Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-28
SALEM CoLUMBIANA CO., OHIO, DECEMBER %, 1850

I 2. BY sending lecturers throughout the
land TO stir up the people 10 be quiet, and
ngitate them till they are still TO make them
sign the pledge of total abstinence from the
discussion of this subject. That is not like
| ly to effect the object.
3. For the friends of silence to keep their
own counscl-and this seems rs little likely
! to he tried ns the others TO succeed.
Strange is il to ask us to forbear TO talk on
subject which involves the welfare of 2O,-
00OOC0 men. As well usk man in fever
not to he heated, aud a collstnpiive person
not TO cough, to pine away aud turI pale
| Miserable cOunsallors ARE We all, who give
such advice. But we have seen lately tile
! Lion of the Democrats, and the Lamb of tile
! Wings lie down togetlter joined by this
| opinion. so gentle aud so loving, all at once,
that liule child could lead them, and 50.
"iullil the sure prophetic word" Yes, we
have here the llerod of one Party aud the
Plate OF the other made friends for the sake
of crucilying the Freedom Oi Mankind
But there is one way in which. ] would
modcsiy hint, that we might stop all this
talk "in Congress and out of Congress"
viz to discuss" the matter till we had
got at the truth, and the whole truth, then to
'agitutc' politically, till we had enacted Justice
into law, aud carried it out all over the North,
and all over the South. Then there would
he no more discussion about the Fugitive
Slave Bill, than about the "Boston Port
Bill !" no more ugitation about American
Slavery than there is about the condition of
the people of Babylon before the flood.
think there is no other way in which We arc
likely TO yet rid of this discussion.
Such is our Condition, such its Causes,
such our Dangers. Now, for the lesson
look moment elsewhere. Look at conti-
mental Europe, at Rome, Austria, Prussia,
aud the German States-at France. How
uncertain is every nment!-France-
the stablest of them all! Remember the
revolution which two years ago shook those
States so terribly, when all the royalty of
France was wheeled out of Paris ia street
cab. Why are those States so totteriug P
Whence those revolutions? They tried to
make niquity their law, aud would not give
over the attempt! Why are the armies OF
France 100000 stronger though the nation
is at peace with all the world? Because
they tried TO make injustice law Why do
the Austrian and German monarchs fear an
earthquake OF the people? Because they
tread the people down with wicked laws
Whence came the crushing debts oil France,
Austria, England? From the same cause
from the injustice of mcn who made mis-
ciiet 10y law
Ii is not for men long to hinder the march
of human freedom. / have no fear for that,
ultimately; none at all---siluply ior this rem
son: that believe IN the infinite God. Yon
may make your statutes; an appeal always
lies TO the higher law, and decisions adverse
10 that get set aside III the ages. Your stat !
utes cannot hold Him. You may gather all
the dried grass aud all the straw in both con-
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down the sea while it is calm, you may
laugh, and say, "Lo, have chained the |
ocean" !" and howl down the law of Him |
who holds the universe as rosebud in his |
hand-its every ocean but a drop of dew
" How tue waters suppress their agitation," |
you may say. But when the winds blow |
their trumpets, the sea rises in his strength, |
tnaps asunder the bonds that had confined |
his mighty limbs, and the world is Uttered |
with the idle hay Stop the human race i'm
It's development aud march TO freedom? AS |
well might the boys of Boston, some lIIs-
trous night, mounting the siecpes of this I
town, call on the stars TO stop their course /!
Gently, but irresstibly, the Greater aud the |
Lesser Bear move round the pole Orion, in
his mighty mail, comes up the sky; the |
Bull, the Ram, the Heavenly Twins, the /
Crab, the Lion, the Maid, the Scales, and all /
that shining company pursue their march all
night, and the new day discovers the idle
nrchns in their lofty places, all tired, and
sleepy, aud ashamed.
1t is not possible to suppress the idea of
freedom or forever hold down lis institutions.
But it is possible to destroy State polil-
cal party with geographical bounds may ca
silly he rent asundcr. 1t is not impossible to
shiver this American Union. But how?
what Glove asunder the great British Party
-onG nation once in America aud England!
Did not our fathers love thcir iaIher land p
Aye. They called it Home, and were loyal
with abundant iealty. There was no lack Of
piety for home. 1t was the attempt to make |
old English injustice New England law ! I
Who did it? The British people? Never !
their hand did no such sacrilege! 1t was
the merchants of London, with the "Navi-
CATION Act;" the politicians of Westminster
with the "stamp Acts" the tories of America
who did not die without issue--who for
office and its gold would keep Kings un-
just commands; it was they who drove our
fathers into disunion against their will. Is
here no lesson? We love Law, all of us
love it-but a true man loves it only as the
safeguard of the Rights of Man. If il de-
stroys these Rights-he spurns il with his
feet Is here no lesson? Look farther then.
Do you know how empires find their end ?
Yes, the great States eat up the little; as
with fish so with nations. Aye, but how do
the great States come TO an end? BY their
own injustice, and no other cause. They |
would make unrighteousness their law, and |
God wills not that il be so. Thus they fall, !
thus they die Look at those ancient States |
the queenliest queens of the earth. There /
is Rome, the widow of two civilizations; the |
II. LN-al IL II -
aud unto both she bore daughters and fair
sons. But, the Niobe of nations, she boast
ed that her children were holier and more
fair than all the pure ideas of Justice, Truth
and Love, the offspring Of the eternal God
Aud now she sits there, transformed into
stone, amid the ruins of her chdren's bones.
At midnight have heard the Owl lloot in
the Coliseum and the Forum, giving voice to