Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-12-17

ness of men, is fastening on a great crisis in the
history Of our country and that the cause in which
we are engaged is passing through a transition pc
riod, from feeble and unpopular to powerful and
dominant movement, among the great forces that
are shaking the world.
This opinion is based upon facts which, to some,
indicate the decline of free principle. The ras-
sage Of the Compromise measures, not more than
three years since, and the decree which smultane-
ously went forth that there is no higher law than
the wicked enactments of men the preachings OF
multitudinous heaps Of lower law sermons and the
Joining hands Of Castle garden politicians and
athestical doctors Of divinity in the endeavour to
dcthrone Jehovah and inaugurate the Devil in his
stead the holding Of grand Union meetings through
out the country, after the Union had been already
saved by the pasters and nostrums Of its political
doctors the calling out Of the Army and Navy by
the Federal authorities to assist in the return Of
fugitive slave, and the effort to drag from the grave
Of Tyranny and fost into our Jurisprudence the in
fernal doctrine of constructive treason the cold
blooded conspiracy of the Wing and Democratic
parties last year at Baltimore, against republican
ism, humanity, and God the recent case of John
Freeman at indianapolis, and the reekng villainy
Of the Marshal of Indiana in stripping the body Of
his victim so that Christess squad of perjurcd
mscreants and kidnappers might swear according
to the pattern, which they did the still more re-
recent case Of William Thomas at Wilkesbarre,
set on foot by boodthirsty assassins acting in the
hghhanded judicial ruffianism of Judge Gricr ::
these and many kindred facts which might name
not the tokens of disaster to cause but the
sure prophecies of its triumph. AS the natural
fruits Of the slave power appealing to the hearts
and conscences of the people, they were demanded
by the times for it has been said truly that wrong
institutions must grow to their full stature and
display all their diabolcal enormity, before men
will engage earnestly in the work oftheir overthrow
We should not desire to have Satan act with a pru-
dent circumspectiOn, and enlist the world on his
side or disarm its opposition, by Disgusting himself
in the drapery Of decency. Let him show his clo-
ven foot and make palpable the fact that he is n
devil, and his empire will be subverted
Herein should the enemies of Slavery thank God
and take courage. We have unmasken the dragon.
We have shorn it Of its long-permitted immunity
from the right Of Search and compelled il 10 stand
up in its unveiled ugliness before the judgement
seat of the world The slave interest itselfbos be-
a most efficient helper in its own destruction.
Its unhallowed rule has at length set the world to
thinking, its great heart to beating and its great
voice to agitating. The Anti-Slavsry spirit has
pervaded our literature, and millions of hearts in
the old world and the new, are now throbbing re-
sponsye to the suncrings of the American Slaves.
Il Is rapidly moulding the public opinion Of the
civilized world which Mr.. Webster used to tell us
is the strongest power on earth. 1t is remorse.
lessly breaking into fragments the great political
parties Of our country, and at the same time extend
ing its dominion into the churches and hierarcbies
which it will either purify or scatter to the four
winds as a preliminary to the establishment OF
other systems wherein shall dwell righteousness
These facts and the glorious future of which they
give promise should animate us with courage, con.
stancy, and an unfaltering faith, in our continual
labours for the oppressed. You, am sure, and
those who constitute the American Anti-Slavery
Society. will not be blinded or disheartened by
the irregular cbb and flow Of political currents
or by facts which drift upon their surface but you
will penetrate it to those great moral tides, which
underlie and heave onward the politics the religion
and the whole framework Of society.
With an assured trust in the progress and triumph
OF our cause, am yours very truly,
GEO. W. JULIAN.