Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-12-17
"The Delaware AbO!iliOniSt."

HO DOluN ulO IlUUallIOllDls
This is the title of a small semi-monthly
which the Delaware Anti-slavery Society
propose issuing, the first No. of which is be-
fore us.
1t will doubtless do some good, and we
fear some harm for if the contributions of
its correspondents, and its editorial articles
are to be taken as a specimen of its anti-sla-
very character, we should say it fell far short
Of the true standard, and if it is the exponent
of the Abolition Of the Society which pub
fishes it, Delaware anti-slavery needs a new
baptism. We do not wish to be captious,
but must confess that the pleasure we felt
upon the reception of The " Abolitionist" was
considerably lessened by an examination of
its contents. Whether it will advocate I'M
mediate or gradual emancipation, we are I'M
able to decide, either from the prospectus or
from the paper itself-its sole object appears
TO be the abolition in Delaware.
One of its correspondents asserts, that
Washington, Jefferson, and all other slave
holding as well as non-slaveholding heroes
of the Revolution were abolitionists, and he
might as well have added the names of Hen
ry Clay, James X. Polk, Hope Fl. Slater,
and other modern heroes, who love Liberty for
themselves. He says, " they''--thsse slave
holding Observation-Disclosures slavery 10
be y great evil, and wished to eradicate it in
a just and equitable manner. We wish to
do the same thing in a similar way" If sla-
very in Delaware is 10 be abolished in the
same way that Washington, Jefferson, and
Henry abolished it in Virginia, and Pinkney
and Haynes in Carolina, or even on their
own plantations in those States, we should
like some one to tell US how soon the slaves
of Delaware will have their freedom.
The following article from its editorial COL
umns we publish entire:
ABOLITION
Is a thing of which very many honest people
have a great dread, and very Justly loo, if
their conception of it be true. If abolition
means to incite the slaves 10 insubordination,
rebellion, assassination, midnight burninps,
and all manner Of excuses, then indeed is
there good reason TO dread it. Then should
our people be aroused to exercise the evil
spirit from our loved country. That it ia
what has been described, is the firm belief of
many, we are well aware. But how have
they obtained their belief? Has it not been
by listening to eXparte statements and exag-
gerated reports! Has it not been by attribu-
ting to the mass of those who bear the nam
OF abolltlonists, the spirit that has actuated,
and the measures which have been adopted
by a few ultra fanatics We opine it has.
There never was a reform but what the movers
of it would have been as Justly styled disor-
ganiZerS and for the same reason. There an
pears TO be an idiosyncrasy in some individ-
uals Of the hHman family, which cause them
when walked up to the necessity of a reform,
to carry their ideas of il to such a length as
to shock the common sense and mora percep-
tions OF the mass. That such individuals
have appeared in the garb of abolitionists, it
would be useless 10 deny, but the whole bo-
dy is no more chargeable with their vagaries,
than the people of the United States are charge
able with being drunkards, thieves, or muir
derers, because there are such to be found in
the country. What then is meant by aboli-
ton? As we understand tit is a practical
application of the sublime truth promulgated
by our fathers, that all men have an inalien-
able right to liberty. 1t teaches that because
man has such a right, it is wrong to deprive
! him of it, or withhold it from him. That
| when he is deprived of his liberty, it is the
duty of his holder to restore to him, what are
his just rights. That to do right is always
$ the most polite. That to restore the slave
Y TO freedom, will promote the interests of the
n STAKEHOLDER, as well as benefit the slave
That slave labor impoverishes, and free labo,
enrlches any country. This is what we NEAR
II by abolition, and this is what we shall advo.
cate.-B.
" There are some very good things in the
0 above, and SOM things taken in the connec
ton in which they stand, not very good
The writer evidently wishes to stroke tn,
STAKEHOLDER on The back, and make him pur
& his approval of "The Delaware Abolitionist.
There is nothing puts the American man-thie
in so good a humor with himself and all tn,
II world Observation-Disclosures eXcepted-as
talk about these "ultra fanatics" who are S,
radical in their ideas of reform, Z" as to shocl
"a the common sense and moral perceptions o
the mass, especially when it is followed u
by a disclaimer of fellowship, not with slave
holders and their abettors, but with these in
re dividuals who have appeared in The garb O
N abolitionists."
L. Experience and observation has abundant