Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-07-14

OF course he was expected to lavish fulsome
adulaticns upon the fathers,' and the glori-
ons Institutions they bequeatlIed 10 u.s. And
TO his absurd work he went with seemingly
hearty good will. This said he, lis a
blessed government in face of the fact that
no other government lnficts so deadly and
blighting curses upon man as this The
ireest and most liberal of any in the world
here the lie became too much of a choaker,
and he driveled out what lie called an excep-
ton, that il is spotted with or ~tolerates sla-
very.' But it was a matter that could be got
along with without serious difficulty, and on
he went with his Qualifications upon our free
and liberal Institutions! THE land Of the
free, and the home Of the brave'-free for him
to palm of such deceptive falsehood upon
his hearefs-free to SANDER without stint
the true-hearted who would expose the n.y.
pocfisy Of the nation, who would break ev-
cry yoke and let the oppressed 60 free'-free
10 spread the internal Upas orchard Of slavery
over the fair plains Of Mexico, dedicated by
that government to liberty-free to cowhide
women and plumber cradles Of their precious
contents-free for the government to thrust
its robber hand into every honest mans pock-
ct, and steal from it the means Of sustaining
the arm that swings the national cowhide
over 8 1000, 900 of crouching slaves-free for
the priesthood to cover a nation guilty Of such
diaboIism, with the garb Of sanctity, and to
disgrace christianity by palming off a religion
that sanctions this as the religion OF Christ.
Brave in butchering helpless and innocent
Mexican women and children, and bestowing
resolutions of thanks upon their most con.
s%picuous murderers-braue in asking the peo-
pie to raise to the highest Office of honor in
their gift those chiefs who have done most to
carry death and destruction to defenceless
"reminiscences brarc in hunting down the
painting fugitive with Observation-Disclosures, who
had fled from under the stars and stripes,
and from the savage men Of which they were
mathematical, to the Inequalities of the less
savage Seminole-braUe in converting the d.
plomatic agents to foreign courts into slave
hunters and slave-calchers-brGre in standing
by and swearing 10 support those %constitu-
tional guarantees, which foist a miserable oil
garchy Of two hundred and fifty thousand
shareholders into the chief places of the ma
tion-brare in laying Massachusetts prayer,
asking redress for being tarred and feathered
by South Carolina, in the person of the vene-
rable Mr.. Hoar, upon the table. The land
where heaven and earth together meet'--in
other words, and without the poetry, a hea-
ven upon earth. A heaven Of thumb-screws
and branding-irons! of cow-hides and blood
hounds! of mobs and a mobocratic priesthood!
These phrases, and others like them, were
the burden of his song! But wickedly false
as they were, they must be said by some one;
for it is impossible to appropriately celebrate
the 4ih OF July without their being said. In
every way was paison Plat fitted for his
work. Who could more fifty pronounce the
eulogy Of a heart-crushing nation, than a lea
der of the Brotherhood of Thieves'l
1t is said that the practice of militia train
ings' was abandoned in this part of the State
because none could be found mean enough to
take Office. Platt's performance reminded
me that soon 4th of July ~orations will be like
ly TO fail for the same reason. If such ora
tors have tapered down to him, they must
certainly come TO a point soon.
Next upon the programme was the follow
ing Influence and importance of Sabbath
Schools-Elder Dunn" He is a prominent
minister of the F. w. Baptist Church, and
claims both for himself and his church, the
highest degree of anti-slavery character. Yet
he acted in loving fellowship with those
Methodists and Presbyterians that surround
ed him. He lauded Sabbath Schools, be-
cause their influence was to break down Sec
/, tarianism and harmoHize the different reli.
!, gious parties. The fact that so many differ.
= ent sects were there acting harmoniously to-
, gether, he pointed to as an encouraging proof
, of the christian influence of Sabbath schools,
But the fact that he thus harmonized with
4 those pro-slavery priests and churches, and
sanctioned theirs as the religion of Christ,
! made two points very clear in my mind -
/. If he was correct, Christianity and anti
i, slavery were antipodes; for in so doing he
. made that religion Christianity which was
II very pro-slavery. And ., By endorsing that
religion he forfeited all right to be regarded
g as fan anti-slavery man. "He rejoiced il
s our present institutions, though they had
faults" OF course, after fellowshippine
those whose pro-slavery character is as darl
= as a total eclipse, the worst he could see il
this government, which sells women upoI
the auction block with mules and hogs, woulc
be slight faults notwithstanding which