Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-14

blessed Lord uttered not a word Of condem-
nation of it, if st. Paul sent back a servant to
his master with an epistle of commentator ;
still, there is in the Bible a deep seated es-
sential hostility TO every form and degree of
human servItude. Its fundamental doctrines
of the original equality of all men before
God, of a common redemption by the same
blood, of a practical experience. Of the same
grace, aud a common Inheritance Of glory in
the same H~eaveu-these living and glorious
truths OF the Gospel are all so many argu-
ments and so many instruments of universal
freedom. They that sit down together at the
communion of the body and blood of Christ,
and converse together. as strangers upon
earth, fellow travellers to the new Jerusalem
in which their common hopes all centre, and
to which their weary and anxious feet are
pressing with a common zeal, cam OF be mas
ter and slave; they are all brethren.
But where is all this agitation to end i
Why, sir, just where all discussion ends, in
a clearer conviction of truth and a deeper feel
ing of duty-in the progress of liberty and
the elevation Of man-in the advancement of
the happy day, when not a son Of God shall
wear a chain upon his limbs or feel the iron
of oppression in his soul.
1t will require efforts, earnest efforts, sacri-
fees of treasure, and, it may be of blood
No great enterprise for humanity is ever ac-
complished without them. But | look to see
men arise equal to the crisis, superior to all
dangers, and endowed by God for their mis-
sion. The Wicklines and Luthers, the
Clarksons and Wilberforces have not all
lived yet. In a great cause great men arise
and enjoy a charmed life. A Providence
protects them a cloud of Divine Love is a
shield all over them. The scales will fall
from mems eyes; the veil will be rent
from their hearts.
And when once this point is reached
when slavery is seen in its true light, as an
offence TO Heaven and an outrage upon man,
as the curse alike of the oppressed and the
oppressor, there will be no great difficulty in
getting rid of it. The herds of human cat
tie that darken the plains of the south, will
melt away as the locks that whi.en our hills
do, when we have no longer any interest in
multiplying them.
Mr.. Speaker, | sincerely rejoice, that New
Hampshire is speaking out upon this subject.
The time has gone by, when her silence is 10
be accounted consent to the extension, or the
continuance Of negro slavery in these States.
| speak not as a Wing, nor as a Democrat,
bu! as a citizen of a free State. as a minister
of the religion of Liberty. | congratulate
the people of the State and of the whole
country, that the day has come, when a san
of New Hampshire cannot stand up in the
National Legislature, and, sustained by the
voice Of Freedom, in the free north, renounce
the doctrine Of our Fathers, that all men are
born equal (; or subscribe to the policy, which
seeks 10 strengthen the foundations and en-
large the dominion Of a tyranny, in compare
son with which the oppression of the Ameri-
can Colonies was independence. If it were
in my power | would congratulate the poor
victim Of this oppression himself. | would
whisper in his ear the cheering and sustain
ing message, that, in our prisons, his woes
and his wasted hopes are at length re-
membered. 1t would console him under the
weight of his weary bondage to know that he
has new friends among the friends of human
ity-new brethren in the free States, who
" remember them that are in bonds as bound
with them"