Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-09

Well, Friend c., that is rather liberal.-
Some IRE not willing TO take meat that con-
tuins any bone, and rather go without meat
or feed on almost anything than cat that
which is bony.
suppose the Cabin he Icais is the Hall
of Liberty, in which we advocate the right
of all human beings il so, it is bone that
all had better make up their minds to pick,
and the sooner the better.
Oar whole crew believe that every human
being has n right to life aud liberty, and to
the means to support life, and when we
cease TO advocate this doctrine may the Boat
go down to" Old Davies Locker" without
friend to mourn It's loss.
am not in favor of urging slaves to mur-
der nor in any way to wrong their masters,
even to gain their liberty, yet do think that
slavery is one of the greatest pieces of in
justice that the sun ever shonc ON, and that
it will yet prove the utter overthrow and
downfall of this nation unless speedily abol-
ishcd. We might as well place a deadly SER
pent in our bosom, aud expect to escape
harm, or hug 1ircbrands to our heart aud eX-
pect to escape unscathed, as to grasp human
beings as slaves and expect to prosper
Slavery is against the laws of eternal right
and must eventually fall beneath the mighty
arm of right, and the longer the American
people hold up the dreadful wrong, the more
terrible will the crash and ruin be when it
does fall. My heart sicliens when think
that this great nation which has been cxalt-
ed to heaven in point Of privileges, and
might have been the most glorious nation
that ever existed, has covered herself with
lnfany, and must yet be thrust down to hell,
must he rent asunder and its own fields
must be dyed with the blood of its own
children. What write is not guess work
it is not the raving of a fhnatic, but solid
truth, and that will stand through time aud
eternity. This nation is Union of thieves
"A horde of pirates-they have robbed,
ileeced, murdered the once inoflcnsiye Indi-
ans, and nearly destroyed them from the face
of the earth have stolen the black man
from his native country, reduced him TO a
level with beasts, and eXacted his labor with
stripes which mercy would weep TO see
them inflicted on the dead body of a once
faithful brute, aud has enslaved his children
from age to age, living in idleness and luXu-
ry on the products of their tolls, while the
poor oppressed, were toiling from sun TO
sun, and iarng hard, robbed of parents, hus-
bands, wives and children-she has murder
ed and robbed the McXicans without cause
in short, our blessed Glorious Union" has
plundered all that she had courage to attack
has been built up in oppression and wrong
and bloodshed, and though she may pros
per for time, the elements of destruction
are contained in her own organization, and
perish she must, unless she soon bestirs her
self to come into possession of better spir-
it. Wrong aud outrage and oppression can
not always prosper; and those who flatter
themselves that human slavery can always
be defended and protected, aud supported in
this nation, are Just MS niuch mistaken as
they would be in waging war with Omnipo-
tence, with hope Of victory.
Though ] am opposed to slavery of all
kinds, do not feel like denouncing the
shareholders of the South as the worst of
men. | consider them no worse than our
northern Land monopolists, who grab the
land and then grind down their homeless
landless brothers, in their wages, and wear
them out faster than they do machines of
iron and wood. They are no worse than
our northern priests and churches, maiori-
ty of whom are the bull dogs and hunting
hounds TO guard and defend slavery and
catch slaves. | doubt not there are many
among Shareholders who are kind and hui !
mane,-also many who love slavery for its
profit-and many who having been brought |
up in its midst, do not see what monster it |
is, while others consider it n curse aud would |
be glad to be rid of it if they were able to
lose what they consider property, or if the |
laws would permit them to let their slaves
go free. But perhaps l have said enough !
for the present; l do not like TO place 100
much bone before passenger at once, till
he gets little used to picking
Now will my friend reason with me lit |
tie? Will he give me all the reasons he |
can in favor of human slavery?