Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-09
Prom the Northern Independent.
PROPHECIES OF BLOOD.

DR.. Bond of the Baltimore Advocate, is oAl Of
patience with our northern Church papers because
| they spurn all compromises at this critical mo-
ment. He says:
! Everybody here knows, that unless concessions
are made by the North this Union will be Violent
ly broken ~, and that thirty rnilliohd Of people
will rush into the frightfu chaos Of civil and ser
vile war. Everybody knows that if the cotnssls
of such "peace-makers" as our Conference papers
prevail, the axe and the knife will find work on
every thresbhold-that father will be arFsyed
against son, and son against father, that four
millions Of helpless people, for whose sake we are
told God is arming against us. tciU be etectWaHy
tciped out trobt the face Of the earth Everybody
knows that amidst all this frightfdi strife and
desolation, the kingdom Of Uhrist will disappear
as certainly as was killed out iu the seven cities
of Asia. Yet our editors, secure in their North.
ern homes. look calmly on this prospect, dreadful
as the coming distraction over which jesus veps,
and with dry eyes, and hearts cold and hard 80
STEEL fold their hands in the face of heaven, and
like pious inqusitors in the smoke of an auto do
I.ts, say, Lord, thy will be d9ne'
All our readers know that tha DR.. is nsithsf
braggart nor bockhead, hence if the above proph-
ecy is slightly ridiculous they must impute 10 to
bis unfavorable surroundings, and not to any per-
sonal weakness. The editor has to see everything
through the murky atmosphere Of Slavery and to
him il really appears as il the grim mohster was
about to bsthe the whole earth in blood. We ses
differently and have not the least apprehension OF
serious trouble il the integrity Of out hotthern
men does not give out in this trial. 1t may BE-
that war will happen, but to our mind there is no'
as yet any considerable probability of such an
event The South cannot fight; and The North
will not. The South canno: 6ahtat sea, For she
has neither ships, nor the means to build ships,
and che can little fight on the land tot want OF
men and the munitions Of war. Impoverished,
besotted and enfeebled by its slaveholeius, this
portion of our Union lie utterly incapable of war
it can scarcely maintain the form of government
at home in time Of peace, and it would te wholly
unable 70 meet an invading foe, The North will
not fight because there is nobody TO hght with
her; she is able to manage slavedom without re'
sorting 10 bloodshed. lie will have il that the
South has gone into spasms to come out only by
concession or war. If these are indeed the only
alternatives we much prefer the lattot, hs eoces-
sion would kill the soul, and war; at most, eShld
only kill the body.
The DR.. shoald understand that concession is
impossbe-that there is nothing to concede His
assertion that "four millions Of helpless people
will be effecually wiped out from the face OF the
earth" is beyond ohr capacity. Does he mean
that the South will kill all her slaves, to be reveni
gsd on the North Or does he mean that these
four millions of people will be sold to pay the ex-
penses of the war? The irst is too mOhttrouS
~ "a. Er he
moment war comes to pGss between the North and
the South, the price of slaves is feddced to moth.
ing. There will bc no longer any who will wish
to buy. Worse than all, however, IS the terrible
announcement that amidst these connections the
kingdom of Christ will disappear" We had fond
y hoped that religion still to bless mankind
for many years, but it seems that sldVeddt; 10 ITS
madness is equally at war with God and mau, and
intends TO make an end Of the Redeemers king
DOM We should be very sorry for the ruin Vt
Christianity. and have slight riisgvings whether
it will actually happen. 1t may be that what
passes for Christiahity I'd the South the religion
of slave-hoiers, will come to ep3, and If SO the
world will have great reason to rejoice. A more
4 cruel mockery, more irtolerable cheat thaa
save-hoding religion dOeG not e&i6t ca the earth,
and the speedy disAppearancO Of this nurderou1
8 imposture would greatly hasten the millennium.
! This is not eItraVagant-not Exaggerated in the
least, fOt the religion Of the s. nth is exactly Cd
Il par with it's civilization; which is bass dOunte-
If felt, and deceves no one who knows what belongs
IT to human society.
ID Everywhere. and in all 'hnss. our nsiehIofs
10 have held fast to slavery until they lave fallen be-
low thS most ordinary standard of character prev
II a,sut Ii, civilized communities They have clfeat
n ed, stolen, robbed and murdered, until !. ID din
. coit even to think OF them withort assuolssiBg
: thsm Sith the most viAaiaoasof thekamsn reOos