Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-06-20

huHVO5 W we p0Ty, ana executing all manner on le'
cal processes Moral power is instant in eeaHon and
out Of seas2o, endeayorng 10 reform andhess socie
". Political power is watching jealousIy overy
movement among Tie people that threatens to lessons
Us consequences, reform its abuses, cut off its rev.
enus. 1t cngs With death grasp 10 ell lis prerog
adves, immgnities, iOrmallies, honors, and emou-
mens. Moral power trayerses The highways and by
WAYS 10 search Of the fallen and lost to estore thein
Political power cares for none OF these tbings. 1t
knows how to puuish but not how 10 restore. MOFsl
power reforms thousands of drunkerds, and thereby
prevents lsn thousand crimes. Political power hon
ors respectable drunkerds and protects the manufac
ture and sale of 6runkard's ruin. Yet if enc Of
them, in his madness Stays man, or burns house,
it ostentstiously arrests, tries and hangs him. Nor
ell power is putting firth mighty energies to abolish
slavery, and elevate three millions Of degraded be-
incs to the rank Of usnhood. Il exeriing is null
iiform influence 10 regenerste corrupt public senti
ment, and TO superndnce q will in the people CT the
United States to let the oppressed go free. Political
power hnders and obstrucis the progress Of this re
form by every possible means. X is welded to sla
very and will uphold i, till public opinion
pelr il to stand of. Moral power is earnesy eugag
ed in s5oishng the horrid custom Of Political
power is doing al can, BY prece?t and practice, to
preserve this custom Moral power is trying to
bring about universal reformation, holiness and hap
puess earth Political power is chiefly concerned
TO keep things they are, whether right wrong
| 4. In respect 10 their inStrumentGlities, moral
pocer is superior.
| Look at the number and efficiency Of those in.
| fiuonccs which moral power is every where employ.
| ing to cn'igh,en and improve mankind. Though
many ot them are sadly perverted, and need to be
rightly directed, yet from their peculiar nature, end
less variety and universal activity, thoy arc capable
Of producing stupcndous resus. There is Religion
acting directly on the HobieSt and for good evil
the rightiest faculty of human nature, with ALI il
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thousand ministers, Hltars congregations and Sunday
schools; its prayers, sermons, magazines, newspa
| pers and tracts innumcrable; its Biblee, commenia
ries, hymn books and EIurses; its Bible Societies
Missionary Societies, Tract Societies., Education 50
ec.ies and bsoiogIcd SeDi,6fies iis sanciity, Pie
,y, learning zeainnG devotion, Is it not alone a
overmaich for all the forces of political power Po
ii,icai power could not Ind month against the und
v6ed influence of Religion. IL tho Religion OF thi
land could be perfectly Chrisanized in lis doctrine
and duties, every evil now connected with poitica
power would presently vanish away before it, Mex
comes education in the nursery, the infant school
The common school, the high school, the academy
the lyceum the lecture room tho college, the univer
| 5ity. Count up s these, with their school books
manuals, apparatus and libraries, their teaches, pre-
j ceporn, tutors and eminent professors What bav'
we in the province of political power corresponding
tn all thisa Literature follows and perfccis educa
| ton. Think Of the AUTHORS, editors and publish
ers: oT their works. from the alphabetical primer
| the huge folio; text books, histories, biographies
scientific repositories, encyclopedias, fiction, 70
nance and sentiment IN every variety OF prose anC
verse: all that man knows, thinks, imsgines or sus
poets, written and printed iu countless volumes, annu
ais, quarterlies, mon'hlies weeklies and dailies!
one of former timos could say with truth 0T-'Le
me write the ballads OF the nation, and no
who writes IFS ld,os'-Co what shall We think of III
concurrent influence of education and literature, &C
ing upon tho public OF this country through oil thes
| appliances? What has political power TO compar
I with it2 The higher arts and sciences not to b
| forgotten The painter and sculptor are mockn,
nature on canvass and in marble. All this is awfu
sublime, sacred, pure. touching, exquisite, strange
! (acecus, lsughshle, fascinating-nll that NOV
! tho soul, ravish the imagination, is found amon
the productions of genius. Tho engrayer follow
after, and enables tho press 10 scatter broad cast a
endless variety OF pictorial representations. And,
II all this were not enough, the Daguerreotype com
potes 'he work. Music, with magic powers and re
sisess charms, RS sho chaunts the sweetest strain
of The poet, asserts her importance among the instru
I mentaoG of moral power. The miracles OF Or
pheus are almost equacd by modern masters. VIII
has ever listened TO the simple, pathetic, soul subdu
ing, hosrt purifying strains Of our Anti SLAYER
Huchln Sons without confessug the majesty Of musl
tho potency Of its sway all the feelings of ou
nature? Gould we bring every band, every choir
S the masters Of this captivating nrt into the servc
Of Temperance, Freedom and Peace, what woul
they not accomplish for our world? Sill more in
porant, moral power claims as peculiarly its own, pc
Iitical power Gisiaius the influence Of ,Uoman An
who estimate lhis influence? 1t Is one that com
mences mye:eriously with The frs, pulsalons of Iiit
and constantly operates till the unconsciousness 0
DEATH What does not the mother, sister, lover, wifi
and friend do for man? Alas, that the infuenc
should ever be abused as it sometimes is! But
need not be abused 1t mag oil be consecraed TO tht
redemption and perfection of the race. Much, very
much of it is also consecrated to that end. Whero i
the great good man, Of ancient, or modern times
or where is the great or noble enterprise, that eve