Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-02

applied TO 4 lady, asking her to give him
something to help the anti-slayery enterprise.
and TINS pious old lady who left forty or six.
ty thousand dollars to the church where she
wOrshlpped, told him she could not conscien.
tlously give anything to a man guilty Of the
crime of stealing himself. Now
the means by which the abolillonist is to
eradicate this idea is to meet the American
at every Turn, to ring it in his ears, man IL
not property; tell him it is right TO aid the
slave 10 escape, turn the slave holder over To
every eplthet OF truth-iruth mark you. But
no word should ever be spoken for the pur.
pose OF evaporation, and no truth should be
lett nnspoken from fear OF cxasperatinr any.
The stakeholder and his abettors should
be met on every side with the assertion of
the negro's, humanity; let the cry be, the ne
gre Is a man, and let 1t be enforced by all the
severity which Is possible to bring TO bear
upon The mind and conscience Of the Ameri-
can people. | know the broad capabilities
OF the Anglo Saxon language for sarcasm, re-
PtoaclI and denunclation; but | also know
that The Anglo-SaNon race has a capahiliiv
Tor SHINING, which surpasses the utmost ca
pacliy OF the language 10 denounce their ain,
aud therefore no man need fear of errinr as
long as he confines hls reproaches and de.
nunclatlons within the dictionary. Another
generation will wonder at the talneness with
which we rebukc the STAKEHOLDER.
But | wish to pass in review, some of the
other relations that bind us to slavery. Now
there Is the State. That is another great ele-
ment, aud the question is with the abolitionist
what shall he do with the Church and State.
There Is 10 disposition 10 shed blood, to raise
an instruction. That will not do. Every
body Ignores that. You must create a great
public sentiment in favor of abolition, is the
cry, We all agree to that, but how Is this
great public sentiment 10 be raised Shall
II be done by these mild men that sit under
The SHADOW OF our Institutions, to rebuke in
the abstract the institution of slavery ! Mild
means have been tried for a long time, and
The institution has been growing stronger and
stronger under these mild attempts TO over
throw II. We must try some other means.
But you would not abolish the union say
they they, in order to get rid of slavery l.
Why 1t is by no means certain that we would
not. Bat You might get rid Of slavery quick
er some other way. This is not the question.
This is an American question, tho question
OF a man whose life is in accordance witt
N''' - w iptI hNcNllutu w IL GtIidln dl
thor TO be "a man who so served God as no
to offend the Devil" Now the America,
people love a compromise. 1t is bread an,
meat 10 them, and therefore the American
first question is, can you not get rid of slave
ry quicker some other way! | was not Dor
to abolish slavery. No man was sent int
the world 10 abolish slavery or intemperance
or anything else. He was sent into the worI,
In din hIG Huty and altar Ia, h., l.. Al.
consequences are Gods. You say, by STAY
ing IN the union You might abolish SLAYER,
in d short time. By exciting Instruction /
might do it quicker still. Perhaps were | tc
drink every day in public Sam. Johnson's
toast, " HeIe is to the first Instruction in ia
maica," it would help materially 10 bring
about this result. Who knows but that il
would staTtle the STAKEHOLDER quicker than
anything else! But it is not the quickest but
the Hghliul way which You are bound TO take.
lou have no night 10 remain in the union in
order to abolish slavery, any more than you
have a night 10 remain in the church for the
same purpose. Our first duty is to consult
the light In our bosom, a light placed there
for our guidance by the hand of Deity, aud
its guidance we are bound TO follow, without
looking at ultimate results, which are Gods.
One great fault of the American people is,
that they cannot trust God. They are not
only afraid 10 trust Him, but they do not
know what 1t means 10 walk by faith and not
by sight. You must prOre it to a man good
must spring up under his feet. This is one
of the compromises of our character which
has corrupted the church. We had good
sense enough, when the vessel OF State was
launched. There never were more faithful
people than the early Friends and Methodisis.
They got rid of slavery in the church, but
they were mystifed by the relations into
which they were cast by the workings of d
corrupt political government, and became en-
tangled into it, lost sight of their responsible
ity TO God, and went on acting under the 20
vernmenr, and taking part in it; touched
pitch, and necessarily became defled and
now slavery has not a better bulwark than the
Society of Friends, nor a stronger champion
than the Methodists Of the United States
What has turned these men aside from their
opposition TO slavery! An affection of the
atmosphere in which they have been brought
up. We have been probably dreaming that
slavery would be abolished some hOw or oih-
or. We were TO stay and be sinners a very
little while longer. Just as a Liberty party
man told me the other day, who VIII vote Tor
John p. Hale, whose principles he don't dare
even to ask--a man who has not yet found
out whether man has property in his fellow
man. After speaking TO this Liberty party
man upon the subject of the national con
science, he said This is Just what | told
our Convention last week. | told them that,
after the next election we must lay down some
great principle. (Laughier.)
We have been told, we arc always told,
that it is not a proper time Just notD to abol-
isli slavery. This has always been the cry
and il ever will be. As in the case of pro-
perty so in the case of slavery. The miser
always desires a little more than he has, and
the Shareholders and their cuaduutors, say the
time is Just a little ahead. This has been
the cry since the adoption Of the constitution.
What are the facts
Why the slaves have increased from thou
sands to millions, and the slave power has
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