Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-11-27

wide as tho world, and longer than the
stream of time. Like light radiating from a
centre, it will move onward and on
ward, dispelling on every hand the darkness
and mis-: Of oppression, until the glad sun
light of freedom, shall find access to every
heart. By it the moral pulse corrected, Will
send its healthful throbbings, through socie-
tvs whole frame, until the fearful paralysis
which now so fatally benumbs all its pow
ers, shall be removed, and then, the true
friends Of God and man, with steady hand
and clear moral vision, may apply themselves
sure of success to the execution of their holy
purpose, in behalf of human freedom.
A rectiGed public sentiment always has
been, and must ever be, the sovereign reme-
dy for existing evils.
1t matters not, though the strong arm of
tho law, may be around systems of wrong,
nor though they may be as hoary with age,
as with guilt. Let but the indignant frown
of a ]virtuous public be concentrated upon
them, and they must inevitably perish
Thus have false systems of religion been
destroyed. Thus was the monster lntem-
perance crushed, and thus will the foul spir-
it Of slavery with its long train of worship
ers be hanished.
The scroll of history is fail Of facts which
reveal the omnipotence Of public opinion
1t has but to speak, and it is done. 1t has
hut to stretch out its sceptre, and uncounted
millions bow before it.
Is there not occasion, then, for us to rejoice
to-day, when the lessons of the pasi-the
spirit Of the age-and the signs Of the times,
give promise, that this power is coming into
the great moral battlefield, on The side of
rightl
Though the warriors are now comparative
" few,-though alone in the contest, they
need not be dismayed, for truth and justice
are on their side, and around them, unseen
by mortal eye, are "chariots of fire and horse
men of fire. led on by Him who has said
that "the battle is not to the strong"
James Russell Lowell has beautifully and
truly said that
"Mankind is one in spirit" that
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manity's vast frame
Through its o-cean-sundored fbers feels the
gush of joy or shame,
In the gain or loss of one race, all the rest
have equal claim"
Such being the case, when an event like
that which VIC to-day celebrate occurs,-
when a nation dehumanized, b%rutifed, stands
up on humaniiy's broad platform, a new
bond of common interests, and common
hopes, unites them to us. Instead of ranking
with"four-footed beasts, and creaping things
they may now claim God as their father, and
man, made only 4 '%'little lower than the an
GELS as an equal brother. Instead of Sec
ing in the grave, the last home and resting
place alike of themselves, and the beasts tina.
perish, they may now look forward to an
endless existence, and to an inheritance in a
world where man cannot be changed 10 a
brute.
If we except the scene of Calvary, the
event which brought redemption to a ,corld,
what other can compare with that, which
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released from the thraldom of man, eigh
hundred thousand human beings?
Then indeed no earthquake trembled un
derneath-no temple vail was rent-no deaC
issued from their graves, but slavery's darl
pail was torn in twain, and the great soul O
man from its moral charnel-house arose, an,
mingled its loud amen with Gods approvin!
voice, which was heard echoing from islanc
to island, in the deep rolling thunder.
t Contrast with that event, the freedom con
tested at the point of the sword, and fount
r only by wading through seas of blood, witt
whet transcendant glory does the one stant
out bofore US, while the other is blackened b,
deeds of violence and outrage infictedby MAJ
upon his brother man.
Well may those for whom so great a boor
e was so peacefully obtained, send up thei
It long, lond shout of Joy to-day. No wonde
that the fires of freedom there burn brighter
y and more unquenchably. No wonder tina
IS the slave upon our southern border, is ANNA
ted with the living spirit of liberty.
n The ocean indeed surges widely between
t, him and the islands of the free, but in it
n deep roar, he hears the knell of slavery, an
j. nerves his soul to bear nobIy up yet a littl
10 longer.
= While We mingle our heartfelt rejoicing
with the bond and the free, to whom this da,
is enc of thrilling interest, we will also unit
III with theirs, our thanksgiving and praise t
n Him through whom alone, we are enable.
" to celebrate so glorious an event. VII
IS the throne of the Eternal, that from our sla
of very-cursed country the chain may he bro
lie ken-that every trammel Of body or mind
at the wide world over may be sundered, an
ht that the time may soon come, when tn