Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-23
American Slavery.


That which is morally wrong eau never be polit-
ically right.-Chories James For.
We must try the character of Slavery, and
duty in regard TO it, as we should try any
other question of character and duty. To
Judge Justly Of the character of anything, we
must know what it does. INat tchich is
rood, does good and that ,chich is erii, eUii.
And as 10 duty, Gods designs indicate his
claims. That which accomplishes the man.
ifest design of God is right, that which coun-
teracts it wrong. Whatever, in its proper
tendency and general effect, produces, Sc
cures or extends human welfare is according
to the will of Gcd, and is good and our du-
" is 10 favor and promote, according 10 our
power, that which God favors and promotes
by the general law of his providence. On
the other hand, whatever, in its proper ten
dency and general effect destroys, abridges,
or renders insecure human welfare, is oppo-
sed 10 Gods will, and is evil. Aaj as what
ever accords with the will of God, in any
manifestation of it, should be lone and per-
sisted in, SO whatever opposes that will should
not be done, and, if done, should be abandon
ed.
Can that, then, be right, be well-doing-
can that obey Gods behest which makes a
MAN a SLAVE (which dooms him and all his
posterity, in limitless generations, to bondage!
to unrequited toll, through life Ito the
will of a despot. with no purpose of his own,
and only another's to rule his destiny from
the cradle to the grave?-which makes fear
the great motive of his life (which foTbids
his interest in property, of every kind, ma
king the hope of tomorrow no object OF to-
day, or, if an object at all, one that the fear
of another's arbitrary and capricious will
..oIo. nov 10 popa1 ubioh alInwc him mn
country in whose government he can hope
for protec,ion-none whose government, as
iudicially construed, is not his sworn foe 3
which denies him, in childhood, manhood
and old age, a voluntary home, and whatev-
er that full word imports (which cuts him
off from parentage at his birth (which robs
him of the fixed necessities Of his social ma
ture, abrogating domestic relations, and for
bidding the comfort and solace OF wife or
children, whatever may betide him in this
rugged world (which makes the body liza
BILE, without distinction of sex, TO the resist
less, questionless inflic lions of a masters or
an oyerseer's whims and cultivated passionsl
which furnishes the soul, seeking 10 keep
the mind ever vacant of its proper nourish-
ment, and to hold its unnamed possessor
but a step, the shortest possible from the
brute (which takes from him the common
est motives to virtue, and Tears on the whole
foundation Of his nature urgent and lasting
incentives TO vice (which makes him sus-
pected by, and suspicious of, those for whom
he is daily driven TO toll, and on whom, for
his coarse allowance of provender, he every
day depends (which tempts him to prowl-
ing stealth, and TO pilfer, as a virtue when
moi detected, from his masters store, the
earnings of his own unpaid toil!-which in.
cites him to acquire the longed-for boon OF
freedom by venturing through merciless
dangers, or to vindicate his night 10 IL by the
broadcast seal of blood (which represses the
upward aspirings of his nature for immorlali-
~, making a sensual world the sphere and
boundary Of his vision (which keeps from
his hands the Word of Life, yields to him a
reluctant, uncertain, unspiritual sabbath, and
all but wholly leaves him without hope AND
without Joy in the world! -
Can that ruined empty condition, or lht