Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-02


tanning the paper. Pay the old score, and
then add another dollar for the present or
next volumn, before you even dream that
you are sustaining 1t. You are only injuring
it. And don't think of preaching to the
STAKEHOLDER to do right, when you won't do
so yourself.
But if you are both a subscriber and payer,
then the next question is, have you done all
you could to get others to subscribe? All,
that begins to look like work Yes, it does,
that's certain; but then you were made to
work, and you are not an abolitionist unless
you do work. And then, too, the Slave has
10 work harder, SO if you love him as your
self, you'll not make that an objection l.
Don't think you can't get any body to sub
scribe, you can. Have a little faith. Just
try, and you will have faith. 1t will be
turned into sight before you know it. And
if when you appeal to your neighbors, they
have not the money by them, lend it 10 them;
and if they are never going TO have it, take
grain or Store pay, in return. | will war
rant you there are ways enough, if you are
only in earnest. Where there's a will,
there's a way" Merely place yourself in
the condition of the slave, and be fully de-
termined that the Bugle shall be sustained to
free him, and you'll get subscribers. If you
do not find it so on trial, write me down a
false prophet.
But if you ask some who are SO poor they
can't pay, subscribe for them, pay yourself,
and give them The paper, or if you know of
any one in particular who ought TO take it,
but will not, send it 10 him in the same way.
Do not think this hard, for 1t is not; on the
contrary, it is an absolute hrury. What is
money good for, only TO use in this very
wayl 1t ought to be a self denial TO you
not TO use it SO. But if after all you think it
hard, is IL as hard as slarery? Then blush
you could SO far have forgotten the bondman,
as to count it a task to part with two or three
bankbills for the sake Of striking off his
bonds!
But if you have done all these things, to
the extent of your ability, then don't let that
word file have a place in your dictionary
Don't try to keep one. DON'T think of such
a thing. Loan your papers 10 your neigh
bors to read give them away keep them
going /; scatter them in all directions, and
with them, " fire brands, arrows, and death"
-frebrands of agitation, arrows to the heart
of some pro-slavery man, and death to the
Moloch Of southern oppression. Make a real
business Of it,.
Here then, is work for you. For you, to
whichever class Of individuals | have adj
dressed, you belong. And, Brother, it is
work that must be done. You must not fail
to do it. There's no such word as fail"
Don't think because | have written this arti-
Gle in SO light a strain, that therefore the
duty which press upon you, is either not
duty, or else not important. 1t is both.-
And you've said that you would consider it
so, if you were the slave. Then think of
the miserable victims in the far South who
are killed off in whole gangs every seven
years. Think of those rational creatures Of
| NOus W uO III u WIN iOul lOONtu uGuolo
and creeping things by the million. Think
of those as good as you, sold on the auction
block along with tallow candles by the pound.
Think of woman in the Southland, compel
led to live a life Of concubinage and %proslitu-
ton. Think, o think of all these unuttera-
BILE horrors, and then say if you will not 90
this work. BY your love for yourself, by
your own yearnigly desires to be happy, by
all your hopes of meTcy-Ic %onjure you, deny
not the slave so small a boon as this little
effort. And this is to you. Thou art the
man! And Ow, is the time!
JOSEPH TREAT.
p. S. Local Agents, and indeed all abo-
litionists, ought to be particularly active in
procuring subscribers, Immediately after
Lecturers have been in their vicinities.-
When the people have just heard the system
of slavery exposed, and their own duty in
regard to it pointed out, they will be far more
ready 10 subscribe than at any other time,
and the local agent by going around to their
houses, can obtain the names of many who
would not sign in the public meeting, and
whom the lecturer could not go and see.-
And wherever there are three or four aboli-
'ionists in one neighborhood, they ought to
club together and among them take Garrison's
Liberator, or the National Anti-Slavery STAN
dard, or Douglass North Star, in addition to
their individually taking the Bugle. In this
way, and at a trifing expense, they may all
read a number Of papers. Ut.