Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-08

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the Anti-SIavery agitation. The slave, a man,
denied education, robbed Of the Bible, of his
wife, his children, OF himselfaAhopelessly
imbruted-woman doomed almost OF necessi-
ty to licentiousnes- marriage annlhilated-
what stands between the servant OF Jesus
Christ and such a picture to bar him from re-
buking the wretch who creates III A law y!
If The stakeholder made laws, as he drinks
wine, Of his own free will, the prudent Fa-
Their would feel at Liberty to deal with him!
But he has made prostitution i~au(ul-made
murder iauTui-made the selling of his own
children at auction i1bofui-and so the true
apostolic successor of Peter and Paul is dis
armed, and cries out, : We ought to obey
man, rather than God > mo law can sane
ton slavery said 0'ConnelI. What muir
der is on the pirate deck, that precisely is
slavery, on the American soil. Every lover
Of justice, every Christian, is free, and is
bound 10 denounce it. A Christian minister
haling a pirate ship, and promising TO say
nothing against their occupation, if they
would let him offer them the pledge, would
he a fit type of a teetotaIler bound TO silence
on slavery TO advance teetotalisn. We con-
slider free speech no favor granted US by man,
but a right, the gift Of God, and abjure the
policy of yielding any portion of it TO save
the rest.
We hold the truth which God shows us as
no plaything, or counter with which 10 traffic;
hut TO be uttered all Of it, in due time, and
especially before those whom ii concerns.
We hold it to be The first mark of good
ness, and the highest privilege of greatness,
to speak what yon think; and especially, in
times when words are deeds, and mighty to
work wonders. Painful indeed would it be
to a sincere abolitionist, if God condemned
him TO 90 up and down this land, drying up
the sources Of incompetence, and forbade him,
full cf power as he WAS, 10 lift his little An
ger for the relief of that hideous bondage he
was daily doomed to witness. On all these
e points, at issue between ourselves and Father
= Mathew, we shall cheeGfully abide the YER
r diet of the world and posteriiy.
I According to Father MATHEW, while Ire
land is starving, all the world not British
born must keep silence on the cruel mistakes
of Government which have ruined her and
e any Great Briion may be innocently still, if,
so doing, he can husband his influence for
h the peace or the anti-state church cause!
p Was it indeed so, when he saw the iron en-
iering into the souls of his countryment
ID Did he not summon the world TO her rescue?
TIN American slave a hnngersd, with none
/, 70 give Nm bread = WIN none TO give
a. him drink,-sick and in prison, with none to
I'd visit him,-asks Of the great lrishman the
o. bread of his testimony; asks that he will not
VI allow MS potent HdlIlt ~ u duutu 10 lHt Isl
e. of those who Justify silence, in any circum.
stances, on such a sin.
lie Father Mathew thanks us. Americans, that
i we have given the world the doctrine of total
is abstinence. He would ftly return the favor
'e by holding to our lips the bitter cup of anti
r slavery.
e God says to this nation let ma people go
lie but Father Mathew is so very proper a
priest that Gods message must be counter
signed by the national authorities, before he
will consent to deliver it-unless, indeed, it
10 he TO a people, like the Irish, who do mol hold
d slaves, and wilFnot feel offended.
Father Mathew is so enthusiastic a tetotal-
'e Ter meanwhile. that a man may sell his own
re children at auction unbalanced, if he will hut
. do it sober! Father Mathew is so patriotic,
that he will sacrifice a whole race, to make
Irishmen temperate!
Father Mathew is such a protestant. such
ID a stickler for the right of private judgment on
e. this question, that he can see nothing specific
s. in the Scriptures against slavery, though sue
,e cessive Popes infallible have denounced ii as
III unchristian and a sin!
Is Still in 1912, Father Mathew could exhort
n. his poor, uneducated countrymen, 10 exert
in all their influence against slavery-when
ne for them to speak was to sacrifice their daily
st bread. Now, being here, his single word,
a. worth all the influence of all the emigrants
who ever landed, and 10 be spoken at no cost
n. Father Mathew means 10 do nothing at all
,es in the premises.
al We might suspect him to be a Jesuit, hold
he ing that the end justified the means-that, as
to lies were allowable in mother church's cause.
ty so winkIng at slavery might be for temper
of ance sake. But then, how Xavier would have
81. laughed at a Catholic Christian allowing HUI
IT. man laws, or national lines, to stop the mouth
81 liz. r,Irla Aa1 On ba aannot ha n Iacu-
it, but Is simply Father Mathew American.
Id ised! whether for better or worse, Ireland
" will determine.
a Every Irishman. the victim Of centuries OIL
on oppression, would, we should suppose, sym
sr, palhise with the oppressed and when we
ce have seen it otherwise, in the emigranis thai
TO crowd our shores, we have attributed il lo
he ignorance and degradation. But Father Ma
VS. thew, the bright consummate flower oil
10 your Isle, seems to seal up the lesson, and
be show your unhappy race side by side with
b, the Saxon, the Protestant, the Puritan, Gov
to enanter and Baptist, all races and all secis,
a who have ever failed to learn, in the school
st of their own persecution, sympathy for the
ut prosecuted.
$, But we shall never despair of Ireland
s. while we remember the tried fidelity Of
TO O'Connell. He nerer sacrificed The West In
ce dian or african Stare eUen 10 Ireland.
rs POWELL Buxton told me, and O'Connell
NC himself has somewhere repeated the story,
" that when he first went into the House o
d Commons, the WestIndia party, then strong
enough to carry or defeat any measure, offer
ly ed him support on his Irish questions, if he
on would absent himself from anti-slavery NEE
ht tings. His answer was, Come liberty
tn come slavery 10 myself, will never coun
m tenance slavery a; home or abroad. l viii
he take my part at Anti-Slavery meetings ant
he though it should be a blow against Ireland
ak it is a blow in fave! of human liberty, and
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