Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-23
CHRISTIAN ANTI-sLAvERY SOCIETY.


The organization of this Society was briefly
noticed in a recent number of our paper. 1t gave
evidence at its birth Of possessing a strictly evan.
gelical character, desiring not so much that church
members shoul unite with it. or that Christian
men and women should join the organization, as
to exclude oil church members and all Christians
except Of a certain peculiar kind. It showed its col
ors when it requested all evangelical papers inter,
e.ted in the movement to call the attention of their
readers to its organization. and character. "a
hint" soy the old proverb, sis as good as q kick;
and it is reasonable to suppose that the gentle re-
minder then given, together with other init
nations from the same quarter would etectu-
ally exclude all non.evangelicals from its ranks,
and keep lite membership as pure as was he who
in former times exclaimed. "Come not near me,
for I am holier than thou. But if the persons
who constitute the Society refuse TO aid others in
dragging q man out of the pit into which he has
has fallen. until they put every proposed helper
through the catechism and receive satisfactory an
swers, why let them do it, and work only with
their own chosen companions.
Those who put Abolitionism before sect-who
regard man and his rights as paramount to organ
izations and their prosperity, have been able to do
an earnest, selhsacridcing, consistent anti'slavery
work, ard this, before the Christian Anti Slavery
Society was organized, nd without the aid of tt ose
who compose its membership. The probability is
they will be enabled to do the same kind of work
vet longer even although SOME of the representa-.
lives of thot organization have adopted the usual
mode of attacking the American Anti-Slavery
Society-by misrepresentation and villi6cation.
The members Of the Christian Anti, Slavery
Society would probably object to our joining
their organization-eve if We withdrawing
that we believe simply in Christianity as Christ
taught Impractical Christianity, not Christianity
with q label of "Evangelical' pasted on it by
some poor, falliable, man.made organization.-
Though they will not help US, we are disposed to
help them 80 far as we can, and so far as they will
permit. Although they only request religious
papers of tho different denominations to notice a
recent offer they have made, we will volunteer to
render such aid as we con through our columns to
the announcement that t~hey"will givea premium Of
800 for the best tract, showing that the Bible
gives no warrant or allowance for chattel slavery
Manuscripts are to be sent by the LIST of June to
Rev. Henry i. Cheever, Jewett City, Connecticut. I"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF A Conference.-The
have received a communication in which the wri'
ter ~criticises a letter of Parker Pillsbury, which
appeared in our paper q few weeks since, and in
which it is affirmed that the Bugle has "never
given an uncertain sound"-'that it's testimony
has ever been bold and fearless for The highest
ard hottest truth, for absolute and immutable JUS
tics under the law Of the Highest" From these,
and one or two similar remarks, cur correspond
ent infers that Parker Pillsbury claims ipiallibili'
ty for the Bugle, and thereupon proceeds in a kind
of anti.bible argument. at considerable length,
against the supposed assumption.
Let US say to our correspondent that neither
Parker Pillsbury, nor any one else so far as we
know, ever put forth so absurd a claim. II is true.
that Parker's estimate of the paper may be higher
than is that of some others; and if our correspond
ent asserts, and wishes US to print his assertion
that the Bugle has sometimes given an uncertain
sound, that it's testimony has not always been bold
and fearless for the highest and hottest truth, that
it has sometim es failed to contend for absolute and
immutable justice under the law o! the Highest,
we will endeayor to accommodate him but he
must really excuse us from occupying a portion Of
our paper with, and mourning the expense OF print
ing an argument in opposition to what has never
been said or assumed, and which we think further
reflection will convince him. was written under a
misrepresentation.
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