Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-11-14

lamation directs, and is as obedient to the
word eff command, as the regimental trainers
under our GLORIOUS militia law. We won
der if those whose prayer and thanksgiving
are called forth by the Governors proclama-
ton, suppose their offerings are more noticed
when they can show the broad seal of the
State of Ohio as their warrant for the act
without ceasing'' far better authority than any
which the State can give.
The recommendation to appoint a ''Thanks-
giving Day. came from the General Assem-
that Assembly composed, and what is their
p~ositionl 1t is male up of Wing and DEM
ocratic politicians, who in the contest for of
flee trample principle under foot, and regard
the rights and interests of their fellow men of
far less importance than the success of their
party. We Judge them not by their profess
sions, but by their actions. They sit in their
Legislative Hall and play the part of despots;
they crush human rights under their iron heel,
and drive the Car of State over the PROSTATE
bodies of their fellow citizens. AT the very
time they recommended the Gov. to appoint
'a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for
His blessings to us as a people," they were
oath-bound ito sustain a Constitution which
wres.ed from a part of the people of Ohio
their rights; which provides for taxing the
colored mans property, but denies him the
privilege of saying who shall be his law
giyer and his ruler; which hypocriti-
cally asserts that it was instituted sin
order to establish Justice, and secure the
blessings of liberty" while it makes pro-
vision for the preparation of the g~rossest in
justice and oppression. Nori is this the black
est crime of which these pretenders to piety
have been guilty. AS Legislators of Ohio
they thave UNANIMOUSLY BRAIDED the colored
man as more unworthy of belief upon oath
than his white oppressor-declaring to the
world that there is more truthfulness Ia the
heart Of the greatest scoundrel, if he be Anglo
Saxon, than 10 that of the most intelligent
and respectable of OhiG's celored citizens.
They assure white faced rascality that it may
commit with perfect impunity, all manner of
violence and outrage upon the eelored man,
provided it be perpetrated in the presence of
gone but those of the oppressed class. ina
nous enough are such acts to call up the
blush of shame upon the cheek Of amy one eX-
eept a heartless politician who wears the Nv
ery of Republcanism that he may the better
play the despot. 1t is horrible to hear such
men talk as they do about Thanksgiving day;
desiring that the people of Ohio shall hit up
their blood-stained hands in prayer to God,
that the voice which has proclaimed their own
fnfamy and the colored mans oppression shall
sing the song of thanksgiving, and this too,
while their heart is unrepentant and filled with
the spirit of hatred toward their injured broth
er.
The Governor %pretends to think the Cen
eral Assembly was prompted by christian me-
tiyes in this act, and he ''eajoinS" upon the
people Of Ohio, "to refrain on that day from
their usual temporal pursuits, and assemble
themselves and engage in the duties OF wof'
Ship" The only valuable part of the proc
lamation is that in which he adverts to The
obligation of the people to ''inplore the Dl
vine pardon for our forgetfulness of mercy
and the frequent abuse of the great privileges
with which we have been in lulged." W.
suppose it will do very well for a Governo
to speak in this way, although it would doubt
less be regarded as but little short of a libe
for an AboliIionist to insinuate, that while tn
people of Ohio have been careful to 'tyth
mint, anise, and cummin, they neglect tn
weightier matters of the law-iudgment, mel
CIV and TRUTH We fully agree with the Gov
ernor that the people of Ohio have forgotte
mercy, and abused the great privileges i
which they have been INDUCED; and that jus
tice is calling loudly upon them to repent g
their iniquities, and to bring forth fruits
the spirit of repentance. Instead OF this, the
will doubtless assemble in their synagogue
and thank the Lord they are not as other me
that they are the citizens of a country whe
oppression is unknown, where civil and rel
gious liberty is enjoyed by all, and whe
each may BIT beneath his own vine and t
tree, with none to modest or make him affai
Shameful hypocrisy! "To what purpose
the multitude of your sacrifices unto met
saith the Lord; l am full of the burnt off
inqs of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and
delight not in the blood of bullocks, or
lambs, or of he goats. When ye come
appear before me, who hath required this