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

FELLow CrTzENs; THERE seems to have
been handed down through successive ages
the cnblems Of ancestral grandeur, the re-
cords of the daring deeds Of warriors upon
the crimson field Of hateful strife, where men
created little lower than angels are converted
into fends, and where oil the finer feelings
ofour nature are uampled in the dust of
humiliation beneath tho chariot wheels of
some ambitious conquerer, commissioned of
hell to desolnte the hcarths and homes of
countless inyriads of human beings. In-
scriptions commemorative of their deeds Of
blood have been inscribed on the frowning
Pyramid, whose grunito peak has towerod
sublime forty centuries, embcmatic of
Egyptian grandeur, designed to impress on
our minds the achievements of those who
preceded us. We find that Eureka" the
cry Of the immortal Euclid in the streets OF
Alexandria, is rendered immortal in the
conceptions of men. IL seems to he prin-
ciple inherent in our nature TO review the
past results of national and individual action,
20 cherish aud commemorate with gratitude
son with these natural instincts we have
met in remembrance of an act of national
benignity and disinterested benevolonce un-
equaled in the world, one that will be the
glory of England aud the admiration of pos
terity when the Naval achievements of Mel
son, and the glory of Waterloo shall have
faded from the recolections of mankind
But while we arc now assembled In this
open temple of the air, beneath n smiling
sky, to pay our homage to that day on which
the Joyous Bell of British Liberty sounded
funeral dirge over the grave of West India
Slavery, and while every pulsation of the
inner man beats bigh in the cause of civil
and political liberty, let us not forget TO re-
member the wrongs and outrages perpeua-
ted upon the millions of our own country
men that clank their chains beneath tyrant's
lash in the dark asylum of Southern oppres-
sion. But let words of comnisseration 60
up to-day from this altar consecrated to that
event whose commemoraiion we now cele-
brate; and would to God that our words
could be borne on every northern gale that
sweeps amid the everglades of Florida and
the glens of Louisiana, until they should be-
come the appropriate anthem of hope and
Joy to the crushed and bleeding slave, vino
is robbed of his manhood and converted into
a thing. This, be il soid, is the everlasting
disgrace of the American nation, in land
boastiiiI Of its love of liberty and Free insti-
tutions, its Colleges and Academies, its Sc
minaries of learning, its monuments Of mod
ern art and refinement, who approprates
her domain for the benefit of the refugees of
unfortunate Hungary, who sympathizes with
starving Ireland, with bleeding Rome, with
sgonizing Poland, with struggling Greece,
and sighing Italy, who exhaust the vocabula-
ry of donunciation against despotic Austria
and s0veholding Russia, and yet cling with
filial affections to a system of despotism the
worst that ever cursed the world, a system
that blots out the intellect, crushcs every
manly aspiration, stiles the sensibilties, driei
mp the warm gushing and passionate emo
tons of the human soul, and applies III,
damning title of Chattle to the God-like form
of humanity, dethrones the workings of hi
youthful intellect, aleniates his energy ant
ambition, and drugs man down from IN,
sublime and dignifed position of humanity
and herds him with the beast of burthen.
Such are the effects and tendencies of tina
hell-deserving and God-defying institution
now sought TO be extended over the free sol
ofNew Mexico and California, to blight an,
TO curse il through all coming time. North
ern statesmen, led on by the mighty Web
ster, whose speech ON Plymouth rock il
among the best productions of American lit
erature, who reared a monument of intellec
tual greatness over the hallowed tombs O
Adams and Jefferson, that no catastrophe
shall ever demolish, and the sentiments Civ
en- utternnce there by that great man, will
yet be adopted by his countrymen, and tell
with irresistible force on The strong-h holds OF
American Slavery. There his heart was in
spired with a coal from the altar of human
freedom but now, how fallen! the mighty
thunderbolts he hurled at Plymouth in 1890
against the accursed slave trade, his solemn
and impassioned appeal to his countymer
every where 10 discountenance and abolish
1t, seems TO retain no bold on his memory
but now in the winter of his life his voic,
cnn be heard in the dome of the American
Senate, not in favor of freedom, as then, bu
in favor of Slavery. Seeking indirectly b
his influence to rebuild the rude temples {
heathenism long since Frustrated by th
Herculean nerve of Mexican Barbarism, I
Te-enact those scenes ofsorrow, that fill th
mind with unutterahe anguish, irrcpressibl
griefand cOinmisseration, making the air re
sound with the cries of the bondman, unit
his wall is lost in the solemn murmers of th