Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-11-28
From The .4nfi-Slarery Standard.
AMERICAN WOMEN, Us. AMERICAN
SLAVES.
SLAVES.

Let us speak to the conscience Of one, what
will suit the case of a great majority Of A.
merican women.
You seem to doubt whether it may not be
wrong in the eyes of Abolitionists, that you
give neither your mind nor your time to the
understanding of the statistics of the Anti
Slavery question. They might deem it SO,
if the devotion of either to that purpose were
necessary. But there is no science-no mys-
terry in it. No reading is necessary, no cx-
animation required. | think you view the
subject too technically, when you suppose it
involves a necessity for statistical Informal
ton. No such thing. Need any one living
in the pleasant towns of the free States, sur
rounded by a reading, writing, and CIPHER
ing people, each soul doing exactly what
seems good in its own eyes, all easy in cir
cumstances, and united in voluntary, civil,
and religious association, for the increase of
their comfort and happiness need any one,
sitting safely with sons and daughters, ME-
ces and nephews, on knee, in the inviolable
sanctuary of a free home 81 say need any
one so situated, know more than that there
are only a few days journey off, and compos-
ing a part of her own nation, two and a half
millions of just as deserving people, depriv-
ed of all these blessings, brutalized, bought,
sold, driven, scourged, violated, murdered,-
all at the will and mere caprice of others -
Ladies may sitstil because they can't some
how, quite inexplicably, get to feel an inter-
est in this question or because their friends
are lice with the South by marriage or mer-
chandise-i. e. parties in The outrages--or be-
cause they think common human feeling or
womanly mercy imply something political in
the popular and bad sense of the term; or be-
cause they love their own children and friends
so well. that the siriy children, burn eUery dag
into Slavery, must die in Slavery too, rather
than absorb an iota of effort bat there is no
great study needed-no long time required to
comprehend the condition of the slaves, and
to prove that ladies are verify guilty in sitting
quiet while such things are done.
| think you look at the subject in too mar
row a point Of view. 1t is not biack people
that the Abolitionists care abOut:--it is a
wronged, i%nsulted, suffering people; not a col
ored man, but outraged humanity: not "a
pickaninny," as you hea~ Itlessly say in the
plenitude of your prejudice, but helpless, OPP
pressed infancy. Our cause is the cause OF
the weak against the strong, for the preser-
walton of the existence of both; and God do
so to us and more as we are faithful to it,
We are born into the world for a purpose; and
surely INSTRUMENTATION is not that purpose.
We are here to do good as we have opportu-
nifty to save what was lost: to do to others
as we would they should do to US. This is
our religion, and 1t is all the religion we have.
We believe also, it is Christianity. For when
we thldk Of the example and injunctions OF
Christ, we see that to the Christ Of the cross,
man is never so holy
"As when Drawing the proud in defence Of
the lowly."
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