Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-03-13

! law denies freedom TO 3,lI9,OOO human oe-
ings. The wretched slave of the free repuh-
| lie knows no liberty-can possess no prop
erty dare not claim the wife OF ms BOSOM /,
and the mother of the slave child cannot caIl
her own the infant she cradles IN her womb
Bought and sold as the beasts that perIsn
lno man caring for their soulsb they are
reared for the market, and, when they follow
the dictates of liberty, are hunted by human
| bloodhounds. and and are torn and mahged
rs by beasts of prey. When was Hungarian
serGlom equal to this? And yet your first
act, as ruler, was to emnncipatc the three
and half millions Of seris in your father
land. Has tho Great Jehovah, think you,
given propriety, chartered right TO Amer
lea, above all other nations, in the soul and
| body OF her fcllow-man, that she may hourly
aud daily, and through all generations, plum
der the negro of his rights? and yet bc held
up MS the model of n free naiion! Nay, your
| righteous soul will loathe American Slavery.
Your noble nature cannot endure II. Your
generous spirit will he stirred within you TO
| hear the wall of an oppressed people. You
cannot forbenr TO "deliver them that are
drawn unto death and ready 10 be slain, and
say, Behold, we know it not"
You will turn with indignant adherence
| from the very Legislators of that country,
who, TO uphold the internal slave trade, have
turned the Stntes into one vast broihel, rails
ing their own progeney for tie market and
selling the fruit of their body and the mother
of their children to the highest bidder. All
this work of darkness they will he careful TO
hide from you; nevertheless, your penetra-
ton and discernment, and yonr exalted NOR
al feeling, will soon trace the demoralizlng
influence of the accursed system in the
heartless and cruel, the polluted and boosters
of tie free Republic. Ilaynnu has slain his
thousands; Fillmore, Clay, and Cass, their
ten thousands. Haynnu floggcd one woman
before his brutal soldiery-America is
nation of woman floggers, n country gloated
with gore. Russia's ruthless monster plies
the knout over a poor degraded people. The
land of the free and the brave employs
the cowhide, the the bowie knife, the chains,
the bloodhounds, and the Lynch law. Can
the mighty Kossuth look with complucency
Oh such n people? Far he that from him.
Can he eulogse the people of that land as
free, when three aud n quarter millions Of
immortal souls born in America are, as their
own Judge Jay says, "sirppcd of every
| right, and reduced To the condition of q ven
dible beast of burden. Where the liberty of
the slave is concerned, and all lis hopes
of happiness for the life that is, md that,
| that is TO come, no Jury is allowed TO settle
the controversy. But in all other cnses, If
the point in question lie worth twenty dollars,
jury must decide" Such are the laws and
the people ilnt make them, while the minis
ters, the teachers of religion, nre the bull
wnrks Of the system. In nnny instances
the unrcquitted labour of the Negro provides
living for some of their prondest sages,
und, ms did the great adversary of man, they
Al. .,,l
that God hath not made of one blood all ma
tons ofihc earth. We know who has chosen
it as the duty of the good and holy" to loose
the bonds OF wickedness, to undo the heavy
burden, and let the oppressed 60 free, even
to break every yoke.
The God of the oppressed strengthen you
for the work, for the conflict that is before
| you May lie keep you rs in the hollow OF
| His hand The men who would retain
their fellow men in chains nre not the free
men whom the truth makes free, and the
works which they 10 are deeds of darkness.
However they may disguise themselves they
nre base and ignoble us opprcssors. Let
them not entrnp you in their foul sllnie, or
work their enchnntments on you, till your
moral vision is destroyed, that you may wink
al their nations sin. The virtuous kossuth
will not, then, stand as he now does-iree-
don's champion. In consentlng TO the sin
of America, his own garments, pure and un-
sullied MS they are, would be stained by The
blood of the slave. And the nations of Eu-
rope would have cause TO mourn the Hun
garian Sampson, who, after emancipatlng IN
spirit his own country, slept on Me trench
erous lap of slaveholding America, I'LL she
had shorn him of his strength. Let il not he
said, n blinded Sampson is the impersonnlion
of European liberty.
But il never can bo said that kossu,h,
whose first ruling act was TO set his conn-
uy's seris free, had joined hands with the
hasest of shareholders under the canopy OF
Heaven. know you feel pledged not to
intermeddle with the internal government
, of any country. But what if God has raised
you ns n means 10 break the yoke from OIL
the neck of nations? Who shall say that
it was not for this purpose lie called you
, from Kutnyah TO America? Not yet suffer-
ing YOU to triumph in Europe till, by your
: bright example, your eloquent pleading
with that people, you shall have made them
: n nation truly free, at whose moral power
= tyrants shall tremble? lie who bestowed
3 on YOU the indomiiable love of liberty, tie
!, talents of the head and the heart, the elo-
! duence that carries the will and the mlnd as
} by a resislless aud enobling impulse, lie
: says, OCCUPY with these I'LL come" May
4 YOURS be the blessed task TO open the prison
!, doors 10 them that are bound; aud many
/, are the nations of Europe who pant for de,
q lvernnce. My husband, my children, ana
myself commend you to God, who is able
s to keep you from falling, and guide youi
u feet in tile right path.
s YoUR SINCERE FRIEND.
d nFExcellence is never granted TO mar
q | bui ms the reWard of Iabor Ii argues indeed