Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-24


Calcutta, but il does not make them az init
mate with US as Charlelton and New Orlean
are. Run up the old pine tree flag Of Mas
sachuselts-leave to South Carolina The bloc
dy stripes-and you shall find Charleston
thousand miles further oil, in hedrl-measUre
than il is now-almost as distant as Rio ia
metro.
Where lies the greatest danger TO the
cause of temperament Is il in the Ioathsome
GROCERY or the splendid hotel! To strike
down the gtoggery and leave the hotel, would
do no good.
10 strike down sin, as exhibited in the
more ildgrani system of clattelism, while the
various and more eniicing forms leading to
the same result are left to grow and spread
and ripen, would be equally futile
or course, in the splendid hotel. We sup
pose our correspondent means TO likcn Dis
union TO getting nd of the groggery, and con-
siders church and trade, not to say a govern
ment Of force, the great sinners. Well, for
the present, suppose he is right in the rela-
tive importance he ascribes TO each does he
mean to say that the Liberator and its cores
dents, while striking down The groggery.'
leave the hotcl'l While rebuking The poll
tician, have we forgotten the corrupt priest,
or spared the merchant 7 While striking
down chattelism,' have zoe 'left the various
aud more enticing forms leading to the same
result TO grow and ripen'l Does he expect
us to rebuke all possible sins in the same
breath
We have never asserted that the Constitu-
ton was the only bulwark of slavery but
surely it helps to hold up the pile. There
are many ways OF abolishiog slavery, but
Dlsunion seems to us one Of the readiest and
most efficient. At any rate, dissolving our
personal relations with the government ia the
course which common sense dictates 10 eve
~ honest man. If one who has done thus
much to weaken slavery continues TO sustain
it in other ways, let Mr.. Paine advise him
TO press on TO periection-but do not blame
him for what he has already done.
Otller measures beside Di,union, beside
the abolition Of slavery, may be necessary be-
fore we can get rid Of all the evils that az
flict society. But who would argue hence
that the abolition of slavery was not a good
thing ! Bathing will not secure health, un-
less a man sleeps and digests well; but is
bathing not healthy
Our correspondent seems 10 think that the
course of reform is to establish a radical prin-
eipl-, and let it gradually undermine %insiiiu-
lions. This is true, but not the whsle truth.
The means usually employed by God 10 car
~ a principle from the head TO the heart of
a people seem TO be these. Ardent minds,
struck with the inconsistency between ad-
United truths and national institutions, cry
cut in loud rcbuke. The mass Of men, inca
pable Of abstract reasoning, and paying lit
tie attention 10 any thing they cannot see and
handle, become Interested in the struggle
thus passing before their eyes. Error is EN-
bodied in an instltuti0n-truth in some Lu-
ther or Garrison. The dullest are roused.-
This is all that is needed. Men seldom want
light, IT is heat, sympathy, in
teTest, they need. Warmed by the contest,
the heart has leaped instincrvely to lis con-
clusion, before the reused intellect records
lis verdict. This nation has long been intel
kecfHGUy convinced that all men are equal.--
Events have put the tombstone on the MI
tlonal heart, in the shape Of the anii-slavery
cause, TO try whether this conviction is felt.
We obey the leading of Providence in hold
ing the national conscience close 10 the nnti-
slavery question. For that, the man has
come and the hour. In due time the high
iable-land of emancipation will open the ma
tons eyes TO new duties beyond. The six
leenth and seventeeth centuries argued out
on baltle-iields and parchment the question
OF religious liberty. The eighteenth did the
same work fer civil liberty. The first mis-
sion Of this generation seems TO be the rom
pletc abolition Of personal slavery. Thus
each effort has smoothed the way for the
next. 1t is vain TO find fault with The orders
Of Providence-'for The earth bringeih forth
fruit of herself, first the blade, then the ear,
after that The full corn in Ae ear Truth
seems an epidemic, as well as cholera or tho
potato rot. The discipline of the Tempe
rance and Anli-Sluvery causes will doubtless
furnish veteran soldiers, and educate the pub
lie mind, for those deeper social questions
which seem to trouble the otherwise clear
vision oil our friend. w. p.