Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-08
SALEM. OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE s., 1919.

hediu OF us Oelng given 10 the colored man
on the banks of the Ganges; he knew it had
been translated into the dialect Of the Cape
OF food Hope; he knew Of its being distrib-
uted very literally over the Eastern and
Western cIimes, and he supposed there could
he no danger in giving it to one who was
born on American soil, who boosted even of
American blo'd, and who was only a colored
man. The fellow never found out his error
until he was a~rraigned before the municipal
Court Of New Orleans. and he pleaded the
mistake Of ignorance. Poor man he did not
know what an Americans duty was he
fondly imagined that duty knew no cline
But he found that there was a longitudinal
and a latitudinal duty-that duty North and
duty South, duty at Liverpool, and duty at
New Orleans, were very distinct matters.-
Well, the Judge, in giving his decision upon
the question, and in dismissing the poor
man, added "you will find, my friend, if it
ever comes 10 the issue, that there are Do
nestle Institutions here which we value more
than the Gospel"
Now you will say to me, perhaps, that
this was an exaggerated statement, and |
ought not TO take il as any evidence Of public
sentiment. ! would not do so, 10 its full eX-
tent; but, at the same time, how degraded
must be the public sentiment of this country,
when a man in a judicial station can be so
utterly misguided rs 10 run to that length in
the community TO which he belongs.
have deviatPd, however, from the line of
remark with which | commenced. to notice
that a politician can do as much as a clergy
man.
We attack the church because we have
found ii thus leagued with American Slave
ry and so it is with the State. We are
charged with eXaggeration and fanaticism.-
Mo-; we are only practical men, and make
use of practical means. To our minds. the
great mass OF the public need not be address,
ed in The severity of logic. They will not
stay TO understand it. The Bible breaches
truth so plain that :" he that runneth may
read" We would preach it also: we would
not descend, except to those who need it, in
TO all the strictness Of argument. We intend
10 live Anli-S!avery, that the people, by an
example Of Anti.Slavery life, may be convin-
ced that there is truth, and be disposed to in
quire into it and practice upon it. We are
convinced Of the ialseness of the political life
Of this country, and we will not condescend
to argue that "a man is a man. 1t is not me-
cessary to argue it; it is granted it is an ak.
om-too plain TO be made palmer.
But there is a way TO practice our senti-
ments. where the muItitudes are addressed
through the eyes, not through the ears. The
Anti-Slavery cause undertakes so to address
them. For example, the public here at the
North denies that the colured man is the
equal Of The white, i. affects TO doubt whelh.
er he is capable of, and therefore entitled to,
freedom. 1t affects to doubt whether he can
speak and reason, or guide aud conduct his
own affairs. Well, the Aboliiionist disddins
10 90 into an argument with the community.
whether a man is a monkey, and this Society
says, SO wide as its little bosom extends, here
is d shelter for the cOlored man an for the
slave, no matter what he the Institutions that
degra.e him. God made those institutions,
did He! Man made them all. 1t, therefore,
iramples them beneath lis feet for The sake O.
the slave, for God made him. (Applause.)
It opens, therefore, its arms TO the fugitive
slave, and to the free Colorcd man, and says,
"come out before this people," and Freder-
lex Douglass starts into being, the proof that
the coloTed man can speak and reason, can
guide and take care Of himself. And have
we not proof better than all argument by
%trampllng under foot the prrjudices of the A.
merican people, by trampllng under foot the
laws Of the community in which We live =
Have we not proof better than by ages Of ar
gUment that the colored race is competent 10
take care OF itself, when w have opened an
avenue through which they are able TO reach
the Northern mind, TO appear before The
Northern people and arraign their oPpressors
70 answer the charges OF their " wrongs !
Now our plan of reform is this: We
wodld not seek 10 disguise the truth neither
in lis length nor breadth; but, fellow-citiZens,
we intend TO tramp'e under foot the laws OF
this community, and we call upon you to 90
likewise. We confess that we intend 10
trdmple under foot the Constitution of this
country; we call upon you TO do likewise
Shall | tell you why : You can never make
a revolution in this matter until you make
the common sense and the conscipnceS Of the
people superior to their statute book until
you arraign against the despotism Of the ma
loTily the conscientious convictions Of The mi
noriiy, whatever il be. Our Society rests
like a pyramid on It's broadcast basis. In the
Old World conflicting classes are j%oslling
and clashing against each other like mighty
vessels in a storm. And there, perhaps, you
may strike out in the condition of That b )dy
a new form of things, a new national spirit,
Tor a night II not IN permanency. But here
it is far Otherwise. Here the national will
speaks and is obeyed through the ballot
box, through the newspaper, through the STU
premacy Of the majority, the national will is
dominant the majority rules and revolution
is impossible, because the moment the tide
reaches high enough for a revolution 10 be
possible, it ceases to be a revolution and be-
comes law. There is no way Of addressing
this majority, then, except by an appeal
against the statute TO the conscienccs of the
~people-by an appeal against the law to the
better principles Of those that see its faults.
For example. There is a law on the sta
tute book that bids you return the fugitive
slave TO his master. Every man feels it to
be wrong, and shrinks from carrying it into
execution. Sill that devil of the American
character-if there is no other,-compromise,
that devil 10 which has been sacrificed the
morality, the logic, the literature and the in
tellecl Of the American people, obstructs our
wau An AmnLican L. one mhn nern1 hLLn-