Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-02-05
Objections Answered.

subscriber, declines longer receiving it Tor til,
following reasons:
LIST. ! do not agree with you in the rene.
dy for this great evil. Yours is the weapon
of Moral Suasion. Mine Of Moral SuasiOr
and Morai Political .gciioa.
ID. Your theory Of seeding from Govern.
ment while you neither go from its territory,
its jurisdiction, nor control, is beyond the
reach Of my feeble powers TO comprehend
but it strikes my mind that this is not a non
resistant remedy. Men do not relinquish pow
er voluntarily. This medicine, were it gem
orally taken, might break the bondmans
chains, but it would involve our country in
bloodshed, anarchy, and ruin.
Sd. You arrogate TO yourselves the doing
of all the anti-siavery work that is done, as
much as though none others were with you
in the field, l%ecturing and spreading before
the public anti.slavery facts.
4th. Much Of your paper is devoted to
warning against the Liberty party. ] sim
cerely regret shat all anti-slavery weapons
cannot be brought to fall with all their force
on the one common foe, instead of contending
amongst ourselves; but if you count this the
most %eitectual way TO do anti-slavery work,
.fght on. In this we greatly disagree, there
fore ] cannot give you my support. ! do not
wish TO assail your paper with those harsh
and false epithets with which some of your
speakers have assaulted the Morning Star, and
other antI-slavery papers; but | would say
let the shriIl blast of the Bugle be heard far
and wide while it may speak for GOD and Hu-
mGnity. May God help you to give it a GER
tain sound that all the anti-sIavery host may
march in Peace and Harmony TO the contest,
until the cry of the bondman, and the clark
ing of his chains shall be heard no more.
As some of the above reasons probably ex-
ist in the minds Of a portion of our readers,
perchance subscribers, it may not be unprof-
liable to make a few upon them,
though what we have to say has been advan-
ced before.
First, in regard to our measures. They
are just such measures as Jesus Christ and
his Apostles used for the overthrow of slave
ry, and all other sins existing in their day
preaching the truth in its simplicity and pu-
rity. 1t is true, that many among whom they
moved had but little faith in the measures of
the Great Teacher and Master, and refused to
follow him because lie did not add to his NOR
al s%uasion, political action; because he did
not strive by political means to become King
of the Jews, as our Liberty party friends are
striving TO become Governors and President.
Their idea of strength, like that of many of
the present day, was based upon the possess
sion of temporal power they were unable to
appreciate the mighty influence of words fifty
spoken, Of truths boldly uttered they were
incapable of comprehending how the fool
ishness of preaching" could make Jesus
King; Political action was the power by
which their God swayed the sceptre Of the
universe. We think, however, that Jesus
had a correct ind erstanding of the philosophy
of the human mind, was acquainted with the
science Of moral reform, and qualified to de-
termine what were the best measures TO pro.
mote its growth and are well content to
adopt only the measures he adopted, to labor
as he labored.
As the U. S. Constitution is pro-slavery,
we gf course believe that no consistent aboli-
ZIONIST will vote under it. He may be hon
est in sustaining it, may verify think he is do
ing God service, but if honest, he is as ignor-
ant of the character of that document as was
Saul of the spirit and nature of christianity.
Even if the Constitution were anti. slavery.
we should think that Moral Suasion was
abundantly able to break the shackles Of the
slave without the aid of the "Moral Political
Action our correspondent speaks of. Did
he ever hear of the Irishman who on being
asked why he bought only one spur, replied
E" And faith, if one side of the horse goes,
wont the other be after following Z" Purify
the morals ofa community and the politics
will necessarily be right.
1t is not a very new, though certainly a ve-
ry strange doctrine, that secession from a ro-
vernment includes voluntary expatriation
from its territory. Are we to understand our
correspondent that every individual who lives
upon the soil Of the United States, who re-
mains within the bounds of its Jurisdiction,
or submits TO its power, is a member Of its
government? Or does this doctrine apply
only TO the native born American who comes
here without choice, and not to the foreigner
who comes with his own consent. Let us
make another application of this principle,
and see what will be the result. A p~iratical
chieita!n conquers the entire world. Africa,
Asia, Europe, America, the Islands of the
sea, and even the jewellers upon the sea have
all yielded to his power; no other man can
claim the land or the water as his. He es-
tablishes a piratical government, and declares
that all who reside upon his territory are
members of it. Does that make them so q
Is it "beyond the reach of the feeble pow
ers" of our correspondent to understand that
even if he had become a member of that 90
vernment, not knowing its character, he could
Seceda from IL without -o;nu g. Al