Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-09

convince US that it is equally an unphi-
losophical one. Whether or no we are
right in surmising that it is the power of
voting which raises the Northern labour-
or to so high a level of humanity, it is
quite certain that a man whose mere
cali ng involves so much dignity and at
tracts so much respectful consideration,
stands in need Of nothing else. 1t is the
person who does rot work, whose hands
are soft, who suffers the lifelong misery
and disgrace of idleness, and is thus ex-
cluded from the privileged classes. who
is the proper object of our pity. 1t is TN.
rortunates Of this sort who make the
hearts Of northern representatives bleed,
1t would be sheer arrogance in them TO
put forward Il claim of kindred with those
natures noblemcn who drudge on The
cotton fields and in the riceswrmps.
Christianity involves us in an incon.
venicnIIy large family connection. Accor.
ding TO that system we are all children OF
n common father, and, if we make any
distinction of fraternity it is 10 be in ia
YOUR Of our unhappy brother iallen a
none thieves. Three millions of such
we have atthe South. But the congress-
ional method simpliies matters amazing
ly, and reduces 'our Southern brethren
to a bare two hundred and fifty thousand
or so. The descendants Of Ham are de-
cided to be children Of an
father, and therefore no relatives of
ours.
But il is not in the New Testament that
our legislators look to find their relatives.
Their family register is not inscribed e.
ven on those blank pages between the
old law and the new which we might
suppose 10 be the only portion Of the tlo-
ly Volume to which1hcy had devoted any
especial attention. 1t is the Constitution
which settles all these tangled qu~estions
Of consanguinity. This is our new Dis.
pensalion abrogaIing the old, our new
tariff Of social and moral duties. This
teaches us who are really our Southern
Brethren"
1t was a happy discovery this Of defn-
ing the limits of human brotherhood by
degrees Of longitude. BY means Of u
globe an American child can be very ra-
pidly instructed in the simple elements
of geographical humanity. East, West,
and North our sympathies are allowed
an indefinite expansion. The safety
valves Of our benevolence open toward
these three quarters of the Earth. A
convenient Manual of Ethics calculated
from the meridian Of Washington might
be added To the course of instruction in
our common schools. Thus, we may
sympalhize keenly with oppressed Ire
IonI aud ,I,, J,,rn,r,l1au n,,sv,- of En-.
rope. Oar delestalion Of tyrants may
grow fervent in the precise ratio Of their
c~asterIy distance. We may contribute
largely and meritoriously to rescue the
souls of IIindoos from Satan. and the
s1les Of HISTORIAN Christians from the
MahomeIan baslinado. We may Join
societies for promoting the chronological
development of the FIathead Indians, or
for supplying the Laplanders with pure
olive oil. In all these directions we may
lawfully pray
"That come il may,
And come it will for a that.
When man 10 man, the world DER
Shall briIhers be-"
But, turning Sou,hward, our humanity
gradually contracts itself. embraces few
er and fewer objects. and probably comes
to Il point somewhere in the neighbour
hood of the Emperor of Brazil.
1t has been a matter of controversy
whether the New Testament should be
one of the books read by the pupils in
our public schools. As one chief object
of these institutions is 10 fit the youth OF
our country for their duties and respon-
sibililies as American citizens, we cannot
but think lhatthe habitual perusal ofsuch
a book would be likely 10 produce men
tai confusion and be The cause of error
in after life. Some such cause as this
may be chariiably assigned for the diver
gcncies ofsuch men as Giddings and Pal.
frey from the strict line of American pat.
riotism and religious obligation.
Or is it barely possible, after all, that
Jesus Christ may be right and The glori.
Gus trainers ofour Constitution wrong =
Ought we in truth 10 embrace with the
arms Of our brotherhood not John G. Cal
houn or Zachary Taylor, but The living,
suffering, hoping, and despairing proper
~ Of those eminent Southern Brethren !
Is 1.-THE brother fallen among thieves and
not the thieves themselves who are 10 be
the recipients of our pity and our help
Can it be hat The eye of a politician Toe
long fixed in raplurou' contemplation up,
on the image of literly stamped on the
coin of our country, is thereby untitled
for d~ecyphering the lineaments, now
dim and obscure, Of the Almighty Faith,
er, impressed upon three millions of his
duskier children
These questions have suggested them.
selves with more or less disIinctness 10 6
considerable number of men and women
If American be, as Fourth OF July orator:
assert, the new Eden of the world, these