Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-26
T II E B U G L E .
Letter from Joseph Treat.
PRovIDENcE, June 9th, 1876

Mr. DEAR MARIUs; Well, since / lust
wrote you, men have been playing the fool
on large scale. They have done it here in
the East, and they have done it with you in
the far West They have been keeping
Fourth of July, or at least pretending to do
so, and certainly they have made out to keep
the last syllable of it they have kept the lie
part of it, if nothing more! Yes, it has been
truly lie, all lie, and nothing but lie.-
The people of this country have never kept
n Fourth of July, since they were an iude-
pendent nation. Aud they never will, till
they make First of August. The South
will never KEEP it, till she frees every one of
her slaves. The North never will, till she
cuts loose from the South and compris her to
free them. And, (in case the North will not
do this,) the Buckeye State will never keep
il, till she comes out and declares herself in-
dependent of all the other States, Just as our
fathers declared themselves independent of
Great Britain. Sine ought to pursue this
course, for the same reason they did, TO be
free from tyranny; and still more, for anoth-
or and greater reason, which our fathers had
not. So her citizens may not be tyrants Them
selves. And she has the same rigid TO do it,,
that they had, for she is more powerful ma
ton than they were. II they numbered
100000, her inhabitants cannot rate less
than 100000 to day, and they are all
crowded together OH a small surface, and en-
joying this advantage, and also that of supe-
rior enlightenment, and knowledge is pow
er,l they are better able to stand alone, and
maintain a position among the other Sow
reignties of the earth, than all the Colonies
Combined. Let her issue her Declaration
Of Independence then Let her.celebrate the
old Fourth, of July-the Fourth of July
l776-by making ne,o one-by making the
Fourth of July 1851, as illustrous by her
Declaration, as the fathers made the other
day by theirs Alas il is too late the hour
has gone by. She missed the golden oppor-
tunity, and 12 long months must roll, ere it
will return again. Aud those II MONTHS
how long they will be to the slave Well,
Ohio must not ,cait those IL months. The
delay will be purchased AZ too dear rate !
She must take time by the lorelock, and lay
hold of the First of August Nay, could |
have my way, she should not put it off even
till then,-she should walk out Of the Union
TO day God send it!
And If Ohio will not declare herself inde-
dependent of the other States, then every
one who would not desecrate and profhne
the Fourth of July ought to declare himself
or herself Independent Of Ohio Garry out the
principle. There is no other way. No man
can act consistent part on that day, with
out cutting loose from this Piratical Confede-
racy. No man can do other than prostitute
the day to an unholy use, who does not
olition. He may be Free Soiler, and make
eloquent speeches against slauay eriensioH,
as Hale, Palfrey, Allen, and others did here
Mt Worcester last Friday, but if he does not
slauery-desiruetion, he don't keep Fourth OF
July lie only profanes that Sabbath
Aud this makes me think of the great
Free Soil Con "ention at Ravenna. l have
carefully reud the RESOLUTIONS adopted by
that meeting, and do not find one single
word against slavery Not one Nor IN the
reports of the speeches, unless perhaps, IN
that of Samuel Lewis, and do not recoiiect
distinctly enough to say about that. Much
was said, to be sure, against making slave
States out of free Territory-against the
Fugitive Law-and against the action OF the
General Government in behalf of the wick
ed system; but not one solitary word against
slavery in As. free States 1t was not an Abo-
lition Convention-not even an Anti-Slave-
ny Convention. o it is a burning shame, and
nothing but shame!
Well, the abolitionists of Massachusetts
celebrated the Fourth as it ought to be cele-
brated. They met at Arlington, and though
the rain drove them in from tho beautiful
Grove, in the afternoon, yet they had great