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

bringing posse c~oniitdtuS for the execution Of is
edicts. Nothing more hImiliaiing in tue mercan-
tile history OF our country has ever occurred than
the voluntary, ignominious descent Of great firms
into the mire of this wiekedness, kneeling in tho
mud as the Juggernaut passes, and imploring the
idol to be satisfied with the immolation of their
principles, and not to require tho sacrifice of their
goodsl Continue to us thy patronage, OF
Baal, for we are thy faithful friends. And the la
test missal issued for the convenience of the sect
is in the shape Of a directory 70. the south, contain
ing the names Of those firms, those merchants,
who may be relied upon as faithful worshippers.
There was never a meaner or more perfect diabol-
ical possession, not even Of the devils 10 the herd
of swine, than that by which, under the spell of.
this despotism, whole classes Of men loose their
senses and their shame together. Aud the mean
man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
himself, striving which shall 60 the deepest in this
pool, making an absolute competition aud parade
in their debauchery Of conscience.
all this we have Witnessed in silence, while
the political exponents Of the theology Of this
MoIoch have kept the whole hemisphere in a blaze
with theiT sulphurous and angry demonstrations
The whole winter has been spent by Congress in
uttering and pouring through the land the most
extraordinary and elaborate arguments 10 support
of slavery, and denunciations os any who dare OPP
Pose it in Gods name, nrraigning such opposition
as treason to the country, and threatening the
penalties of treason against the free expression of
opinion in regard to it. 1t has been tho spectacle
Of a volcano Of rat,ling thunders and of lurid fires,
kissing in angry tongues in praise Of q system
Of cruelty and Righteousness, a~rrogated as having
the sanction of n God of love. And while the
greatest moral question of the age has been the
subject not of calm investigation, but of dogma
tism, defamation and intensity furious discussion,
the pul9its Of the land have continued az s'lent on
the matter as if our Senators and Representatives
had been the sole appointed teachers under Gods
authority, a monopoly OF instruction in this prov
ince of theology aud morals, our only duty being
to listen to their harrangues, and keep the Word
Of Jehovah silent in the conflict.
AT the same time, outrages have been commit
ted, day after day, some of which, had the report
r of them reached us from a foreign missionary
station, would have been at once presented to oul
b, congregations, would have called forth indigua.
' ton mass meetings, would have been rebuked in
: all the pulpits of che land. Had such a tran sac
n ton as the expulsion of the Rev. Mr.. Fee and hi
brother missionaries and fellow-laborers from
= Kentucky-a whole colony Of peaceful, prayerful
industrious teachers, driven from their homes ant
employmehts By mob violence, sustained and ami
: mated by the authorities in violation Of law-bad
such o transaction been described as a crime com
mitted abroad, who can doubt that there would
have been a fro Of indignation kindled in oul
churches Who i~magines that our minister,
would have kept silence in regard to such al
outrage, or that it would not have been denounced
with the utmost severity as a crime Of in Intolerance
and cruelty? Ard, again. the violation of all thC
securities and rights of freedom and piety in tn,
outrage Of the ~imprisoE ment of Rev, DAME
"a Worth for the simple exercise of a most unques
tiona5le right, that of reading and circulating
work in condemnation OF slavery. A minister o
the gospel, Of unsuilied, irreproachable character
It imprisoned for using the freedom Of his duty as
q teacher and preacher of Christ, for exercising til,
common right Of a free citizen to form his owl
opinions in regard to all institutions, and to ex
II press his convictions as to the right or wrong il
ID them! These outrages, sand the iniquity that j
the cause of them, and the irreligious and i'm
10 moral state of society produced by the prevalence
m and sanction of that ~iniquity, ought to have bee
10 rebuked by the Churches and the Ministry, TIL
policy Of silence is that Of consent.
Again, the past winter has witnessed tn
shameless petition from more than a thousan
mercantile firms Of this city to the Legislature {
this State praying that the sanction and securit
of law might be given for the introduction of slt
b. very among ourselves, that the laws forbidden
IS, slavery might be 50 abolished, and the ~hospitalii
in Of the State so enlarged, that shareholders migl
a come hither with their slaves, and sojourn unmi
r. Tested, their chattels being secured to them .
~ petition from merchants, many of them doubles
~ members Of Christian Churches, for tine establish
~ ment Of slavery in the State AMI City Of Ne
York; Just as il a race of Jewish traders ho
as been seen petitioning the council of the nation,
o. behalf of the descendants Of those Ishmaeli;es wi
nd bought Joseph from the patriarchs and sold hi
lis into Egypt, that they might be permitted to 6
ch iourn with their human chattels in JerusaleI
re and to carry on their traffic unmolested, for Il
IS, sake Of a larger business with the merchants
is Judea, and "A greater profit therein, and that t
lie this purpose the law of God against slavery al
- for the protection Of fugitives might be repeale
Ia If there had been such a record, we should ha'
&C said that Judas must have been n lineal desce
he dant from those merchants.
Meanwhile, in both free and slave States, VIII
an renewal and increase Of cruel legislation, so ba
nd barous, SO diabolical, that nothing in the statut
IN of Ahab and 0mri, or Of all Pagan antiquity,
for things considered, is to be found worse Bi
be proposed and carried for selling the FREQ neg
nat population, laws compelling them either to exE
triate themselves, at the cost OF great want a
lily misery, or, as the only alternative, to make slay
Pc of themselves, along with their posterity, to p
themselves as the coveEanting head Of a new ra
So OF chAttels, to be created by this act, under /
re- descending damning stamp of the die of this mi
re- of p~erdition; a new branch of The United Stat
emit Mint under the rescript that black men have
rights that white men are bound 10 respects
ate new issue Of this coin of crime and guilt, that
'lr produces and roduplicates itself from generate