Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-10
A. WILDER, Notary Public.
FROM the Free Church Portfolio.
DR.. CHEEVER.

We have read the history of persecution till our
blood boiled with indignation; and We felt hearti.
ly ASHAMED Of being connected with the race that
could furnish such perpetrators of crime. We
sometimes have thought that this age has reached
a point of civilization which nllays all fears that
the bloody scenes of former days could ever
be re-enacted here. But the INSCRIPTIONS and re
lentless hate of the men in New York who are
hunting down DR.. CheeVer, convinces us that man.
kind is the same now that it ever has been, and
all that is necessary to light the fires of Smith
field in Union Square is the countenance and %
thority Of Iap. These persecutors Of DR.. Chesver
are mean as we'll as bold. If they do not like the
preaching of their minister, why not take their
certificates and 60 away to some other church
where compromise and silence have unGisturbed
possessiou1 But no. They still claim their
rights as voters, and some Of them have knocked
of their siipends," as they say in the West, and
exercise the full power of a vote, which they hold
10y tho yearly payment Of q mere triae. Tho
children Of these men who are now DIGGING the
footsteps of DR.. Cheever in England, will yet blush
when they read the Protest, the record of their
fathers shame. The present state of things will
not last forever. The urn Of destiny is revolving
and those who are now down, will in due time be
uppermost. Then will be the triumph day of the
truth. Then justice will be done to the men who
now are daring all things and suffering all things
in the cause of a pure religion and a sound moral
ity. How astonishing it is to see the editors Of
the New York Independent, Drs. Thompson and
: Bacon engaged in this uuholy crusade against
J Cheever. Their hate seems to be refined and OK.
8 quislte, such as has often been evinced by Jesuit
Inquisitors when they stood by the rack and en-
I joyed the breaking Of the bones and swapping OIL
the tendons of some poor victim who incurred
their suspicion. We cannot believe for a moment
that these mon hate DR.. Cheever because he is an
Abolitionist. There must be some other cause
u sufficient to produce such an effect. We attribute
it to enpy that nean. low vice which often de-
} forms the character Of great but not good men
u and which the Bible declares to be "the rottennesl
of the bones" Cheevers position is enviable.-
" He is Sighting the whole City Of New York
. With his sling and stones which he found in thu
- word Of God, be has gone out to meet the Who'll,
army of proslavery Pbilistines, and is bound ulti
. mateiy to pu. them b flight. Suppose on his re
turn to his native land DIR. Thompson should be il
the same church when the table Of the Lord i
spread for communion, how could he sit dowr
with the man he has SO injured and give him tn
g right hand of Christian fellowship? And If b.
did, what would a h~igh-minded spectator, a mai
L OF the world, think, when he remembered the ed
y isOrials of the Independent against. Chesver an,
. how they rseked with cold-bloOded malice. In hi
course toward DR.. CheeVer, DR.. Thompson seem
" to us to be building up the cause of Christ wit
his left hand while he is pulling down with hi
right. What effect must oil this have upon th
q thousands Of candid and honorable men who ar
calm spectators and judges of the scene. vii
they not inVOluntarily say of Religion, what Mad
ams ROLAND, on her way to the g~uillOtine at Pari
d said of liberty i-"oh Religion, what crimes ar
10 perpetrated in thy name