Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-09-05

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causel BY no means. Is it a doubt of the
sincerity of the reformerl No; the Abolition
lists arc thought partial, credulous, tedious
monomaniacs; bitter-butno man doubts their
sincerity. Is it a stringent self INTEREST,"
No; this acts In certain places, Ii acts on the
seaboard, and in great thoroughfares, where
the Northern merchant or manufacturer eX-
changes inequalities with the Southern plan
ter, or trades with him, and loves to excul-
pate himself from all sympathy with those
turbulent Abolitionists. But it acts only
there-not on the Northern people at large.
The farmers, for example, in this County, or
in this State, feel no pinch of self-interest to
court the eonplacency of the Southernor.-
If Flitchburg stock is good-if we can buy
and sell land, and wood, and hay, and corn
if we can sell shoes, and tin-ware, and
clocks, and carriages and ehairs-we don't
care whether he likes or mislikes it. What,
then, is the obieetionl ! think there is but
enc single argument which has any real
weight with the bulk of the Northern peo-
pie, and which lies in one werd-a word
which | hear pronounced with triumphant
emphasis in bar-rooms, in shops, in streets,
in kitchens, at musters, and at cattle shows.
That word is Niggers,-a word which, cried
by roway boys and rowdy men in the ear of
this timid and s~ceptical generation, is reck-
oned stronger than heaven; it blows away
with a jeer all the efforts of philanthropy, all
the expostulations Of pity, the cries Of mill
lions, now for hundreds of years-all are an
swered by this insulting appellation, ooh,
the Niggers!' and the boys straightway sing
Jim Crow and jump Jim Crow in the streets
and tavcrns.
1t is the objection of an inferiority Of race.
They who say it and they who hear it, think
it the voice of nature and fate pronouncing a
gainst the Abolitionist and the Philanthro-
pist; that the ga, ga, of the Negro, his laugh;
and the imperfect articulation of his organs
designate an imperfect race; and that the good
will of amiable enthusiasts in his behalf will
avail him no more against this sentence of
Nature than a pair of oars against the falling
ocean of Niagara
And what is the amount of this conclusion
in which the men of New England acqui-
esce! 1t is, that the Creator of the Negro
has given him up to stand as a victim of a
of the white man beside him; to
stcop under his pack, and to bleed under his
If that be the doctrine, then, l say,
if He have given up his cause, He has also
up mine, who feel his wrong, and who
in our hearts must curse the Creator who has
undone him.
Dub ip, II in W oOg AlC OIINtISt Is hOl i
bankrupt: still stands the old heart firm in
its seat, and knows that, come what will, the
right is and shall be. Justice is for ever and
ever. And what is the reply to this fatal al
legatIonl
/ believe there is a sound argument deri-
we'd from facts collected in the United States
and in the West Indies, in reply to this al
legged hopeless inferiority of the colored race.
But | shall not touch it. / concern myself
now with the morals of the system, which
seem to scorn a tedious catalogue of partic-
ulars on a question so simple as this. The
only reply, then, to this poor sceptical ribald-
ry is the affirming heart. The sentiment of
right which is the principle of civilization
and the reason of reason, fights against this
damnable atheism, All the facts III history
are fables aud uutrustworthy, beside the die
tates of the moral sentiment which speaks
one and the same voice in all cases. And
what says that to the Injured Negrot If we
listen to it, it assures ms that in his very
is his strength. The Persiaus have
a proverb: "Beware eff the orphan; for when
the orphan sets a-cryiag, the throne of the
Almighty is shaken from side to side" 1t
is certain that, if it should come to question,
all just men, all intelligent agents, must take
the part of the black against the white man.
Then l say, never is the planter safe; his
house is a den; a Just man cannot 90 there,
except to tell him so. Whatever may APP |
pear at the moment, however contrasted the
fortunes of the black and the white-though
the one live in his hereditary mausion-house,
and tho latter in a shed; though one rides an
Arabian horse, aud the other is hunted by
blood-hounds; though one eats aud the other
sweats; one strikes, and the other dies-yet
is the planters an unsafe and unblest condi-
ton. Nature fights on the other side; and
as power is always stealing from the idle to
the busy hand, it seems inevitable that a rev.
olution is preparing at no distant day to set
these disjointed matters right.
See further, if you with me are believing
and not unbelieving, if you are open to hope
and not despair, in what manner the moral
power secures the welfare of the black man.
In the moral creation, it is appointed from
everlasting, that the protection of the weak
shall be in the illumination of the strong. 1t
is in the order of things the privilege of SUI
periority to give, to bestow, to protect, to
love, to serve. This is the office and source
of power. 1t is powers power to do these
things; and, on the other hand, it is the ruin
of power to steal, to injure and to put to death.
The hope and the refuge of the weaker indi-
yidual and the weaker races is here. 1t will
not always be reputable to steal and to OPP
press. 1t will not always be possible. Ev-
cry new step taken in the true order of hui
man life takes out something of brutality and
infuses something of good will. Precisely
as it is the necessity of grass to grow, of the
child to be born, of light to shine, of heat to
radiate, and of matter to attract, so is it OF
mans race and every race to rise and to re-
fine. "All things strive to ascend, and as
cend in their striving" And it will be as
natural and obvious a step with the increased
dominion Of right reason over the human race,