Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-19

the county to the worth Of Freedom. TO the
wrongfnlness Of Slavery And lol the coun-
try is aweking They would have us wide
awake 20 this matter. Aud behold the
country p getting wide awake, slowly, in
deed, but steadily. The very thing which il
was their purpose to accomplish is being ac-
complishcd. Does not the result show then
that they have taken the very best wny. the
wisest, ule most polite way, to effect the OBJ
Iect they bad IN view? Is not their fearless
aud uncompromisng fidelity to princinle pro.
we'd by rs Consequences TO be the very sound
est policy, the most admirable craftsmanship?
Is u not seen to be the very expedient best
adapted g their end2 They have labored,
and are inboring, TO elevate the temperature
OF Anti-7hyey feeling, until il shall rise to
that tcrrent heat which shall consume every
cham ~ The land, converting it from solid
IRON intol'npalpable air. Aud this purpose
Is in steahy course Of iiIlfilment. Is there
any pei'ey, commonly so-called,-any politi-
cal management or party, that could accom-
pllsl', or ever has accomplished, like thing
IN so short time? Truly, the Aboltionists,
though many OF them are women, have, al
most Without intending it, at all events with
out tnkmg to themselves any credit for it,
practised most excellent statesmanship.
And now let us see what is the amount of
that policy which the world thinks so much
Of l think il we look at il earnestly, we
shall confess that il is so narrow, so very
short-sigited, that il does not deserve the
name even OF policy, in any large and man.
ly sense Of the word. The thorough politi-
cian, cornmonly so styled, distrusts those
simple dictates of right which are the un-
questionable laws of God, aud to which the
Abolitionist clings without making any stip-
ulation for his own safety, or for the safety
of any interests whatever. The politician is
not willing to yield himself wholly to the
guidance of those simple principles. lie fol-
lows them only so far as he can see with his
own limited vision that they will not inter
iere with his own personal success, or the
interests of his party. lie cannot renouncc
them altogether. lie cannot be so absurd
as TO maihtain, for instance, that equal JUS
tice Is an evil, and freedom a curse, and
mercy a wrong. IL is true, we hear occasion
ally Of one and another who suy that Slave
ry is a blessed, a divine institution, but we
have never henrd of any one so sincere in
| this opinion, that he wished that he aud his
wife and children were slaves. We all, i'm
this part Of the world at least, admit the
wrongfulness Of oppression, the inalienable
right of nun TO life, liberty, and the pursuit
OF happiness. Still, clear us this is to us, YET
when wa act politically, we aro afraid ol
these truths. We cannot venture to surren-
der ourselses to them Us guiding principles
4 W. 3 sS--snrsl tlsis we call n Wise expedi
ency, to put our confidence III some poIitica
arrangement, in a Constitution confessedly
the device of human wisdom, the work o
men who never claimed to bo inspired, or ia
some party, or some coalition of parties.-
These are the things in which men are coun-
selled TO their main trust. These are the ex.
| pedieuts by which the great hopes of man
kind are TO he accomplished. Aud SO pas
sionate, SO blind is the confidence of men in
things of this kind, that to preserve consti-
tuition inviolote, or TO secure the ascendancy
of party, they consent TO repress the strong
est instincts OF humanity. They would ST.
lence those who assert the eternal laws OF
God. They are willing that millions should
languish in brutal ignorance and hopeless
bondage. and are ready themselves TO he
slaves. And in doing so, they fancy all the
while that they are the wise men and the
prudent, that they understand the thing;
while such as contend for instant submission
TO an eternal law are unreasoning entlIusi-
nsts, the wretched victims of one idea.
Is it not now worth while to consider
which is the part of wisdom, which, in the
long run, is most expedient for us, for the
whole country, for the whole world: to rely
upon those plain dictates of Right and Love
which are written by the finger of God upon
the universal heart of man, or TO place all
our confidence in the success of some politi-
cal contrivance or party, the work, not OF ma
ture, or the God Of nature, but Of men; o.
men, too, who, for the most part, as every
body is saying, have some motive of person
al ambition; Of men who are caring anxious
{ ly for money and for Office? Which, it Ger
tainly becomes us to ask, which is the wi
sest the most expedient, to trust in thos'
| primal principles, which have again ant
ngain shown themselves so mighty, an'
, which have Just been shaking the old worl'
to its centre, or 10 embark all Our hopes il
> some ffl.il political device, which may be de
. feated utterly, us political parties are defeate,
! almost every hour? Which faith has mos
!. reason in il, shows the most conprehensiy
|. outlook, nay, which is the soundest exped
4 ency? Which is most worthy an intelligel
a mau TO rest in, principles inwrought into tn
# very nature OF all men, and with which a
d Nature conspires, and God himself, the -Four
il tain of all Power and Wisdom, or in thos
!. superficial plans w 'ch are always deper
q dent ON contingencies over which we ca
Il have 10 control, and which, by their failur
h may AZ any moment dash the fairest purp'
u ses? Let him who would be prudent, /
,e him who would he politic-in the name
A. reason, let him once for all, and for ever, pV
s. his whole trust in the eternal law.
" There is not a man Of any intelligence AT
= observation who does not see what po
ve things our political parties arc, by what Sc
n seeking management they are ruled, Il
n how their goal is infiamod by the iorgetf
* ness of truth, and by most ruthless mutu
denunciations. II needs no study TO fiji
en- this out. In the newspapers, which cons
" tute almost the sole reading OF the multituC
he he who runs may read and see what SIN
~ means those are, by which so many Q
NJ, vaguely expecting that the world is to
ma carried forward TO universal freedom.
m IL any one wants 10 be satisfied of the
=. exnediencv of mara nolitical arranpefner