Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-24

still, as having the better cause, sure, / trust, of
final victory. The conflict must be long, be-
cause our constitutions are, like yours, compro-
misses, our governments as yet a mere patch
work, our popular liberties scanty and adultcra-
ted, and great masses of our brethren hungry
and discontinued. We have not a little to strug-
gle for among ourselves, when our whole force
is needed against the enemy. In no country of
Europe is the representative system of govern
ment more than q mere beginning. In no
country of Europe is human brotherhood prac-
tically asserted. Nowhere are the principles of
civilization of Western Europe determined and
declared, and made the groundwork of organ
lied action, as happily your principles are as
against those of your slaveholding opponents.
But, raw and ill-organized as arc our forces,
they Will be strong, sooner or later, against tho
serted armies of the Asiatic policy. If on the
one side, the soul comes up to the battle with
an imperfect and ill-defcndcd body, on the 9th
or, the body is wholly without a soul, and must,
in the end, fall to pieces. The best part of the
mind OF Western Europe will make itself a
body by dint of action, and the pressure which
must bring out its forces and it may be doubt.
cd whether it could become duly embodied in
any other way. What forms of society may
arise as features of this new growth, neither
you nor l can say. We can only ask each 9TH
or whether, witnessing as we do the spread of
Communist ideas in every free nation in Eu-
rope, and the admission by some of the most
cautions and old-fashioncd observers of social
movements that we in England cannot now stop
short of ga modified communism" the result
is not likely to be a wholly new social state, if
not a yet undrcamcd-of social idea.
However this may be,-while you slave
question is dominant in Congress, and the Dis
solution of your Uniod is becoming a familiar
idea, and an avowed aspiration, our crisis is no
less evidently approaching. Russia has Austria
under her foot, and she is casting corner of her
wide pail over Turkey. England and France
are awake and watchfu1, and so many men of
every country are astir, that VIC may rely upon
it that not only are territorial alliances giving
way before political a%ffinitics, but national ties
will give way almost as readily, if the princi-
pies of social liberty should demand the disin-
tegration of nations. Let us not say, even to
ourselves, whether VIC regard such an issue with
hope or fear. 1t is a possibility too vast to be
regarded but with simple faith and PATIENCE
In this spirit let us contemplate what is pro-
cceding, and what is coming, doing the little
We can by a constant assertion of the principles
of social liberty, and a perpetual watch for OPP
%portunitics to stimulate human progress.
Whether your conflict will be merely a mo-
raj one, you can form a better idea than l.
Ours will consist in a long and bloody warfare
possibly the last, but inevitable now. The en-
pirc Of brute force can conduct its final strug-
gle only by brute force and there are but few
vet OF 1.-The other side who have any other motor
or de He. While 1 sympathizc wholly with
yea - 70 yo.r mcars rs well as your end, yo
will not withhold your sympathy from us be
cause our heroes still assert their views ant
wills by exposing themselves to wounds ant
death in the field, and asserting once moro tt
the old non scquitur about Might and Right
Let them this time obtain the lower sort o.
Might by the inspiration of their Right, and il
another age, they will aim niger. But / need
not thus petition you; for L well know that
where there is most of Right, there will YOU
sympathics surely rest.
Relieve Inc your friend,
HARRIET MARTINEAU.