Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-04-28
Speech Of Geo. Thompson, of England.


There is not q man OH earth, who when he
makes the case his own, does not pronou ncs
slavery a Glasphemy and u curse. Human
beings may be inconsistent, but human ma
ture is true to herself. The strongest evil
dence against this thrice accused crime is,
the STAKEHOLDER himself, who, not content
with his individual pa,rinony Of freedom,
aims at the possession OF the freedom OF 9TH
ers, and though bat a man, aims AT being Il
god and, that he may be SO, strikes his fell
low TO the earth, and puts his foot upon his
neck! D, thou modern man-stealer! ! whe-
ther thou art in the pulpit, preaching Chris
tldnlty which was originally from Heaven,
but which thou hast corrupted with fumes
from hell,-or, enclosed in silken curtains,
thou seekest slumber on luxurious down.
or hast come 10 this proud city to spend thy
polluted gains,-heaTest thou not the voice Vt
God saying unto thee Gain, Cain, where
is Abel thy brother Woe, woe unto him
that buildeth his house by righteousness,
and his chambers by wrong,-that useih his
neighbor's service without wages, and Civ
eth MIN not for his work THAT saith, | will
build Inc a wide house and large chambers,
and cutteth him out windows; and il is Gel
led with cedar, and painted with vermillion.'
: \ our gold and your silver is calkered and
corrupted. Go 10. then, weep and howl Gor
the mlseries that arc coming upon you; the
cry Of those who have reaped down your
fields, whose hire is Of you kept back by
fraud, crieth, and their cry hath entered
into the ears cf the Lord God Of Sabbaoth.'
Cain, Cain, where is Abel thy brotherl
say, again, the universal verdict Of every
human cnpS,ianoa o,ot.,, ,lo,,x,, -, n - -
be dccursed.' His heart is false to human
nature who will not say, .4meni There is
not a man on earth who does not believe that
slavery is a curse. Human nature has utter
sd her shrek against it ever since the mon
ster was begotten; and, till il perishes amidst
the execratlons of The universe, she will ira
verse the world on its track, dealing her bolts
npon its head, and dashing against it her
condemning brand. Every man knows sla-
very is a curse. Whoever denies this, his
lips libel his heart. Try him clank the
chains in his ears, and tell him. they are for
him ; give him an hour TO prepare his wife
and children for a life, Of slavery bid him
make haste and get ready their necks for the
yoke, and their wrists for the cotfla chains,
then look at his pale lips, and trembling
knees, and you have natHe's testimony d.
qainst slavery. What is his language p
Curse Inc with poverty, bot leave me free
dom. Bid me traverse for life the heaving
pillows of the ocean, but leave me freedom.
Most truly has it been said by every maj
who has written respecting natural rights
that, setting revelation aside, no man Twin!
can acquire a right TO make another man
slave -
Eternal nature when thy giant hand
Had heaved the floods and fixed the tremb
ling land
When life sprang, startling, at thy plastic
call,
Endless her forms, and man the lord Of all ;
Say was that lordly form inspired by thee
To wear eternal chains and bow the knee,
Was man ordained the slave of man TO toll
Yoked with the brutes and fettered to III,
soil,
Weighed in a tyrant's balance with his gold
No nature stamped us in a heavenly mould
She babe no wretch his thankless labor urge
And trembling take the pittance and tn,
scourge;
No homeless Lybian, on the stormy deep,
To call upon his country's name and weep.