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


liability to such ruin and vacuity, by srbitta-
ry power Of a fellow mortal, be right and
good-the manifest design of God in the for
nation and endowments of a MAN a being not
only mortal, but IMMoRTALl Can that be
right and good. be true to God and Just TO
man, which, for no crime against Heaven, no
offence to earth but the helpless, immoral CO.
lor OF the skin-perhaps an undisinguisha-
BILE and only presumed shade-dooms a sin
gle indiUtduGl of our species 10 such a COM
bination Of outrages on his being (which
takes even one brother Of our family TO lop and
scar, to kill and bury his manhood (which,
defacing the image wherein he was created,
sinks him as near brutality as can make him
that contradiction to nature, a profitable, con-
tented Slave, and then proves, by the depth
OF his forced degradation, his incapacity TO
be a man-his doom Of God 10 be a Slave4
And II such ruin, or the exposure 10 such
ruin OF but one man, Of but one brother. is not
right, is displeasing TO God, then how wrong,
how offensive TO Heaven must be that sys-
TEN which so brushes millions of human be-
ings at once, and multiplies its millions of
victims along the track Of ages! What
words can tell the inhumanity, the ~atrocitv
Of that doctrine which, from exalted Office.
commends such a crime to the favor of Chris
tlan nations, as the deliberate counsel and
practical wisdom Of a great and enlightened
Christian Republic! What indignation from
all the world is not due to the government
that puts forth its strength to protect and en-
tend such hatbarity! Nature abhors it.; the
age rePels it; and Christianity needs all her
meekness 10 forgive it.
But he who makes man his victim, sacrif
ces himself. Our present subject cannot dis
r,NA. fIs- -
the character Of Slavery and the will of God
respecting il, beyond, as well as within, it,
self. If that which works evil to the Slave
works evil TO the master also, then are there
two witnesses cited by Providence to testify
against it and establish its delinqnency.-
Keeping in memory, then, the injury done TO
the Slave, let US now examine that which it
inficts on the master, and decide whether that
system accords with the will Of God which
works evil to all concerned.
Can, then, that system be good for him
who is concerned in it, and therefore be wise
ly allowed, cherished and enlarged, which,
giving nearly unlimited Irresponsible power
over a fellow man, body and soul, for life,
makes it necessary, for him who is so con-
cerned, to be educated TO its strenuous ne
c~essities, 10 its imperious use and stern eX-
cision Of sympathy (which, to maintain an
adverse relation and make it either profitable
or safe, compels him 10 exact by fear as its
handspring, would neither be done nor be-
gun !-Can that system, parcel or part, be
good for him who uses it, which c~oercing la.
Dor and taking away its proper stimulus,
makes it shiitless and thriftless. unprogres-
sive in its meagre skill, and without motive
or tendency 10 improvement by him who
yields his sweat for another's bread : Can
that system help him who relies upon l.,
which tends TO his W ~inaction from want
of motive TO effort, and which for the %securi.
ty Of Slavery by the degradation Of the Slave,
makes even the most needful industry dis
reputable except for a Slave, and thus offers
the tempting bounty of honor TO idleness =
Can that system be fraught with blessings,
or be less than a grlevous curse, TO its depen-
dent, which, while it abridges industry and
her rich rewards, nor less abridges mind, the
richest capital of man (which makes gen.
eral education so difficult as to be next 10
impossible and practically hopeless ?-which,
by the nigh impotence Of idleness and ig-
norance, seals up vast resources of nature,
stints the useful and the liberal arts, locks
up navigation and IN with the rigor
of a ceaseless blockade, and thus brands its
own forehead with the deep impress Of sin,
while perlinaciously unconscious Of the
guilt! Can that system ask the smile of
Heaven or man, which most unkindly frowns
on the very earth God made good for man !
that system which, in addition 10 the 9TH
er evil il does and the other good it both him
ders and destroys, settle down on a soil made
exuberant by ages of fertilization, and with
rapid zeal converts it TO a desolate waste,
compelling lis owner 10 forsake it for his
life, though, before Slavery had wrought it
sterile, it bloomed and teemed with the as
surance of perpetual plenty Can that full
fill the law Of God and claim the reward Of
well-doing, which, abrogating chastity in
the Slave, invites ~impurity in the master,
and records the fact in the faces of so many
Of his own progeny doomed for the mothers
skin 10 Slavery in all their generations q
Can that be Heavens gift and mans gain,
which not only binders property, but renders
every species of it insecure (which periIs
life, and most breeds danger where safety is
most coveted (which, when it lies down to
sleep on its lordly couch, invokes the pro-
lection of the pistol and the bowie knife q
which guards the city from midnight fire by
a military patrole and which makes one half
Of all the people safe, if safe at all, only by
keeping the one part armed and the other
weaponless, lest the impatient spirit of liber-
ty assert its fixed prerogative by the terrors
of indiscriminate slaughter l-Rer. George
allen.
The PEOPLE OF THE lsTHMUs.-A return.
ing traveller from Panama says: "The hon