Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-13
WHOE NO. 3l2.

II VIII radically overthrow and reconstruct
the institutions OF the nation. II n,nv DO n
Revolution fought out on Marsion Moors or
Bunker iiills, or its victories may be won on
the logomachic fields Of parliamentary de-
bate, aud decided by aye and no, and not by
bnyonet and sabre. II may be Revolution
like that which struck off the head Of Mon
archy before White Hall Ia 1G49, OF Il may
be one like that which virtually annihilatesi
tho House Of Lords, as a substantive inde-
pendent branch Of the Government, in tho
adjoining Parliament House, in 1879. But,
come ia what shape II may, il will DO Revo-
luton, and Il will be brought about like all
other Revolutions that ths world has ever
known. And how is ,Iat9 Solely BY tho
change which had been gradually wrought
in the feelings, tho wishes, The ideas Of tho
nation, which was nt once the objecthnd the
agent OF the Revolution. Il is the whole
some discontents, the righteous dissatisfhc-
tons, arising in the minds of the people, in
the presence of the abuses by which they
find themselves surrounded, that drive men
TO embrace the alternative OF Revolution. Il
Is the men who first discern these abuses,
who fan these discontcnts, who foment these
dissa,isIactions, that are the true movers Of
the Revolution, aud not those who become
prominent when It first begins to take unto
itself form and proportion. II Yves not Crom-
well that struck off the head of Charles. IIo
was but the creature of the men who, for
more than century, had been trying, first,
TO Reform the Church, and, next, TO Reform
the Reformation, and who had encountered
torture, confiscaton, exile and death in their
course. IL was not Otis nor Adams nor
Washington thnt made the Revolution Of
l776 They but obeyed tie impulse which
had swept down to them, over Leyden aud
over Plymouth, from those old times of Pu-
ritan resistance to Power in defence OF
Rights. 1t was not Earl Grey that paIsied
the House of Lords by the touch of the Re-
form Bill. He only executed the purpose
which had been strengthening in the Eng
lish mind for a half century, aud for encour-
aging which Hardy and Horn Tooke and
Thelwall were tried for their lives, not forty
years before. lie received the Garter for
accomplishing what they narrowly escaped
the Halter for attempting.
Now il is precisely this necessary part in
the true American Revolution which the
Aboliiionists of the American AntiSlavery
Society are engaged in performing. They
are compelling the attention of tho peopls
to the actual state Of the facts and Institutions
in the midst Of which they live. They are
Appealing TO the hearts and to the highest
material Interests Of tho nation, which 20 70
create that determinntioninfI fIie general mind
which will rot stop short Of the Revolution
which invokes il. They are arousing tho
Conscience and awakening the Passions Of
great mnsses Of men, which, when aroused
and awakened, sweep onward with irresisti-
BILE sway TO their design. Slavery exists in
this country, and governs il, because the
People choose TO have it so. Because they
have no lively sense of the atrocity of the
slave system nor of their own guilt in con-
sentng to it. Because they doubt that, on
the whole, they may not be better off with
Slavery than they would be after the exertion
necessary TO destroy il, or 10 remove themr
selves from their support Oft. Because, like
all mankind before them, they will long
choose to " bear the ills they have" rather
than take the trouble and incur the risk Of
reforming them. This vis ineriig has to ln
overcome in every case of Reformation or
Of Revolution. And this is what we are do
ing. This moral letharRy and insensibiliry
is to be disturbed and alarmed. And, If we
may, believe our enemies, we have done this
part ofour work, or rather have begun to do
il, tolerably well. Until this is done, no
great political change can bo effected. When
the great body ofa nation is thoroughly a.
reused and fully in earnest to abate nm abuse
or evil institution, be it even the institution
Of its own Govern nent, it is sure TO do their
pleasure, tHuNii- 'Yt
When the people of the Northern States
are az determined that Slavery shnll no long
or exist ny their consent or their co-opera-
tion, as the Puritans ana their descendants
in England aud America were to obtain tho
purposes OF their successive revolutions, and
'as the British nation was to secure CathoIic
Emancipation, Parliamentary Reform, West
India Emancipation and Free iraue IN
Food, they wlli flnd ways ana means OF Lea car
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