Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-19

Of an act, rather than the Justice of it, gives
no very exalted proof of the greatness Of his
character. But if your feelings he actually
repugnant to slavery, then are you more cul-
pable than the callous-hearted planter, who
laughs at what he calls the pitiful whining of
the abolitionists, because he believes slavery
to he justifable while you persevere in a
system which your conscience tells you to
be wrong. If we call the man obdurate, who
cannot perceive The atrociousness of slavery.
what epithets does he deserve, who, while
he does perceive its atrociousness, continues
TO be a proprietor of slaves? Nor is it like
" that your own unfortunate negroes are The
only sufferers by your adhering TO this nefa-
rious business; consider the force of an eX-
ample like yours. consider how many Of the
sable race may now he pining in bondage,
merely, forsoolh, because the President of
the United States, who has the character Of
= wise and good man, does moi see cause to
discontinue the long established Practice
or all The Shareholders under heaven. those
Of the United States appear TO me the most
reprehensible; for man is never so truly obi
Gus as when he innicts upon others that
which he himself abominates.
When the cup Of Slavery was presented
to your countrymen, they rejected it with
disdain. and appealed to the world in juSlili-
cation of their conduct; yet such is the in
consistency Of man, that thousands upon
thousands Of those very people. with yourself
amongst the number, are now seduleusly en-
ployed in holding the seli-same bitter draught
to the lips Of their sable brethren. From mon
who are strongly attached to their own rights,
and who have suffered much in their defence,
one might have expected a scrupulous atten-
ton to the rights Of others did not expert
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pressed, we perceive it with a lynx's eye;
hut when we become the oppressors, no
noon-tide bats are binder. Prosperity per-
hnps may make nations as well as individu-
ais forget the distresses of other times; yet
surely the citizens Of America cannot so soon
have forgotten the variety and extent Of their
own sullerings. When your country lay
bruised BY the iron hand of despotism, and
you were compelled 10 retreat through the
Jerseys with a handful Of half naked follow
e~rs,-when the bayonet of the mercenary
glistened at your back, and Liberty seemed
about TO expire,-when your farms were laid
waste, your towns reduced TO ashes. and
your plains and woods were strewed with
the mangled bodies of your brave defenders
when these events were taking place, every
breast could feel, and every tongue could eX-
ecrate the sanguinary proceedings of Britain;
yet what the British were at that period, you
are in a great degree at lhis-you are boast
ful OF your own rlghts-you are violators OF
the rights of others, ard you are stimulated
by an Unsuitable rapacity, TO a cruel and re-
l~entless oppression. Ii the wrongs which
you now inflict be not so severe as those
which were inflicted upon you, IL is not be-
cause you are less lnhnman than The BRUSH,
but because The unhappy objects OF your tyr
ranny have not the power OF resistance. In
defending your " liberties, you undoubl-
eddy suffered much Yeti your negroes, en-
Glazing the spirited example OF their masters,
were 10 throw Oil Inc CALLING yoke. and, reil-
ring peacefully TO some uninhabitrd part Of
the western region, were TO resolve on LIB
erty or Death, what would be the conduct OF
southern planters on such an occasion =
Nay, what would be your conduct! lou
who were born in a land of liberty who
'early learned its value you, who engaged
in a perilous conflict 10 defend it, you who,
'in a word, devoted the best years Of your
life 10 secure lis permanent establishment in
your own country, and whose anxious recol-
l%ections, whose sympathetic feelings, and
whose best wishes are irresistibly excited
whatsoever in any country, you see an OPP
pressed nation unfurl the banners of free
dom,'* possessed of these energetic senli-
ments, what would be your conductl Would
you have the virtue to applaud SO just and
animating a movement as a revolt of your
southern negroes? No! | fear both you
and your ccuntrymen would rather initiate
the cold blooded British Cabinet, and 10 graf
ify your own sordid views, would scatter
among an unoilending people, terror, dcsola
ton, and death. Harsh as this conclusion
may appear, it is warranted by your presen
practice; for the man who can boast Of hi.
own rights, yet hold two or three hundred o
his fellow beings in slavery, would not hest
tale, in case of a revolt, TO employ the mos
loie?o 'hat "N'ch 'Ie rug rePuni'can law
oa ms oounry are PeaSea toedil nus properly
,no sna"ne ! Ila' ma" SIoulu De ueeIne'