Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-24

uine-sfrving, for not coming up to the help
OF the Lord against the Mighty.
Many are the accusations which are laid To
The charge Of the Abolitionists. They ar,
Visionary, fanalical, INSCRIPTIONS, incendi,-
idy' bitter, denunciatOry, and mpraclicahlr.
lhelr hand Is against every man, AID it is
no marvel that every mans hand IS against
theln. No prudent man is willing TO he
SHOWN as OF their Assembly. Were it not
Tor them, the Cause would long since have
oeen taken up and carried forward by wiser
ana more influential men. Their agitation
mas been a hindrance, rather than a help, To
the progress Of the Anti-Slavery Sentiment.
In reply to all this, we can only point to the
state Of the public mind before our Move
ment began and now; to indicate the monu-
nrnts which we have set up to mark the RI
sing OF the tide of public sentiment; to show
mat we had successfully occupied the seve-
ral positions, once rejected oflhe Church and
lhe World, but to which they have now re-
Inctantly advanced. Whether they would
nave attained 10 their present point of pro-
gfess had 1t not been for the going before of
the Anti-Slavery Pioneers, we cannot say,
nor are we careful 10 discover. 1t is sufli-
Client Tor US to know, that we were led up TO
thoSe lower heights by the same spirit which
mas conducted US TO that serener elevation on
which we now stand, and 10 believe that the
general mind Of the North may yet be led on
TO discern lis only way OF safety, by our as
s%iStance, or in our despite.
We have no intallibility to claim for the
true American Abolitionis,s. Too often have
they been dSeiyed ia their hopes, and mis-
taken In their confidence, TO arrogate TO them
selves such a character. Nor are we dispo-
sed to deny or to p~alliate their faulls,-for
lhey are neither few nor small. But though
not liialllble, we maintain that the several
successive points upon which they have de-
llDerately planted themselves, though scou-
'eu when first taken up, as absurd and I'M
practicable, have been proved by experience,
aud by the acknowledgement of intelligent
opponents of Slavery, to be impregnable.-
Aud though not without sin in the world, We
DO most unequlvocally assert that they are but
loo Tree from the sins commonly laid to their
charge. Visionary and ihpracticable they
are n%ot,--tor they have pointed out, and now
uphold, the only way Of deliverance for the
slave, the masters being the witnesses. I'm
scFnpuiouS we are not,-ior, what manner of
people IN this land have proceeded TO their
conclusions so deliberately, and maintained
them with such religious regard 10 the law
"''NS' ~ 'AC ilItduS NhtO uStus Lev OuT enc
mics answer. lncendi uy we are not, unless
The work of one to labor for the extin-
gulshnent Of a conflagration that threatens to
devour everything that is worth preserving.
Bitter and denunciatory we are not,-for our
plaIneSt words have been informed only by
the Spirit of Love, and looked only to the a.
Weakening of the Spirit of Repentance. And
God knows, and we know, how far, how We
ry far, have we ever been from a Spirit of
Fanaiicism. Alas! it is our short comings,
and not our far-reachings, which il becomes
us to confess and repent, before God and
Man.
1t is for a spirit of more earnest zeal, of
more self-sacriicing devotion, in the Cause
the Slave, that the Abolitionists have to seek.
1t is to put themselves, indeed, in his stead,
and TO feel in bonds as bound with him, as
they have never yet done, that they most
need. 1t is a higher appreciation of the pri-
vilege they enjoy in being permitted to take
part in the only Movement Of their time and
Country, that will impress itself upon the
of millions yet to be, and be felt as
long as time %endures, and a more ~resolute
purpose TO live worthy OF their calling, after
which they should aspire. This is the He
role Age,-if Heroes can be found to answer
lis demands. Mighty Events are at hand,
even waiting at the door, if firing HeraIds APP
pear 10 usher them into the Domain Of His
tory. Greatest among these is the Deliver
ence OF the American Slave frsm his chains,
of the American Freeman from his guilt.
Twice blessed is it,-in its Advent, TO the
soul of the faithful AboliIionist.-in its Ac-
comPIishment, 10 the whole nature of The
trampled Slave. Happy they who discern
the blessed Present and the suhlime Future
of this great Vocation! Happier, who shall
endure even to the end!-Sirtcenh annual
report y lie Massachusetts a. $. Socieiy.