Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-10-31

VI slavery; aud ufo0 n we materially differ.
ed with the editor ih his views of enamel.
patton, we honorcd him for the noble stand
he had taken in relation to the right of him.
self aud others to be heard, His vision en-
ahled him to see that slavery was a curse to
hixpativo state, that it was blightine the
prosperity of Kentucky, and feeding upon
her hearts blood. lie desired to do some
thing to relieve her from the presence of that
vampire, and gave freedom to his bondmen.
He commended manfully with the bitterest
opposition, and risked his life in defence of
his opinions. The sacrifices he has made.
the difficulties he has encountered, the dam
gers he has passed through, all prove that
however erroneous are some of the opinions
he holds in relation to this question. he
holds them in sincerity, and in a spirit which
may not be put down, That he is destined
TO take a higher stand, to do a yet more glo-
rious work we can well believe, And
though he has now tFammolled the press
which he conducts, and through that act his
own mind to a certain extent, yet we hope to
see the time when he will break these self
imposed letters, and in the name of "God
and Liberty" alone, do battle for the Right
irrespective of mans unrighteous laws. He
who could trample under foot the false code
of honor in which he had been educated,
will some day be free. If Cassius NJ, Clay
finds by experience that Kentucky is upwor-
thy of, and will not tolerate a free press, in
stead of denying to those of his fellow citizens
who differ from him the right to be heard
through the columns of his paper, a right
which he claims for himself, and which he
calls upon Governor Owsley and President
Polk to protect him in, let him march with
his banner into another State, let him become
a voluntary exile from the land of his faith
ers, until those whose tyranny drives him
forth shall themselves recall him in the spir-
it of repentance.
Such are a few of the thoughts suggested
by the Appeal of Cassius NJ, Clay, We do
not know how they will strike our readers,
Jul We lGGl WGll dAouIGu VI Wis ldCl, lildl lll6
principles of abolitionism must bo presented
to the public mind without abating one
title of their radicalism, without bunting in
the least degree their sharpness, and with
out encumbering them with the character of
those who advocate them either in part or
in whole. They must be judged by their
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or fall. The prosecutions to which a man
has been subjected, the dangers he has en-
countered and the difficulties he has over
come, do not prove that he advocates the
true doctrines of emancipation, or that he is
entitled TO our confidence as an abolitionist.
Cassius NJ. Clay aud the True American,
DR.. Snodgrass and the Baltimore Saturday
Visitor, Horace Grecly and the New York
Tribune are all doing an anti-slavery work,
yet none of these men claim to be abolition
lists, nor pretend that their papers are anti
slavery In the sense in which these terms are
generally understood. They all oppose sla-
very to a certain eXtent, and advocate its
abolition, either at a nearer or a more remote
period, but they who call these papers anti
slavery ina technical sense, do an injury TO
the cause Of the slave, and convey to the
public a false idea of the principles of true
Abolitionism. Yet it is an evidence of the
progress of the cause, that these papers which
publish 30 much truth in relation to slavery,
are so well sustained by the community
both at the north and at the south; and al
though their standard of abolitionism Is COM
paratively low, yet tho facts which they pre-.
sent to those who are not directly influenced
by papers which teach q higher doctrine,
and the agitation they there create, will very
much contribute to effect the emancipation of
|khe bondman. So far as they advocate true
doctrine, and enlighten the people by the
presentation of facts, we bid them God
speed! as we do also the Christian Patriot
of North Carolina, which Is about to enter
the lists in armor similar to that which the
True American put on.