Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-01

alone, in preparation for HE judgment. Wbotb.
ef Willingly or by force, their transfer to the dis
posal OF man is a robbery. of God. That this con-
viction turks in the minds Of shareholders is cer-
1ain' from the fact that they themselves. while
Doastlully protesting to send the book Of God and
us saiVaton to Africa, withhold il as far as nos
sloie from Africans who are slaves on their own
esta'os' Ihey profess to send the word. md
"'tnnoid Its blessings from the inmates of their
own nomes' This is proof that the slavery psrpe-
rated there is no conscientious mistake. but the
TEMPERATE nourishment of what its advooates
know to be incompatible with a free and unsonbis-
heated uso Of Gods most Holy Word.
American slavery is supported BY meons
winch cannot DO tolerated withou. Rebellion
against the Christ Of God. Witness that Iaroa
and injured class of colOred people, who suffer 40
much wrong in all the States. Whence came
they? If, as 1t is pleaded, their mothers ara lee,
than human, then it is written, He that bowe,n
down to a east shall surely BIO put to death - II
they be women, as the facts prove, then thew bavs
human rights, and the proGigacy Of white men.
which has produced their offspring. ia n crime
that calls for judgment. Their unjust expulsion
from equal privilege in the place of PRAYER. is
proof that this unrighteousness is known by muI-
titudes who refuse, before God and men, the re-
peDtanoe, the compassion, and the redress which
1t demands. tits only natural that men who have
|enslaved their own children should, in perpetuat-
ing slavery, break all the laws and preeepts Of
their Redeemor. By the impulse of human pas-
sions, when once deiled, sin is forced onward to
perpetual increase. The wicked fee when M
man pursueth, and therefore the guilty. fear of
III vnhOlnard pnprtpIoo n L.
OIL wrongs. Covering as with a pail details of vi
oience and %impurity which have reached our know
LEDGE and which God will judge, we testify tina,
the whipping padding, manning, starving,
branding, torturing, and in various WAYS the muir
dering OF slaves, and the c~owardly appeals to
physical violence against the persons and interests
oil Christian men who, like their Lord, COMMISSION
ate the sia?es, are features in this reign of terror
at which humanity itself is shocked. Instead of
compromising the laws of Christ by which tbese
SINS are condemned and the perpetrators of them
called to repentance or accommodation the
time and the occasion call for greater faithfulne,s.
Inc kingdom OF Christ and ofGod does not depepd
on gifts OF money gained by processes 60 criminal
IN the south OF America. We pray that brethren
whose hands are clean from this ~iniGuity NAV in
the'r love and freedom do what they can for God.
ana leave the partners in this fearful crime TO cir.
oulate' In their own way, their gospel according to-
slavery.
Bear with US, brethren, for our pity moves NOE
toward the slaves alone. Their peculiar sorrow
ends with this mortal life, but facts evolving now
through many years, show in the slave proprietors
a progressive moral degradation, whose asnecs
looks out iearfully on the world to come. Firm
ness COmbinaH with faitbf,1 oIal.----
commands esteem. But every moral process which
f'nes 'ne soul OF man against the teaching of
u loving LORD, end where it may, demands COM
passion, If without holiness no man shall see
tho Lord, we may with justice claim your faithful
'o''ioo ior men VINO love a system which cannot
10 supported without sin. Before your eyes, near
II not more distinctly, than before our own.
the growing efforts to extend slavery, the coarse
ness OF Its defence even in your Senate. the bold
in slave legislation making the system
more bitter by law, the Fugitive Slave Law and
Its terrible effects, the constant decline Of moral
'eeling In your churches tinctured by the love of
'his SID, your camp and association meetings with
sales OF slaves, your revival meetings holden in
rooms hung round with bloody whips, your assem-
bIies for prayer in which four millions of vour
own enslaVed citizens must not be named, YOUR
which bring no compassion for the
oppressed and no adherence of the Impure, your
who, defending this barbarous crime,
the name of Jesus, and the domestic
influence it ezorts, which by creating a jealousy
but too well founded, and putting the objects Of
Jealousy into a womau's power, makes her
the most cold, pitiless, and unrelenting tormentor
OF her own sexual these, and a thousand evils
such as these, by resisting the will of God, which
10 our sanctidcation, place the agents, authors.
and defenders of the American slavery, more
forward as objects of Christian COM
passion than any other men. For their sakes
we implore the advantages which .
faithful Christian discipline was by the Redesmer
ordained to secure.
Brethren, we are yours in the Lord,
tSi6ned) "CHARLEs STovEL, Pastor,
GEORGE GowLAND, Deacon and
Hhairn,oa