Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-16
TO James X. Polk,
President Of The United Siates,

~ JULIUS N. GOlh,
President Of The United States,
SiR:
Your visit to Boston presents a Suitable
opportunity to ask of you the immediate per-
Torrance of an act, which is demanded alike
by inflexible justice, the natural instinct of
the human soul, and the Interchangeable law
of God.
We address you simply as the friends Of
liberty and equality, in no partisan state of
mind, and for no political object; with all
the respect that may be considered due to
your elevated station, yet with that frankness
Of manner and p%lainness of speech which an
occasion like this demands.
You are a stakeholder. Men, women and
children are by you held in slavery-record-
ed in your ledger as chattels personal-work-
ed like brutes, without wages or stipulation,
under the lash of a driver, and fraudulently
and tyrannically deprived of all their Just
earnings.
No greater sin can be committed against
God, no more atrocious crime against man.
than this. He who commits it in this age of
the world, and especially In a land so fall of
light and knowledge as our own, is pre-emi-
nently guilty. II is man-stealing-an act,
in comparison with which, the crime of theft,
burglary or arson, : whitens into virtue
1t is fair to measure you by your own
standard. You claim to be a genuine demo-
cra,, and have been placed in the Presiden-
tial chair by a party claiming to be purely
democratic. Is not this a fundamental doc
trine of democracy, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their creator
with certain inalienable rights, and that
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness? Yet you hold men as your
nronpFtU 70 all infants DurDOCpc and ppD.
structions whatsoever and do not blush =
You kidnap human beings, and, like Pharaoh
of old, refuse to liherate your miserable VIC
tins! With you, practically y, democracy is
synonymous with man-stealing; for no man
would he regarded by you, or by the party
to which you belong, as a true democrat, who
should denounce slaveholding as a crime
This is the extreme of human inconsistency
the acme Of human criminality.
But, more than this-you profess to be a
follower Of Christ, and are, we understand,
connected with a professedIy Christian church
as a member of his spiritual body. How,
then, dare you to make merchandise of those
for whom Christ suffered and died, that they
might be redeemed in common with the rest
of mankind : Did he not come expressly TO
set the captive free. and to put an end to all
oppression Has he not taught us to do I'M
to others, whatsoever we would that they
should do unto us! What greater outrage
can be perpetrated upon Christianity, than to
make the profession oft compatible with hold
ing our fellow-creatures in hopeless bondage :
Tit Bey of Tunis is no Christian yet,
for the glory of God, and to distinguish
man from the brute CREATION he has nobly
emancipated all his slaves, and made slavery
unlawful throughout his dominions. Hence
forth, every slave fleeing from any part of the
world to Tunis is declared to be free, as soon
as he touches the soil.
The Autocrat of the Russians is no demo-
crat; yet, with many of his mobiles, he has
emancipated a numerous serf population, and
designs to e~xtirpate serfdom in every part of
his immense empire.
You claim to be a democrat and a Chris
tan; yet you are a slaveholer-to this hour
an inccrrigible STAKEHOLDER! Before the
whole world, the Bey of Tunis, and the Rus
sian Autocrat put you 10 open shame.
The fact that you occupy a high station is
no proof of your worthiness, but only demon
strates the gross wickedness which prevails
in the land. Truly, it may be affirmed at
this day, as of old-'The rulers of the peo-
pie cause them to err, and they that are led
of them are destroyed
Emancipate your slaves. Every one of
them is your equal by birth, and an eternal
destiny. The act may be attended with DIFF
ficulties; but, be assured, it will rebound to
your imperishable renown, and in life and in
death be 10 you a source of eXhaustless fell
city. But, while you hold them in bondage,
your hands will be stained with blood, and
your garments with pollution and their cries
against you will continue to enter the ear Of
the Lord of Sabbaoth, until his judgments
shall be fully executed upon you.
As President of the limited Stotes. If an
American citizen should be caught in the act
of reducing a native-born African to slavery,
whether by purchase or violence, on the coast
Of Africa, you would officially pronounce him
TO be a pirate, and order him to be hanged,
under the law of Congress. BY what cpl
tibet, then, should you be characterized, and
what should be the punishment (on the score
Of impartial ~justice) melted out to you, who
are keeping in bondage scores OF natlve-born
americans !?
Reflect! God is no respecter of persons,
and HE is JUST! Hear, and obey his voice
- Undo the heary burdens, break erery yoke,
and let The oppressed go Free
In behalf of the Massachusetts Anti-Slave-
ry Society,
FRANCIS JACKSON, President.
EDMUND QUINCY, Corresponding Sec'ry.
ROBERT F. WALcUT, Recording Sec'ry.
TSigned, also, by the Board of Managers,
and by SAMUEL MAY, IT,, Genera! AGENT
Boston, June 30, le47.
The Old Dominion.-Itis stated in a South