Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-12-24


eign lands. In this spirit, was this sentence
uttered -
81 should rejoice il not a single slave breath
ed the air, or was within the limits Of our
country"
For kentucky, this may be! Fer all the
mid-sIdre STATES, this boon can be sccured!-
IL needs, only, that the spirit which declared
this wish should govern-lhat the man who
uttered it take the lead-and that according
TO his own rule and reasoning, proclaim him
self for freedom. 10 ensure this great good in
kentucky and Virginia-and sooner than lie
dare hope, or dream of, in all the South
We admit, checrfully, that We ought to deal
with slavery with ga due consideration of all
the circumstances affecting the security, safe
~, and happiness Of both ~Taces.' We onlv
say, judging of Mr.. Clay's test by his sDe-
cpcaiion of that test, that 'the security, safe
iy, and happiness, of BOTH would be greaiy
advanced by emancipation. Oh! that he
may, for his sake, for the sake of humanity,
In his " good time, make direct and bold
proclamation, that, in the home.strugcle for
freedom, ne never-never will he silent or
neutral!
In earlier ~days-when the fever of ambi-
uon burned, with a fierce glow, and c%areered
uncontrolled, by religious thought-HENRv
CLAY-in the face OF the nation, and before
heaven, solemnly declared:
at could be instrumental in eradicating
ms deepest stain slavery upon the charac-
ter OF our country, and removing all cause of
Ieeproach on account of it, by foreign nations;
if could only be instrumental in riddinG of
ms foul blot that revered State that rave Inc
birth, or that not less beloved State, which
kindly adopted me as her son, | would not
exchange the proud satisfaction which |
should enjoy for the honor of all the tri-
umphS ever decreed 10 the most successful
conquerorS."
~ / could be Instrumental" WHY, after
the Lexington speech, we received some
elght or ten communications, from Younger
clll2ons, and 1t seemed to us as if some of
them were half crazy. They were ready for
emancipation at once. They wanted no de-
lay. Such was the effect of the delivery of
the Lexington speech upon them, that they
wrote and spoke with so much anti-slaverv
zest and fire, as 10 amuse us! sT / could
be Instrumental" 1t seems TO us, as if the
opportunity which Henry CLAY longed for
was at his door-knocking there, and ,caiGing
TO be improyed-and as if a word-one god
like action-would consecrate him 10 the
greatest event of the age. 'T I could be in
$rumenta"' lie can be so Immediately
lie can be so here, in Virginia, all over the
south! Let him but wiH il, and he can do
more than any one man, or any hundred men,
TO eradicate this stain"-to rid his native,
and his adopted State "of the foul blot
which darkens both. And what would be
the highest honor won by warrior, or worn
by politician, compared with the unfading,
and eternal glory which such a work, in be-
half Of humanity, would Irvine round his
name, evermore!
with regard to Mr.. Clays's "unextin-
guishable love ofliberty," and "buoyanthope
for man" of which The Examiner speaks,
we confess our inability to discover any
evidence Of such virtues in the speech refer
red to. The greatest tyrants sometimes talk
obout freedom.-ED.