Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-08-15

Let the whole nation Join in one
Procession to appear,
We and our sons lead on the front,
Our slaves bring up the rear.
America is rocked within
Thy cradle, Liberty,
By Africa's poor palsIed hand,
Strange inconsistency!
We've dug one grave, as deep as Death,
For Tvranny's black SIN,
Aud dug another at its SIDE
To thrust our brother in.
We challenge all the world aloud,
$40! Tyrahny'S deep gravel"
And all the world points back and CRIES
"Thou fool!-behold Thy Slave"
ayes, rally, Grave America,
Thy noble hearts and free,
Around The Eagle, as he scars
Upward 10 majesty.
"One half thy emblem is the bird,
Out-iacing thus the day;
"But, wouldst thou make him wholly thine,
Give him a helpless prey"
This should be sung in Charleston at 8 o'clock in
he evening, when the drums are heard proclaiming
'dead Freedoms Wake" as they summon to their
homes, or TO the custody Of The police, every human
being with q black skin who is found walking with,
out u pass TOm NE "nlte' UT u mlput udN0 U6eH
sung to advantage the night after Charleston had
showc her independence and care of domestic institu.
tions by expulsion Of the venerable envoy of Massa-
chusetls! Its expression would seem even more forci-
BILE than now, when sung so near the facts, when the
eagle scars so close above his prey.
How deep the shadow, yet cleft by light! There
is a counter curreht that sets toward the deep. We
are inclined to weigh as Of almost equal weight with
all we have had to trouble us as to The prolongation
of slavery, the hopes that may be gathered from The
course taken by such a man as CassIus Nj. Clay. A
man open TO none of the accusations brought TO dlmln.
lsh The influence CT Abolitionisls in general, for he
has eaten the bread wrought from slavery, and has
shared The education that excuses the blindness Of The
stakeholder. He speaks as one having authority; no
one can DENY that he knows where he is. la the
prime of manhood, oftalsnt, and the energy Of a fine
enthusiasm, he comes forward with deed and word to
DO his devoir in this cause, never to leave the field till
he can take with him the wronged wretches rescued
by his devotion.
Now he has made this last sacrifice of the prelu
dices of 'Southern chivalry," more than ever will be
ready to Join the herald's cry, "God speed The right"
And we cannot but believe his noble example will be
followed by many young men IN The slaveholdinS
ranks, brothers 10 a new sacred band vowed to the
duty not merely of defending, but far more sacred, OF
purifying their homes.
Inc event OF WINCH HIS uhy iS III huUlFSISuIys
affords a sufficient guaranty of the safety and practl
cablli!y of strong measures for this publication. Va
rious accounts are given to The public of the state Of
the British West Indies, and the foes Of emancipation
are of course constantly on the alert to detect any un.
favorable result which may aid Them in opposing The
good work elsewhere. But through all tatements
these facts shine clear as the Sun at monday, that the
measure was there carried into effect with an ease and
success, and has shown in the African race a degree
of goodness, dociIity, capacity for industry and self.
culture, entirely beyo nd or opposed to The predictionsp
which darkened SO many minds with fears. Those
fears can never again be entertained or uttered with
the same excuse. One grea: example Of the safety
of doing right exists; true, there is but one Of the
sort, but volumes may be preached from such "a text.
We, however, preach not; there are too many
preachers already in the field, ADLER, more deeply de.
voted to The cause. Endless are the sermons OF these
modern crusaders, those ardent "sons of thunder :"
who have pledged themselves never 10 stop or faIter
ill this one black spot be purged away from the land
which gave them birth. They cry aloud and spare
not; they spare not others, but then, neither do they
spare themselves, and such are ever the harbingers Of
a new advent o: The Holy Spirit. Our venerated
friend, DR.. Charming, saInied in more memories han
any man who has left US in the nineteenth cenlury,
uttered the last Of his tones Of soft, solemn, persua.