Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-24
From the A. S. Standard.
PEACE.

| II - HOW utuI lliFtt iilONSulu ltulb SlIlIt
the Hebrew Prophet put into rememberablc
verse the truth that "there is 10 peace TO the
wicked" The history ofmanknd ever since,
ns well as always before, has confirmed the
truth of the apoihogm, aud yet mankind seem
MS far off from receiving il us when Isaiah
first uttered il in the ears of unbelieving Is
rael. Indeed, one would Judge, from the
care with which they seek to preserve and
| protect their wickedncss, that they esteem
them the things that do most pertain unto
their peace instead of being essentially in
compatible with it. Peace is what all na-
tons, ms well as all men, pursue as the main
condition of happiness; not peace as distin-
guished from war, especially, but the quiet
enjoyment of possessions and institutions,
aud freedom from disturbance or alarm, with
regard TO them. Yet how few either of men
or nations resognize the truth that righteous
ness-a scrupulous observance Of moral OBJ
legations and careful regard to all the rights
of others--is indispensably to this peace aud
safety. Few men, indeed, and no nations,
have advanced TO the perception of these
uxioms on which depends the solution Of all
moral aud political problems. Or rather,
perhaps, they have an instructive feeling that
what is good in their customs and laws will
take care of ITSELF while il is the evil that is
in them that calls for nurture and protection.
Certainly they appear TO cling TO their vices
aud their mischieis as il they were all that
made existence n blessing.
There are not many persons in this coun-
try that boldly avow that Slavery is n bless
ing per sc, and therefore TO be cherished and
defended. Indeed, the great mass of the
selfconslituted expounders of popular opin-
ion, in the North at least, profess TO regard it
as moral evil and nn abstract wrong. And
yet what hos been the burden of national pO-
litical action aud OF the answering responses
of press and pulpit for years, and especially
for the last eight months, but the duty OF non
interference with this evil and wrong, and
denuncaion of those who are aiming their
blows at it. The American People huve been
at issue with the Almighty for the last sixty
! years, if the son of AmoZ rightly expressed
the Divine Mind. "There is no peace, saith
my God, TO the wicked" "The country
must have peace" saith Daniel Webster, and
the cry is re-echocd through the land. But
how? by strengthening the bands of wick
: edness aud agreeing TO be even worse than
u our fathers, in the days of their comparative
ignorance, engaged for us that we should be
Now the battle is joined, and we shall see
y which Of the combatants will prevail. We
have no fears as TO the result. Although The
. | odds often seem TO the eyes thar look only on
, the outward appearance against the success
of the Truth, yet they that be with her are
more than they that be against her, as is al
ways found in the issue of the battle. We
do not believe that there is any Titanic pow
or in that " last erected" as well as most
impous and cruel of fends which the Amer
ican people now eXalt above all that is called
God, that can depose the Ruler of the Uni
verse and bring his councils to naught.
In every attempt TO remove political or
moral evils, the days of darkness are many.
Men say, things shall be forever as they now
are. What can change the front of opposi-
ton that now ranges itself against the Right?
The great Statesmen, the eminent Divines,
the reverend Judges, the learned lawyers,
the wealthy lundholders aud merchants, are
ali banded together to repel Innovation and
TO hinder these latter days from being made
better than those of old. But the Earth goes
on revolving round the Sun; decay aud
change and death pursue their inevitable
course; the strong man grows old and dies /;
the child is born aud grows up; the condi-
ton of ilux aud afllux never ceases; and 10 I!
ere men are aware, all things are become
new. Fresh eyes look upon the world and
, il is changed. How looked the chances that
, the Slave Trade would ever be branded as
piracy, to the contemporaries of Clarkson
' tire Emancipation when the Slave Trade
} was put under the ban of Civilization Aud
. yet, more than generation has passed away
> since the first was accomplished, aud one
~ ~ has more than half grown up since the las
0c " was complete. Men yet live who remembe
,, when Priestly was mobbed for holding opin
u ions which are now those Of the covering
u majority in England, and when Attorney
General Scott was trying to hang Hardy and
Horne Tooke for doctrines which make
= Prime Ministers now. In 1893, Fox declined
Y Joining the Society of the Friends OF the
8 People on the ground that "though he saw
It great and enormous abuses IN the Represen-
{. tation in Parliament, he confessed that he did
J. not see the remedy" Sheridan bad no more
@ faith than Fox in the feasibility OF Parllamen-
If tary Reform, and advocated Annual far-
v liainents and Universal Suffrage because the
K subject was thus opened without the possi-
biliy of being closed by success. And yet
G the next Parliament will count among It's
: members men born since the bloodless Re-
g volution of 1892.
: The history of our own country Is iull OF
Z. the same SORT of instruction. Whnt llkell-
q hood was there a century ago that IN twenty
1 five wears the American Colonies would be
I transformed into the United States9 How
few discerned the remote beginnings and
. dim prognostications of the American war
1 When Mr.. Garrison first preached the doc
! trine of Immediate Emancipation twenty
' years ago, who would have believed that al
: this time there would be recognizes Rep
resentation accepted as such by the Slave
Power) in The Senate and House Of Repre-
b. sentatives at Washington, Of the Idea whck
@ was then counted of men as toolishness ?
d Who would have dreamed that Slavery, 1
3 topic which all men seemed agreed TO ignore
3 would be the great and absorbing theme
Q thought and Of action, in so few sh IT years
Q Testing characters, trying opniot separa
ting the precious from the vile u ,SgHn