Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-15
THE STAN OAR D.

year of the Standard. For thrice three
years has it been the symbol TO the Ma.
ton of the existence of an organized and
cmbatlcd opposition to Slavery. 1t has
been literally, and not m~ciuphoricallv
merely, the Standard of the Cause. 1t
has been the sign 10 foes and friends,
that the Ship was not yet given up, that
the crew was acknowledgement, if you
ploasc,-and that the batllc would be
maintained us long as men and ammunition
were left on the ono side and the enemy
On the other. 1t was first unrurlcd to
the winds IN u dark and evil hour. The
officers TO whose charge the direction Of
tho attack upon Slavery had been com.
mitcd had mutinied and deserted. They
had practically run Off with the good flag
entrusted 10 them, and used the influence
Of its name and the stores il covered, to
shelter their own ignominious flight, and
TO protect the allies whom they had in
common with the enemy, whose COM
fort and preservation they esteemed of
more consequence than the discontinue
and defeat of the foe itself. In that evil
hour, as it then seemed, in the midst of
the confusion and doubt which filled
mems minds, the new Standard was run
TO the masthead, the good Ship rightod
as soon as honest hands were felt upon
the helm, her head turned inslinctivcly
in the right direction, her batteries thun-
dercd away at open enemies and trcach-
crous friends, and she has ever since
%gailantly kept on her due course, her
meteor flag Drawing many a battle and
many a breeze.
Throw sunshine on her joyously; We breezes
wait her wide,
Our glorious Semper Eadem, the banner of our
pride ~
While the piIfcrod and prostitute flag,
after many a scurvy adventure, ragged
and dirty, draggles at tho tail of an her
%maphrodito political craft, ominous oil
disaster and defeat.
TO drop the allegory, the establish
mcnt and support of the Standard have
been among the most pregnant proofs
of vitality and tenacity of life that the
Abolitionists, have ever shown. Begun
without q single subscriber, at a time
when tho Movement Proper was betray-
cd and deserted by almost all who had
seemed TO be its incarnate embodiments,
its properly made away with, its charac-
ter maligned, its supporters slandcred-
'Ihcir lile's life lied away,''-it has been
maintained without interruption for nine
years, and W. hope will continue TO
wrestlo with the storm as long as the ex-
istcnce ofSlavcry compels into being the
antagonist entity of Abolitionism. The
importance of the Organ Of u Combina-
tion against any public iniquity, is TO be
very impcrfoctly measured by its sub
scriplion list, and indeed is, in some
measure, independent Of it. The uttercr
of unpalatablo doctrine, Of hated truth,
was never yet popular. If he escape
such martyrdom us his age deals in, at
least he cannot expect it TO afford him a
comfortable support. iii will lend him
lis cars, and hat grudgingly, ii is all that
he can hope for. But there must be a
Voice 10 cry in the Wilderness, "Re-
peat and flee from the Wrath 10 come"
although locusts and wild honey must be
its meat. The scattered labours of our
little remnant of war-worn veterans, in.
valuable and ali essential as they are, are
almost lost sight of in the immensely Of
their field. They need a central organ
TO magnify their Office and 10 proclaim
ana record their Successes. Men require
some single point 10 which TO look TO
know whether the Anti-SIavcry Move
ment has still an existence, and what are
the proofs Of vitality that it is anording.
The flag at the mast head of u man.of-
war may be but an inconsidcrable piece
Of bunting but it is the emblem Of ma
%tionalily, and gives friends and foes to
know whether ii holds its own or wheth-
CT it has yielded to the enemy.
The s%oundness Of this philosophy has
been proved by the history of all assaults
upon the slrongholds Of national and So
cial crime. The British and Foreign
Anti-Slavcry Society during its DAYS of
life, previous 10 tho Abolition of British
Slavery, (sincc which lime it has had a
name to live, but has been worse than
deaI,) depended on the contributions Of
Aboliiionists for the support of its Organ
and Publications. So with the efforts 70,
the suppression of lnlcmperanco. War
Capital Punishment, and other public
evils, ON both sides of the water. Proba
bly, in no instance has the organ of any
Society gathered for the removal of these
or analogous evils, sustained itself by
sales and subscriptions. And this for the
obvious reason that men will not pay fol
the rebukcs of their darling sins. Blu
which of those Movements could have
had any abiding effect or continuing in
fluencc had IT not been for the Medium
through which each spoke to the World
We believe the Standard has done a:
well in This respect, taking into consid
Grafton the vastly greater obstacles it ha
had TO encounter, as any of its contem
p%orarics ola Reforming character. Nav
betier. For the o%diousness Of the truth
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