Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-14

ond ho,h into Free Soilers. Il is the inter-
prefer of the tables of stone given to Moses,
aud of the precepts to brotherly love utieren
by Jesus. II meets the priest on the steps
of the altar-the preacher on the stairs oil
the pulpit---the merchant on the busy ex-
change-and the New England farmer, when
hungry, naked wanderer asks in the name
of il and humanity a shelter for the night.
! Is il nothing, my friends, that all thus has
been brought to pass in twenty years Is
nothing that an obsolete and buried CHRIS
tianity has been exhumed, and sent forth, IKE
a refining fire, TO purify the land from tue
dire curse of Slavery?
But how has this mighty work been done.
! You will do well frequently TO review the
past and to learn from it lessons to guide ior
the future.
Go back with me for twenty years. IL was
| the hour to summon slunberiug nation 10
its duty and when the hour struck, the man
appeared.
"Tho world had need Of him.
His soul was like a star, and dwclt apart;
He had a voice whose sound was like the sea;
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So did he travel on liic's common long,
In cheerful godlincss; and yet his heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.'
Like his santed forcruuner, Inc gave hnl-
self to the cause OF the Slave. No wealth,
no rank, no fame, 10 name had he. But he
had heart TO feel for human woe; con-
science alive to duty; u faith that laughed at
| impossbllifes; aud u trust in God that not
an angry world could shake.
| How did he begin his work. Just as all
works connected with human rights, aud
| having respect TO divine law, should be be-
gun. BY an uncompronising declaration of
the whole truth. BY the elevation of the
standard of duty-nOt up to the prejudices
aud interest and grovelling propensities of
men around him,-but up TO the mark OF the
divine requirement." Let my people go
| that they may serve me-"
lie called things by their right names. lie
denounced crime as crime. lie exposed as
they were put forward the sopihstries of
those who would have apologized for the a.
domination in their midst. lie tracked every
scheme of deception to its refugees of lies
lie scorned to put any tenders of Compro-
mise, or proffers of friendship into the bal
ance with his convictions of duty, and re-
solved, whether alone or in company to per-
sue his object with answering integrity
Such was the beginning of the work, and
such man was WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.
He needs 10 eulogies from me. lie has been
! persecuted into iinne, and tho Muse OF tiiss
tory will hand down his name to posterity
"One of the few, the immortal names
| That were not born to die"
The history of my friend is the history of
| this cause. The secret of that success TO
which hnve referred is to be found in un-
ilincling adherence 10 principle under all
| circumstances. Ii is TO be found in that
faith which never made the cnuse subserv-
ent to n party, or looked TO men as superior
to principle. From the past we may learn
that our simple duty is TO promulgato truth,
| and leave the result to God not To be wise
above that which is written; but TO "cry
aloud and spare not" and to await with pa
| tience the development of those results,
which, sooner or later. never fail to follow
the upright and fearless advocacy of good
cause.
Let me assure you that in England, we
look upon your abolition movement with in-
tense interest. Our religious bodies, our
newspaper press, our literature, the uniyer-
sal sentiment Of our population, are all on
your side. The voice OF England cheers you
OH. | regret the change which comes over
too many Of my countrymen, when they
come over TO this side of the water. Ii
proves the corrupting influence OF the sys-
! TEN, to which almost everything in human
|
| low countrymen, who take up their residence
here, not to throw off the just and manly
sentiments which they entertained when
they were free from all sinister bias. Where
men are free from contact with slavery, they
feel and reason right, it is only when coup
led with the prejudices and principle OF
Slavery that they go wrong.
Ii is our proud boast that slaves cannot
breathe in England. But we can boast more
than that. We can say that iugityes from
Slavery are not only free and safe when they
set foot OIL our soil, but they are received
with special kindness and regard. Let Re
mond, and Douglass, and Pennington, ant
w. w. Brown bear witness TO this. Sucl
men are the best advocates you can send us
Their very presence is a demonstration o
the iniquity of the system from which the,
have fled. Their very manhood rebukes IN,
bondage they have left behind them. Will
such samples of the slaves, their warmes
friends receive the warmest welcome. W.
have no fugitive slave law. The slave tha
has escaped from his master unto us, canno
be delivered up.
And in this country, too, my friends, th'
purest Christianity, the most active benevo
lence, the most consistent morality are al
on your side. Ii is too true that there is in
telect opposed TO you, but there is also intel
lect enlisted in your favor, and will venture
10 say, intellect which, apart from the merit
of the case, would be equal to cope with tn
loftiest defenders of Slavery.
Still we have TO lament the sad and shame
ful fact that 100000 of men are in bond
t age, held in degradation as goods aud chat
t tells. We have TO lament too the continu
ance of an unworthy prejudice, and an un
, manly prescription based on the color whicl
l the all-wise Creator has given to the skim
q These are evils that press upon you, AM
3 which none, however deeply they sympo
: thize, can feel as you can. They can be fel
Q to be evils only as you are seen TO feel then
D 90, and to show your feeling by your conduct