Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-17
From the Liberator.
A DIFFERENCE, AND THE REASON OF
IT.

one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord shall enter in
to the kingdom of heaven but lie that doeth the
will Of myFather.'
AT the present day, so great has become the i'm
pudence of the clergy who pretend to teach in tn,
name and by tho authority of Jesus, that the,
practically reserve this doctrine, and not only ac
cept the profession as substitute for honesty
and justice in the life of the individual who make,
it, but decry good principles and right practice.
where they exist without the profession and, in
the few fare cases where these 20 together, they
praise and value the profession moro than the
life Take the following specimen from the Laae.
pendent of Aug. 25th.
In an article distinguished by lsaasd type, and
headed Ohio Christian Anti-Slavery Contention, ,
statements are made respecting a meeting thus en-
titled, and composed chiefly of members Of the
i Congregational Free Presbyterian and Wesleyan
Churches. The article gives the following state
ment of the principles which ought TO DC declared,
and the stand which ought to be taken in such a
meeting and adds to this an abstract of the pur-
port of the Resolutions actually adopted To both
these, we request the particular attention of our
readers -.
''lt must be obvious to all thinkin g minds, that
Christian antslavcry men are called upon to 90
back to first principles to treat slaveholding as
one of the highest sins against God and one of
the greatest crimes against man, and to arouse the
Christian sentiment of the land to a distinct and
emphatic condemnation of the "sum of all vii
lalnies )" to stir this question to its foundations
and to bring the whole neral power Of Gods
Word and the Christian Church into intense ac.
activity for the overthrow and destruction of sla-
very. l.a. ..a 10
"ihe resolutions were explicit and comprehen-
'ive. They assert the right of every human be-
ing, under the natural and revealed law of God, to
lite' liberty and knowledge !; that governments
have no justauthorisy to violate the will Of God,
nor to deprive any human being of his liberty
Except for crime,) that the fugtive-slave act nei-
ther changes the law OF God NOR the rights of mat,
ner the duty of Christians to feed tho hungry and
clohefthe naked, tis Do ss,o7szs edl ~ b.i3si
| The principles and methods stated in the first
of the above paragraphs as those which ought to
distinguish Christian anti-savery meeting are
precisely those which always hare distinguished
the meetings and the course Of action of the Anne
rican Anti-Slavery Society. The Abstract of Res
ouions in the second paragraph expresses precise
ly the ideas that have always boen declared and
advocated in the meetings of that Society, and
published in the records of their proceedings, so
as to be known and read of all who were disposed
either to hear or read them. In these two particu-
lars then, the very points tha, seem most i'm port
ant as giving character and efficiency to the meet
ings. the Ohio Christian Anti@Slavery Convention
is the exact counterpart of the American Anti
Slavery Society. .. 7...r at
Are. there any differences between these two
meetings Yes, two, and only two, both of which
are creditable to the American Society's meetings
and disereditablc to the Ohio meetings. They are
as follow .a s..
l. The American Society invites the whole peo-
Pile to act against slavery. The Ohio Convention
invites ony small fractional part even of the peo-
pie of its own State.
The Society invites oU men and aoomen to act in
this work. The Convention invites only those
who assume themselves to be 'pous' men and wo-
men. if indeed it recognized women as having an
business in Convention at all, of which we are
not assured. ..
The Society invites all human beings to aid in
overthrowing slavery. The Convention invites
only that small portion Of human beings Who are
in the habit of saying-LorG Lord =
The Society acts on the principle of equal broth
erhood, seeking the cooperation of all n doing
right and just thing. The Convention acts on the
principle of caste, refusing the cooperation, even
in right and just thing, of those who are not in
tho habit of saying-Lord Lord =
The Society seeks solely the benefit of the Op-
pressed and enslaved, and welcomes all who will
help them, for whatever reason. The Contention
so plans and conducts it's operations as to make
its help of the slave, work sidewise towards the
help of the Church, and refuses the partnership
of all who do not share this divided allegiance.
The Society has no interested purpose to serve,
no axe to grind, 10 Corporation to help forward,
no interest in another department to be fortified by
success in this department. The Convention is
giving half Its strength and three quarters of its
enthusiasm not onlyto another interest,to church
but to ats own church, that conglomeraton of sec
tartan bodies which utter their repetitions of
Lord ! Lord with the 'evangelicaP infection, and
to whose interests the members of the Convention
had first committed themselves. This is the first
point of difference .rs.sf.
2. The American &ntiaSlavery Society," having
long ago vainly called upon the American church
to use its immense power for the help Of the
slave, and having proved it guilty Of inhumanty,
hypocrisy and treachery to its own professions,
and proved also that its alliance with slavery is
the main bulwark of that wickedness, has ey-
er since distinctly proclaimed the guilt of that
church. The Ohio Convention (if the Independent
has given fair abstract Of its proeeedngs covers
up that guilt with silence, thus giving additiohsl
proof that it s acting in the interest of the
church than in that of the slave. s SON lli
1t thus appears that the American Anti-Slavery
Society and the Ohio Christian AutiSlavery Con-
vention agree exactly in what is to'be said about
slavery itself agree exactly in the principles and