Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-05-21
Continued from tyrsi Pare.J

Whcn promises 10 protect each State
against domestic rioience, on application of its
Legislature or Executive a Union which
knows that in one half its States, three mill
lions Of blacks are held as slaves, promises
to put down insurreciions. A Union which
knows that in those States tho Legislatures
md Executives nro ,ohiic shareholders, prom
ises TO protect them against domestic Uioience,
when such Legislatures aud Executives ie-
quest it!
March 4, 1919, Mr. Mann's vote, with 9th
ers, while 'the sun of Sabbath morning
shone full into the windows Of the Capitol
saved this Government from destruction, and
enabled II to continue; und Of an act which
included this in its consequences, he saws
(p. 2l3b a holier work never was done on
that holy day! To take pnrt in such de-
pnrtments of tho Government involves no
violation Of the Higher Law Mr.. Mann
voted To pay Pelcg Sprague for trying the
alleged rescuers Of Shadrach. and Charles
Devens for returning Sims to Georgin. lie
knew, when he accepted his seat in Con-
Rress, that such bills would come before him,
and thut he would be legally bound to pay
them. But this is a department of Govern
lnent which involves no violation of the
Higher Law And while filling these aud
similar Offices, Mr. Mann lIses his leisure
hours in holding up TO public scorn and
contempt, the mcn who serve the same
government aud uphold tho same laws rs he
Ioes
Al this, Horace Mann being nudge. is
Free Soil Anri-Slavcry Tell il not in
Gcorgin; publish il not in the streets OF
Charleston
MIR. Mann next mounts very gallant
stccd, and makes an amusing excursion.
talking all the while of my attempt to secure
the ballot for women. shall not follow
him, having said, ia my last letter, all wish
TO say on that point. No red herring of
wonlnn'S claim to vote will draw me of
from the great question ut issue between us,
viz; How Free SoiIer, Mr. Mann. for
instance, jrstfcs himself ia swearing to
support, aud in supporting, Constitution
which he prolesscs to think pro slavery in.
AS Mr. Mann, however, seems rcnlly con-
fused about this matter, beg him 10 observe !
that, IN the extract he makes from my letter |
of March 2lsi, 'r0ter' means one icho actuaHy |
roles; and that have never asked Govern |
ment to make women Uoiers in this SENSE
which, indeed, no Government could do
hut only TO give them the right TO vote it.
they choose. This distinction, between one
who votes and one who is entitled to vote
but does not do SO, destroys his syllogisms
nnd clenrs away much of tho confusion into
which he seems to have fallen: especially
ihnt non-voier is periurcd, Sc. &c.,-nn
idea never entertained, any more thnn TINT
my friend Gerit Smith was SO; though
some such suspicion seems to have OCCASION
all troubled Mr.. Mann.
Mr.. Mann thinks my nnalogics of Webster
and Dewey defending slavery, colorrd men
getting enrolled in the army, and each mans
choosing his own creed, are no true annlo.
gies; because all these are rights 10 do right
things: while rcgar! wonnn's voting I'M
,ler this government wrong t,ing. Indeed
cannot ngree with him. | cannot tlnk
that Dowey's legal right TO defend The Fugi- !
tive Slave Law, aud the duty of sending
ones mother into slavery, is right to do
rigM thing! So of the cOored mans right
10 shoulder his musket in defence of this
covenant with denli ana agreement with !
hell and Of n mans right to he pro. slavery
Presbyterian or Catholic, lDidel or Mormon,
ar even member of Congress, il he will
All these seem to inc, emphalcally, legal
rights to do what think pery torong things.
place by their side the right To drink rum,
(noi to sell it,) aud to worship idols. IT this
State should forbid man, hy statute, to
drink rum or to worship idols, should op-
pose il, aud petition in favor of his legal
right TO do these very wrong things.
II the community are, in all cases, jusi-
fled in refusing n man the legal right 10 do
wlnt they think wrong, then the men who
shot LovEJOY were excellent citizens, since
they thought it was very wrong for him to
publish mn nnii-slavery paper in Alton. But
it the rule be, as IL certainty is that we nre
never justified in refusing lnnn his rights,
merely hccause we know he will use then
in way we think wrong, .hen | am CON
sistent in urging This Government, MS would
amy other sinner, TO do It's duiy 10y giving
woman her right to vote, however wrong
may think voting under this Government to
he.
Indeed, it is the old question, that has
been fought over and over so mnny times in
so many centuries. The P0pes snil-some
Popes, too, That did not dwell ut Rome,-if
You give the people tine Bible, and allow
them to choose their crceds, you dig pit
fall of temptation for them; they will fall
into damnable errors, aud many n soul hu
lost; you tempt them 10 their destruction.
Very likely, replied Luther aud Roger |
Williams. But God gave them these rights,
and il, in the exercise OF them, they nre |
tempted aud fall 10 Him let them answer,
not TO us.
The old despots, from Chnrlemagne to
Charles Smnr', snid, if you allow the people !
To govern themselves, you bring in all man
ner Of abuses.
No doubt of il, said Algernon Sidney. / !
have read of Athens, OF Socrates aud his
hemlock, and of Arislides, with his unhappy
tile of the Just; bur, nevertheless, God guye |
men these seli-evident rights. On him, not !
on me, rests the responsibility OF their use
of them.
So Of Mr.. Mann's fear lest dig 'pitfall |
of temptation for the women OF Massach,s- |
etts, aud lest they use The rights claim for
them IN doing what think very wrong. |
grant that this is very likely TO happen-
Nevertheless, still stand with Roger Viii |