Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-10
9 elrrtto MS.
From the National Anti Slavery Standard.
Luw.Abidlng Boston!


Order reigns in Boston The law is tri-
umphant! The dsOrgnnizers are defeated
The Compromises are vindicated! The Un-
ion Is snie There is Joy and exceeding
gladness in State Street, IN the hope that It
may he forgiven by the PatHarchal South for
virtues that il never had. The pupiis OF
Winter Street and Charles Street resound
with thanksgiving to Almighty God TINT lie
hath mercifully provided victim such as
His soul loyeih, aud Ilaii graciously strength
ened the hands of Ills ministering servants
that they might fiily offer him up II living
sacrifice. Though lie prizeth not the blood
of rams and Of goats yet the blood of ne
gro, guilty Of stealing himself, us II will flow
down his back at the whipping-post of Sa-
vannah or be dried up under the hopeless
suns of Louisiana or Texas is n sweet SAVIOR
in His uostrls. This is the oblalion which
the piety aud patriotism of Boston has brought
before the Lord. Shall il lie u vain oblatiOn?
Will lie not answer il? Shall He not be
avenged upon such people ns this T? at is
a people of no understanding. Therefore
He that made them will not have mercy up
on them, aud lie TINT formed them will show
them no Iavor." The lying priests that pro-
phesy unto them say" Ye shall have peace ;
aud they say unto every one that walketh at
ter the Imagination of his own heart, no evil
ehall cone upon youp Therefore, behold
], even ], saith the Lord, will utterly forget
you; and will iorsake you, and the city that
gave TO your fathers; aud will bring AN
everlasting repronch upon you, and perpe-
tual shame, which shall not be forgottenw
This everlasting reproach," and this
"perpetual sIlame," Boston has brought up
rTha Iiuina la,V al ltirll vim
dicated themselves by fearful retribmions
upon rebellious nations of old, extend over
us also. The penalty of violated law is as
inevitable and inexorable as the doom of
death that attends the suicidal hand that
strikes the heart that warns it. IL was by
no reversal or suspension of eternal laws,
but by their due course, that empires and
Kingdoms of the elder world, Jew aud Cen
tile, Assyrian, Roman, Greek, persisted from
off the earth, leaving their memories only,
like the skeletons of nlulelactOrs hung in
chains, to alright and warn mankind. The
ways of God TO man in these latter days may
be different in their manifestations, but can
never he changed in their essence. The
judgments OF God may seem to sleep, but
that they will sooner or later awake aud fall
upon the man or the men that may defy
them, is MS certain as that He exists. The
few millions of liliputatians that crawl over
this iuconsiderable portion of this obscure
planet, confident in the strength oitheir arms
of two cubits length, aud in the number of
their few hundred day,, and in their wisdom
which is ioOlishness, may think themselves
able TO dethrone Him that sitteth in the
Heavens aud holdeth the Universe in the hol-
low of his hand. But will lie not laugh
them to scorn? They may hide their selfish
schemes Of ayarice aud cruelty under what
specious names they will, and think TO set
them above all that is called God. But will
he not have them in derision?
II is not difficult to discern that Penalty,
even here, "npon this bank and shoal of
Time," is ever the companion rather than
the swift follower of Crime. This Nation,
when it first sprung, armed and full grown,
into existence, agreed, for the sake OF lis
own Imagined safety and advantage, to con-
sent that one sixth part of its Inhabitants
should be stripped Of every natural and civil
right. The People soemnly agreed to help
TO keep these their equal brethern in chains,
one hour of which was worth "A whole eter-
nifty of the political bondage which they had
broken with their swords, and TO rivet them
anew should any have the energy and Vir-
tue 10 escape from them. Has the Nation
profited by the bargain? The shareholders,
indeed, have enjoyed the miserable privi-
lege of plunderiug the poor, at the expense
OF the strength, the wealth. and the morals
of their people. But what have the Free
States gained by it, except the boon of per-
pet,ial submission TO the meanest and most
despicable oligarchy that ever cursed the
earth? From this Infamous band have they
been sadded with Presidents and with poll
cies. Thence have come wars, commercial
commissions, impeded industry, shackled
trade, blasted character, debased morality,
and worse than heatllenized Christianity
They have grown in numbers and material
prosperity, TO be sure; but it has been in
spite of their preposterous alliance with their
natural and necessary enemies, and not be-
cause Of il. Incalcnlably greater would have
been its growth and It's strength had the
young Hercules strangled the serpent that
haunted his cradle, instead of fostering il in
his bosom. From the beginning of our ma
tional existence, Slavery has been the OBJ
yious or the occult cause of oil our national
crimes and caiamities. II has been unceas.
ing inits demands. Its cry has been, Give
Give. And the Nation has never been wea.
y Of ofpouring its blood and i,s Treasure into
IN bosom. lr.t H fH1 Is3srsg