Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-03
elections
What The World thinks of il.

II puzzles even the most cross-cyed in
Enrope or elsewhere out of this Country to
see how portion of our people can heartily
welcome aud protect liigitives from Austrian,
British or Russian despolism and at the same
time enter heartily into the business of catch
ing aud binding fugitives from the more
stringent despotisn of Georgia or South Ca
rolina.-The following appeal from the Anti
Slavery Women of Glasgow to their Chris
tian sisters in the United States has just been
received und we print it from the original
manuscript We do not know that we vio-
late confidence in stating that il is from the
pen OF Rev. DR.. WARDLAw, whose reputation
as n scholar aud divine is already widely
extended among us.-.N Y. Tribune.
The Ladies' of The " Gidsgo,O Fcmaie .4ssocid-
tion for the Abolition of lSiGuery," 10 their
Christian SiSterhood IN Inc United States Of
America:
DEAR FRIENDS: We address YOU MS Our
fellow Christians, aud, we trust, in the spirit
OF our common faith, which is essentially the
spirit OF love--love to God, TO Christ, TO the
people OF God, and TO mankind
Ii is principle of which you will at once
admit the soundness, that whatever influence
for good man or wonlnn possesses, tie pos
session of IL constitutes its owner Gods
steward, for its appropriate and faithful use;
and at the same time that the "meek aud
quiet spirit" which the Divine word requires
as a characteristic of Christian womunhood,
is not at all incompatible with decision OF
Christian principle, aud with the determined
advocacy, within wornan's peculiar sphere, OF
a corresponding practice.
As American citizens, you feel deep and
warm interest in the honor, as well as in the
general prosperity of your country; and, MS
Al, ntt tI,, Inc or Zinn yot fppl nu IN
terest still deeper and warmer in the glory of
His name, the credit of His truth, the aItIIOri-
" OF His laws, aud the progress OF Ills king
dom. We sympuihize with you III these
feelings and our object in now addressing
you, is TO point your attention anew, with all
affection and with all earneslness, To the stain
upon your cOuntry's honor, the hlndrance TO
your country's prosperity, aud the peril to
your cOuntry's safety, as well as the iOul slug
ma that is affixed to the name, the truth, aud
the authority OF our divine King, and the oh
stacles thus thrown in the way OF tie ad-
vuncement of his spiritual dOIninlon, by the
prevalence among your countrynien, to SO
frighIlul an extent, OF the accursed system of
SLAVERY.
You cannot but be aware. that so long as
this stute of things continues to exist, AMERi-
CAN FREEDOM must continue TO he, us II now
is, the taIInt OF the civilized world-the all
mirable principles OH which your National
Constitution is based no better than "great
swelling words Of vanity"-nnd LIBERTY n
word which no American can utter without
a blush. We speak plainly aud faithfully
BE not angry with us. We earnestly wish
this foul blot wiped away from the otherwise
glorious escutclieom OF your country; and
we wish you, and urge you, TO put forth
hat JnsrrinIinn aud at lpuItl-
mate influence YOU possess, ior efitcing lis
speedy and entire removal. Aud while we
press this upon you as II duty you owe TO
true PATRIOTISM, we press you ALSO as fellow
Christians, that you steadily seek, 10y The
same influence, the severance OF so thgrant
all outrage on the spirit OF Christian Truth,
and the letter OF Christian Law, AT once from
the personal aud the national profession OF
Christianity.
The spirit of Christian Truth is the divine
spirit OF righteousness and mercy III unison
and the letter OF Christian Law" is, "Whnt-
soeyer We would that men should do TO you,
do you even so to tIIem" We lay it down,
therefore, as n maxim, OH the principle of
this law unassailable, that, regarding Save-
~ under the one simple aspect OF PROPERTY
IN MAN, apart ironI all the wrong aud out
rage which in practice have SO lnmentnbly
characterized II, tDe only lnau on ehr'n WHO
can consistently hold a fellow man ms slave,
is the inau who, before God and the world,
can lay his hand upon his heart aud say"
should like 10 be such sldue myself" Is there
such man TO he found ?-such an anomaly
in his species-such u recreant to all correct
principle, TO all manly and noble feeling, to
all the very instincts OF his nature? Not in
Britain, we are sure. Aud will you allow It
TO be said or thought that the solitary satire
on humanity is 10 he found in the American
Union?
We had gladly, in common with all the
friends of America on this side the Atlantic,
INDUCED the hope that there was progress
among your countrymen toward better
state of things. But your recently enacted
"FUeITIvE SLAVE LAW has, in no small de-
gree, dashed these hopes. Ii may indeed
turn out-and would il may lin the provi-
dence of Him who so frequently aud so mys-
teriously brings good out of seeming evil,
that the violent collision between this iniqui-
tous and oppressive statute, and the princi-
pies of liberty in the national mind, may have
the effect, by natural and salutary reaction,
of forwarding the cause which IL aupeafa