Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-09

not be enlisted. nor the Church aroused, IL
ia the duty of Aboiitionists to have no longefI
any fellowship with those unlruitful works
of darkness, but rather reprove them, by
separating from them, and touching not the
unclean thing. Here is tue advanced step
the Abolltionists have made; 10 thu begln-i
ming OF their work many Of them wcre en-
listed, as some OF them still are, with the
political Of the land-the parry
politics Of the nation. They hoped by thus
uniting with these powers, TO effect their
work bat they have discovered that the
situation of the country, the legal enactments,
the statutes that The shareholders have made,
have been altogether tending TO riret tue
chains of the oppressed. They have. there
fore, found ii their duty to declare in the pro-
gress they have been called upon to make,
that they must obey the command, Get
thee from thy fathers house, aud come into
a land that | shall show thee" They have
found it heir duty to come out against the
Constitution and Government of the country,
as it Is at present construed. | know little,
however, how 10 treat this part Of the sub
ject. | am glad, however, OF the progress
evident in tins.
Glad, also. Of the evidence of advancement
among Abolitionisis as to the commercial
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it being made known that these are carried
on by the gain Of oppression, while the
North, equally with the South, is building
its house by uurighteousness. and its church,
es by wrong, using its neighbours service
without wages, and giving him not for his
work." 1t Is beginning TO be seen that they
must despise the gain Of oppression, and de-
ny themselves the blood-bought sweets and
the blood -stalned cotton that has come
through this corrupt channel. They feel
that they are called upon not to be parlakers
Of other mems sins, and not to participate In
this matter, except SO far as in the general
admlxture of things, they arc necessarily in
volved, while they live In the country. The
fact that they are also implicated IN other
oppressive systems, by the use of the pro-
duets of human labor, ought not to discourage
them. The Abolltionists have also Develop
ed the oppression eXistiHg in other lands
They have disclosed the suiierlngs of those
engaged in the various laborlous employ
mentS in England, Scotland, Ireland, and
other portions of Europe. The axe was first
LAID at the root of the corrupt tree of human
slavery, and through this their eyes have
been a~nointed more clearly to behold what
are tbs universal rights Of man. None are
more ready to assist the oppressed laborer 10
obtain his rights than they. Let them, then,
be faithful to their trust, so shall their work
be blest, not only TO the poor slave, but to
all those who are in any way wfonged and
Injured. II they are not true to their trust,
if they are not united to go on in our work,
but suffer themselves TO slumber at their
posts, what will be the results VIII there
not then be reason to fear that the language
OF the martyr, Charles Marriott, will be full
! fllaJ I.tb,t A,ni,, Do,,Lt,..a Al;
ca, will be the last stronghold of slavery in
the civilized world" applause.
Frederick Douglass drew a graphic picture
Of American liberty, referred to its recent
Illustration in the case Of the seventy SIX re-
captured, tugitiyes, and then said -
wish to bring with more distinctness be-
fore your minds the news which comes from
abroad-the action of the Provisional Go
vernmen of France. We have been accus-
toned, in this country, TO hear much talk
about Christian America, and lnfdel
France" ! want to say, In behalf of France,
that | 20 for that inideIity-no matter how
heinous it may he in the estimation Of the
American people-which strikes the chains
from the limbs Of our brethren and against
that Christianity which puts them on, Zap
plause ;)-for that infidelity, which, in the
person Of CremiPuX, one of the members Of
the Provisional Government of France, speaks
to the black and mulatto men, that come to
congratulate them, and express their senti-
ments upon the immediate emancipation Of
their brethren in the French islands. |
sympathize with that ~infdelity that speaks
to them in language like this; friends ,
b~rohhcrs! men! (Applause.) In France, the
negro Is a man, while you who are throwing
up your caps, waving your banners, and
making beautiful speeches in behalf Of liber-
ty, deny US our humanity, and traffic in our
flesh. Sir, ] would like 10 bring more vivid
ly before this audience the wrongs Of my
down-troddcn countrymPn. have no dts
position to look at this matter in any senti-
mental light, but to bring before you the
stern facts, and keep forever before the Amer
lean people the damning and disgraceful fact,
that three millions Of people are in chains to-
day-that while we are here speaking in
their behalf, saying noble words and doing
noble deeds, they are under the yoke, smart
ing beneath the lash, sundered from each
other, traficked in and b%rutally treated and
that the American nation, to keep them in
their present condition, stands ready with
Its ten thousand bayonets, TO plunge them
into their hearts, if they attempt to otrike for
lnelr freedom. | want every man north Of
Mason and DiNon'S line, whenever they al
lend an Anti-Slavery meeting, to remember
that II is the Northern arm thatdoes this-that
You are not only guilty Of Withholding your
influence, but that you are the positive enc
mics of the slave, the positive holders of the
slave, and that in your right arm rests thu
; physical power that keeps him under tn,
; woke, (ApplauseN want n N C,el tba
am addressing Shareholders speaking t.
: men who have entered into a solemn leagu,
and covenant with the shareholders of III,
; country, that in any emergency, if at an,
. time the spirit of freedom finds a lodgmen
' in the bosom of the American slave, and the,
shall he moved to throw up barbados agains
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