Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-09

curing all our ferrys and passes by guards,
and - body upon the scout came up with
them, and engaged they gave two fires, but
without any damage. We returned the fire,
and brought down fourteen on the spot, gave
them chase, and, in compass Of days,
killed about twenty more, and took about for
ty alive, who were Immediately hanged, glib
beted alive, shot, &c. Some others came in,
were tried, and discharged. Their may be
about ten more that are out, but viii soon be
taken"
Several years ago, a venerable friend, since
departed, showed ne a letter in manuscript.
from which the above extract is taken. 1t
bears a name which | should have given, hut
that it may invade too much the slcredness
of private relations "a name, however, Of
which | may remark, that it is by no means
unknown in either of those conspicuous
States Of our Republic,- Mdssichuset,s and
South Carolina. Its date | give :-Charles-
ton, S. C.. Sept. %, 1879. SO that, besides
the victims of an Instruction, so awful as at
that hour this must have been, all the actors
on each side, who survived the horrors Of
those dark days, and doubly-dirk nights.
must have long since passed away. Less
than a huud red years had succeeded. when
Virginia was doomed to a like scene of hor-
" anu NNIlllENs Nv 1Ndl9 Va bllNClO
which preceded the Californian instruction,
those which interviewed between it and the
NirEinian, and those which have succeeded
the latter, even in their ~quietest seasons, have
all been years, not Of true peIce, but of sup
pressed War. The fercest war his its iu-
tervals Of repose. There must. even in times
Of hottest haste, he snatched a time To breathe.
to renew, and, if possible, redintogrtte in
paired energies. We speak Of certain wars
in our annals, with the l~niilns. with the
French, with the English, and narrlte their
causes, their origin, their progress, their ter
mination, their effects. We forget that for
two centuries and a quarter we have been en-
gagged in an incessaut wdr.-n war, entering
directly into our very households, and array
ing the different members OF those house
holds. against elch other in conflict, which
waits only the favorable moment for doing
all the fell deeds enlinked to battle ITSELF
Slavery is Wari Instruction now and then
appears; the country is moved insurgents
are slain. 4 9 subdued, are dealt with acror-
ding to the policy Of the conqucrors. But
the Instruction is to the whole state of do
nestle Slavery, only what a battle is to the
whole state of international war.-the point
off,arful ~iuncture, at which brutal passions,
gathered in perfect fury, meet to safe them.
selves with blood, as the old Etneln giant
iNfaNANh no ~ i''Ni utI'NN' - 49, ''
and blood of those who entered his cavern.
Slavery is war! 1t begins in war; it car
begin in no other way. BY force deemed lr
resiStible, 80 yielded 10 in desprr ,tion. TIT
indiyidull il first made a slave. The fore,
which conpels him to ~reluctlnt submission
is the force of selfish impulse, of proud AN
bition, OF rip1ciouS covetOusneSs. Agains
this force the man does battle while he be
lieves 10 can; he does battle, not only will
the high will to be free, but with the coun
t~erdction of the sam lower passions whicI
are arrayed against him. Justice is Away
even-hearted. This cup-boarer Of the secre
powers, always finds way to mix again, i
the chalice which one gives 10 another, tn
same ingredients which have been dWuke
oil, and to return it ftesh to the first giver
my, more than commend, to compel it to hi
lips. Selfish impulse comes back in selis
resistance proud ambition, in proud env
and revenge rapacious covetousness, In IA r,
pacity commensurate with it,, sustained b,
the coyetousness which seeks without bound
and fails, only with the limitations of i
powers, and its means. Nay, the bloc
which has stained the soil OF Africa,-tF
blood which this same retributive Destiny
this stern, memorable Necessity, has draw
from the invados. : his rapacity ami crueit
had first drar %, 5S " the vlcllm,-no IN
Cdll ven, iD IIidFIOul hh'"'
Slavery is Waf War seems a Pea
sometimes. 1t only seems. There is noI
in reality, there can be none. The elemen
of War are forever latent, even when hinde
ed from being open, in Its bosom. Mo
than two hundred and twenty-five years HI
there been a state Of real, though colnlnonI
suppressed, war between the European al
the African races, whose chief seats IA
been the western coast of Africa, and t
warmer and more fertile regions Of AIneric
The war is now hushed, save as o caslon
outnurslings of its Fl rec and bloody spirit a
pear in deeds Of mutual veng auce and Vi
lcnce. The war is now hushed, shall | sa
let me recall tho word. the slave is 81 eI
sitting either in despair or in hope on I
field which he cannot command, and walllr
as his spirit may be, for protrdcIed bondal
for bitter revenge, or for sweeter freedom.
This shall come at last; but, alas! he bon
aye and the revenge are also sure. L
blended conflict and revenge have already
peared on the Rio Grande. Oppressi IL, III
far victorious, seeks wider sphere Of acli,
But our sons and brothers are already mou
ed over as its victims. The voice VIII
proclaims slavery to be war, pronounC
herewith the certainty that war, whether
extend and strengthen slavery by new he
forcements from Mexico, or to perpetuate
within our original borders, will bring
own curse on the nation and the indiyldu
A phrase sufficiently ludicrous has latr
come into use our great men talk OF C
quering a Peace. Peace has been indie
conquered. 1t has been conquered as the
gelic form stood forth imploling us to rev