Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-22
From the Na,io, al Anti. Slavery S,cnlard.
Our Plan.


The question is oftcn asked Of the Abolition
lists, what is your plani How do you exp-ct
to do any thing in the direction of Emancipation
We might answer in the words Of the epitaph Of
Sir Christopher Wren in St. pauls, "si monu.
mcntum reqmyds, circumpice" II you want to
know what VIC have done, what we are doing,
and what VIC propose yet to do, open your eyes
and lo'k about you. The great virtue Of the
Anti slavery Enter rise is that it has no PLAN.
Or at least, If It's mi ih'y mrzs be not without
! plan, It is not what he wise aud statesman
like mon Of this world call such Our rlan.
! from the beginning has been 10 effect the
change in the opinions and feelings Of the indi-
viduol- that make up the nation, which must
| prccodc any change Of their institutions. Our
warfare Is with tho ideas Of the Nation, being
! well assured that as soon as VIC can overcome
thcm, there will lc no lack Of wise and states.
inanlikC mon 10 rc-orrangc them into tho out
ward forms which will have become inevitable.
As long as the American people believe Slave
70 to be good thing, or an evil thing for which
they were not accountable, or, az all events, as a
thing. good or evil, which conducos to their
greatness and prosperity it is plain that there's
no likelihood Of their setting themselves about
destroying L. Our business then, is TO disturb
tho quotudc into which the general mind has
settled itself upon this subject and to show how
fatal arc the moral and political errors upon
which they have built mp their social and polit-
ical institutions.
Well and what has been our success; Cir
cHp,pcci Look around YOU and see for your
selves Twenty years ago the public opinion
Of the whole country was comfortably made up
> to think nothing about Slavery, excepting that
i, was something that could not be helped and
that nobody was to blame for. Whatever po-
litica divisions there might be between parties,
G or between different sections of the country,
Slavery made no part in them. All agreed in
passing by on the other side if not in wound
ing afrcsh the PROSTATE body of HIM who had
n fallen among thieves. In the excitement which
1 shook the country during tho contest between
, Adams ard Jackson for the Presidency, who
= ever heard anything about the Slaves or the
: disturbance which slavery caused in tho ma
c chincry of government At the time of Multi
$ fication, was the integrity of the Slave System
' ono of the causes which provoked the Chivalry
of South Carolina to appeal TO Arms and to tho
God of Battles; Nothing ives heard of it,
Nobody was disposed to NEEDLE with it. Or
nobody but an obscure handful of fanatics, chief
ic ly confined to Massachusetts,, the most notori-
OF ous of whom, tho Mayor Of Boston (tho Hon.
W II. G.. Otis,) though searching diligently and
y going about like Diogcncs with a lantern, and
no with the assistance of all the police to boot,
ur could scarcely fnd Aquartcr of a century be-
OF fore, when Slavery impudently thrust Louisi-
ana into the compony of the States, and do
49, -, zen years before when, with even moro brazen
#, assurance it bullicd us out of the South Vest
~ crn Territory, there seemed TO be some sense
d, left of the cncroaching and grasping nature Of
a. Slavery, aud some spirit to attempt resistance
~ TO it. Bat Slavery was triumphant in both ca
w. -, scs and it seemed as if it was acknowledged
M Sovereign Lord and Absolute Master of the
DR. whole land.
MS How stands the case now Docs Slavery
= feel as safe as it did theni Though ever inso-
" lent, it is at least, not the insolencc of con-
%, tempt that it now shows towards us. In those
n days the subject was never moved in Congress.
oI The chief presses were silent upon it as tho
grave. The pulpits wcrc busy in their peeu-
"' liar work OF saving souls. The paramount duty
~, of catching negroes had not then been revealed
,l The feet OF those that brought the glad tiding
en- Of that great JOY were not yet beautiful urol
cy the mountains. The laws as they had cxistcC
ng for forty years were deemed all sufficient 70
~ the protection of Slavery. Even when the per
.,, sistcncy Of the Abolitionists had avowed th
l,c zeal of the counting houses and work shops .
,h? the Nor,L to rally about the darling institution
! Of their Southern customers, and Garrison wa
ne mobhcd aud Thompson driven out of the eoun
"' try, the South protested to be satisfied with tn
LOYALTY Of the North and to regard itself as sal
me in its brothers keeping. But those hulcyo
tc days arc past. The continual dropping of I'll
IAN Abolitionists told at last even on the stone
I'a' the Northern heart. The echoes Of tho Mort
;,' and West were heard in tho Capitol. Ant
Slavery could no longer be kept out OF Cor
lea grcss. 1t presented itself, with It's credentia
mi in its hand, and insisted upon being heard
uld Though its seat was vchemcntly contested,
80 prevailed, and has been for many sessions Il
most prominent and loudcst member Of Coz
res gre,s. Even during the last session, when
ing had been gaggcd aud its tongue bored throug
hey with hot iron, lis very silence was more cl
o' Qucnt than the loudcst phrase, and provok
i"S iuSi even more and wider discussion than had fc
en-. lowed It's froccst speech.
nnd And for further jewels of our crown have
one not Texas, anhsthc Mexican War. and califc
,rce mia, which the Incident of the gold discovc
"'s which filled it with New England populali