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

OF, the naOltual carrying OF ueduiy "oapOhS,
and a contempt for the noble dignity OF la
Dor. 1t has blasted the spirit Of enterprise,
so that while one section of the Union Is out
stripping all precedents of history, the other
is sinking with ~decrepitude. 1t forblds all
common school education, (the stamina OF
States,) by the extent of plantations and the
wide separation of the people. It's ever and
anon involving the free labor of the North in
losses and bankruptcy, by the failure Of its
supporters to meet their obligations. 1t has
created an odiouS predominance OF power,
based on property in human bones and sim
ews. 1t has violates the Constitution, by
refusing a hearing to the petitions OF North
ern citizens in their own legislative hall al
Washington. 1t has defied the laws and pow
ers of the general government by a s%urveill-
ance over the Post office, opening letters and
debating to the agents of the government
what shall and what shall not be carried by
them. 1t has seized men recognized among
us as our fellow citizens, and peacefully &C.
cupied on board our ships in its harbors, and
imprisoned them in its dungeons, against the
express provisions of the Constitution, and
the decisions of its own courts in former ca
ses, and such men are now clogged with tet-
tiers sweeping the streets of its cities. lthas
incarcerated some of our noblest young men
and women for doing what the Levitical law
demanded towards the escaping captive, an
what, if done on the coast of Barbary, would
be commended by all good men as heroically
virtuous. 1t has corrupted the church TO its
infamous principles, and is wrecking the great
religious bodies of the land. Strong only in
iniqulty and braggardism, it has nevertheless
made the once strong spirit of the North bow
with mean obsequiousnesS before it, and our
Senators and Representatives cover at its
lmpotent threats, Till a few brave spirits,
branded as fanatics, and some of them at last
made 80 by their terrible trials, arose and re-
called us to our ancient honor. 1t has de-
struyed our national seli-respect, made us
blush for our pretensions to liberty, and rem
dered us a 'hlssing and IA by-wOrd' among
the nations. We deliberately say there Is
no parallel to it among the civilized or semi
civilized communities of the earth. If 1t were
aScertalned that the government of China
held from spleen or interest, one OF its great
provinces, with 4 population of three millions,
In precisely the same condition of our slaves
violating their domestic relations, disposing
OF them as c%hattels, depriving them of the
| gains Of their toll, prohibiting all intellectual
Development, and in fine, converting them
and their children, by memorable processes,
into a hopeless exception to all the law OF
development and progress which God has
stamped on the destinies Of the human race
the discovery would astound the world
Any effort from any quarter to break it up
would be considered right--the sentiments
Of mankind would compel their governments
to Interfere with it i'll their negOtldtions-the-
ologians would point to it as proof of the ne
cessity of divine revelation-Christians would
attempt to invade it with Missionaries and
Bibles-the friends Of liberty would furnish
it with arms as they did Greece and Poland
for a revolution-to help men to escape from
it would be considered a holy service, ana
the shout of Instruction coming from itwould
be responded to by the voice of the civilized
world. American Christians, look not to
China for it-there is none such there; it is
undel the banners and amidst the temples OF
your own land!
Let it not be said that it is a matter of ne
cessity; God never allowed such a dire ne
cessity to enter this world. Say not that
there are many Christians there who relieve
these abuses; they are but exceptions to the
great whole; and scarcely appreciable amidst
the evil. Say not these things; it is but the
small talk about the evil, and good men
have long since grown weary of it. Slavery,
as a great whole, is such as we have desert.
bed 1t. 1t knows no mitigdtions, wishes nc
Limitations, but is stretching out its grasp al
this mi at all Central America.
God forbid, then, we repeat, that our inter
est for the slave should abate. Let us work
harder than ever for him, but better than eveI
| also. Let ia Famppnhar that ,ua 30 Ib.;,
tlans; that forbearance and harmony among
ourselves that kind, though truthful word
and untlrlng patience, should characterize IL:
that as Christians, We can only look to the
force of moral means-not to the political
stratagems, the insurrectionary or revolution.
airy plots, which are usually the instrument:
of worldly reformers.
Let especially those among us who hay,
Stunned the cause because of the alteration.
OF It's leaders, avail themselves of these bet
ter times to do their duty towards it. 1t ha,
indeed had serious fiults-its advocates dc
not deny the fact. But was there ever, O
can there ever be, a great movement
tearing up the profoundest evils of society
without temporary perils! The Christian re
lglon won its way through untold strifes ant
fanatlclsms-the Reformation was attended
with popular outbreaks, which spread fir,
and blood over its territory-the great revi
val guder Wesley was marred through it
whole infancy with sad alterations and tn
mults' How can a man have any conddenc,
in Providence, or hope in tbs world, who il
frightened by these thingsl The discernin!
mind looks at them as the philosopher on tn,
sea shore sees the waters dashing against tn,
strand Every wave that reaches for tn,
shore ails and rolls back again; yet he know
that a surely as tho laws of nature, tho lid,
is gradual y ~risng-Aat the sVg reueatpl