Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-08-28

iect Of his mission. with unfortunate inconss-
tency, he bowed in silent homage to the dark
spirit of slavery lie suffered it to palsy his
tongue, in regard to tyranny, such as Hungary
with all her wrongs, has never known. 1t in
duccd him to pour forth Aattery with unheard
Of eloquence, upon tho tyrants, whose money
and favor he sought to win. He has left us
sad and disappointed man. May his policy and
his failure. be a warning to all future advocates
of freedom. Thus, will his mission not be in
vain. 1t will not. For notwithstanding his
silent completely with slavery, he has left en-
gravcd upon the hearts OF the people, great
truths. which will never be forgotten Terrible
is the guilt, and unmeasurcd the meanness Of
this nation, which could thus tempt the great
apostle and martyr of European freedom from
his fidelity, and then dismiss him-an exile
dishonorcd and despairng. Its a work worthy
of American slavery, and of its supporters to
have achieved.
Though large majority of the ministers and
churches of the West are dead to all actively
benevolent regard to tho slave; and are blindly
and hoartlcssly opposing his friends, and sus-
tanning and sanctiiying the giant wickedness of
our land, we can yet refer, with great pleasure,
to the moro favorable position of many of the
clergy, and to the agitation of the question in
many Of the churches. Tho Free Presbyterian
movement in Ohio, has in its success, evinccd
a still remaining conscience, and susceptibility
of moral influence, which We had begun to de-
spair of ever seeing aroused in the church. The
christian anti-slavcry conventions, which have
been held during the last year, have exhibited
an advancement in anti-slavery position and an
unwontcd bolJness in the utterance of truth
Ono immediate result Of this outspoken fidelity
TO the slave, has been to prove anew, that even
evangelical orthodoxy may not speak and act in
earnest, without anixing to itself the stigma of
But we rejoice to know that the best
of our minister's apd tho purcst of our churches
arc still undctcred. While this is so, there is
hope that the bonds of the slave may yet be
broken, and liberty proclaimed through all the
land TO all the inhabitants thereof.
Forthc whole year past, the country has been
filed with notes Of preparation for the presiden-
tial conflict. Abundantly satisfied with the
experience of Northern slave drivers. those who
Tor years. have in this government set up one.
and put down another, proclaimed their inten-
ion Of having the candidates from the North
declaring, that the test OF fitness, should be an
approval of the compromise measures, a decla-
ration of their fnality, and solemn pledge
or their faithful execution. No regard was
had, or even professcd, to northern opinions
TO northern interest, or northern principles. 1t
was deemed a full equivalent for all that was
valuable in northern interests that, two of her
,itizcns who should be found most scrvie,
ieartlcss, and unprincipled, should receive nom
nations for the presidency. Northern Wings
md Democrats readily consented to this valua.
ion Of their honor and distinctive interests
Candidates of unquestioncd qualification, came
orward in unexampled numbers, glad to barter
1t the stipulated price, their manhood, their
liberty, and their souls. Tho only rivalry be-
tween the candidates, and the parties, was, who
should sink lowest in the depths of infamy and
wickedncss.
The nominations have been made. The South
has got of all others the men she wants. Eli
Ihor one is true TO her purpose, and yet she has
proudly rejected those who were most meanly
seryile, to obtain her favor. They damned
themselves to infamy and then lost the reward
they sought, though not the one they merited
We have 10 language with which to charac-
terizc the principles to which these candidates |
are pledged. Nor is it nccdful. Tho heart of
every honest man, can do nothing less than re.
ject them, with indignation ard scorn, mingled |
with contempt and pity, for the men who avow |
them.
Dark is this view of our political horizon
But yet We will not despair. Even the slave.
catching law with its internal principles, and !
the monstrous savagcism of its execution, has
not been in vain. Nor in vain is the present
position of the pro-slavcry parties of the land /
1t compcls the members of those parties to ac-
knowledge to themselves that they are the sup !
porters of the worst of all dcspotisms and in !
very shame they are silont. They make no
pretensions, and We have for once, no hypocricy /
of this kind to expose. 1t has arrayed more |
distinctly the parties for freedom and slavery |
and has made deeper and broader the gulf be-
tween them
To the same end has tended tho recent Pitts
burgh Convention, though by the opposite
course Of action. That convention by its num- |
bers, its enthusiasm, its boldncss, gives hope of !
greater good from the laboTs of political anti
slavery, than ever before. There is nothing to
fear from the recklessncss and daring of slave
ry, if i provokes corresponding boldness on
the part of the friends of freedom. Those
have conscience and heart in their work. They
have on their side the cooperation of truth,
and true men eyerywhere-whil the very
boldness of despositism often demonstrates only
its desperation and weakness. Never, since the
great compromise with slavery in the adoption
Of the constitution, has such q body of nnli,i |