Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-10-24

and not your dead fathers" They but very
imperfectly understood the nature OF human
rights. The age in which we live IS progress
sive. | do not ask you to perpetlate an9tper
bloody revolution, it would add nothing to
the cause of freedom. Moral causes alone
produce moral effects. Violence and blood
shed only lead to vice and oppression; they
may change the condition of some individu-
ais; but produce a far greater amount OF evil
upon the whole. | don't ask you to go to
the ballot box where you will have 10 back
out, or be backed up by physical force. The
instrumentality | would invite you 70 exer-
else. is moral power. The armor | would in
vito you to put on, is omnipotent truth, Jus
tice, Mercy, and Love. Let your banner be
the cross, and your motto per hoe Signam nm
cit. phen you may appeal to the supreme
Judge of the world for the rectitude OF your
intentions when you have moral courage
enough to preach anti-slayery In view OF the
prison and mob; in view OF reproach and
death; when you are prepared to take the
place of the poor down-trodden, over-tasked,
and naked slave, then you may unturl the
banner Of emancipation. Then you VIII
break the covenant with Death, and the agree
ment with Hell. Let me intreat you to cease
to be participants in a compromise that binds
two and a half millions of our brethren In
an lnterminable state Of bondage, one day OF
which is traught with more misery than ages
OF that which our Fathers rose up to destroy.
My brethren of the North, | do not ask you
to go to the southern plantations, and pluck
the victim from the jaws Of the tiger; nor to
revolutionize the Government. by political or
ganization, nor by implements Of war. Have
no fellowship with the untruitful works Of
darkness, Disown slavery and Shareholders.
| ask YOU to do nothing, which a christian, a
man Of peace, cannot do. What | ask you
TO do, is what | myself cannot refuse to do,
and yet retain a christian, moral charscter.-
1t Is what Mercy, Justice and Love isaperi-
ously demand. 1t is to withdraw your sup
port fully and entirely from the heaven ac-
cursed system of American Slavery from ev-
cry root and branch; seed and bud; juice and
fruit with all its a%ppendages; prehxes, sufiix-
es and aff xes, now and forever. Cease TO do
slavery's dirty work. Shake your garments
from the vile 6lth of the bloody system. Des-
pise her in her best attire; her gold and sill
yer are corrupted and corrupting. Her gar
mrnts are moth-eaten. Slavery is to be a.
voiled morally. physically. politically and re-
ligiouslv. In her lawyers, her Priests, and
her Politicians, She is cursed in heZ basket
and in her stored dona 1%ereaiest mo uni
on with Siaveh0ldsrs;' unless they repent,
and fors1ke the practical abomination Of man
stealing and man-whipping, we will not
choose them for our rulers; nor will we rule
over them. We will not make laws over
shareholders, neither will we (vOentes) be
governed by their laws.
J. s.
The writer Of the above was formerly a
Presbyterian minister but is now an abolition
list of the true stamp. If his latin quotations
are not correctly printed. be will excuse us,
lnasmuch as our knowledge Of the languages
is about as extensive as that mans orchard.
which consisted of Sons scattering tree.''--
EDRs.