Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-09-28

aging results. Never before in the whole
history Of our cause, was there SO much
eagerness to hear the anti-slavery gospel, and
never perhaps was it listened to under cir
cumstances more favorable to a wide recep-
ton of its truths. The labors of PARKER
PLLsBuRr during his present visit, Us we'll
ns on former occasions, have been Of great
benefit to Our Society and the Committee
regret that he cannot remain among us for
a longer period, especially when the desire
to hear him is so extensive and the promise
Of usefulness so inviting.
From this record of what has been done
and what left undone during the last fifteen
months, we turn now to speak of the du-
ties and responsibilities of the Sociey at the
present time. And on this subject the Com
mittee desire to express their views and feel
ings with entire ffankness and without any
shadow of reserve.
The object we have in view is the entire
abolition of American Slavery and the NOR
al aud social elevation Of its unfortunate VIC
Tins. The weapons of our warfare are
Light, Truth and Love, and these are to be
made effectual chiefly by means of the Press
and of the Living Speaker. Slavery origi-
mated in an atmosphere of impurity and
wickedness, and il can live and breathe only
where the public mind is shrouded in igno-
rance or tainted with selfshness and injus-
tice. Church and State-the chief pillars in
the temple of Oppression-have their base
in Public Opinion; and consequently, when
the minds and hearts of the people become
imbued with sentiments of justice aud hu-
manity, when they come to loathe and abhor
the crime of enslaving their brethren, that
bloody temple, having no longer any ade-
quate foundation, will crumble and fall!-
Our peculiar province, therefore, is to enlight-
en- the people in respect to the manifold evils
and wrongs of Slavery, to reveal to them their
guilt in supporting an institution which
ontrages every sentiment of virtue and every
principle of justice; and urge upon them
the duty Of assailing it by all rightfh means.
The cause of the Slave is the cause of God,
but the work of promoting ii is ours; and it
is work to which He has called lis by his
own auth, ritatiye voice. BY all the ties
which bind US 10 our bcncfcent Father and
to our brethren of the human race, we are
brought under the most sacred obligations to
DO THE WORK which He has thus assigned
us. We have no more right TO anticipate
the abolition of Slavery by the power of
God, without the agency of man, than we
have to expect our fields to be plowed, our
seed sowed, and our crops harvested by mi
raculous agency. And in the performance
of our duties to the slave, Association is not
only necessary, but the spontaneous dictate
of our social and moral being. Men and
women, of proper qualifications for the work,
are needed to go forth aud proclaim the truth
in the ears of the people; and il is obvious
ly right that those who are called to this SER
vice and required to leave their business and
their homes TO encounter the malignant
shafts which are always hurled at the advo-
Gates of unpopular righteousness, should be
aided and sustained by those who love the
cause. This aid should be given, not grudg-
mgly, but willingly and heartily. The anti
slavery lecturer is under no more obligation
to make pecuniary sacrifices than others.
He has indeed no right to labor from merce-
nary motives-to be HIRELING, looking,
like the false prophets Of old, for gain from
his quarter But this is as true in spirit Of
all others as of him. No man has the right
to pursue his daily business, whatever may
be his occupation, for mere personal or selfsl
ends. In oil his efforts to obtain a livelihood
for himself or his family, or 10 accumulate
property, every man is bound TO have for hi
supreme and ruling motive the best good o
mankind. Many persons--and some evel
who call themselves Abolitionists-appea
to think that, while it is perfectly right 70
Them to devote their lives TO the work of ac
cumulation, TO add field TO field and house
TO house, the nnti-slavery lecturer is bount
by some peculiar obligation to forego all
chance of pccuniary benefit, to be so self
sacrifising as either to work for nothing oil
for such compensation as will barely keep
him and his family from the poor house. II
is time that this subject were viewed in a
more rational light-time that Abolitionists
were made to feel that one Jaw of obligation
applies TO them all alike-that the duty TO be
unselfish and charitable rests equally upon
the anti-slavery speaker and the nnt-slovery
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hearer. When the Aboitionists as body
recognize it as their duty TO devote to the
cause all the fruits of their labor and the pro-
ducts of their capital beyond the bare ex-
penses of living, it will be time enough for
them to measure the compensation of the
anti-slavery agent by that rule; until theu
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