Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-01


character we must mince our words and Gull
our rhetoric and cha stem our spirits, and the
cooings of the gentlest sucking dove must he
our utterance, and not the shrieks and walls
that come up from every southern plantation.
How dainty are the peoples ears. Wher
William Brown tells you of his brothers and
sisters in bondage, and that he will carry Ia
the grave the impress Of the slave drivers
whip, you ask him to Gull his rhetoric and
+speak TO you mildly. 1t is time the people
had ceased to pirate about denounciation.-
Let our words be the outpourings of our
hearts, and If we have no such words let us
be silent.
Much is said in the report about the re-.
cent free soil movement in the slaveholding
states, and | fear that more importance is al
tached to it than it really deserves. Though
| look upon it as enc of the natural results oil
the anti-slavery enterprise. do not consid.
er it an anti-slavery instrumentality.
have seen the anti slavery principle ia
six trials but we were never in more ieo.
pardy than now.
| feared not when the pillows of persecu.
ton and the storms Of violence beat againsl
it, for | knew that it stood like a rock in
mid ocean, around and against which the
pillows of ages have been dashing in fury,
and from which they retire bafled and spent,
but now, when the sunshine greets it with its
smiles, there is reason !or fear. The ami.
slavery agitation is gradually changing, and
this free soil movement is one of the most
important developments; but if we are ground.
ed on the rock Of ages, if we hold In oul
hands the only certain sovereign remedy Of the
evil, we will not regard this movement as
auxiliary. This party processes TO be op.
posed only to the extension of slavery
1t pledges its support of the compromises oil
the constitution, and acknowledge its ale
glance to this nation. This nation has prov,
ed itselfa nation of pirates. By the treaty
of 1914, it stigmatizes the foreign slave.
trade as piracy, and still it maintains the do.
mestic slave trade. Which is the worst to
transport the degraded and uncivilized inhab,
itants of Congo to our shores, or to sell tht
children of our own land, to baptize with
their tears and blood the soil which they i'll
by day, and to pander to the damned lust o
the master or overseer by night. And thi'
party has gathered some of the political ele
ments around it, not for the arrest of thit
most unmitigated curse that ever scourget
our race, but only to set limits beyond which
it shall not 90. | know there are many hon
est men engaged in this movement. Goo
forbid that | should say anything to repres'
the rising tendencies Of the age. If the,
break out in the free soil agitation, let then
come. If that is to be the abscess by which
the publication of that system where now i
moral depravity, and bring forth life wher
now is death. let-it be so.
There is a total destitntion of moral prin
ciple in this country. Nothing is done be
cause it is right, or left undone because it il
wrong. 1t is right TO steal, to make slave
to kill, if it is only done according to rule.
In fact it is almost the only ground of elig
Utility 10 office, whether you want to get int
the penitentiary or the presidential chair
1t constitutes a claim to church-fellowship
for while the churches expel an abolitionist
they admit a STAKEHOLDER to the communion
table, or into the pulpit. There is no concience
no moral distinction in the community. If
kill a man who has wronged me, | am hune
for it, if, in obedience to the orders of Jane:
X. Polk, | 90 to Monterey and kill those
who never did anything but love me, | an
rewarded with The highest honors.
There is no real regard for the Sabbath
Why if you will look at the almanac. you
will find that most of the battles fought in
Mexico were fought on that day. Wher
Gen. Taylor returned, the military of New
Orleans were ordered out TO receive him,
though it was Sunday. But if we deliver
anti-slavery lectures on that day, the church
denounces us as Sabbath breakers.
say again, this nation has no conscience
and what the anti-slavery movement is to dc
is to create this conscience, though in the
language of the poet, it is, 10 " create a sou.
beneath the ribs of death. But there is a
little band who maintain their principles tc
the death. You know not what you ask, wher
you ask them to leave the stand they have
taken. You had better take your shoes from
your feet and ZONE and stand with them
If there if salvation for this land, it will BIZ
through the instrumentality of this band.
which stand firm amidst the yielding, faith
full amidst the faithless, undaunted amids
an age of cowardice, uncorrupted where con
cience sleeps forever. There may be some
who cannot penetrate the veil spread before
the face of the Omnipotent, who are saying
as did the prophet of old, 1t is better 70
me to die than to live " but let them b,
scheered as was the prophet, by the words
80 Fear not-for | have reserved to mysel
seven thousand who have not bowed tn,
knee to Baal, nor kissed his image"
hope we shall pledge ourselves anew
calling upon Him in whom is our strength
and with our hearts full Of love for the slave
let us devote ourselves to the cause of bleed
ing humanity, never to relax our e%xertioni
until victory shall crown our efforts, or dealt
shall release us from them.