Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-10
NO.35
Letter from Joseph Treat.


body must do something. The slave is in chains.
Millions of slaves are in this condition. And
six times as many millions more want to have
them stay in that condition. The Government
desires this. The Church desires it. That is,
the Church had rather have the slaves remain
where they are, than to have her own peace
disturbed The Clergymen of the country wish
to have the present state Of things continue
They had rather the slave should be held a
while longer, than to lose their salaries And
80 10000 of them fellowship the damnable sin.
The Politicians, wish to have things remain
about so. They are intent on Office, and the
spoils of victory. 1t would not do to leopard
the success of the party, by favoring abolition
too much. But above all, the Union, demands
that slavery should be allowed to live. The
dear, glorious Union, would absolutely give up
the ghost and fall to pieces, If it were not for
slavery, it would topple over, we're it not for
this old crutch, it would sink into the depths Of
hell. were it not for this precious corner stone,
it would explode and fly into thin air, were not
its walls cemented with the blood of its 3,O0O,-
900 of victims. In short, verify believe the
poor, dear, old creature would lie right down
and die Of broken heart, IL it should find that
it couldn't have slavery for a bcdfellow and a
nest-egg any longer
Yes, that is il the Northern States want this
horrible systom to continue. They wish to
have the Bastile stand. On the whole, they
desire moro victims on the bloody altar to be
inundated. For this, they remain in the I'm
ion. For this, they swear allegiance to the hell
ish Covenant. For this, they bind themselves
to restore the Fugitive. For this, they agree to
shoot down the insurgent. For this, they give
the pirates power in Congress. For this, they
sit with them at Washington. For this, they
elevate slaveowners and shareholders to the
Presidency. These things they do, and seem
determined to do, though they know the result
must be the perpetuity of a bondage that would
have disgraced the Agcrne Corsairs. They
wish, then, to have the slaves still held. New
England wishes so. The land of Carver and
Bradford of Hancock and Adams, wishes to be
remembered in the time to come, as the ally of
Tyrants. SO does New York. Well may she
DO called the Empire, for she has made herself
so. What Macdonald was to Napoleon in the |
terrible charge at Wagram, she is to Slavery |
"she I the Empirc!" And shame on Ohio, for |
she wishes SO too! She too, must belong to the |
oody-guard. She must defend the freobooters.
In good or evil report, she with the rest must
cling to tho old bulk. Even though the slave |
should clanl his chains for years as the conse-
quence, she still must take Virginia and Texas
to her bosom. A mighty nation herself, she
yet could not stand if she were not in league
with Despots. And so with all the other North
srn States. They must all, with one consent,
stand by the South-stand by slavery. And
standing by it thus, they are omnipotcnt to sus-
tain IL.
0 heavy curse, hot and Kissing through my
clenched teeth, but deep from my heart of
hearts, on the slaveholding American Union
A curse on H. and not only on its pro-slavcry
General Government! curse on 1.-THE
thing itsclf--ths very glorious, idolzed Union
Aye, a curse on the Confcderacy of these States
A curse on the mighty Fabric reared by the
Sircs of the Revolution, even Though the i'm
precation should onvoke the angry shade of the
Father of his Country! Acurse on the very
Formation of the Union-for it was q crime: on
its Continuance since-for it has been contn-
ually greater crime; on its Existence noc-for
this last is the crime of crimes Never did the
sun look upon its like. No age has witnessed
a sin to compare with it. 1t is q spectacle to
the Race, to the Spirit in all Spheres, to God
and tho bright Angels. There is not sin in it,
but itself is sin. As said the Hebrew Seer with :
regard to the solemn meeting so runs Truths
unfailing record with respect to this Confcdera-
cy-"H Is hiquity, even The Glorious Union r.
And SO / curse it-it-and not the people IN .
il: it-and not those who make it; IL the deed
and not those who do the decd. They, are to (
pitied, enlightened, rebuked, converted. Men ,
we will bless, though they be evil; we will love
them, for they are brothers; we will be good to
them, for God is; but we will hate their &C. .
tions--our souls shall loathc and damn their
treason-nor shall our hearts fear to curse their
mightiest Governments and most idolized Gus .
Iitutions, even in the very name of the Eternal
Jehovah! Aye, hurl thunder at the Union :
in the name Of God, for he hurls thunder at il,
md it hurls thunder at him 1t is nothing but
4 Conspiracy against him. and against the rights p
of his human children. 1t is mere Co-part- 4
nership of Robbers-a great Nest of Pirates - l
Il is huge Atheist, "exalting itself above all &
hat is called God, or that is worshipped." 1t
was formed for tho express purpose of holding
,laves, and it exists for the same hellsh end
till. Were it not for the Union there would
De no slaves-i Is the Shareholder! Without it, :,
'lavery would have long since been dead it has "
Icpt the guilty system alive till now; it has !,
sised it from the abject condition in which it :;
ay at the formation ofthe Government, to its = =
present growth of kingly power and naughty
bride; it has increased the number of its VIC