Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-08-01
NO. 3.


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And ever waketul presence Of his power,
To the pale startled earth most manifest.
But for The weak2 Was't for the helmed and'crown.
That suns we're STAYED at noon dav-s,ormv seas
AS a rill parted? Mailed orchangels sent
To wither up the strength lof kings with death!
] tell you if these marvels have been done,
Twas for the weak and the oppressed,
They needed such! and generous faith Of men hath,
BY her prevailing spirit, even yet power to work
Dehverance whose tale shall live with those
OF The great elder time"
"Too late" is it? No'wonder YOU think 80. but il
is not yet too late. You. see things through the mlsts
Of wasted years. Wake to the work even nor, the
twelfth hour though it be! join yourselves even nor.
TO those already sin harness on the RIGHT" for only
so did he youimake your example as a man, and your
worship MS a God, deem it "becoming' 40 fulfil
righteousness"
"Why hath heaven poured forth courage as a flame,
Wasting these offered hearts which mus, be stilled
The sooner for that swift consuming brightness,
II not 10 quell your doubt and your despair,
And your souls torpor! get ARISE AND ARM
1t shall Lot be too late!'
This is your onlylwisdom as well as your only du-
ty--to join yourselves 10 them who have made
straight your way before you! Is,it by having lain
0'pO eh' h'u Slupu III hulO lCdIci tIut tutH
think to have got the wisdon-the prudence-,he en-
ergy To accomplish them for such an hour as thIs2-
They mistake in thinking so. Let them not think it
shame 10 learn Of us, humble though we individual
ly are. 1t is 10 our lofty moral position; to our en-
nobliug and exalung cause that we invite you; 10 the
adoption of our holy principles to the use Of our
simple but etfcctual measures that we urge you. We
warn you against holding back, because we have
taken The lead of the advance. The members Of the
l A rnorican Api Slavory Coo;olv 5000 A. nal,,
course, had no choice 10 this matter. They must be
faithful to the right, and so ought you to be-. Reject
not the advice which watching and working, while
you slept, qualities US TO give. Do as common sense
dictates to yon IN your business relations. When you
find them used to your destruction-when YOU see
your funds diverted ugains, your will, to nefarious
purposes, and your names used 10 strengthen base
ness, do you then fail of knowing what course TO take?
Never. Yos DISSOLVE THE UNION. What else is
left for you now! To what purpose denounce, with
the lip, the sin the right hand ~upho'ds! What RICH:
have you, man of the North, to complain of the An
nexation of Texas, as extending The area Of Slavery,
who are al this hour under oath, and under arms too,
10 hold the planters slaves for him, within The consti.
tutional limits Of the United SlaiesP VIVA, more
would you wait for! Have not The free States, in The
person of Massachusetts, undergone what should be
the severing blow--the last possible ~indignity; a
wrong that would have driven a declaration of war
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slowest European Cabinet door, as a ball is sent from
the cannon mouth! and yet hear the noblest man of
his State, Cassius N. Clay, of Kentucky, talk of con.
~StitutioEdI abolition, while the discharge of artillery
announces the annexation Of Texas! That act leaves
The Constitution a broken wreck upon The political
ocean! Those sounds are the signal guns Of the part
ing vessel: and oh. that they might waken The dead
hearts OF Northern statesmen TO becoming action
The American Anti Slavery Society cannot, dare not
| aacIct n w o1rh parolyuin0 a In gt,ono{:,a:o.oJ
abolition" and it calls upon all who have the souls
Of men left within them, 10 peril all things-even the
miserable lingering hope of popularity with a degrad-
ed people, tor the glorious hope ofour country's saliva.
tion. The American Anti-Slavery Society adjures
every awakening statesman to urge onward the lnev-
liable revolution TO announce it as bis immutable de-
termination TO restore the desecrated principles of our
political and religious faith.
But il seems the way of Providence, that "the wise
shall be taken 10 their craltiness,' tha. "their eyes
shall be holden that they shall not see'' the dangers
of delay. Oh! that they knew in this their day, The
things that belong to craftsmanship, manliness, and
honor. They would rally the people OIL every hill
side, and in every valley. They would turn their
faces from the South as from the wasting pestilence.
One short year, we'll employed by them, would show
the world a renovated nation.
Judge by The wretched Grivelling with which this
hours stern work is met, whether they are likely TO
rise TO The height of its demands. See them standing
still 10 be manacIed, and venturiug only feeble sugges-
tons on the fashion of the letters. "Bind us moi W
resolution, but by treaty"-they cry! "Shame!
shamew-is the response of just indignant reproba'
ton, such as it is the duty of MAN to feel! The peo-
pie of the free States have been over and over again
sold in the market. Will they stay sold!
The American Society makes its appeal to the PEG.
Pile in confidence, that they will not sanction heir
opn 5ondage--though they have basely coyenanted
for that of the slave. May we not rely upon the lin.
gering remnants of human character that makes tho
fugitive turn his face northward2 IL we may, now