Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-16
A LETTER
To The Monsters and Lay Members Of Tie rOrious
Churches in the Stale Of Ohio:

boosted land Of liberty and Christianity, Of whose
condition it was declared by one Of our statesmen
zone hour Of their suffering is fraught with more
misery than ages of that which our fathers rose in
rebellion to oppose"
All the dying groans which come from South
Carolina and the hills Of old Virginia borne On the
wings of every Southern gale,do not seem to move
the hearts Of most of our ministers, but we find
them voting for, and apoligizing and sustaining
this God-defying, man-degrading, soul-crushing,
hell deserving institution that holds men ip abject
bondage. Look at it for a moment. Man created
in the image of God, crowned with glory and
honorl Slavery tears off his crown, and puts on
him a yoke God made him to have dominion
over the beast Of the field and every creeping
thing Slavery breaks his sceptre and casts
him down among, yea, beneath them Though
God has put all things under his feet, slavery puts
him under the feet of an owner Who but an
uniaithful, bypocritical minister would sanction
for q moment such blasphemy2 Who dares to
strive with his Maker and mu,ilate His image.
and blaspheme the Holy Que who saith to those
who grind his poor; 'inasmuch as ye did it unto
one of the least of these, ye did it unto me"2-
Again it is written whatsoever ye would that
men should do unto you, do ye even SO unto them
for this is the law aud the prophets. In the 10th
chapter Of Isaiah you will find there is O law writ
ten against those who oppress the poor, which
reads thus, "Woe unto them that decree upright
eous DEGREES, and tia, write grievousness which
they have prescribed to turn aside the needy from
Judgment, and take away the right from the poor
of my people that widows may be their prey, and
that they may rob the fatherless." Surely the peo-
pie of the State of Ohio have decreed unrighteous
DEGREES, by taking from the colored people Of the
State the right CT elective franchise, By framing
iniquity into law, which measures men by tho col
or Of their skin and the length of their hair, and
the kind OF blood supposed to course through their
veins. ln taxing che colored race not represented,
sixty thousand dollars per annum to build roor-
houses and aImshouses which they may not enter,
while the doors are open to all the whites. whether
emigrants from Ireland or elsewhere, and the life's
blood is washed from the bodies of millions of ma
tive born citizens. Republicans lay the sin and
the wrong on the Democrats, and Democrats retort
it upon the Republicans. The latter assured US
that if they could obtain power they would legis-
late for our relief but they succeeded, and how
have they bettered our condition? They charged
Breslin and Gibson with stealing the peoples
money and said they ought to be imprisoned
then took annually sixty thousand dollars of our
money and instead CT labcring to give us our
just rights, they legislated for the protection
of the birds and the fish, leaving their equal breth-
rem ground down under the heel of oppression in
our own state. II do not believe God has any attri-
butte which can take sides with such wrong, nor that
his judgments will alRays lingersnorshis J6sfss
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|&ntet the sdS5sSSae Vcbfstwsiish Jndks Tansy al iss
dstt6GhsylasSaA athakf adj blatr han hass1o fights
= hscPP VIZ @9fhiits man is bound to respect.
This is nothing new in the history of this coun-
try. No party in power since the formation of the
government has regarded the rights of the black
man. They have all taken sides with the Cypress
or, against the oppressed, and have been loyal to a
government that deyours widows houses and robs
the fatherless.
Ye ministers who have been unfaishful to the
cause OF Humanity, what will you do when those
who have reaped down your harvest without wages
shall cry against you to the Lord in the last days,
Behold the hire of the laborers which you have
kept back by fraud crieth, and the cries of them
which have reaped are entered into the ears of the
Lord of Sabaoth"r Ye have lived in pleasure on
the earth and been wanton, ye have nourished
your hearts as in u day of slaughter ye have
condemned and killed the just and be doth not re.
sist. The groans Of millions have gone up to Heaven
and entered the ears of the Lord. Ye have beer
silent on the foulest wrong that ever disgraced the
earth, and have suffered the Upas tree of Slavery
to grow until its branches cover every inch o.
ground beneath your sovereignty and corrupted al
most every heart. Oh men and women of Ohio
that have the care Of families, l ask you to think
Of your abundance, and then Of the scanry pit
lance of the slave! Compare your houses with
their huts your abundant food with their peel
Of corn per week your beds with their straw anc
rags; your clothing with their nakedness Re
member that your children can have a tender moth
er, O father, or sister, or brother to watch ovel
them when sick, and that the poor slave mothel
must leave in yonder cabin her children scorcheC
" it'll fever. Hark to its feeble cry for a sup o
water to cool its parched throat and lips as i
throws its bony hands into the air, and calls fo
it's mother who may not come to it. She, perhaps
is in the rice swamp, or the cotton or the can,
field When she left her child in the morning
she pressed her lips to it's fevered cheek, perhap
for the last time whilst living o! think how
you can have friends to meet with you when
husband or child is sick, to console you and watcl
the last breath as it leaves The body. o ye mother
and father of Ohio! ye can train up your child
rem as ye would have them 60, with Bible in hand
that book helarsp sacred And yet ye support
law which ~deprives thousands in this country o
knowing one word that is in it, and millions of al
opportunity to read it for themselves. Let tn,
people of Ohio ask each himself, as it ! that sup
ports a government which deprives 20 many of thi
precious right that thrusts back into bondage al
those who attempt TO escape that Furnishes will
fine and Imprisonment our own citizens who dar,
to perform the common acts Of humanity anC
Christianity" Nearly all are loyal minister
and lay members are loyal to the Constitution o
the United States and the bred Scott decision
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