Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-08


freedom itself. 1t will pass over tho borders.
The events Of the lestt two years have shown to
all with half TN eye, what was plain enough be-
fore to clear sighted man, that Slavery must
be uprootcl from the South before our Freedom
at the North is secure.
A great crisis has now come The Federal
government has openly and publicly declared
itself in favor Of the idea Of Bondage, and hos
tile to the idea of Freedom. Tho President is
foi slavery; the Cabinet is for slavery; the
Wing Party is for slavery; the Democrats are
for slavery the leading merchants, with few, q
very few exceptions, arc in favor of slavery; the
leading newspapers, political and commercial,
arc in favor Of slavery; the leading clcrgymcn,
as general thing, have been true to the instinct
of their class have sided with money, sided
with power, and with the opprcssor against the
oppressed. think there arc not ten Prominent
politicians in tho United States, that dare lit up
their voice for freedom; don't know Of five
prominent clcrgymcn who do so. In Boston
whose is most traitorous is honored most. The
kidnappcr walks unrebuked in our streets; his
minister defends the business Of stealing men,
docs it publicly, in the pulpit of Jesus and in
the name of God. One of the richest men in
the city is said, on good authority, to be the
owner Of more than hundred human beings
/ think he would be more honored and respect
cd by his associates if the fact were known. II
he should set them all free, he would be honor
cd less than if he should sell them tomorrow
The great crime of DIR. Palfrey is, that he set
free and watched over the fellow men whom
his father held in bondage. The sin of Horace
Mann is only this, that he loves freedom and
hates slavery. The offence of Charles Sumner
is, only that he believes the first principle of the
Constitution Of Massachusetts, and of the De-
claration of Independence. Even in Massachu-
sets, the seed field Of the Puritans, have but
a few men who dare defend the great principles
Of Eternal Justice. An attempt has been made
to convince the people that there is no law above
the declarations of Congress; an attempt to es-
tablish Atheism the first principle Of govern
ment.
Well, my friend, these arc hard times; time,
of corruption, evil times. "He that seryeth tho
, Lord becometh prey;' yet think they Ort
glorious times also. l am glad the crisis ha'
como IL will be over all the sooner The two
; Ideas, the false and the true, are now in open
battle; every election is affected by this anti
slavery movement; we cannot ignore the ques-
ton; it is fairly before the people they sec
only little of its extent the whole will ap-
pear in due time. have no fear for the result.
Pennsylvania may rrccdc from the right even
Massachusetts may reccde; it will be only for a
day they will both come back to the True and
the Right, and give it their hearty approval,
their hearty love. God will give it triumph.
am glad that some black men have been
found at last, who dared to resist violence with
powder and ball. They are driven back to the
elementary instincts of human nature. The law
is against them public opinion is against them,
and the kidnapper arms to take their bodies
Men who reverence our fathers for throwing
British Tea into Boston Harbor, and shooting to
death the British soldiers at Lexington and
Bunker Hill, cannot fail to do honor to negroes
who rcpel violence by violence, and shoot the
kidnappcrs. Perhaps you will hang them for
treason. l suppose all that the money, all that
the talent, all that the corruption of the Ameri-
can Government can do to secure the condcm-
nation of those men, will be done. shall not
be surprised if some Of them are hung amid the
huzzas of Democrats and Wings, and with the
Ablessings of the clergy on the judicial crime.
But OF old time the blood of the martyrs was
the seed of the church, and the crow who made
his meal on the gibbet was the carrier pigeon
who bore glad tidings of great JOY to those who
waited for the consolation which liberty was
appointed to bring l say rejoice that negro
has shot a kidnapper. Black men may now
hold up their heads before those naughty Cau-
casians, and say, "You sec that VIC also can
fight. The power to kill is not monopoly ol
let us do without it while we can, forever if We
can. l am no non, resistant yet am glad the
leading anti-slavory men arc so-that great as
is the right Of Liberty, they would not shed q
drop of blood to achieve it for all mankind for
though think their doctrines extreme, they arc
yet nearer right think than the common no
tions. Let us have tirmncss without fight, as
long as possible.
am sorry my friend Garrison cannot go to
your Convention. wish it was possible fol
me to be there, and say one word in behalf ol
the Everlasting Right. As it is can only give
you my hearty good will and earnest desire that
your convention may neither forget its valor
nor its discretion-nethcr its Justice nor its
Love.
Truly yours,
THEODORE PARKER.