Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-07

NNSAA NHA VaANa NaohEO |
still, even the intensely pro,slavery editor Of The
Netc YORK. Observer, is believed to have once vic.
lated, by permitting a closely pursued fugitive
(who had mistaken his Office, for the then neigh
boring Anti-Slavery ofice) to secrete himself in
his promises.
And yet The Independent thinks that "a good
and true man, hating slavery and believing the
act to be unjust, If not unconstitutional, might
execute it, in good faith" Where
did Tile Independent learn political ethics" like
these? Not from the Billie, which says to magis.
%trates, ''That which is altogether just shall they
follow" 'Ye shall not be afraid of man, for the
judgment is Gods Execute Judgment, Ijustice)
between q man and his neighbor.' Thou shalt
not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shalt
thou speak in q cause to decline after many to
wrest judgment" OF all the religions in the
world, the religion Of the Bible Is the most in.
tensely severe against the executing OF unjust
statutes. And Of oil the schools of Biblical inter.
probation, the school Of the Orthodox expositors
is the most intensely rigid, unaccommodating,
Incorporating. OF all the Theological Systems
in Cbristendom, or out Of Cbfistendom-of all the
systems Of ethics-aye-of political ethics'-in
the known world, whether Christian, Jewish,
MOhammedan, Pagan, or Philosophical, ancient
or modern, in the known world, or recorded in the
worlds literature, there is nothing that approx
mates to the Orthodox Theology and Ethics, in
the stern and unbending s~trictness and purity of
it's acquisitions on the ruler as we'll as on the sub
ject, on the magistrate as well as on the legislator,
forbidding either, on pain Of everlasting perdition,
to swerve q hairs breadth from the true, the right,
and the just, in comfy or Difference to any human
usage or authority, or in conformity with any vol
untary or imposed oath or promise to the contra.
ry, If the Bible be the word of God, if the Or
thOdox or evangelical system be a correct infer.
ence or corollary from the Bible, then the Presi'
dent of the United States who, in conformity with
his official oath executes on unjust statute, with q
conviction of its injustice, incurs thereby the tre'
mendous penalty of Gods law, is under his wrath
and curse, and can in no way escape eternal dam
nation, but by repenting of the sin; nor even thus
without the blood of atonement, without the
shedding Of which there is no remission. If the
evangelical doctrine Of Christ cruci6ed for our sirs,
teaches anything, it teaches just this, and nothing
short of it.
To deny this, is d practical Reputation Of the
whole evangelical system, and of the Bible that
reveals it, if the Orthodox exegesis and creeds are
worth the blank paper they are written hpon.-
The common sense Of the masses of the people will
compel them to see this, whatever the Doctor of
Divinity who presidss over The Independent may
think o. it.
The Independent stigmatizes Mr.. Garrison as al
infdel, because like George Fox, William Penn,
and perhaps Moses Stuart, he receives not ou-
n.tlolau ILL l. Il. lz..- - L...
of the whole Bible. And it doubtless regards as
~heretical those who deny the Orthodox ereeds.-
Far be 1t from Us to favor either the lax theologies
or the vague views of inspiration that keep com.
pany with them. We dread their practical inau'
ence in supporting the lax ethics taught by The
Independent in this very instance, and almost
always when political ethics are involved. But
how shall we censure Mr.. Garrison, or call him
infdel or even h%eretical, as compared with the
editor of The Independent, acknowledging him to
be 'orthodox'-when the former receives and the
latter rejects the plaiuest and most practical truths
of the Bible, in the sphere of political ethicsi'-
We can do nothing of the kind. And in the name
and by the authority of good old fashioned New
England Orthodoxy, of the stamp of Hopkins dnG
Emmons, we tell The Independent, sorrotfully
plainly, seriously, yet Kindly, that in its 'poli'ica
ethics it has sunk indefinitely below Mr.. Garrisot
and has large upward strides to take, before it cor
even approximate to the standard Of his 'ortho
doxy' however defective and mistaken, at som
points, it may be. 1t is the orthodoxy of godl,
practice, as old Jonathan Edwards so glOriously
shows, toward the close of his immortal treatise
on the Religious Affections, that passes current a
the Court of Heaven; and oil other, as he there
demonstrates, and in solemn irony s~atirizes, de
serves only to be regarded with derisioh ant
~loathing.
Thus much for the 'orttodory' OF The indie
pendent's political ethics.' OF its principal o
Congregationalism, of official oaths, of perjury, o
civil government, of safeguards against 'usurpa
ton and despotism, &C., we may speak at anothe
time.