Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-27

ders committed IN the treatmen. to which our Afri.
can brothers aud sisters are subjected, in being
driven in chains thousands of miles from their
homes and relations by merciless slavedealers, to
the slave-marts on the coast, and in sill greater
numbers in what is known as the horrors of the
middle passage crowded down in the miserable
holds OF the slavc-ships, and treated as so many
cattle, in their voyage across the Atlantic. The
trade is SO lucrative that the gains are great even
though more than half Of those cruelty treated
and, in as far as man s concerned, innocent hu-
man beings, should die through mal-treatment on
the passage.
But apart from the direct or indirect murders
which are inseparabe from this horrible traffic
what theft or robbery is once to be compared with
that OF robbing human being of his liberty, and
reducing him, as far as man can, to the condition
of q brute 2 To rob a man of his substance
though he should Se left naked and penniess,
is but trifiug wrong compared to robbing man
OF his liberty, and converting him into chattel
Yet Is is The mournful fact that all the larger
ecclesiastical bodies in the United States-the old
and new school Presbyterians, the Methodists, the
Baptists, and, we believe, also to n considerable
extent, the Independents admit shareholders to
their communion, and some of them are at this
hour glorying in the practice. But we foaressly
ask on whom shall discip pline be exercised, when
men-stealere or the resettsTs &c the most heinous
theIt unQer heaven, and tho main instruments OF
the horrible save-traGe ATE exenp pted from this
Shall these churches suspend from their fellowship
the habit aud repute thief, or the avo2ed nstiga-
tor OF the thief tie robbor, or the assassin to his
of uip plp3p re i
scarcely rePol the charge of being partial in the
administration Of this ordinance OF Christ Does
not part of the guit--we shall not say how large
part of the guilt-connected with slaye-holdibr.
man-steang, and all the horrid cruelties and dark
deeds inseparabe from slave tra fc, lie at the door
of the churches, which set the seal of their sppro
baton, in one of the highest forms possible on the
avowed abetors of this atrocous system Of inioui-
ties Ii is lamentable fact also, that some of
the American churches are becoming more fayora-
BILE to slavery, at least to shareholders than they
formerly were; and what shall we make Of the
fact, that the representatives of these slaveoler
anng churches are hailed and applauded as cor.
responding members in the Assemblies of church
es IN Britain that claim the very frst rank among
the churches of ChrstendoEi
This induction of facts shows clearly the tre
mendous influence which the inordinato love of the
world has exortcd and is exerting, among men.
low extensively is the truth of the divine testi-
mony verified, They that will be rich fail into
temptation, and suare, and into many foolish
and hurtful lusts, WHICH DROWN MEN IN rERplr1oN
AND DESTRUCTION This is leading the Slave
States of America to cling to the slave system
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Ephesus, who made silver shriues for Diana. c,ung
to the worship of the goddess. This exerts an
influence which Outweighs all the respect for free
dom of which American brethren have so
long claimed e monopoly. This has prevented,
and is preventing the discipline of the American
churches. This has power to lay a wide embargo
on pulpit fidelity, not only in the Slave States but
to considerable extent in the Free also This
has Frustrated under its feet the Board of the
Tract Society in the States At its behest, the
books circulated by that influential Society are
purged of everything tending to condemn the viii
lanies Of the slave system. This has banshed
freedom from the Slave States, not merely in re-
spect OF the slave, but Glso Of tho free man, ex-
cept he show himself devotee Of slavery. This
gags the press in the Slave States as sringently as
the verest European despot can in his dominions.
We fondl3 hope, however, that the beginning of
the end of American slavery is dawhing, like that
OF Poperyj and we do earnestly pray that it may
be speedily extnguished. 1t is manifest that this
consumma:ion will not be achieved without des-
perate struggle; and perhaps it is not the will of
the Supreme Ruler that the iniquity should be
purged otherwise than by a work of Judgment
Lest as Britons, we should be disposed to undu-
ly glory in our deliverance from the accursed thing
let it be remembered that it was not without a
hard conflict in both Houses of Parliament, q pow
erfnl agitation throughout the nation, and great
money sacrifice that the slave interest and inau-
ence were overcome. Moreover, had the money
interest in the system been as deeply rooted and
as extensively ramided in British society as it now
is in that of the United States, is there not cause
to doubt whether slavery had not hung as mill.
stone around the neck of Britain to this dayf
While, therefore, we bewai the existence and
widespread evil effects of slavery in the United
States, we should deeply sympathse with, and to
The utmost of our power encourage, those who are
now putting forth strenuous efforts against nu-
rherous shd very United host of powerful antago-
lists to stem the tide of evil which has spread as
mighty food. and inundated with its balerul in
luence wide extent of one of the airest coun-
ries on the face of the globe. There are hosts of
7aliant sons and noble daughters mastering to this
great battle in the Free States with some illustr-
'us recruits even n the abodOs Of slavery, who are
onging for the day when those deadly waters shall
% thoroughly dried up, for their own sakes, for
he good Of their beloved country, and that of the
vorld 10 the glory of God. This is tho noble spir-
I which we think is manifesting itself, and in the
course of extension, in the United States and it is
ur earneSt prayer that it may soon porvade all
has hnj, and the present abettOrs of slavery
mong the rest.