Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-02-06

lICHlUtlS Oh tdCH nave utCldTeu that thew will |
no longer be partaker's of other mems sins,
And have not a very large majority Of tho
ministers Of another, published a solemn nro-
test against American slavery! Do not tbcso
facts testify that the country has been. Mt least
partially, awakened to a sense of its do nrer
and its guiltl The very terrors which have
seized the panic-stricken STAKEHOLDER, and
driven him to such desperate measures for
the defence of his 'peculiar institution" are
so many evidences that the influence of abo.
l~itionists has been neither unfelt nor unim-
portant. He feels that the moral power of
Christendom is fast being arraycd against
him, and he trembles within his stronoest
fortress.
The influence of our principles has perya-
ded society, and wrought within it a MIGHTY
change; yet there exists the same reasons whv
we should be, to-day, few in number. stand
ing comparatively alone, which existed at the
commencement of our enterprise. This may
seem paradoXical, at the first view, but il is
not the less true. Society has indeed made
great ad vances towards the standard which
we then erected, but have we not also advanc-
ed! In looking back to the positions which
we and they then occupied, we find that
theirs has indeed changed, that doctrines
which we then, with difficulty and in peril
uttered in unwilling ears, are now patiently
heard and extensively embraced, if not OPEN
Iy avowed; but have wc not also changed!-
Has not new light dawned upon US, do not
our souls clearly perceive truths which were
then hidden, or but obscurely revealed If
it is not so, then have we proved ourselves
to be no true reiormers. If, while others.
whose standard of right was, a few years
since, so far below our own, have been rap
idly advancing, we have been standing still,
then we are more delinquent than they. But
while they have been coming up toward our
earlier position, we have been learning new
applications of old principles, and our pres
ent position must inevitably he in advance of
theirs, who have not yet fully embraced all
those principles. Therefore we have no rea-
son for Encouragement in the fact, that we
are still, as at the beginning, a little band,
that so few gather with us to-day. 1t must
ever be thus, that they wlo would reform pop
uldr abuses, and bless the world by testify
ing against the sins of thei rage, and country,
will be comparatively few and insulated; for
when one among a sleeping multitude is a.
Weakened to the conception of a great and glo-
rious truth, his mind is thereby prepared for
the reception of another; and while he is stri-
wing to rouse his companions to share the
first discovery with him, a second and a third
have poured the fullness Of the lighfhpon him,
so that by the time that their cry of fanatic is
hushed by the reluctant and gradual assent
yielded to his first ''strange doctrine" it is
raised again at the announcement of other
truths. These things are no cause of boast
ing to the reformer, but Of mourning that the
human race makes no greater moral progress.
Yet they should be fully understood by those
who aspire to be the servants and benefactors
of their race.
We enter upon a new year of labor and
trial, a new year of suffering to the slave,
with strong incentives to fidelity, gathered
from the present and the past.
"Why should we rest ingloriously
When earth is filled with strife,
And Error shouts her battle cry
Upon the field of Life!"
Permitted the high privilege of being CO.
workers with God, in the renovation of the
world, shall we idly sleep our years away,
and die, leaving no footprint on the age in
which we have lived! We cannot be con-
tent to leave the world no better than we
found it, and therefore, during our brief So
iourn in it, must do with our might what our
hands find to do. Ii our rallying cry sounds
harshly in the ears of the cold-hearted and
the ~listless, seeming to them to SAVIOR of IA
naticism; if the trampling of our hosts disturb
the dreams of the noon-day slumberer, we Of
fer no apology. God be praised that they are
reused at last! Better that they be roughly
Weakened, than that they should sleep on for
ever, while perishing millions are calling on
) them for aid
For ourselves, we feel tt at we have no
time to lose, no strength to waste. Child
less mothers, bereaved by a spoiler more cru
ell than death, send to us their cry of agony
on every southern breeze. Our brethren i'm
INJURED in the southern and western prisons
of the tyrant, because they dared to interfere
with the traffic sin slaves and souls of men,"
would highly value our opportunities to labor
in the cause of Freedom. Remembering theiI
sufTerings, remembering the deeper and more
aponizing woes of the slave, remembering
our country, young in years, but hoary in
crime, and listening reverently to the call OF
duty, we will continue to go forth, bearing
the precious seed of truth, hoping that, ere
long, we ''shall come again rejoicing, bring
inc our sheaves with u.s."
AMERICANS IN THE DOMINICAN SERVICE
The American barque Alert, recently pur-
chased by the Dominican government to be
fitted as a vessel of war, has been got In rea-
diness, and she mounts twenty twenty-iour
Founders and two swivels of the same or
greater calibre. She is represented as being
commanded by a ''ine, young, cool, calm ana
daring American, and a picked crew OF nifty
able and prime seamen''