Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-09
VOL. 3.---N0. d..

OF The Church, and to endeavur, by bringing
bible texts, to oppose them to others, in or
der to prove that Il man had no right to hold
his fellow being as a slave. What has re-
shifted from their labors ! Look at the law
Of progress in This particular read this APP
peal Of the women Of Scotland to the women
Of America (arplause;) see what they there
say with regard TO going to the bible to CHIN
authority for holding human beings in bond
aye. 1t is not sufficient now TO quote the
example of the ancienls, on which modern
Shareholders claim the right to Cypress their
fellow-beings, and that to an extent greatly
transcending slaveholdIng in ancient times.
But time is no longer occupied by Aboll-
iionistS in meeting the ministers in this way.
The labOrs of these few pioneers have been
sufficient to awake the nation to the consl-
deration OF this subject, and there is a re-
spouse in the hearts Of those who have not
been blinded by their s%ec,arian prejudices.
by the tradition they have received, or by
the god of this world which blinds the eyes
of them that believe not. These have
q heard the truth. and having received it, glad
ly come forward and in their inmost heart
there is "A response TO the truth rs it was once
uttered by a speaker Of the House Of Assem-
bly, in Barbados: that "eyery man knows
III MS utdIl lNdL sldNtiOltlllU Is NIpIlns -
1t was needed that som should first come
forth thus armed and give their views to the
people and may not the pioneer in this
cause Of immediate abolition, Cunning to-
wards Mr.. GarriSon.) who trod the wine
press alone in the beginning of this work,
say in the language of the prophet, d" with
my staff | passed over this Jordan; and now
| have become two bands" Look around
Won oypr the pCuntry and Cpp NIhpthpr he
spoke in vain, when he declared that he
'couM be heard. (Great applause.) Observe
the progress in the labors OF this reform, that
both the pulpit and the press are enlisted to
some extent in behalf Of the Suffering and
the dumb. Also, as has been already re-
marked in the Legislative halls of the land.
The National Assembly is engaged with il.
Scarcely a Legislature in the several States
but discovers at every move on the great
question of American Slavery, something
cheering to the Abolitionist. Even though
the slaves are Increasing In numbers. even
though their territory is being enlarged at
every circle, yet, when we look abroad and
see what is now being done in other lands,
when we see human freedom engaging the
attention of the nations of the earth, we may
take courage and while we perceived how
it is assaulted in our own land, still we know
how impossible it will be to separate it from
the question of the freedom of the slave, il
that it is inseparably connected with it il
France, and Is beginning to be's in Other
countries.
Have we not evidence Of progress even in
our W country on the subject! A large
public meeting was called the other day to
hail the events of France. Mark the differ
ence in this from former meetings. Why it
was scarcely ten years since Pennsylvania
Hall was burned by a mob, because the lib
erty of the colored man was advocated by
white and colored people intermingled.-
What are now the facts with regard to this
large meeting in the great public square in
the same city Not only were the move
ments in regard 10 Freedom in the French
colonies hailed by the white people present,
but the colored people also came forward and
were helped onward they had their stand
also: and was it confined to themselves
alone! Nc, ii was an anGLgamaiiOn meeting
(Great appIause.) Was 1t by privilege, as
women sometimes have the privilege to hold
a kind of play meeting! (~Laugh,er.) No
the white people of that large gathering lief
their own speakers, to 20 among the colored
, crowd, and hear their speaker.
Look at the condition Of the colored PEG.
pie in respect to the ridicule which was onct
heaped upon them. WHO are they now whC
ridicule us, because colored people are min
t uled in this meeting! 1t is those who's,
/, ridicule is the scoTn Of the intelligent anC
, wise of the nation. (Applause.) Now VI
. find the coIored people coming forth in in
lelligenca, in moral worth, with increasing
: selfrespect, and are respected by their whit,
= brethren we see them stand side by sid,
, with those who have thus cruelty treated
oppressed, and trodden them down.
= These, then, are the evidences of progress
= Let the Abolitionist, who should be as Tn,
= Jesus of the present age on the Mount LioI
of Freedom, continue to say You hav
/ heard that it was said by them of old, thol
shalt treat thy slaves kindly, thou shalt pre-
o pare them for freedom at a future day but
say unto You hold 10 slaves at all, proclaim
liberty now throughout the land to all III
!, inhabitants thereof" Let this be the lou.
o sounding Jubilee that shall be uttered. lie
d us no longer be blinded by the dim theologl
g that only in the faT-Seeing vision discovers
Q millennium, when violence shall be no NOR
: heard in the land-wasting nor destruction
e in her borders; but let us behold it now
,. nigh at the dooI-lending faith and conf
deuce to our hopes, assuring US that even W
d ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaim
+, ing liberty to the captive. Bu, let there b
increasing activity on the part Of Abolition
a lists; they must not cease their labors an
= fold their hands, thinking their work done
because they have effected so much the
must not be satisfied with coming TO thes
q anniversary meetings, they must continue I
e work at home. 1t is the righteous that hold
v on his way, it is those who arc faithful I
n the light who obtain more light; " he that
J. faithful in a little, shall be made ruler owe
more but ii the light that is in you b
darkness, how great is that darkness" ~
lr Have we not some apostates in the Gauss
1t who give evidence of the truth of this Al
/ there not some of whom it may be said, I"
a. were better they had never known the wa
y of righteousness, than that they should hay