Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-09
ANTI-sLAVERY BUGLE, SALEM, o.


least, keep myself innocent before
When this answer was reported
Hartley, he left the house angrily,
and at once, for Edith did not qualify
one of Amy's words. He repaired, how
TO the house Of a friend, o few miles
off, from whence he rode ove as often
as twice o week, for more than a month,
and continued TO annoy Edith with en-
treaties for her interference, and repeat
ed offers of purchase. The light left
Edith's eye, the color left her cheek,
and even 10 her husbands caresses she
gave but a languid response. Not only
did the whole subject distress her, but 10
be besought on such a subject, by one un-
ill lately a stranger, was q perpetual
wound TO her delicacy. She felt herself
losing ground in her self-respect.-
Her husband regarded it as a Dissertation,
and repeatedly asked whether her own
life was to be worn out in defence Of A.
my. Alas the hour was fast approach
ing when Edith was to prove that the
love of God, in her heart, was a vain
pretence, since its first fruit was not the
love of man,-that her service, rendered
to the Father of All, could scarce have
been accepted, since it was not offered in
that spirit which recognizes first, the
Brotherhood Of All. She avoided Amy,
and with Hartley at her feet, protesting
his honorable intentions, promising mar
riage itself if she desired it with her
husband at her side, for the first time
bending on her an angry frown,-Edith
yielded, and with a trembling hand,
wrote a dishonored name beneath the
Deed of Transfer.
Christian men and women of America,
can you believe this? Can you believe
that a young and tender girl, with an in
FAINT at her bosom, with what she believ-
ed to be some sense of gratitude TO God
in her heart, reared withal in gentle con-
dition, and recently risen from a sick
bed, could thus doom a fellow-creature
to a certain life Of infamy? When you
have read those moving words of Thorn
as Hood,-claiming for the unfortunate,
a place in your s%ympa,bies,
Owning her weakness,
Her evil behaviour,
And leaving with meekness,
Her sins to her Savior,
has it moi seemed to you an impossible
thing, that one of these tender hearted
women, who have been farther protect
ed by circumstances than the force O
their w virtue, should pass by such
penitent, or refuse to press a kiss of sa.
cred pity, the pledge of sisterly help
upon her agonized forehead
You have thought but little, even or
this subject-your delicacy has shrunk
from it,-but what think you of giving
up the innocent to guilt, Of setting your
own human hand TO an instrument which
shall bind one, truthful and afectionate
to the service Of sin d? Can you'll dowr
at night, praying, "Lead us not into
tempta,ion," and remember without f;
pang, with what temptations she wa
thus hedged in7 The case which hav'
stated, is no exception 10 the common
rule, except in the degree of patienc
and attention bestowed on it. Hundred
of such cases occur every year, withou
even the pretence of regard for the vic
tim here evinced. No questions ar
asked of the slave. She is supposed t
be incapable of womanly feeling, and a
though both parties understand to what
fate her transfer will lead, neither has
|, conscience in the matter. Read hi
calmly, and if you afterward turn shrink
, ing from the record of the legalized Il
= centiousness Of France and Spain, let tn
whole world witness your hypocrisy
=, Edith was like Plate. Questions of hu
I man right, she little understood but sh
e desired, like him, to wash her hands {
n the whole matter. Unable to do tina
g she had not courage to listen 10 the deer
est voice in her soul. She believed thu
she could not forget Amy-but when he
4 infant persisted of q disease contracte
through the carelessness of its nurse
when her husband, high-minded and gen
erous as she had thought him, was redu
. ced to intemperance and vice, Their
doubtless crept into her heart a faint sus
- picion, that not without some pwovidenc
!, of God, some discipline pregnant with re
suits, and conceived in the Infinite Cour
h ellis, were these things brought about
;, All intercourse ceased between the fam
" lies of Ainslie and Hartley. For man
. months, no tidings reached the forme
concerning the lost f~avorite +; but at las
: a newspaper paragraph, in describing
lot of ''fancy slaves,' offered in the Nc
bile market, spoke Of a terrible suicid
that had occurred among them, a suicid
n committed by the youngest and fairest {
" them all, who feared the judgment {
n God upon this act of her ignorant b.
"a guiltless hand. less than the lender me
N cies of those who regard neither law nc
" Gospel. 1t needed not the name of Am,
h which followed this announcement
ri confirm to the miserable Edith the test
r. mony other W heart.
f. Christian men and women of Americ;
i. during the last three years I hovo -,