Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-22

them the means Of Intellectual and moral i'm.
proyement, and then unbraid them az deora.
ded and vicious! They desire education
they wish 70 be valuable citizens-soe mock
their aspirations, and tell them ,hey are de.
graded. we curse the inhuman wretch who
leaves any being in the form Of humanity 10
perish with hunger, yet we leave the immor.
tai mind to famish with want.
We boast that our institutions are f,e,.-
The hypocfitical Pharisees made broad their
phylaciefies, and wore them conspiciously
but IN Pfaeuce ~dlsregarded the sentiments
upon them, So we loudly quote the Deciar.
alton Of Independence, the Ordinance and
our Constitution, against slavefy-we prin,
them In staring capitals-we hurl epi,hets al
our brethren ut the slave States, and when
they point In derision at our dispraceful laws,
we make up In clamor what we want in prin.
ciple, and voclterate, WE are Gree-ics are
free-dTe ue mol a free Slate p" Free mo
slavery in OhiO? In the name Of Liberty,
what mean aPOlogists for the "Ohio Black
Laws" by the words ''freedom and slavery1''
The colored citizen Of Ohio may indeed ex.
pariate himself, and find in Canada under
a monarchicai government, the Liberty de-
MED him in = free Republic. So may the
subject Of the Grand Turk. Is he free who
is under bonds! ls he free whose lips are
closed, and whom the laws forbid 10 speak
the truth Is he free who is condemned 10
Ignorance and consequent degradation T.
Does slavery consist in fetters and chains !
Then there 10 no slavery in the United States.
These are the insignia Of crime, not OF slave
~. 10 the Idea Of slavery 10 be confined to
physical coerciont Does freedom consistin
exemption therefrom? None but a slave of
the lowest grade could entertain notions 30
gross. No. 1t is the manacles imposed on
the mind-shackles placed on the rights cf
man, as man, In ontraadistinctio from his
fights as an animal which constitutes the
worst OF slavery. Our fathers did not pour
out their blood for our emancipation from
foreign bondage, that their defendants should
daily and forever witness the operations Of
domestic slavery. Let us, for shame, cease
b~oasting Of our free State. We are a slave
State-more degrading to us on account Of
our organic laws and boasts Of freedom, than
the slave laws Of our Southern brethren to
them.
The children of a free country should be
reared with sensitive regards Tor human
rights. There should be no laws or custom.
which can blind their keen sense Of III,
rights OF man. of justice and freedom. o.
this sense, the purity and perpetuity Of on
institutions must greatly depend. The tyr
annous operation OF these laws habituat
them TO look on Injustice and oppression a
sanctioned by their own governments, an
they grow up tyrants, in contempt Of tn
sacred principals Ahirh sustain our insiiir
iions.
have how shown that the "Black Law
of Ohio" are unconstitutional.
That the Constitution of The United StateI
and OF Ohio, depend for their support on the
reverence or the people for them, and tina
these laws prevent that reverence.
Tha, the principles of equal fights ant
equal justice lie at the foundation of our in
s,itusions,and that they are subverted by thes,
laws,
That popular education is the bslwatk o.
our institutions. and that these laws over
throw il and train up a numerous class II
ignorance and degradation.
That while we boast free institutions, W,
In fact sustain aud enforce the worst Of slave
ty and
That while our children should be reared
in habits of a quick sense Of the right of hu
man nature; these laws accustom them I,
look with complacency on injustice and op
preston.
I will only add my ardent hopes that tn
time is at hand, when the people of Obi
will wipe this deep and only stain Itoh theI
escutcheons