Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-06-11

AE ~ wv hhH RRfh'N h1N
lis present organization. We shall never
have better men than Jay and Ellsworth, nor
more honest haters of Slavery than Pinckney
and Wythe. We have tried il when Hop
kins aud Edwards filed the pulpits, and we
iaiied. And can we hope that a corrupt pub
lie which dogs the footsteps of Taylor and
Scolt-can We hope that when we have neiih-
ef the leaders nor the %peopie, 10 better the
experiment a! No. The experience OF fifty
years shows US one of TWO lhings-either
that this country was originally launched OH
a wrong piinciple-and then the Conslitu-
lion is wrong, and we must get rid of it,
before we eau slafl Alright we must take new
bearings, we must take Celestial observa-
tons, We must talk Of absolute righi-we
have tempered with partial rigfitlong enough
and we must try something better. Or If
this is not the case-if there is any man mad
enough 10 believe that this nation has zone
astray when its foundations were laid in
righteousness, that our whole Administra-
ton has been in favour Of Slavery, while
our Constitution was one great pledge against
lt-tilen ] say that there is something ia this
political Union that makes virtue impossible
in a FREE STATE, that FREEDOM and Slavery
cannot be linked together without contaInina-
zion, that virtue in this fallen world cannot
be brought into such close contact with vice;
~ N'J y" ''i"f''n"' It's
'no p'"I"o', eNPe'ie"ce o' ne I"s' my years
s"""s ''d' 'n' 'u"ua'hch''i Id" o. 'liS iahd
is founded on injustice, a practical experience
which has changed &c into Al, which has
replaced The banks of the Charles and The bat
tie of Bunker Hin, with Buena Vista and
the Del Norte, which has given us instead
Of the Ideals of 20, which we worshipped in
the persons Of our great men, in spite of the
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WIZ" .""'e uPPel"no1' J" '"e h."UrH' iuea
Mhen II pionoun'eH ~ n''"' . =, nodWS'H
was lnV NnouEn' y INe "no n"u nug "onl
w" PiGNPe''! III c'ro' ~ 10 oH"'e nor me
s'e'' !nP' u We e'g"'co"'t c'hlu'y' "hlcn
S'ilt'o me h",,oh ; o'"oG when IL pronounced
win eyes snh"seu WIN tears anu a voice
broken WIN gratitude The name oi Washing
'on' say IL was the lDEA' winch th'y wor-
shlpped' O5G'na and 4gore me men. ana we
nave c'u,no'eu Gown from 'na' neau'llGi OIL
e'ha' 10 .hose whose P'ouues' acts are we as
grace OIL ouI history, ana VINO re only known
l DIS me sons o. 'ne't 'd''eis ny Tue IaiAeitaole
! contrast tna' 'nelr yves present.
No"' ME- OhalIt'ah' III taxing my seat
I a'io" me I? S'aie 'nat lhiS society has no
> GeailnGS wl.l aostdc.ohS, II mas nothing 10
10 W''n apsI."'a o.s'Jty OF uOs'Iact truth
~ 'aNes up TT Mo.N tld' Hou mas 'iro"n al
us very uo1l. y sees inns nation mao Tor
slavery oul o"JeGt Is 70 cure H. IL sees
rsMai'o"eu W WI. '3Yu ior d halfway
a tenth-way as far as true religion is concern!
ed,-and our idea is that the ration must be
dragged back to its starting point. We care
not for Constitutions nor for ecclesiastical
organizations. We reverence the Fathers
bot we detesi their mistakes. We hold our
selves to be wiser by fifty years than the
Fathers; aye, we hold ourseIves-call US not