Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-08
COMMUNICATIONS.

KNOXVILLE LAKE Co. o. Aug. 10, l647.
Mn. e. Mrs. JoNEs.-Unsolicited, the Blu
gle has been regularly forwarded to me for
some time past, and | always love TO hear
its welcome note, claiming liberty for the
captive and freedom for the slave, breathing
universal peace and good will to all mankind,
and this week, during the Anniversary, |
trust that you, with many others have been
giving utterance and circulation TO the truths
it advocates, in the audience Of many who
gathered around your post of occupation,
who to-day are dispensing to their homes,
beaIing with them the seed which will in due
time bring forth fruit.
1t is a good time now to work in behalf
of the enslaved, and FOR the renovation of this
government. The Lord is working with
you, his providences look in that direction,
in his leaving the learned and the wise of
this nation the politician and the ecclesias-
tic, to combine their efforts and prosecute
their designs till they are ripe for confusion
of language like the builders of Babel. A
remarkable movement the nomination Of Mr..
Van Buren,, | rejoice, inasmuch as | can see
by the eye of faith indications that this is
one of those events which 60 TO show that
the Lord is surely and perhaps speedily a.
bout 10 /" overturn. and overturn, overturn,' 81
and vain are all the efforts of great men OF
good men, SO called, and bad men all com.
bined, to turn it aside or arrest its progress,
although its onward march may be effected
in "A way and by means altogether unlocked
for by them, ard absolutely contrary to thei
plans and wishes. We often hear ministers
and professed christians pray the Lord (,
T" hasten the time and overturn and overturl
, &C., but | have often thought, that as sOol
as they see the thing coming for which the,
ask, soon as they see the world begin t
, move, and present arrangements and organ
; i%zatioas begins to be overturned, they al
take the ALARM, and fearing that the world
, going to be turned upside down, they ru
with uplifted hands and outstretched arms I
place themselves un6er it and seize hold {
it TO keep it in its right position. This
not the way in which they expected il TO
overturned. The men and the measures use
: to accomplish this work are not of their choo
: ing. To keep the world right side up, the
surround it with the sword and the cannon
the halter and the dungeon, and rely upo
- these cruel weapons in the hands of " II
powers that be, " to adv ance the cause
the Prince of Peace, whose kingdom is n
is Of this world, but which kingdom is destinI
to d" break in pieces all other Kingdoms. -
Who does not rejoice to see kingdoms al
: thrones falling, animated by the cheerir
~ hope that they are to give place eventual
~ to a better order of things. And if Ameri
has not a kingdom and a throne to sacrifC
of it has a GLORIOUS Union, =" for which the
10 is at least as much as a =" barley-cake,
g. somewhere in Gods government, prepar
81 or preparing to be tumbled into its tent
- overturn it that It shall lay all along. :
10 accomplish this object, you are laboring, n
,st king the barley cake or collecting materi;
h. for it. Be encouraged and toll on, and cea
of not your efforts, for, Sayres, Drayton a
English are in prison demanding your syI
IN pathies and labors, and the signing Of
h5 bondmen in this Christian nation ascendt