Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-01-05
The Progress of Anti Slavery Truth.

The following is an extract from an article
on the Free Soil movement, published in the
Massachusetts Quarterly Review" for last
month.
One thing must be said Of the leaders Of
The Anti.Slavery movement; they asked for
nothing hut Justice not Justice for them
selves-they were not Socraiic enough 10 ask
ihat-but only Justice for the slave, and 10
o1taln that they torsook all that human hearts
most love. 1t is rather a cheap courage
which fought at Monterey and PaIo Alto
a bravery that can be bought for ten dol.
lars a month the patriotism Which huzzas
fer 4" our side" which makes speeches at Fa.
neuil Hall, nay, which carries torch LIGHTS in
procession, is not the very loftiest kind Of
patriotism even the man who stands up 10
the stake, and in one brief hour OF agony an
ticipaies the long torment Of disease, does not
endure The hardest but only the most obvious
kind Of marty rdom. But when a man for
conscience sake leaves a calling that would
ensure him bread and responsibility, when
he abjures The opinions which give him tho
esteem Of honorable men when for the sake
of Truth and Justice he devoles himself 10
iiberating the most abused and despised class
Of men, solely because they are men and bro.
lIGIbs VIII HO mus SItHo OiN III .OUl VI
the world and encounters poverty and neglect,
the scorn, the loatilng, and the contempt of
Enankind-why there is something not very
common in that. There vas once a man
who had not where to lay his head, who was
born in AN obscure hole" and had not even
a negro boy for his "auxiliary = who all his
life lived with most obscure persons-eating
and drinking with publicans ard sinners ;
who found no favor with mayors and govern
ors, and yet has had some influence on the
history OF the world. When intelligent men
mock at small beginnings, it is surprising
they cannot remember The greatest %institu-
tions have had their times which tried mems
souls, and that they who have done all the
noblest and best work Of mankind, sometimes
forgot selEinierest in looking at Il great Truth,
and though they had not always a negro boy
10 help them or an obscure hole 10 lay their
heads in, yet found the might Of the universe
was on the side of Right, and themselves
Workers with God
The Abolilionists did not aim TO found a
political party; they set forth an idea. IL
they had set up the interest Of the Wings or
Democrats, the manufacturers or merchants,
they might have formed a party aud had a
high place in II, with money, ease, social
rank and a great Rame-in the party newspa-
pers. Some of them had political talents,
aS "ol0 ,'u ,nTus"' VIC f'"1' vi "s""-
IA'ng uen' ',e sNlll 70 Menaee une", ana a
Een'us . e'oineuue su0n .a'en.s "
politics and in the Truth.
" Poi'II"' Parly tHeIe Is no heeu
~ siea' u'r". iue'' "e "n'g parry mas
mad none :" 'A's io"s III : ~ Oe"'ooIa'c
parry Pretehus 10 none a"u vi "'"e'
each represents an interest which can be es-
,'ma'ed III dol'arS; nei,her seems 10 see that
oehihd qnes'tohs OF poiincai economy mere
IS a qhesuoh ot po','ca' mor''lty' ana The
welfare OF .ne nanon depends on the answer
we sha,, g.Ve. 90 '1hg as me Apoi''lonlS's
mac n''''hg out an iuea ano out lew men
haa ma'' there was no inoucement Tor The
common 70" OF p.oIiticians to JOIN Them they
oou'u mas np'nt"g py $50 n0,nin@ OF IT.,
ne ""a,nlans o. hnuca'oh' me 'fusiees OF
.ne rpPui'' i'e"S'on' u,1 no' IKE !" invest
III s"en '"nus. nut SUI. '"s iura weh' on'
eP'te " 'ne "hos' en''Ie' 'he most o'"er, me
"'oS' neai' " ""'e1n.'ng opposition
ever kh'w" IN amei,c'' mo me.i Wee ev-
81 "d.eu d j." A"oi'''""'S's' pollucai parties
nave Jo'neu 70 uesP!re aUa sertarian church
's 20 curse mem ct the Idea has gone on,
VII now az !Hal IS most pious In the secls,
ms. p'u'o'c ~ 'hs Pafnes.' all That Is most
Ch'is"dn III pn''dhuh'"Py' Is on lis side. 1t
mas some representative In almost every FAM.
~, save mere ana There one whose god is
Mahhoh a'onp' where The parents are ante
oiuV'ah ana ihe Children born old and con-
serva',Ve' win no faculty but memory to
oind mem 10 mankind. IL has lis spokes-
men IN me House and the SENATE. The tide
rises ana sweiis, and The compact wall OF the
wing party Inc tall ramparIs Of the Demo-
cra's' are beginning 10 ''cave in"
AS The Idea has gained ground men have
begun to see that an Interest was connected
WIN II. and begun TO look after that. One
thing the North knows well-the art of cal
culation' and OF cyphering. So it begins to
ask questions as TO the positive and comnara.