Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-12-24
From iae North Star.
To Onr Oppressed COunIrymen.

utTgu lEllVh NUuIAl iltls may oPh =
the Offering to your good! 1t shall fearlessly
assert your rights, faithfully proclaim your
wrongs, and earnestly demand for you in
slant and even-handed justice. Giving no
quarter 10 slavery at the South, it will hold
no truce with oppressors at the North. While
it shall boldly advocate emancipation fol our
enslaved brethren, it will omit no opportuni-
ty to gain for the nominally free, complete
enfranchisement. Every effort to iniure or
degrade you or your cause-originailng
wheresoever, or with whomsoever-shail find
in it a constant, unsw CRYING and inaeXible
foe.
We shall energe,ically assail the ramparts
Of Slayery and Prejudice, be they composed
Of church or state, and seek the destruction
of every refuge Of lies, under which tyranny
may aim to conceal and protect itself.
Among the multitude of plans proposed
and opinions held with reference 10 our cause
and condition, we shall try to have a mind Of
our own, harmonizing with all as far as we
can, and differing from any and all where we
must, but always discriminating Between
men and measures. We shall cordially APP
prove every measure and effort calculated TO
advance your sacred cause, and strenuously
oppose any which in our opinion may tend
TO retard its progress. In regard to our po-
sition, on questions that have unbappily dl-
vided the friends of freedom in this country,
we shall stand in our paper where we have
ever stood on the platform. Our views writ
ten shall accord with our views spoken, ear
nestly seeking peace with all men, when it
can be secured without injuring the integrity
of our movement, and never shrinking from
| conflict or division when summoned to vindi-
cate truth and justice.
While our paper shall be mainly Anti-Sla-
very, its columns shall be freely opened to
the candid and docorus discussion Of all mea-
Sures and topics Of a moral and humane char
acter, which may serve 10 enlighten, improve,
and elevate mankind. Temperance, Peace,
Capital Punishment, Education,-all sub
jects claiming the attention Of the public mind
may be freely and fully discussed here.
While advocating your rights, the NoRTH
STAR will strive to throw light on your du-
ties: while it will not fail to make known your
virtues, it will not shun TO discover your
faults. To be faithful to our foes it must be
faithful TO ourselves, in all things.
Remember that we are one, that our cause
is one, and that We must help each other, if
we would succeed. We have drank to the
dregs the bitter cup Of slavery; we have worn
the heavy yoke; we have sighed beneath our
bonds, and writhed beneath the bloody LASH;
cruel mementoes Of our oneness are indel-
libly marked in our living flesh. We are
one with you under the ban OF prejudice and
proscription-one with you under the SLAM
der Of inferiority-one with you in social and
political disfranchisement What you suffer,
we suffer; what you endure we endure, We
are indissolubiy united, and must fall or flour
ish together.
We feel deeply the solemn responsibility
which we have now assumed. We have Sc
ri.,rl.r ,a.@flAral Al. -. e ,l. -,
%terprise, and have now entered upon it with
full purpose Of heart. We have nothing to
offer in the way of literary ability TO induce
you to encourage us in our laudable underta-
king. You will not expect or require this at
our hands. The most that you can reasona-
bly, expect, or that we can safely promise, is,
a paper of which you need not be ashamed.
Twenty-one years of severe bondage at the
South, and nine years of active life at the
North, while it has afforded US the best pos
sible opportunity for storing our mind with
much practical and important information,
has left US little time for literary pursuits or
a|tIainments. We have yet 10 receive the ad-
vantage of the first days schooling. In point
of education, birth and rank, we are one
WITH yourselves, and OF ourselves. What
we are, we are not only without help, but
against trying opposition. Your knowledge
OF our history tor the last seven years makes
it unnecessary for US 10 say more on this
point. What We have been in your cause,
we shall continue TO be; and not being too
old to learn, we may in many ways. Pa.
THENCE and PERSEVERANCE shall be our mot
to.
We shall be the advocates of learning,
from the very want oft, and shall most readi'
" yield the Difference due TO men of educa-
ton among us; but shall always bear in mind
to accord most merit to those who have la.
bored hardest, and overcome most, in the
Trustworthy pursuit of knowledge, remem.
boring ''that the whole need not a physician,
but they that are sick," and that "the strong
ougt to bear the infrmi,ies of the weak"
Brethren, the first number Of the paper is
before you. 1t is dedicated to your cause
Through the kindness of our friends in Eng
land, we are in possession of an excellent
printing press, types, and all other material:
necessary Tor printing a paper. Shall thi:
gift be blessed to our good, or shall it resul
in our injury? 1t is for you to say. Will
your aid cooperation and assistance,our enter
prise will be entirely successful. We pledge
ourselves that no effort on our part shall b(
wanting, and that no subscriber shall lose hi
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NORTH STAR SHALL
Il LIVE"