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


1.-THE lines have fallen to us in pleasant
places, and we have a goodly heritage."-
But among the mercies which this day appeal
to our hearts, not the least cause for
tina nksgiving is found in the fact that this is
a Commonwealth of freedom--that in this
large and rich, and beautiful domain, the soil
is not cursed with the foot.tread of slavery /;
and that in all our borders, there is no one
who can be deprived Of the avails of his la
Dor, or be held as property, or be sold as a
slave. There is no one born, or to be born,
who is ever to be. No one can be sold no
one can be willed away no one can be separa-
ted from wife, and children, and home hut for
crime, or by God when he summons man to
another sphere Of existence"
How Albert Barnes could thus speak when
slavery is crushing millions in our land, and
is even dwelling in his own denomination,
when her footprints are visible in Pennsylva-
MIA, when the census Of that State proves
that she has slaves upon her soil, and her
very laws recognize six months slavery for
the bondmen of other States whom their mas
tiers may bring there, how he could thus speak
in view of these facts, is to us a mystery.
On pages l6 and II, where he refers to the
| views of Friends in relation to war, we find a
sentence which does much to lessen the force
of his remarks, or rather stamps a marked in
consistency upon them. 1t is as follows:
~ will not say that all their sentiments
on this subject were absolutely correct, nor
will | say that a strictly defensive war is new
er right"
The last extract we have room to give is
very fine.
"There is no one subject on which men
have been more wicked than in regard to war.
There has been no one subject on which they
have been, and are more beiooled. There is
no one thing on which the sentiments of the
world are more certainly destined to change.
There is no one thing on which so much rep
utation has been gained, in reference to which
the estimate of the world is to be reversed
There is no one thing in which praises are SO
certainly to be changed to execrations. There
is no one thing in which the opinions which
history records are so certainly destined to be
set aside. There is no one thing in which
there is to be such a revolution in the whole
nomenclature, as that which is to be applied
to the names, glory, and fame, and military
renOWn. The man who dies, or has died, or
shall hereafter die, with only a military rep
u~tdtion, is destined either to be ultimately
forgotten, or 10 be remembered with dishon-
or. The reputation which has been founded
on Legislative wisdom on discoveries in the
new principle OF liberty; on making an ele-
mentary spelling book, or a new geography,
or arithmetic on devising some plan for al
l~eviatlng the mlseries of the prisoner, and
setting at liberty those who are bound, is to
| rr IN hrinhtar n nd hrirb .or b., oro,;.-, .o..
till the full ~splendor of these collected lights
shall constitute the glory of earth's Milieni-
um. The man that invented the Greek fire,
or that taught to temper better the Damascus
blade, or that found out a more destructive
spear, or that firStconcentrated poison in which
TO dip his arrow of death, or that discovered
g~unpowder, or that invented the rifle or the
PaiXhan gun. il will be we'll for him that his
name shall be forgotten In the advancing light
Of the world, or he will be remembered only
with that immortal band of apostate angels,
described by the great poet, to whom the
most terrific portion of this invention is
traced,
son war and mutual slaughter bent"
- In a moment up they turned
Wide the celestial soil, and saw beneath
"The originals Of nature in their crude
"Conception sulphurous and nitrous foam
"They found, they mingled, and with sub.
tie art,
"Concocted and adjusted, they red Aced
"To blacklist grain, and into store con.
veyed "
the invention of
-" those deep-throated engines,
"Disgorging foul
"Iheir dev'ish glut, chained lhunderbolts
and hail
"Of iron globes"
PAR LOST. B. VI.
Who has ever told the evils, and the ours
es, and the crimes of war? Who can de
scribe the horrors of the carnage battle q
who can portray the fiendish passions whic!
reign there? Who can tell the amount Of
treasures wasted, and of the blood that ha:
flowed, and Of the tears that have been sheC
over the slain! Who can register the crimes
which war has originated and sustained q
II there is any thing in which earth, more
than in any other resembles hell, it is in Uars
And who, with the heart of a man-of a low
er OF human happiness-of a Halter of carnage
and crlme-can look but with pity; who car
repress his contempt in looking on all thu
trapplngs of war-the tinsel, the noddinl
Plumes, even in the animating musicale
signed to cover over the reality of the con
temPlated murder of fathers, and husbands
and sonsl
And yet we, a Christian people brothers
OF Christla n nations; associates with Chris
tan people abroad in purposes of philanthro
Ply, talk cody of again going to war; and are
ready TO send forth our sons to fight, and kill
and die, on the slightest pretext of quarre
with a Christian nation-a nation with whom
ara all our fathers sepulchres. We talk o
it as a matter of cool arithmetic as affecting