Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-12

by the denial of the evidence of slaves. or other
colored persons as to screen the white murderer
from conviction.
Christianity loves the truth, thinks no evil, and
works none against our neighbor. Its kindness,
justice, omYassion, and forgiveness, even of enc
miles, are universal. Slavery bears false witness
it is full Of uncharitableness, fraud hatred and
murder. Christianity is from God. God is love-"
Slavery is from the PIT, and its temper and works
declare its satanic paternity.
AS slavery has advanced, religion has declined.
1t has been an active instrument Of the slave pow
er, and has prepared the way for violence toward
the faithful men who oppose slavery as q sn-
The missionaries and col?orters of this Associa-
tion have preached and distributed Gospel truth
in its living hostility to slavery. and have founded
churches and schools on principles Of righteous
ness. Rev. John G. Fee and others, have some
times been mobbed, and violently handled and
yet the work has extended, and in Kentucky and
North Carolina, twenty churches, non fellowship.
ing Shareholders, have been formed, giving prom
ise of permanency to the cause, and spreading the
principles OF true Christianity,
The violent expulsion Of these missionaries, and
Of the missionaries Of "the United Brethren in
Christ" from kentucky, together with other in
nocent people connected with them the mpris-
onment of Rev. Daniel Worth, and the arrest of
many others in North Carolina and the more
recent violence at Berea, KY. indicate most strik-
iDgly, the ferocity of slavery.
Between slavery and Christianity there can be
no peace conf"' between them is ever existing.
The policy of slavery is to corrupt Christianity IN
sentiment and prac:ce-to lead its professors to
compromise its principles, to allow the leayen of
iniquiy rob the church of its purity AMI there
by Of its true aggressive element The conf let
now going on in Kentucky and North Carolina,
between the Shareholders and our missionaries anG
churches, results from the application of pure
Christianity to the sin of slaveholding. The cause
of the persecution, their enemies bearing testi-
mony, is not any immortality violence or sediton
of the missionaries, but th9 spread Of sentiments
against the great sin of the land. If they had
been party to the sin, as the religious denomi.
nations and preachers in the midst of slavery are
generally, there would have been no conflict.
Though most Of the missionaries are expelled
or imprisoned, the persecution exctes inquiry,
and the way is preparing for reaction. In
jackson Co. KY, our remaining missionary gives
most encouraging testimony of the progress of the
cause there, and has received assurances of pro
lection. The exiled missionaries are now in sew
eral free States proclaiming the facts of the per
secuiion, the history of the missions, and their OK
pectation of their returning after a time to then
fields Of labor, while the christian mind is open
ing throug hout the land to look at the sin and ma
of 81 m trus fnr
and increasing efforts for missions in the South.
Have we not heavy responsibility in this mat
ter? Can we innocenty leave the South to de-
structon ? Has not the North shared, and is i
it not now sharing, largely, in the guilt of sup
porting slayery2 Have not our literature, our
religious publishing societies. eccesia5tical bodies
churches, pulpits, and missionary Boards and 50.
cietios, generally, quailed before the Moooh 0
slavery? And should not the North, in penitence
zealously labor to undo the wrong? Shall slavery
80 on to multiply its Victims while We supinelI
wait TO see the retribution of just and holy Goo
the God of the oppressed?
May not the stupendous wrong be overborne b,
peaceful means, by the forces Of Christianity a
employed by this Association. and it's missona
ries and cOlporters in slave States Is our benev
lolence exhaustedY Are our prayers hushed
Have we given our property, as we ought to hav
done, for this great object Consider
Christian brethren Do not four millions O
slaves lift up their piteOus cry for help? Do no
six millions of non Shareholders need our sympS
thy and aid And does not the danger of tn
shareholders in their sins, call for our strenuou
and unceasing efTorts2 There will be opposition
and there must be conflict May Gods peopl
meet this opposition, and encounter this conflict
with such fidelity, liberal giving, and earnes
prayer that the moral warfare shall be cut shol
in righteousness
By all that is dear to Humanity, by all tho in
terests of Christianity, and for the honor of Chris
we call upon His redeemed people to come to the
delverance of the enslaved, and the salvation @
the South as well as of our whole country. relyin
upon Him to whom belongs the dominion, th
victory and the glory.