Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-13


may never again stain our soil, or be shed on
the deck Of a man-of-war. There have been
wars enough in this land. If it were desira-
BILE to show that, as a nation, we haze Prov
ess, and can fight well, it has been done.--
Let it be enough for this, that we can point
the nations, If we are called on 10 do it, to
Lake Erie, and to the Ocean; to Bunker Hill,
and Trenton, and Yorktown. That's enough
in our military glory. We are called into
being, as a nation, for higher and nobler ends
and 1t is our vocation-and especially the vo-
cation of the people Of this Commonwealth
of Penn-to show to the world the blessings
of the principles of peace. When the worlds
history shall all be written, let not the first
pages of our own story be blackened like
those of Assyria and of Rome. Let there be
SO much light, and so much true glory evolv-
ed from the arts of peace, that the few dark
spots which war has already made-for war
does it-may be covered over with the living
splendor that shall have accumulated in a
long career of true glory.
In Illustration of these sentiments, and to
show the power and efficacy of the principles
of peace, | do not know that the world has
furnished a better instance than occurred in a
well-known event in the life Of the Founder
Of this Commonwealth. Penn met a race of
men here-the inhabitants of the forest-who
had been regarded as bloody, and cruel, and
unfaithful, and always disposed 10 war;
With portions of that race there had been long
and fierce conflicts, and every colony had
been made to feel the c~ruelties of the toma-
hawk and the scalping knife. Penn was on
principle opposed to war, and meant to live
with all mankind on terms of peace. He
came unarmed-with neither battle-axe, nor
buckler, nor sword, nor shield, nor cannon.
:" We meet" said he to them, . on the broad
pathway of good faith and good will; no ad-
vantage shall be taken on either side, but all
shall be openness and love. ] will not call
you children, for parents sometimes chide
their children too severely; nor brothers, for
brothers differ. The friendship between me
and you, | will not compare TO a chain for
that the rains might rust, or the falling tree
break. We are the same as if ono mans
body wore divided into two parts we are all
one flesh and blood"
"The children of the forest were touched
by the sacred doctrine" says the historian,
" and renowned their guile and their revenge"
'We will live said they, sin love with Will
moon and the sun shall endure"
The treaty of peace and friendship made
between him and them under the old elm on
the banks of the Delaware, was one of the
most remarkable Transactions in history one
of the most signal rebukes of the spirit OF
war, and the necessity for war. "It was not
confirmed by an oath it was not ratified by
signatures and seals no written record of the
conference can be found and its terms and
conditions had no abiding monument but on
the heart. There they were written like the
law of God, and they were never forgotten.
The simple sons of the wilderness, returning
to their wigwams, kept the history of the COW
enant by strings of wampum, and long after.
wards, in their cabins, would count over the
shells on a clean piece of bark, and recall to
their own memory, and repeat to their chill
dren or the stranger, the words of William
Penn. He had come without arms; he de.
clared his purpose to abstain from violence
he had no message but peace and not a DROP
of Quaker blood was ever shed by an Indian
Who can tell how much the sam spirit would
have done to disarm all hostile tribes; anc
who can fail TO see here a sublimer victory
than was ever achieved on field of blood
and brighter and more enduring laurels thar
were ever gained in the carnage of battle?