Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-28

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them so : No. but in directly the opposite man.
ncr. God docs good, and they do evil. God
spares, and they punish. God has compassion,
forgiving all the debt they arc inc xorablc, ex-
acting the uttcrmost farthing. Instead Of show
ing Kindness, they retalntc and revenge. They
do not these things In their own persons it is
true, but they do them no less through the gov
ernment which they create for that very pur-
pose. Through tina; they threaten and iniiict.
Through that they prosecute and sue. Through
that, thoy fine, imprisou, and hang on the
bloody Gallows. Through that, they execute
punishment for every possible offence, from the
greatest down to the very least. To,rard this
punishment, every department and every func-
ton Of the government looks. Legislatures,
Lawyers, Courts, and Judges, all exist for it,
| Pona InAiction is the lie-blood the very soul
of the whole system. In all this matter Of
punishment, the people of this nation treat their
enemies exactly us God docs not treat them, and
exactly as they Ma,,k him for not treating them.
Then do they mock him, instead of thanking.
Not thus shall they treat their injurcrs, to make
their praise acceptable. Not till they learn to
forgive, will their word be heard in Heaven
Not till there be Forgiving, can there be Thanks
giving And not till Revolution shall sweep
away Lawyers, and Lawsuits, and Courts-not
till the Gallows shall be cut down, and tho pun
ishing element blotted from the government,
and tho nation be converted to Nom Resistance
not till all this shall be done, can there be
Forgiving or Thanksgiving either. Aye not
till all this shall be done, will the nation ever
keep Thanksgiving
They give thanks for Peace. And yet they
arc constantly nursing the spirit of War, and
preparing to visit its unutterablc horrors upon
any nation with whom they may choose to
pick quarrel. They maintain an army, and a
navy establish forts and arscnals educate
cut-throats and butchers at West Point; pro-
vide cannon and bombs, submarine batteries, and
all the horrible engncry of death commit the
whole into the hands of their President, whom
they make their Commander. .in-chicf; and then
authorize Congress to declare war at its own dis
erection, at any time, for any cause, and against
any nation. And in their State Constitutions,
they make their Gorcrnors their Generals, and
authorize them TO call out the inhabitants, and
kill, slay, and destroy. And not only are the
people of the nation thus ready for war, they
country, they are waging it against millions to
tho extremity of absolute slavery, and in the
other, they arc harassing hundreds of thousands
by means of Colonization Societies, Fugitive
Slave Laws, Black Statutes excluding from
Schools, and denying the right of citizenship,
and by everywhere stirring up bitter, cruel
Prejudice. Thus again do the people mock
God, and lie unto the Holy One. They give
thanks for Peace, and yet they arc for War
Not thus shall they persecute and prepare to
siay, in the day when God shall have respect to
their offering. No, not without Revolution
not till they grant Society to the colored man
not till they blot out their War Constitutions,
and overturn the pillars of their War-waging
Government, and hurl TO the ground the tenn
pies of their War -sanctifying Religion-not till
they do all this, will the people of this nation
ever keep Thanksgiving
Finally, they give thanks for Liberty. Yet
they cruelty enslave moro than three millions
of their countrymcn, thus robbing them of this
precious boon, annihlating their manhood, and
hording them with four-footcd beasts and
creeping things. And the whole people of the
nation do this. The Southern States do it, and
the Northern States help them. They tu,ite to
help them. They form Governmental Union to
help them. They make a Core,iant-the Fun
damental Law Of the Unon-to help them.
They enter into an agreement Constitution
al Compact of the Union-to help them. And
in fultilmcnt of that Covenant, and in pursu-
ance of that Agreement, they give those States
power in their mutual Union for every Slave
they own, and also pledge them protection from
servile instruction. So the Southern States
o,cn the slaves, and the Northern States pan
them for doing it. and then hold the Slares for
them in addition. That is, the Northern States
hire the Southern to own Slaves, and then hold
them so they can own them. And even if the
National Covenant did not require these things
of the Northern States, and even if they did no.
do these things, still the bare fact of their con-
tiEulng IN the Union with the Southern States
the fact Of their voluntarily keeping company
with demonstrations their slavery, for it throws
the shield of their own influence, responsibility,
and religion, around the wicked system, to
screen it from rebuko and condemnation, and
thus perpetuate its bloody reign. So the ~hole
people Of The nation are slaveholders-all tcho are
in the Union, are guilty of the crime. Then
do they mock God when they pretend to
thank him for Liberty. They do not thank him,
and they never will, till they 9iUe Liberty
Till there be LibeTy-giung there can be no
Thanksgiving No, not till the nation repents
of its slavery-not till its Covenant with Death,
and its agreement with He'll shall be annulled
not till the American Union shall be dissolved,
and its mighty fabric of Government, bloody,
blood-cemented, and reared upon the mangled
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