Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-10-27
II. c. WRIGHT.
Peterborough, y. II. Jan'y 81, 1871.
The Great Question.

Lhe ureal question
Beyond a doubt the great question now
a~gitating both hemispheres, is the night of
man 10 labor and enjoy the awaits OF his tolls.
In Europe, it is the claim of the starving
millions, calling upon government for en-
DEMONSTRATING 10 labor, hut unable TO
find any thing TO do-a call which Paris of
late vainly attempted to answer by establish
ing those Hires FIR drOnes, the National
Workshops" In this country il is the claim
of the free white man, demanding that he
shall not be driven from the field by a degra-
ding competition with the slave-that slave
nv shall not be cherished and sustained by
our free government, but left TO die out OF its
own inherent rottenness. Fhe question Is
substantially the same in both countries,
though somewhat modified by the different
circumstances OF each.
1t is a question in which the people on
both sides of the Atlantic are deeply interes-
tcd-a question Of freedom, against slavery
of right against might of the democracy of
labor against the aristocracy OF wealth and
power. 1t is the great question OF hherry,
equality and Observation-Disclosures the many
shall any longeT be in bondage>to the few, Oh
shall enjoy that liberty which is the birth
right of all-whether the broad acres Of the
earth and the good things II yields tot the
common SuStellnGe OF all, SNAIL DB IlONbpO-
LIKED and boarded by the cunning, selfish
few, or shall be equally bestowed upon the
unfortunate and destitute also, like the other
blessings of our common Benefactor, the air
and the water, the shower and the sunshine
whether, in short, government shall any
longer be administered as if expressly inten-
ded 10 make the rich richer and the poor
poorer, or shall not rather beStow its foster
ing aid where it is most needed, upon the
children of want and misfortune!
And this is precisely the question which
has delayed the streets of Paris with hlead
-which The Bhrgs0fsie have succeeded in
staving off for the present, but which they
must ultimately meet, or shoot down the rest
of the Bhuses. Shall the unfortunate poor
be LETT to starve by thousands, while the for
tunaie rich are revealing in luxury and vast
ing the bread which they can not eat II
not, then shall the poor be fed in idleness at
the soup-ki.chen and other aims houses of
charity, or shall they be provided with labor,
and be enabled in whole or in part, to sup
port themselves Is not the workshop far
better and cheaper too in the end than the
aims house! Why then should 1t not be
preferred! Why indeed has it not been pre-
ferred Why indeed has it not been prefer
red long ago, except this work has hitherto
been left to the blind and stinted impElse of
private charity But plainly it is a work
for the benefcence of gOvernment-Tequlring
enlarged views and concentrated means-and
the woTkmen of Paris are determined that
Men government, shall not neglect it. The
rest of the world is anxiously looking on TO
profit by their lahors. For this sam ques-
lion is also at the basis of the Chartist move
menl in England, the troubles in Ireland, and
the -" shakings' all over Europe.
Here, too, the public mind is fermenting
..s,l :, II nr,..,l. ~,nD1i,r the ha,aG
Client action of government. The cry is
Let the extension of slavery be stayed forev-
er-let a stop be put to the monopoly of the
public lands-lhe hours of labor must be
reasonably limited and we'll paid-the .ieh
must rontribute of their abundance TO relieve
educate and elevate the poor. These demands
are right, and will not much longer be disre-
garded with impunity. In vain will the Bur
geoiSie of Paris. the slave holders of the South
and The grinding monopolists OF the North,
rivet their chains in fancied security. The
right to live, conferred by Nature upon man,
carries with it the right to eat the bread pro-
cured by the sweat of his brow. That right,
long withheld from the down-trodden mil.
lions, they are about TO reclaim and vindicate
by the strong arm of a power driven TO des-
pPraiion by hunger, and a maddenlng sense
of injustice too long endured.
63~Our opponents seem horror-struck be-
cause the Wing party are about to choose a
moderate STAKEHOLDER President.-PiymouM
Memorial.
If the ownership Of three hundred slaves
makes a man a moderaie STAKEHOLDER, how
many slaves must he own to make him an
ultra one l-BostOn Republican.
A PREACHER SoLD.-Peter Roberts, the
flee colored man who was sold at Louisville
into slavery, under the State law which for
bids free people of color from entering that
State, was a regularly licensed Methodist
preacher, a member of the Indiana Confe-
renee, and a Master Mason of the Philadel.
phia Lodge. He has since been set at liber-
ty, the law having been declared unconstitu-
{ tIonal.
THE REBEL SLAvEs.-Two more Of tho
: Fayetle CO., slaves, who recently attempted
a. K.nat, thair lbartiac have bPpn condemn