be.
cause it is customary, and to make his livelihood.
. DR.. Adams with temptation to lend himself to
the infant us service, volunteers in the cause o
the Devil out of pure love, and sanctifes Legree's
crimes. Should Legree. amidst the wailings d
separated families feel any renorse Of conscience
the sanc,monious Doctor is at his side with an
: opae to quell the rising emotions Of shame and
guilt, by "thus saith the Lord". Infinitely rath
or would We go up to the Judgment Seat Of tie
Living God. standing in the bloodStnned shoes oi
Legree, than appear before that Tribanal in the
u golden slippers Of the Boston Doctor. II We are
\. not downright fool, incapable Of Knowing right