Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-29
WHOLE NO. 794.

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spawn, and has come forth as pure gold from the
refner's FIRE. A thousand clerical regulations
have fallen at his side, and ten thousand sanctfed
nameo at his right hand. But the cause he advo-
Gates has gone on conquering and to conquer.
When the an;i-sIavery enterprise was i0Gusurated,
two great political parties existed in the country.
Before the advancing tide Of this great reform,
the Wing party fell, and was ground to powder,
as between the upper and neither mistones OF
avenging Justice, because it vas false to humani-
,y and false to its own sense Of right. And now
the Democratic party which, with few slight ahe
unimportant interruptions, has -uled the nation
for two generations has crumbiej to atoms, aud
gone to its own place, in attempting to resist the
onward march Of this grand idea of human equal
ty. 1t only remains for the friends Of popu-
lar sovereignty and the unblushing advocates OF
the unlimited spread Of despotsm, together with
the odds and ends of all parties, the Bells and
the Everets, the Winthrops and the APpletons;-
defuncs politicians aud advocates Of obsolete ideas,
to gather up the fragments end prepare them fot
decen: burial. LET the dead bury their dead"
Whether the Church SO long the bulwark of this
system OF organized tyranny, shall learn wisdom
from the fate of political parties, and making yir
gress and reform, or whether it will continue 70
oppose Gods work until bis consuming wrath shall
destroy it utterly, time alone can show. There
are cheering omens in certain directions, but 10
yet remains to be seen how extensive they will
prove. The moral barometer at Brooklyn, indi-
Gates that public sentiment is rising, Here Is sh
illustration. Some Eve or six years ago c writer
in the New York Independent, spoke of Mr. Gar.
rison as an 'infdel of the most degraded class"
In view of the relation Mr.. Beecher sustained to
the Independent, and knowing how the warm pull:
sations in favor Of freedom beat in the breast Of
this modern BOanerges, friend addressed him
letter Of inquiry TO ascertain whether he endorsed
the sentiment Of the contributor. Mr. Beecher
look ed at Mr.. Gqrrison's selfsacrGcing devotion
to human equality, and then at grim Orthodoxy;
cod stern, relentless the grave and concluding
that discretion was the better part Of valor, de-
clined answering the plain interrogatory OF his
friend The voice was the voice of Jacob, but the
hands were tho hands Of Esau. Time rolls on;
the world moves, the progresses, and th4
church, with all her Inertia, cannot stand &hoAy
STILL To-day il ia safe. and enincn.iJ espedisnt
for Henry Ward Beoeher utter what his heart
felt, but his lips burst rot speak, six years ago
Listen to his words:
Now at the beginning of this great tAnti-Sls:
very) ok, whose period marx we celebrate to.
night, God did not call TIE great or the many. but
his voice sounded first in the ears of the humble
and the few. l call you to remember that this
great work not begun by the church, Courts
aud assemblies were not called to head the tesis,
tance to slavery. 1t was NOT the lesielatrs OF hS
state. 1t was no. any part of organized society
whatever that inaugerated this revolution against
slavery All these things bad too much to take
care Of to be able to risk any thing fer an unpop.
justice. They we're all asleep, and when tho
voice sounded none of them knew it to be the voice
of God The men who fret agitated in behslF Of
liberty and against slavery, we're the ttdest mar
tyre this age has seen. It is but plea6ant mag
naninity to speak well Of those with whDm you
differ in many veiy material respects, and though
am not on his side / tust bear witness to the
fidelity Of su Oh q man as Wm. Lloyd Garrison.-
1t m ay be hard for soma to believe that he Sss OnS
of the earliest and nobiest OF those iaasfhSehta
God employed for the ovofthro% of Stbtessioh
among Us = he that has beeA the sco8fgs Of the
ministry and the church, and %hose tongue has
walked to and fro through tas lana a!hid persecu-
lions scarcely paralleled in moderi tites. And;
yet after all, one thing cannot bo denied, that
there has arisen no more stalwart AID hetoic mad
in any age to labor fot freedom, to declare slavery
to be Ubiquitous and from the ir5t to speak untem:
pered words, but words that were untempered, only
because ia the might Of wckedness; and in tho
strength of his feeling there no t;o for Iiea:
surng The ages are more just than the years
in which thing takes place: and by and by, when
yoa and are gone down below the horizon, ard
men see none of US, they will behold. standing
high as q star, such a as Wm. Lloyd Garrison;
on account of his Christian opposition to slavery:
Many and many man will be remembered only
because lie threw dirt at him.
The beginnings of this strife we're fdll Of thmulI.
rage and violence. Almost every organization in
society was set against this reformation. Tho
family, tie school, colleges, eatcuses; parties and
legislatures were against It. Churches. presby-
teries, synods, and assemblies were against it
Boards Of publication, and boards Of missionaries
we're against it. Bankers and brokers', Jobbert
and shipers, makers and venders we're against il.
Every thing was against it, Time after time they
killed it. Argument upon argument Was hurled
at it. Resolution upon Solution aimed at It.
Never was the bell to!led at any rising spirit OF
evolution oftener than at the death Of the rising
spirit of Auti-Slavory. And what was the RESULT
j ust the same as the result that followed Herod's
attempt to kill Christ. lie slew a few babes Of
Bethlehem; bat CSriat was not touched. lie grew
to the stature OF man, aud became the Rsdstnaet
Of the world
have made this lengthy extract from one Of
Mr.. Eeeober's recent sermons for GEo reasonG
First, as indicating the progress Of a man, who,
sis years ago durt not set his indignant foot upon
he foul SANDER, that the hoblest reformer Of the
.ge. was an "in6del of the most degraded class"
But, mainly as having an important bearing Upon
he topic under cohsideration,--th lesson 10 be
earned from John Bown's attack upon the GibAr-
lltar of modern iniquhy in the graphic deliDen-
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