Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-17

TO be abolished in this land, BY any one in
strumentadty, any one plan IF operation, or
any one class or SCI! Of en-bu we look for
It to be effected through the blessing Of the
God of our Fathers upon the combined efforts
of all classes Of people, acting in all lawful
ways and through all honorable channels in
which their influence can reach the evil-and
this will be done whenever, those who dis.
approve of slavery shall take up its abolition
as their own work, and set about il as the
WORK that is now to be DONE"
How strangely this contrasts with his adj
torials in the Emancipator two or three years
since, in which the Liberty party was conf
IDENTIFY and necessarily held out as the great
. Observation-Disclosures very = set of men,"
that were to overthrow Slavery
But let us 90 to the west and hear the phi
losophic and thinking DIR. Bailey of the Phi
lanthropist
"The present stage Of the Liberty move
ment in Ohio we regard as a crisis of COM
manding interest. From the year 1910, the
Liberty party increased annually at a fair rate
until the Presidential election in 1914. But
its vote in the October election of 1916 show
ed little or no increase over the Presidential
vote. Now, let every man bear in mind,
that a new political party must increase or
decrease. Stand still, it cannot. You may
hNih uiCu tORblutI III ulOIhl dSSOCldllOn, WlLur
out any percsptible increase, by the force Of
high moral consideration, but a reform pokti-
cal party which, however pure its principles
and objects, necessarily embraces many who
are governed chiefly by party considerations,
lives by its increase, no less than by tho force
of its principles.
When we consider, therefore, that the gu-
bernatorial canvass of 1916 is to test the Of
ficiency of the Liberty movement in this
State, and, according to its results, tOiH settle
with muHitudes the question Of adhesion 10 81
or separation from IL, no one will be surprised
at our determination TO give far more attention
TO it, than under other circumstances we have
deemed necessary"
But the reader will ask, what ought the
Liberty party to do in view Of these thingst
We answer in few words-Go FOR THE
RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF ALL MEN-wHiTR
as well as black-and we shall attain and
deserve the confidence and support which
we cannot attain so long as we refuse to do
this"
Justice requires us, perhaps, TO give an-
other view of the subject, which we take from
a paper in this State. On the one side is tho
opinion of the Maine State Convention; VIM.
Goodell, who has watched the progress of
the cause with an eagle eye; Joshua Leavitt,
the editor OF the great organ; DR.. Bailey, the
oracle of the party in this State and the Sig
nal of Liberty, the mouth-piece of James G..
Birney: and on the other side is the Cleve-
land American, which thus concludes an ar
ticle on I" The destiny of the Liberty party"
"To our friends and co-workers, we would
say, that never have our prospects been fair
er, or events more encouraging. The causes
and the times demand eXertion and sacrifice.
but we labor not as those who have no hope"
A citizen of Washington City, writing to
the Albany Patriot, says:
81 received a note this day from a highly
respectable member of the bar here, request
ing me to investigate a case of cruelty which
his own engagements would not permit him
to attend to, | accordingly went to the Jail
the Jail built by the United States, where
| found a woman some IS or so years Of ago,
who stated that she had been taken up, Gas
she desired to be,) while fleeing from her mas
ter's service, in consequence OF the barbarous
torture inflicted on her by a brutal overseer
near this city. Her flesh. was lacerated in a
manner disgusting to the sight, and painful
to the feelings OF humanity. Her chest had
been stamped upon and bruised till she was
scarce able to stand, and unable to eat food!
And what monstrous crime had she commit
ted, think YOU'D She had dared to implore
the overseer to whip her own daughter no
longer, for she thought her situation such that
she could not bear it: upon which, this wo-
man-whipper, in a rage, inflicted upon her
the wounds above described" -sl.
We do not say, that every preacher and all
the members of the various ecclesiastical bo-
dies have assembled SO high on the ~perilous
ladder of wicked inconsistency /; bat every
STAKEHOLDER is emphatically included in the
dread scriptural indictment-"They are alto
gether gone out Of the way there is none
that doeih good, no, not one. Their feet are
swift to shed blood, There is no fear of God
before their eyes. Will a man rob Cod Yet
We have robbed me-" They are all, without
one exception, men-stealers and therefore.
it is a rank imposition upon the world, both
in the churches and in the people, to receive
and acknowledge Shareholders as true Chris
tians.-George Bourne.
A SLAVE MINlsTER.-The Christian Index
has an obituary notice Of Rev. Baptist Min
lister Caesar, who recently died in Alabama.
He was The property of the Alabama Baptist
Association, and was successful as their serv-
ant in the propagation Of tho gospel, Aslaye
bought and sent out to preach the gospel 10
his fellow slaves, is a phenomenon that Chris
tiani'y could only have produced in these last
ages.