Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-01
From the Pleasure Boat.
Slavery is q Violation of Rights.

How selfish, how inhumane, how utterly
destitute of mercy and right principles must
be that individual, community or nation, that
can admit the right of man to claim property
in the flesh and blood, and sinews and bones
of his fellow man, or to exact the fruits of his
labors without returning ample compensa-
ton Who gave our fathers the right to WIS.,
it q. distant land, capture and enslave their
equal brothers, sell them in the SHAMELESS
like brutes, or chain them down to a life of
toll, and live sumptuously on the productions
of their unrequited labors? Who gave the
people of this generation the right to hold in
bondage the children of those whom their
fathers stole? Who gave the government of
this nation the right and power to sanction
laws in favor of such diabolical doings, to let
the nations jails for slave pens, and permit
government officers to become bloodhounds,
TO hunt down such as dare escape from out
rageous wrongs? Who gave the right
Can any answer? Think We who lend your
influence to support the government Of this
nation,-who gave you the right to aid in
such gigantic wrongs? If you cannot an
swer these questions to the satisfaction of
your own consciences, if you annot produce
permits from the God of nature, sanctions
from the throne of eternal right, thus to bind,
rob and sell your weaker brothers, we are
verify guilty of their blood. i can hardly re-
strain expressions of deep, soul-stirring alb
horrence when l reflect that in this nation of
high professions and loud boastings of all
that is holy, the right of man to Cypress his
fellow-man is for a moment admitted. Sla-
very is a horrid stain on the national charac-
ter; her iails are the shambles where human
hesh-mongers sell their Christian brothers
and sisters to the highest bidderi her church.
es are brothels, where priests and laymen
glut their lusts on their helpless victims,
and still hold their standing as piOus, hum
BILE, pure-heaIted Christians; and all, in ev-
cry section of the nation who lend their in
iuence TO support q government that per-
mits slavery, are guilty Of aiding in all man
ner of abominable sins that ever disgraced
the earth. know this is severe, but | know
equally well that it is not severer than the
truth. ! verify believe that if all who read
this paper could sec the monstrous injustice
of slavery as i see it, they would be torn
limb from limb before they would move a
finger to support a government that not only
permits, but even sanctions and protects it
they would be torn in pieces with red hot
pincers before they would hold a standing in
any church whose members are permitted TO
participate in such heinous wrong. Read the
following from the Pennsylvania Freeman:
LIBERTY or DEATH.-The ST. Louis Union
of August Goth, tells the story Of a slave, a
young colored woman, who was discovered
concealed on board one of the steamboats,
from ST. Louis to Cincinnati. The inhuman
captain, ~supposing her to be a fugitive slave,
secured and confined her, until leaving Gin
cinnati Oh his backward trip, intending to re-
turn her to her master. Learning that she
was to be taken back, while passing down
the Ohio, she broke from her confinement,
and was drowned. While she was strug-
Cling in tho water, the boat was stopped, and