Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-03

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81 Is THEREFoRE our DUTY, both as free
citizens and Christians, not only to regard
with compassion the injustice done to those
among us who are held as slaves, but to en-.
deavor by lawful ways and means to enable
them 10 share equally ioith us in that civil and
religious liberty with which an indulgen'
Providence has blessed these States, and tc
which our brethren are AS MUCH ENTITLED
AS OURSELVES" You now discover, sir
that your denunciations against Abolitionists
for their disregard for the laws of Moses
the precepts of Christ, and the teachings Of
the apostles, reach even the ancestor of him
you have so ruthessly assailed.
| On the 18th Nov, l7S5, the Society or.
dered reprint of 1000 copies of certain
pamphlet first published in 1776, and which
in modern parlance would be described as
"incendiary, inhammatory, and insurrec-
tionary in the highest degree" With the
temerity and insolence still lingering among
Ab)litionists, il was dedicated To THE Hon
oRABLE MEMBERS OF THE CONTINENTAL
CONGRESS" l know not whether the fol-
lowing extracts will most excite your aston
ishment or Indignation:
We naturally look TO you in behalf of
more than half million of persons in these
colonies, who nrc under such a degree of
oppression and tyranny as to be wholly de-
prived of all civil and personal liberty, to
which they have as good right as any Of
Their fetiotC-mer, and are reduced TO the most
ablect state of bondage and slavery, with
out any Just cause. 1t is observable that
when the Swiss were engaged in their strug-
gle for liberty, in which they so remarkably
succeeded, they entered into the following
public resolve: NO Swiss shall take away
anything by violence from another, neither
IN time of war, nor peace How reasonable
and important is it, that we should at this
time heartily enter into and thoroughly exc
cute such a resolution? And that this inn
plies the emancipation of ALL our African
slaves, surely no one can doubt May you
judge the poor of the people, save the chill
dren of the needy, relieve the oppressed,
and deliver the spoiled out of the hands of
the .oppressor, and be the happy instru-
ments of procuring and establishing univer-
sal LIBERTY TO white and black, to be trans
mitted down TO the latest posterity"
On reading the tract thus dedicated, one
is almost tempted to pronounce it forgery
by some of the fhnaticnl Abolitionists of the
present day, so remarkably does il cores
pond in sentiment and expression with their
own writings. The following is like some
OF that PLAIN talk which so grieyously oficnds
yon: "Why should the ministers of the gos-
pei hold their peace, and not testify against
this great public INIQUITY? How can they
refuse TO plead the cause of those oppressed
poor ngainst their cruel oppressor? They
are commanded to lift up their voice and
cry aloud, and show the people their SINS
Have we not reason to fear many of them
have offended Heaven by their silence,
through fear Of The masters who stand ready
TO make war against any one who attempts
TO deprive them of their slaves or because
they themselves have slaves which they are
mol ciiiing 10 gire up? A number of church.
es IN New-England have purged themselves
of this lnqulty, and determined not to toe-
rate slavery. Ii all the churches in these
United States would come to the same meas
ure, and initiate the Friends, called Qua
kers, would they not act more like Christian
churches than they now do"
Abolitionists, we are told, are vitupera-
tive; but this is no new thing; their fathers
were 80 before them. although your horse,
which had been stolen from you, has passed
through many hands, and been sold ten
times, you think you have right to demand
and take him, in whosesoever hands YOU
find him, without refunding farthing of
what he cost him; and yet, though your
negroes prove their right to themselves, and |
constantly make demand upon you 10 de- |
liver them up, you refuse till they pay the |
full price you gave for them, because the |
civil law will not oblige you to dc it.-'Thou |
Luke xiii. l5."
You affirm that if Abolitionists are TO be |
heard, God has sanctioned not only posi- |
tive evil, but one of the greatest of all |
crimes" p. 43. Whit think you then, sir, |
Of the blasphemy Of John Jay and his as
socates, who dared to disseminate such |
doctrine as the following ?-"If it be not a |
sin, an open, fragrant violation of all the
rules of justice and humanity, TO hold these |
slaves in bondage, it is folly to put ourselves
to any trouble and expense to free them
but it the contrary be rue--if it be SIN
OF CRIMSON DYE, this reformation cannot be
urged with too much zeal, nor attempted
too soon, whatever difficulties are in the
way"
Abuse of "our Southern brethren is one
of the many crimes charged by you upon
Aboltionists but you should recollect that |
the vice is hereditary. Here is some very
old-fashioned abuse-contestiDg the plea |
that slave labor is indispensable in hot eli |
mates, the New-York Society says: "There |
is not the least evidence of this, but much TO |
me contrary. 1he truth Is, most of the |
whites which are born in the Southern
States, or the West Indies, are not educated
10 labor, but great part of them in idleness
md intempranee. The blacks are introduc-
ed to do the work, and it is thought dis
grace for white person to get his living by
abor. BY this means the phites IN general
re Uicious, and all imbibe naughty, tJranni-
'd spn1t by holding so many slaves, and
many of them, rather plague than bless
ing to all about them"
Not only did the Society published this
powerful Anti-slavery tract of 60 pages, but
hey also reprinted AN ADDRESS TO THE
OWNERS OF SLAVES IN THE AMERICAN
DoLoEiEs." have room for only one ex-
ract from this Address :-9You who are
Professors of religion, and yet the owners of
'iaVes, are entreated well to consider how
'ou must appear in the sight of God, and of
III VINO view your conduct in a true light. !