Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-09
MIIroaD, n. Ii. june a3d, 1917.

N]Itgocp. N. II, June 23d, 1917.
DEAR Fnrryps:-
I'm a civ filed with hustle and excitement.
a newspaper correspondent has always some
tonic Tor a communication. But in a coun-
ty village, fifty miles f.om the metropolis,
and a dozen miles from every where, the
case is different.
A country parson, who has a hundred SER
mons per annum to write, is often sadly per-
pleyed for subjects. Theological students
sometimes say they had rather white a dis
..,tiion. than 10 find a theme on which TO
write. These hints nav furnish some apollo
,y fer Tho drvp,ss or NV COMMUNICATIONS.
ou, .r,o, bu, admire the sinoular ineon.
.;s,o,c, IN Soma Of onr c@oliiical and social
a. W. rnri., ,,,ry tirds Of
- =. ,u;,t. ,,.s, s,,o,iv Ohio
i n,-.'oi,us liols we ro,,,rl -
u,' ~ .lt..
f' .,a,l, a,l uL.,L.
~ - Ju.yh,l, r.,,, tho rr,yo
,lNa.L +, todv of . .lave. il bioh
arnoo a., 70, tho m,s,or ,o steal him. tho
-, -. l., .I;,d b,J, and s,i,;, and ~
- .,. .,,, mr. soil Kim is ope If
IL. 49,, Ch,is,,,n vir,pes of the ann
,rbo Sn,r,on law under Lvcurrus. that encour-
,rod ,,en. nv apnlaudipc the most adroit
! ,Liovos and npu,ninr. nat for stealing. bpt
for s~,c,Iirr 50 ~,yvkvardlv as 10 be detected
,,,s mt more absurd.
Piracy too i, with rs a yerv NAUGHTY deed
under so,uo circumstances. We have hume
and killed many for its commission. One
department of it is the Foreign Slave Trade.
This, by our laws, is Piracy, aud the penal
ty is Death. And the reason given is, be-
cause it Is :. iyreconcilqbIe wiA lie princi2lcs
Of humanity anil justice.'
But the Slave Trade is not piracy. If it
were, Kentucky hardly grows hemp enough
to hang her own baptized pirates, to say no
thing of the uncircumcised who are not in
the church. This kind of piracy constitutes
the perfection of American religion.
1t is the very climax of American patriotism.
Only this renders a man eligible to the office
of President. James Polk would no more
have been President, had he not been a Land
Pirate. than he would have been in heaven,
he died a wear aro. The same trafick that,
the banks Of the Tennessee, made him
what he is. would. on the shores of the Sene-
r,l. nv opr own laws. have sent him 70 the
oibbet. The same barpains that, under the
palm e, and pl,n,,ins If Gninr, would. hv ou~
laws, doom a man to he damuatjon Of the
oallows. would. under the shadow Of our
forty thousand Christian s~tceples. facilitate
his elevation, not 10 the palIows, but TO a
Doctorship of Divinity. So Go der,ees of
longitude determine degrees of ruilt.
Some types of murder, also, we punish
with a good deal of rigor. Other types Of II
are a sure passport to honor and glory here,
and to heaven hereafter. Rev. Henry SliceI
told the Baltimore volunteers, that " tie man
,ChO .fshS hardeSt Where tie 6bus fall The
Michest, and prGys sincerely 10 lie God q
battles, Mat man is tie best S0Ilisr and ha 6esi
I"FENtH"' ~ HeISHuo' "'oiS I'lv' INV l
kill him, it is murder. If the government
tells me to kill the MeXicans, who have new
er wronged me, and | refuse and desert, then
the government kills me. Bat if | rush on,
and destroy indiscriminately men, women,
and children, the priest at the altar, the YES
tai at her devotions, instead Of naming it
crime If 10 hantized ne rInrv and tho natinn
is impatient to load me with its konors. A
kentucky crater said not long ago, that al
dency, we will elect him by Spontaneous con-