Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-31

1t is true that in 177G they solemnly de-
/ clared TO the world certain self.evident truths ,
in the support of which, in the trying hour
Of mortal conflict, they appealed to the God
Of battle for the rectitude of their intentions,
with firm reliance OH the Supreme Ruler
of the universe, they endured the hardships
and privations OF the Revolutionary struggle
that separated the colonies from the neither
country. The wntchword of virginia's gal
ant son, "give us liberty or give us death"
! inspired every heart and nerved every arm.
: II was inscribed on the banners borne by
I marching columns amid the storms Of battle,
I and hoatcd as an emblem Of victory on the
classic heights Of Bunker, There was heard
{ the gigantic energy of Patrick Henry, the
fervid earnestness and potent persuasion OF
Lee, the Hercuean nerve of Norris, speak
f ing in thunder tones the sentiments Of un-
dying truth. Then were Virginia's noble
SONS the advocates of liberty, but now, alas
how recrennt TO every sentiment of virtue,
{ how fnlse to him who slnmbered amid the
sequestered shades of Monticello, as mon
ument of national greatness, whose mind
was filed with gloomy forebodings, when he
contemplated the dark and dismal future that
awaited this guilty nation if she did not re-
pcnt ofthc great wrongs inflicted on the un-
offending sons and daughters of Africa
Thomas Jefferson while contemplating the
mighty conflict that had ever been carried
on between liberty and slavery, the struggle
of the oppressed against the oppressor that
every where marks the pages of ancient His
tory, from the time of Nimrod, the founder
of Babylon, to the close of our own memo
rablo struggle for Constitutional Freedom;
and yielding TO the warning udinonitions that
came to him from the PROSTATE thrones of
conquerers; from the green graves of sleeping
nations whose requium has been sung by
the heastern poet in mournfhl and mean-
choly strains from d-defying Babylon
from the crumbling ruins of Pompcii the
broken columns of Thebes; the dilapidated
temples of Rome, the course of whose down.
fall is directly traceable to civil war and do
mestc strife, the legitimate results of Slavery.
In view of the awful and terrible dessolation
that has forever marked the progress of
slavery, we hear him exclaim in great agony |
Z" tremble for my country, when ] reflect |
that God is just" He anticipated that un-
less the STAKEHOLDER did relinquish his hellish
system of slavery, that the day would come,
day that has invariably come upon all na-
, tons, day of rctribution for sins unrepen-
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when the Spirit of Liberty and surviving
manhood would lead the American Slave to
initiate the example of the fathers of T6,
contest in which he declared the Almighty
had no attribute that would take sides with
the oppressor, day that will inevitably come
unless slavery is limited. You must either free
the slaves, or the slaves will free themselves.
All history confirms the fact; sacred as well
as profane. We read of the enslavemeDt of
the Jews in Egypt and in the metaphysical
language of historians unheard of plaques
d came upon the Egyptians which terminated
e only in the entire destruction of Pharaoh and
q his host in the Red Sea. Slaveholding Jeril-
y salem was destroyed and the Jews led cap
s tive by Nebuckadnezzar, aud held in bond
; age in the Assyrian Empire. What to her
e in turn was the result? glory, dominion and
n safety? No. These slaves were the cause
IS of the destruction of Babylon, and the utter
d ruin of the empire, and Daniel the Hebrew,
G and the slave was made the Regent under
y Cyrus, over all the shattered provinces of q
once glorious nation. Thus passed away,
IT without a struggle, most impotently and for
n ever, leaving no vestage behind, the most
il splendid city the world has ever seen. The
d insurrection ut Sparta, and the bloody seige
j. of lthom, the cruelty and perfidity at Keipta,
> where two thousand slaves were massacred
S in a single night, Gil the mind with horror
: when we contemplate the desolation that has
: ever followed in the wake of slavery. The
f Roman Eagle that had never quailed before
9 foreign foe was struck down by the slaves
of Italy.
Slavery certainly formed no element of
strength ofthe white massacre at ST. Domin-
{ go aud the insurrecton at South Hampton
tells of its blessings. No, liberty and sla-
! very are antagonistic principles, aud can not
: exist together in unison the lilly aud the
bromble may grow in social proginity togeth-
. er, but liberty and slavery delight in separa-
D ration. Yet the Union is stoutly threatened
b unless the North will become the willing
E; tools and abe,ors in the propagation and ex-
c tention of human bondage. No, Mr.. Presi-
n dent, am no disunionsl, long may its noble
1t and well proportioned column stand, stand
y as doubtless it will if the original design of
Of the Constitution is carried out. But ii its
lie preservation aud prosperity depend on the
10 oxtention of human slavery, if it is cement
Ie ed by the blood and tears of the victims Of