Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-12

| Inc scraplng OF the slave out OF AIRY Schoher's &
picture, in order to fit it for the Prayer Book, was
another specimen Of the blinkcr Nothing go e!'
fectually binks a subject as the removal Of it en-
tirely out OF sight. The scraping out of the text
"Remember them that are in bonds, as bound also
with them" would be the same blinker applied to
the New Testament
! The introduction and adoption in the general or
thodox creed of the article that slavery is not sin
! in ITSELF and that only the evils growing out of it
are to be reprobated, answers all the ends of every
blinker yet patented. Even as an eUH regarded in
this ingenious method, slavery is not NAHUM in Sc,
but only malum prohiJtum.
The treatment of slavery as sin only in the con-
CRETE but not in the abstract or rice rerSa as Gin
only in the abstract but not the CENTRE will an.
swer the same purpose If you succeed in pre-
venting any definition of slavery except by its
evils, you prevent also the condemnation, and have
got one of the best blnkers possible.
The adoption of the rule that in all young mems
associations. but especially Christian, no subject
whatever shall be permitted to be discussed, con-.
cerning which there is any difference of opinion,
is a wonderfully decisive and comprehensive meth
cd Of the bnker. 1t is good as charity SOUP
houses for the poor, to prevent the vexation of in.
divdual consciences with the question of their re.
lief by employment.
The putting up of a sign board over the doors
of our prayer meetings, informing the public that
no controverted subjects permitted to be intro.
duced here, is an excellent mode of the bnker, to
prevent the vagaries of radicali0m under the pre-
tence of grace. The removal of each black sheep,
ho ~. A.
fold and carrying him up stairs, is additional
security. The controversy is thus blnked, both in
the abstract and the concrete, and the meet
ing is rendered homogeneous and perfect a uni.
ty as piece of concrete spar. There is also this
advantage, that the black sheep is carried nearer
heaven, and is above the PRAYERS below, even if
he be not the subject of them.
Let no man imagine. however, that the binker
is modern invention. On the contrary, it was
patented Immediately after the fall, and perhaps
the very first example of it, in Gains hands, was,
after all, the most perfect. "For the Lord said
unto Cain, Where is Abel. thy brother2 And he
said, know not. AN | MY BROTHERS KEEPER 2"-
There is blnker for you, "as is a blinker': it can
scarcely be improved upon, Though there may be
great ingenuity in adornng and fastening it.
The reopening of the slave trade and its coast.
wise protection afforded great field for the blinker
The question of the right of search is an admirable
political blinker, good as hatchway battened
down over the whole mischief. The ignoring of a
bill of indictment by the Grand Jury. against the
owners and navigators of slave vessels is as good
as Gains defence, without its apparent insolence
Nevertheless, as to all notifications of Gains pat.
ent, there are some difficulties. AS for example, "It
thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto
death, and those that ready to be slain; if thou
sayest Behold ace kaow ii mol; doth not he that pom
dereth the heart cons slider it? And he.tha keepeth
thy soul doth he not know i9 And shall not he rem,
der to every man according to his works?"
The famous MAXIM Ou country, right or torong,
go IL blind is a thorough specimen Of the demo.
cratic blinker. A still more perfect example is the
assertion Of the inherent right of popular sover-
eighty to do wrong, and the plank in our judicial
platform, that black men have rights that white
men are bound to respect. As good as this, and
quite prehensive, enthusiastically is the fun
damenta plank or principle. that nothing shall
be said against sin, as sin, which does not meet
the appreciation Of all evangelical Christians of ev
cry denomination.
The declaration that neither the Tract Society
nor the American Board is an Anti. Slavery Socie.
ty, is another fine specimen of the blinker. 1t has
advantages even over the original patent for it
blinks the whole subject of slavery in the most
perfect and decisive way. In regard to the Amer.
lean Board, for example, the New York Observer
and the Boston Recorder announce this decision
as declaration Of independence, cutting off all
those thorns in the flesh, that have so provoked
mems patience, in the shape of pricks and gOads
from antslaverV radicals. just as if either the
American Board or the Tract Society could have
anything to do with slavery in any way!
The recent Report of the Board on the Cherokee
and Choctaw Missions is a very admirable instance
o; the practical blinker. When you can blink a
difficulty or sin, by turning it bodily over into
other hands, it is out of your jurisdiction you can
never again be twiited with it, or called upon to
wash your hands of it.
The effort of the New York Evangelist, and of
the Stated Clerk OF the General Assembly, to ex.
ouse the erasure Of the testimony of Gods Word
againsts slavery, that testimony which denounced
it as the guilt of man stealing, is capital speci'
men of the blinker. Ecclesiastical skill was never
more needed, nor ever more happily exercised, in
blinking the testimony of Gods Word against sin.
The explanation of the expuncton is not so adroit,
being more cumbrous, indeed, than the whole orig
inal Assembly's blinker, which was very com.
pressed and compact thing. The Assembly of 1916
expunged the note against slavery and simple ex-
FUNCTION is the brieies safest most executive pos,
sible example of the blinker, the least liable to
tanglement or miscOnception and the least open
to question. The Assembly of 1886 thought they
could improve upon tais patent, though, wherever
sin is to be blinked, who could improve upon 81.
lencef There is exceeding great wisdom in si
lence.
However. some persons will be always tinker.
ing. and can never be persuaded to let well alone
30 the Assembly Of 1886 explained that the tsst