Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-12-10

"mighs does not make right"
.Man 10 By nature tyrant, and Ia even
seeking victims upon whom to exercise
cruelty, or vent the natural Enalignisy OF
his bassr passions. Less aiviliSed na-
lions have held Individually hfe and
death each over ths oshsr; or q despoi
over the whole. In eur own country
four millions Of negroes Ars held in bon
daga for life aad the laws allsw soEpo-
real pupishments to bs inflicted by the
owner, or any one having legitimate
charge OF them. Horrible crueltIss are
al times inflicted upon them, even to tax
ing life. 'The slave whip," Ia used
without stint, - you would usa it over
dumb beasts.
Now | submit whether it be right thus
10 allow one man to ensIaye another, and
whether slavery id not villaiuy, if not the
"sum of all villaiuy2' The female
slave is whipped to exsors her labor for
shs master, which 10 h&r osEa, and the
''alavs whip" is brought into requisition
to compeil the female slave to crafty the
brutal passions of the vile slave holder.
Again ask What villainy cen exceed
THAR and ought not slavery TO be abol-
ished and the control Of man, over man,
checkedp
ChrisE.-Th4t sin is in the world, no
one will deny; nor will any person who
is a good man, encourage, or give coun-
tsnanee TO vice, whether it bescomnitted
By tyranizing over his slave, or another
hnmAn being. TyEany By man over his
fellow man, has been permitted for a
wise end, which no man can fathom; nor
is it permitted to man to know the de-
sign of God in permitting sin to enter
into the world. But one thing we do
know; and that is sin did come into tbs
world, and that it has bEoaght with it,
woe, sorrow and all ths evils man il
heir to,
In The economy Of God We have been
made "subisct 20 vanity By reason Of
Him who hath subjected the same in
hope" bat for mortals 30 attempt to
fathan the purposes of Him whe peg
misted sin to come into the world, is sim
ply presumption. Sin is said to amount
to total depravity in man and this error
is adopted By you, and your 'Fcougrega,
tions" misealIed churches That sin il
in the world no one denies but thai
slavery ia one of the sins charged upoE
men, cannot be maintained BY scripture
or any other religious code, or by am
process of reasoning except that of fraud
and infdelity to God-His religion, anc
to the usages Of ali nations Of which vi
have any account.
1t is true that slaves have been sbuset
| 6y masters, and others 1t is no less true
that immoEraliGies have been committet
By wicked men with the female slave b,
adulteries, and even rapes and all thi
is acknowledged to be crimes bat thi
is not the only source of crime in thr
world; nor is slavery the main source 0
this sort of crime. II you will lo0l
among the negro race in the North wher
the black is freer Rotc than the white
you viii hnd white men have COMMITTEES
this elsss Of crime with the free black
one hundred instances in the North, &c
ors& in the South If We take into aecoun
the nuaabsrs in the two sections. Why i
this so, you Ask2 Answer the man o
the north, aets with no other motive thai
TO crafty his brutal passion; while tn
slave holder, eoasiders his highest inter
est to be, to keep pure the african blooI
in the slave; for if the slave becom
mixed with the white races, they soon be
come worthless TO the owner. But again
the white raes of free America, are b
no means guiltless in this respect. Hi
cit connexion between the sexes, is know
to be carried on as q commerce, not oni
: With the common prostitutes, bat wit
families who claim to be respectable, an
even pious; belonging 10, and even mem
bsFs of the Congregations" mis- calle
. churches; nay more, this kind Of lastfu
commoree-of criminal intercourse no
where fouEishes better than amsng th
J eve lambs of she s'docks." No class O
7 men according to their numbers ha
. equaled in base wickedness, the clergy Q
: these Congregations" !" in adultry, rape'
= and qualification of these brutal pas
!, sions.
Who does not remember the sedaetio
= and murder of the sedueed, at Bristol, /
i l., by Ephr&im K. Avery, Rev. scoundr'
. of the Methodist sounsxion about swent
: years ago; and bow by the influence {
9 the clergy be was judieially acquitted, b.
by the peoplss or high Haven-nsver2- ?
The disoluse habits of Nathaniel p. Johr
!, son 3 Nsw School Presbyterian, Rev. {
aud editor Of religious (?) paper
. New York eisy-whose family lived
: Brooklyn, but who preached In Nsw Yol
aud under presenee Of too much fasigu
to travel and preach the same day, ma
she journey on Saturday between {
cities, and lodged Mt houses Of ill faa
!. nine yeara, and NJ last 3 committee foui
hiHa In The sspaneh rooms in one Of t
theatres sporting with the "abandones
l. women who frequent such rooms. I
., want of space eompalla me pass over /