Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-07-25
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winch should advocate The same hign STANDARD Oh
Abolitionism as that adopted BY The Parent Society,
we're not unconscious Of The great responsibilities
they were assuming; and nothing less than the i'm.
perative call Of duty could have induced them to
adopt such a measure.
They know that there are thousands in this Sale
whose hearts beat warmly in behalf of The slave
men and women whose desire it is to do all that they
~rightfulIy may to strike of his fetlers. Many of
these have been delujed and misguided by designing
demagogues, and their warm and gushing sympa.
Ihies, instead OF being permitted to flow onward 10
freedom and ia power, have been damned up by po-
litical manGuvreing and diverted from their proper
channel TO subserve the interests of the Liberty Par.
ty. Shall we show them a tIuer and better way?
Shall we present IL them a higher standard of Rlgh;
than that which they now have?
There is another, and a larger class Of persons,
with whom The Committee feel should be established
some direct and frequent mode of communication
those who now are ignorantly prosecuting The advo-
Gates Of The truths of Jesus, and ir their blindness,
think with Saul, that they are verify doing God ser.
vice. These, with a reasonable degree OF exe.iion
on the part of aboliiionis's may be enlightened, con-
verted to, and confirmed 10 the Right. Shall the Sc
exertions be made? The Committee have unfurled
their standard sheet-they have sounded The Bugle
call! Having themselves turned away from the beg.
carly elements Of political squabbling, and feeling Of
a surety that Truth unaided and alone ,riU triumph
that if preached iu its purity without mingliug with it
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full wiH accomplish the work whereunto It's sent, uiH
redeem the world from Error, wiH emancipate man
from his t~hraldom, and replace the God given crown
Of honor and immortality upon his brow.
1t is nerer inexpedlent to teach the truth, the
,rhole truth, although its utterance may apparently
be attended with present disadvantage. The crucifix-
ion of Jesus; the persecution and slaughter Of his
early Disciples; the destruction of The Fathers in the
church by The wild beasts of the Roman tyrants less
savage and blood thirsty than their masters; the
death by faggot and torture which 10 the christian
martyr was the means of Translation to a better life
though all these at the first glance might seem to
present circumstances fraught with such discourage.
ment as 10 render the preaching of the ruth inexpe-
dent, yet they but i~nvigorale Inc true christian, re-
new his spiritual life, and strengthen if possible his
confidence 10 the power of Truth, and the omnipo.
tence of The God of Truth.
Truth struck to earth will rise again,
The eternal years of Gods are hers;
But Error wounded, writhes 10 pain
And dies amid its worshippers.
He who pe%rceives a higher and a truer life, if true
| In hImee,T. will etrIvn tn attain il and will aDdaavnr
to bring all others up TO the same point Of excellence.
If he does not this, he is an unfailbful steward, and
having received a talent from his Master, has hidden
il in a napkin and buried it in the earth. He has
concealed a truth which God has made manifest to
his mind, but which belongs not to himself alone, but
10 humanity-a truth, which if preached with faith.
~fulness, is perchance destined TO be the crowning
truth which shall finish the salvation of a world
Unpopular then as may be the doctrine of "No
union ,ciM Shareholders" yet believing it to be true,
the Committee have inscribed il upon their Sheet
No other paper west of the mountains bears that mot.
to. The Abolitionists of Eastern Pennsylvania, Of
New York, and of New Eugland have unfurled their
banners and written il upon the folds. Yonder, upon
the soil Of Dunker's Height, beneath the very shadow
of time-honored and venerated Faneull Hall, The
'kiberatOr" has long since been given to tho breeze;
and towering above the crowded metropolis of New
York, where the hurry Of commerce, the din of bust.
ness, and the conflict of selfish interests have almost
drowned the voice Of truth, floats the National Stand.
ard" OF American Aboliliouists. In the Quaker
city Of Pennsylvania, whose name, once synomo.
nous with Broiherly Love, has lost it beautiful sig
MITIGATION, there are enough to sustain that banner
which is the glory of the true "Freeman;" and from
The hills of New Enpland-from the Whi,a po,n