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

sanctifies and l~egalizes the system Of chat
1t is true, that many presses in the
North admit more or less upon the subject OF
slavery, but how many among them all will
open their columns to a full and free discus
sion Of anti-slavery principles and measures,
and permit them to be used as a means 10y
which to keep constantly before the people
the doctrine of 4" No union with slavehold-
ers"? There are but few, if any such.
The cause of Freedom has not advanced
so far that the services of the Anti-Slavery
Press can be dispensed with, and they who
think otherwise are greatly mistaken. We
doubt not there are tens of thousands in the
North who never even heard of the doctrine
Of Immediate Emancipation, 10 say nothing
Of the views of Disunionists There are
places as dark and benighted now as any that
could be found twenty years since, and if
they ever become enlightened in relation 10
the character and effects Of slavery, and the
proper means for its abolition, it must be done
by the Anti Slavery Press and the Anti
Slavery Lecturer. Abolitionists should not
be willing to furl the banner of the Reform
host, because they see alta respectable distance
the standards of Sect and Party borne slowly
on. 1t is the constant presence and progress
Of the first, which, by the magnetic power
that Truth has given it, influences the others
to advance. And it seems 10 US the part of
wisdom, and a course required by principle,
to maintain, in prosperity and adversely, a
point and a standard where abolitionists may
ever rally. The children of this world are
wiser in their generation than the children Of
light. When the members of a Sect or of a
Party have brought community partially to
adopt their principles, they see in this fact a
reason for retaining, and continuing TO use
the weapons by which they have won so
much; and never dream, that because the
battle is half gained, they should furl their
banner and dispense with their organized
mode Of action.
The discontinuance of the Anti-Slavery
Press would at once incite the opposers of
Freedom to a more vigorous action in behalf
of the Pairiarchal Institution; and many
journals which are now strongly t%inctured
with anti-slavery, would either lose their
support, and consequently their efficiency,
and ultimately their existence, or else go
back to feed upon the beggarly elements of
pro-slavery patronage. So that, if il be de-
sirable to have papers which are cOmpara-
tiUeiy anti-slavery, it is necessary that aboli-
~tionists should sustain those which are poSi-
fiUeLy and SuperLatiUely so. The latter have
been, and must be, the pioneers in the great
work before us; they precede the main body
clear away the obstacles in the path Of Free
dom, and must not cease their labors until the
way of the slaves deliverance is opened, and
the captive walks forth unfettered and a man,
But it has been suggested by some lha,
community is now prepared for general re-
form papers to supersede those which are
specially devoted to som branch Of human
progress; and we have been censured for no
advocating the various means proposed by
different organizations for the anelioration o
the condition of man, and the elevation of tht
human race. We do not believe community
is so FAR advanced as 10 render such a move
ment practicable, even were it desirable.-
There are quite a number of Abolitionists il
the West, and quite a number of Non-Re
s~istants, and quite a number of Temperate,
men, and quite a number of Anti-Sabbatari
ans, and quite a number of National Re
} formers; but if the Bugle should becomI
what a few would like 10 have it, woul,
enough Abolition Non Resistant Temper
ance Anti Sabbitarian National Reformer
t step forward to sustain the paper? We troy
not, and should expect our subscription lis
to die off with the galloping consumption.
One man, who is an advocate of Peace
finds fault with us because we do not ope
our columns 10 the discussion of that ques
| ton; if we did, the war man who contrj
butes Of his means to have the Bugle preac
anti-slavery, might with reason complain c
a misapplication of the funds he had furnish
ed. Another urges us to advocate Nationa
Reform, while a fourth, who lays down hi
money to sustain the paper denounces thu
r scheme as a humbug. Som want the Sal
| bath question discussed, and some one thin
and some another, seeming to forg'
that the Bugle is the organ of an Ant
! Slavery Society, whose members differ
relation to all these other subjects, wit
: which, as Abolitionists, they have nothing
e do. If all the members of the Western Ant
e Slavery Society will unanimously agree
20 for or against Non-ResisIance, Temp
d rance, the Sabbath, and National Reform
and will make these subjects a legitima