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

death-storm that fell on Monterey, when
infancy and old age, the strong man and
the beautiful woman, the mother. the
matron, the Sister of Charity and vestal
virgin, all lay piled in sickening winrows
ofghastIy carnage, struck with lightning
and thunderbolts from the clouds and bat
teries of Zachery Taylor's artillery ..
could those winds but be commissioned
to hurl onward this bowling chorus Of
terror, and pour it in one focal burst up
on your ear, in the midst Of your mon
strous mirth, how would you stand fro
zen, p%etriied into living statues! And
yet, be IL khOvn unto you all, that from
his one field Of blood, this one drcary
desert, SoiCn aoiM uRnumbered cOrpSes,
all mangled and murdered al the bidding
of Siarery, did Zachary Taylor reap
that harvest Of renotcn, vhich has avail
ed TO elevate him TO The ~prORaeSt station
in the gift Of The american people -!
Such is the Divinity, whose praises
the women of Concord and the country
are required TO celebrate.
Need it be told you, that to all these
other enormities in The character of this
bloody idol ofthe people, must be added
that GROWING curse Of all, the guilt Of
0pRing. dririag and plundering u multi
tade OF StdreS, more than a HUNDRED OF
WHOM ARE WOMEN women as your
selves-wiih hearts tender as yours,
with souls as immortal, with loves as
pure; but whose hearts are broken, whose
souls are almost eXlinguished in endless
night, whose loves are trampled upon by
the iron heel of their master, heavier
r than the shodden hoof of his war-horse +!
And is such a man TO be praised and
worshipod by WOMEN, by Northern wo.
. men, young and old? Aman who carri-
/ eS lrOmen to mdrket--who makes havoc
: of marriage-who denies il altogether to
: three millions of the people Of this coun-
try in each successive go~neralion-who
countenances, if he does not carry on
that brokerage which consigns woman's
beauty and chastity, in shrinking, shud-
dering horror, 10 the arms of most dam
e ned lust In Gods most holy name,
+ are the women Of Concord sunk to
e this ?
Marius and Sylla, putrid with corrup-
Is ton and vice, had their female worship
Y, pers, even after Rome was rid of their
&c ~rottenness, and the world of so loalhsome
IF a burden. The Grecian Deities had
SIS their Bacchanies, their Thyades and
of Menades, priesresses of their disgusting
IT, worship. But this was before the angels
1e had sung the advent of Christianity, o
I'd the star OF Bethlehem had shined on lht
r. plains of Greece, or hills Of Rome.
r. Shall now the women of Concord il
New England, in almost the two thous
he and,h year Of grace, bow in alteration c
one in whom they look in vain for q sir
nts gle attribute of true greatness or re;
he goodness ?-whose only virtue is, thai b
his is brave in battle, like his own bloot
he hounds ?-and whose GROWING exec
on lence, in the opinion Of multitudes VIII
DIS sought him for the Presidency, was, thi
he he owned a hundred women, as good, i
ng their Creators eye, as you, all of whor
e. he robs of humanity, ond plunges ther
Id down to stable with his horses and ken
u mel with his hounds, as if they were nc
immortal as the angels, but beasts tha
ed perish
N, Women of Concord, God will hold yo
responsible, in a mighty degree, for thi
lat contemplated outrage on Virtue, as we
10 as Justice and Humanity. Your ow
he husbands and brothers will wonder thu
it you can yield to so unnatural "a demand
Ter as to celebrate the grandeur and glory {
US, a man, WhoSe crimes 1cere The seed {
he ahich his triNmphS are the harrcSL.-
Die Many of those who will attend would
mt proud ofwife or sister, who should spun
ell such worship with unurlerable execr,
sion.
sss Go now to your chambers Of secret r
lat tirement and meditation, and carry wi
mt you these lines of friendly entreaiy al
To- remonstrance. Spread them out bero
cd God and your own consciences. And
you bow your spirits in the presence
,rd only the All-Seeing Eye, decide whelh
ri you will dishonor your ~woman-hood, d
no grade your dignity, and stain and mar Il
,eo divinity your Creator has impressed
his W image upon you, by mingling
such a sacrament. Decide as conscient
in all coming life, as a dying hour, as II
revelations and decisions of the gre
NV day, and as all the membranes al
~ experience Of coming endless ages, sho
nod approve. Il. Y.
NJ Concord, N. II. Feb. 9th l849.