Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-02

him when he makes himself morally incosAna,en,
20 govern them. II q merchant has made mn his
mind to care for nothing but business. God helm
A'm ina modern counting.room ; for, instead Of
sne moderate and contracted life Of the trader of
FORMER days which offered many an occasion for
quiet and enjoyment, he is tied into a network Of
nerves That enfolds tho globe, and his bear, heats
sno ms 'mag nation shu1jers at every change Of
at home or abroad. The anxiety Of mil.
IONS OF traders, the competition of nations, the
hopes and fears Of q worldwide speculation come
IKE honds to worry his poor brain and he is as
surely imprisoned from the nobler joy Of existence
~ II he we're buried 10 one of his own mines. or
nailed up In his own warehouse. Behold the fam.
lily that eagerly prostitutes its wealth to luxury
and social ambition. No sensuality CT ancient
Rome or Ephesus or Corinth SO quickly annibi.
lated its victims, as the luxury of New York and
Philadelphia, and Chicago no social ambition is
70 demenning as this American rage for an arts.
tocracy OF money. What avails a free Protestant.
ism to a man who has not moral courage to declare
his religious opinions, bat must enact the farce Of
the ny pccritc every Sunday before his Creator on
The crimson seats of a fashionable temple7 Ora.
cious Heaven Have martyrs died, and saints
"'Su f'OuSu lctstScttOnb, anu CHRISTIANS tOlleQ
and thought for eighteen centuries for this, that
American Protestants should be the towards that
they Nave become-hiding within a new church,
built on credit, ct every little cloud raised by the
Devil in the streetsf A free Professionalism indeed.
whea its liberty is interpreted as the license to
1ansform the church of a crucifed Savior to a
drawing room, and the preacher Of Gods law to
the gentleman usher in an ecclesiastical ceremony,
and the awful prerogative of moral judgement to
. separation Of patrician sheep from plebian
goats.
If any one doubts that a good man is needed to
WELD a Free Press let him open a morning paper
and ind his own name dragged before the com
nunity in connection with SOM criminal or fool.
ish charge, or assaulted for his own opinions With
barbarian rancGr, and comfort himself With the
assurance that he will be the subject Of execra,ion
or ridicule from the Bay of Fundy to San Frarcis.
90. Freedom Of amusement is q great privilege
but when it turns out the freedom to get the deler,
Jun tremens and make ones self an arpendage
to q race.horse, or an infamous woman, or a soul
destroying career of fashion, there is no question
from what quarter that mans tormentors will come.
The ballot is the lie st result of human government;
the prize of all the revolutions that have shaken
The nations and now think of 20, 900 men in the
State Of New York, and as many in Pennsylvania,
the two most powerful States 10 the Union, WELD.
ing this fearful instrument, not one of them able
to read tho Constitution or write the name Of
America; then contemplate the increasing tbous'
ands in our more barbarous States, till you descend
20 the bloody arena of the territories, where the
man who has the best rife, and is least scsupulous
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may not vote ourselves into as terrible calamities
this side of the water, as any into which the PEG.
pie of Europe have ever fought themselves?
If we are to have no greater elevation of man.
hood and womanhood in this age than the past, let
us pray Heaven to destroy all our new inventions.
For out of the opportunities of a people comes it's
reward, if it be worthy, or its retribution il it
dsgeuerates. We know the worst that old world
privileges cab inflict on a nation when man falls
away from them. What be has suffered in Rome
in France, in Austria, history records and tha'
could DO endured again. But what q fearful look.
ing'for of judgement will there be for Americans,
IL they 90 down below their circumstances, and
m the strife for selfish success forget their high
obligation to God and man. Think Of our com.
mercial pauics that scourge US for ignorance, haste
and dishonesty in business; Of railroads, and
steamships and machinery everywhere built by IN.
faithful workuen, aud managed by needless and
wicked superintendency Of the possibility Of
wreck to health and life implied in any street Of
modern residences inhabited BY a ~efemina:e popu.
iation of the chaOs Of atheism and fanaticism i'm
20 which our popular Protestantism can any day
be plunged by O people who have forgotten God
and man Of the frantic Cabling Of twenty, five
million Of conceited tongues, educated on the trash
that is daily hawked through the streets, and
bound to settle every problem that the sages of the
generations have left unsolved of a nation like
ours, driven into a wal with a combined Europe.
or a worse contest Of sister States, by citizens too
wicked t. vote right. or too Indifferent to vote in.
tell:gently Is this he'll that yawns beneath our
new civilization a pleasant place to look into?
All the ole theological lake Of fire is not the
only hell with which the preacher in our land may
threaten his bearers nearer to them. are the sin.
fcrnal regions that America could easily become
with n population below its opportunities. Here
might be seen a hell, where every other train ran
of the track. and tho dying shrek of the drown.
ing passenger on the sea was caught by the siDk-
ing boat on the Hudson. and prolonged BY the ex'
ploding craft upon the lakes, and swept down the
Mississippi in a wall Of death 10 the far off wreck
strewn shore Of the ~Pacifc-wber dyspepsia and
consumption, and general debility" dwell in every
luxurious house. and the pale face Of woman and
the dimned eye Of man where the emblemstic
skeleton ak every feast where peeuuiary disaster
lurked in every bargain and a reputation died a
every stroke of the editors pen and the church
pulled down Christ, and set up some foul abomina
sion of our barbarism 10 His place aod the STATE
wss in a chronic rerolutiooi What untold woe'
are hidden 10 this array Of calamities. not %fanciful
but such as even oow. in part, We know-woes a
new as the latest fashions, and as fearful as novel
Pray Heaven to avert such a fate, and second tina
prayer, by living up to Jour advantages. Fo
shoaii We gel under the feet of our Inventions. M
Snvasioa of Goths and Vandals could be compare,