Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-11
Think of It..


Go and ask any one, If he does not wish
to make his inends happy around him -"
and he will reply eagerly, Yes, by all
means."
We shall hardly find an exception. Even
the most selfish would desire this. And il.
further, We Were to seek out the hard and
harsh man, and say to him, Would you
hurt or Cypress your kiih and kim 4" he
would indignantly respond, =" No-never."
And yet, every man who sustains slavery,
to sotne extent. mars the happiness of others,
and Injuries and Expresses them, unwittingly
it may be, in the saddest way. Does any
one doubt this fact? Let him consider
Look at the consequences of slavery, and say
whether the assertion is not true.
Whatever stops mental growth, or who-
ever retards it, must be regarded as the worst
foe of society. Bring the matter home
You, father, are authoritatively told, with
all your means, that the boys and girls whom
you love more than life-yonr own children
shall not be educated that their minds
must remain uncultivated, and kept forever
in ignorance. What would be your feeling 7
circumstances, strong, earnest, overpower-
ing, would rise 10 your lips, and your arms
would be nerved, Instantly, 10 strike at the
despot who should issue so inhuman a de-
cree. Well, 1t society acts in a way to pio-
duee this result upon large bodies Of lis citi-
zens, is not the wrong as great is not the
suffering greater and ought not the wrong
doors to be called to strict account? Escape
from the reasoning, if you can.
Turn, then, to the effect of slavery, in this
respect upon The minds Of our laboring citi-
Zens.
Where are our schools? We have a large
fund-means that would be deemed ample
enough in Massachusetts. with slight Stats
help, 10 educate every child in the Common
wealth. Is 1t so employed Not a dollar
OF II, scarcely. The State, indeed, has used
this fund for other matIerS-has violated a
sacred trust, too, in doing it. And what is
the excuse! That the population in many
counties is so thin, and so ignorant in others.
as to render an etec;ipe school system out Of
the question. Would this reasoning be held
Just in New York? Would any State in
New England listen TO it for a moment p
The plea of ignorance would be the strongest
plea for action, The public would say, and
say truly, "the greater the Ignorance the
greater the necessity for schools, and school,
masters while we have the means and know
our duty, they must be employed in educat-
ing the masses-in educating every child
whose parents wish it,"
Why is this not done, or attempted to be-
done, in kentucky
Slavery is the obstacle. That alone pre-
vents it. Is that obstacle beyond our control !
No citizen will affirm that such is the fact.
Who, then is responsible for The lamentable
Ignorance which prevails in Kentucky among
so many of our people! They who uphold
this obstacle-who cling to slavery, and de-
clare they will not abandon IT.. And if the
masses understood-if the white adults who
cannot read and write, only knew how they
are kept down, and who does it, think YOU
they would or ought TO submit To itl Make
the ease your own-apply it to your own
family, and nswer.-LouispiHe Eraminer.