Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-09-11
I Ii E B U G l. E
Money aud Slavery.
DAISBRIDGE, August 2shh 80

FhrEND RoBiNsoS: The Spirit smith uuro
me iorite of all the evils that exist under the
sun, that they may be done away. We read,
the "The love of money is the ROOT Of NIL
evil" IL 30, is il not the root from whence
springs Slavery, lntemperunce, Theft, aud
all the evils iIut distract society, and renders
this beautiful Earth of ours u moral, barren,
and dcsoiate waste II vast desert on which
appears scarcely green leaf of truth to
relieve the nonotony of the scene.
From the time that Judas sold his Lord
for thirty peices of silver to the present time,
money has ruled the world. Aud at the
present time, their name is Legion who are
endeavoriug as with n syren touch to turn
every thing into money. The iiviIniiuu WINS
once given to all to come aud drink Of the WA
ter aud eat Of the bread OF eternal Life without
money mud without price. But il is uol SO
now, men have made merchandise of the
word of God aud have grown rich in The
speculation.
Il wns the love OF money that prompted
tiose Dutch vessels 10 go To the coast Of
Aiiira aud steal cargo oi slaves aud bring
them io this rountiY,-and the result, WHO
shall I've allie to compute, or who shall tell
bow gr.at aa..s.a,sr s.IiIlle fire kiu'llr,h.
Slavery exists To day ia the United States
iecause the money power wills il, aud be-
fore il can he exieriniunted the love OF mon
ey must be erndicared from the minds of
the people Truth, aud not money, must
I've the standard TO :ry mems principles, yen
will he, for have s'rong inih in the iuimu-
liability Of Truth. Tie size of the purse
must cease TO be the standard of rcspecta-
biliiy aud it will cease when the reign of
Truth aud Reason will come, ns come i
most nssuredly will. Then shall every man
and woman stand shoulder TO shoulder on
the common level of humanity and equal
rights. But let us not anticipate, for though
now we see through glass darkly,then shall
we see face to face. For it doth not yet ap-
pear what we shall be.
Let us then work in earnest and 10 the
purpose. Us, means all who will, no matter
how humble or what his occnpalon-do all
that we can aud that is all thai is required
Of III; ; aud while with one haId we seek TO
unloose the baud of Absolute Slavery nt the
South, let us with the other strive to unsol-
der the hands of Limited Slavery ut the
North. BY limited slavery | mean Wages
Slavery, or that system OF things tlln, COM
pels one person to work for filiy cents per
day, and at the same time gives 10 another
two, or four, or six, or eight, or sixty-eight
dollars for days work.
The same aggressive spirit that keeps up
the one, sustains the other; and if it were
possible, sometimes think the mir we breath,
and the sunlight we enjoy would be divided
up and sold to the highest bidder, and those
with the most money, as a natural conse-
queBce, would enjoy the greatest share o'
these inestinnble blessings the same as the
green earth is now divided up aud monopo-
lized ly the few, while the masses nre de-
prived of their right TO the soil-theirs hy
virtue of their exisiance. Franklin once
snid, " Knowledge is power" hut money is
the only key that will unlock its store house.
The Professions, as they arc pOpularly
xern,ed, viz. our Doctors, lawyers, Preach
srs, and school mnsters, monopolize the
sda,eatian Of The country, aud by their ex-
orbi,ant charges for their services, enable
Ihem to hold their power supreme aud live
OH the toll of those who work at honest
eaifings. H. u T.