Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-04


the planting, and hatvest-time for the gather
ing, and they who SOW in faith shall reap in
joy.
But then to pay a man for teaching anti
slavery truths-lor holding anti-slavery meet
ings! Are not anti-slavery meetings as m
portant as the meetings of school children
with their teachers! Does it not require as
much time to attend to them Is not the
labor therein as great! No objection is made
10 paying the man who teaches the A. b.. e.
of the primer why should he not as welkbe
paid who teaches the A.. B. c.. of abolition
ism No one thinks it improper to compen-
safe him who lectures on the motion of the
heavenly bodies; why should not he be com
p~ensated who lectures OIL the motion Of earth
ly bodies, and the character Of 'earthly insti-
t%u,ions! He who teaches the geography of
the earth, who tells of its divisions and sub
divisions, is not expected to do it for nought;
why should he who explains the moral ge-
ography of the universe labor without pay
lie should not, if his necessities demand it ;
and however the opposite idea was origi-
mated, we fear it is too often nurtured by an
ungenerous and selfish feeling. If a%nti-sla-
very lecturers should be sent abroad, they
should be sustained and if God will not
send ravens to bring them and their families
bread, it is because he designed that aboli-
tionists should do what ravens hare DONE
The fact that a man is qualified publicly to
advocate the cause of the slave, is no reason
that a greater sacrifice should be demanded
of him than Of the farmer, the merchant, the
mechanic, the manufacturer. When these
are ready to give without reservation all the
products of their loom, their shop, their store,
and their fields in order to promote the anti
slavery cause, then, and not till then, may
they demand that the an,i-slavery lecturer
give up all.
If there is any la5orer in Gods universe
that deserves 10 be paid for the work he per-
forms, it is the anti-slavery lecturer. He
leads q hard life. He is compelled TO fore
60, in a great degree, the enjoyments of home,
he must buffet single-handed, the powers Of
oppression; and worse than this, he is chill
ed by the indifference of some professed
friends, and grieved by the unmerited re
proaches and fault-fnding of others. Hi;
bread is not only earned by the sweat Of hi;
. brow, but is too often eaten with heavines:
OF heart.
Friends Of the slave, will you not think o
these things ere you come up 10 The Annua
meeting, and may it not be hoped that yor
will ably sustain and greatly extend thos'
agencies which you yourselves have cause Il
bless. Cries for help are coming up from
every quarter-labor is greatly needed, ant
the laborers are but few. Look around yo,
at the recent Developments in the poliuca
world these are the result of just such agen
cies as the Western Society has long employ
ed. They are the fruits of no miraculous in
terPosition, but have sprung up from see'
that was long since sown by those who hav,
learned what we should all strive fully Il
comprehend That without labor, nothin!
can be wrought; without sacrifice, nothing
can be gained and that the hope of the pre-
sent, will terminate in the future.