Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-02


pei of Commerce has not driven the God of
Christianity out of the hearts of men. ]
know one man who has got n'neiy-thrce Gtgi-
tue sidues ont of this City and into freedom
in the British Provinces. lie needs none of
our applause. There is One who secth in
secret, aud rowardcth the good deeds done
in secret.
So much for the action on both sides-ab-
normal and normal action. Apparently,
good deal has been lost but | think, in the
past year, good deal has been won. The
old Law OF 1893 was IA failure. Mr.. Quincy
Says no man was ever returned from Massa-
chusetts under it. lie may be misiaken.-
still, it was a failure. 1t recognized the prin-
ciple in the Constitution, and the legal obi-
cation TO obey il; that was all. The Fugi-
tive Slave Law will prove n worse failure
In the eight months since its passage, il has
driven, | suppose, ten thousand American
citizens into the British Provinces. How
many Fugitiyes has it returned TO the South?
! think not twenty. III Boston, il has given
the Queen of England 800 or 400 subjects,
and the Slave states one single Fugitive.
Only one has been returned from all New
England. Al what cost was that done p
How much has il cost that excellent and
respectable citizen Mr.. Potter, of Savannah?
iloW lltlCu IidS u COsl IOSlOU IlOW MUCH
the United States? The stealers of men lin
Georgia. will find it costly work; the mer-
chants of Boston will find il dear way of
! advertising their Cuttons. Aller all, notwith-
standing the laws OF Massachusetts were all
cloyen 10 the ground, and the Sims Brig
ade' was on foot three days and three nights,
and as valiant as Falstui1;-Sims had TO be
carried off by the shortest possible route, in
the night, and in its darkest hour! The Kid
nappers, with the Courts of Massachusetts
kneeling before them, with the authorities
of the city at their command, with the Army
and Navy of the United States to help them,
and the Sims Brigade on foot to serve
them-the Kidnappers had to take their
prey out of Boston in the dark, meanly,
sneakingly, and by stealth!
The Antl-Slavery enterprise never looked
so promising us at this moment. The Fugi-
tive Slave Law has done us service :-'Whom
the Gods destroy they first make mad Mr..
Clay said he did not erpect Fugiiipes 10 be re-
turned by This Ldlu; only 10 SOothe The feelings
Of The South! Why, there is North 10
soothe as well. This soothes it with nettles
There is one great obstacle TO Liberty il
America-that is, the COuetousness of aIl
men. IL is the sane North or South.
makes slaves there; here it holds them.
r hates Democracy in both places. Ere long
i think we shall see an open union between
the Covetousness of the North and South
there has long been a secret alliance
There, it will oppose free labor, as it always
has done; here, oppose free trade; in both,
free thought, free speech, the unalienuble
| rights of man. That is the Slavery Party
When both wings unite, we shall see more
clearly the foe we have 10 meet. This Par
| ~ in the South has already broken the Con-
! stitution. What is the Constitution of the
United States in South Carolina, in Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and Ken
lucky? Let Frederick Douglass go there
and see. Let Samuel Hoar go TO Charleston,
and ask for the Constitution of the United
States! Yet Mr.. Webster comes TO the
North TO talk up the Union! We know what
| all that means
Well, is America TO forswear the great
Political Idea which has guided her general
conduct for two hundred and fifty years p
When the Ethiopian changes his skin and
the leopard his spots We shall never 90
back. The exceptional, abnormal action be-
comes less and less, and Slavery be scorcll-
ed and burned up like morning clouds at the
rising of the sun. Such exceptional move
menls occur in all nations: in England, un-
der the second Charles and James; yes in
England from 1890 to 1919. The nations
move by echeiOn, not in lines with a single
front. We are now contending for the dens
which appear in Magma Charta; which Sir
John Fortcscue praises in the laws of Eng
land, 400 years ago; which conquered at
home when English royalty disappeared in
front of Whitehall on the Both January, 1919;
which came here in 1920, to grow yet strong
or on virgin soil; which blossomed visibly
before the eyes of the nation on the 4th of
July, 1776, and will one day give broad
shade TO all mankind-leaves ior the healing
of the nations, and fruits for every man -
The roots of English aud American Liberty
run under the sea and unite; the branches
thereof spread over the ocean and embrace.
1t cannot be torn up without splitting the
globe. Ii will grow for ever yea, when the
names of America and England, now carved
upon the rind, shall have been outgrown, eff
faced and forgotten.
What is to hinder the progress of Liberty,
the downfall of Bondnges In the South,
there are only 9,5693i5 persons, all told; of
these, only 6393,756 are free. In the North,
we have l3,553,32S lfeemen! In the next
Congress, the South will have 81 Represen-
tatiYes in the House, the North 1872 The
Census of Property would be yet more re-
mnrkable while The Statistics of Education,
Morals, the Census of Character, would show
yet more plainly which way the Balance of
Power inclines
thank God that we live at the time when
this great struggle is going on-this contest
of ideas The contest itself is of great val
ue. 1t is not like the war of the Roses in
England, question of persons, of families,
without ideas-a war chiefly valuable from
the fact that it used up the oppressors of the
people, and, thinning out the mobiles, gave
the gentry chance to come up; it is war
between Right and Wrong. And the Right
is sure to triumph at the last, The interest
of mankind is on our side-the obvious ma
terial interest as we'll as the eternal spiritual
interest. With us is the impetus which the
Anglo'Saxon race has acquired in the last