Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-01-01


rear of public sentiment, aud whenever pun
lie sentiment is strongly 0nti-slnvery enough
then will be generated party who wil'
"crystalize" as Wendell Phillips said, TINS
sentiment into law" | think understand
the philosophy of Reform well enough 10
know that the man or society which utters
the truth most pointedy, aud applies 1t most
closely and siringenty to the public m'hu'
no matter if a small minority, that man OF
body is doing most TO promote the n ?.
cause. They may not be doing all the WORK.
They who scorn all abuse on account oi
principle, and believe only in fiinging that
principle before the public mind, are the
men who are bringing about the abolition OF
the wrong against which they are so CON
tending and their hands ought 10 be held up
Now can vote one day in the year ngainst
slavery, and think it my duty TO do so, but
every other day want the burning Goals OF
truth to be thrown upon the nations naked
breast, and because you are working thus
II is our duty as Free Soilers to aid you in
your work.
Besides, we know that political parties are
n very uncertain sort of machinery, we do
not know to whnt base uses these organiza-
tons may he put, aud we want force out
side of them, somethng to fall back upon IN
the day Of trial when these parties fail u.s.
We need body who ,UH he faithful and
who will apply the principles of truth con-
tiuually. have engaged for life in this
work, but am going TO be man. free
nau. Free to adopt any views, any instru-
mentalitcs, which think will advance the
good cause, and although ] vote, ] believe
that the great instrumentaIity after all, is the
foolishness Of preaching" The work is to
he done by exposing the dOmning deeds Of
Slavery, the denominations of the church, in
short by agitation. Agitatc, Ggitdte. This is
the grand instrumentality, and without this
you Free Soilers will come TO nothing. |
go as Liberty party man for sustaining all
the moral movements of the country. j
have no idea that you nbolilionisis Of tho
w. A. S. Society, will ever be able to bring
all the people up to your platform; aud it is
not necessary, for long before you have CON
verted the whole people TO your doctrine Of
"No union with Shareholders" slavery will
he bloited out. Go on then with your
preaching, you can all do something, both
men and women.
1t is the poor mans work. The rich and
| noble will not tlo il. know what it is to
get living by rolling casks on the wharyes,
and sweeping chimnics, and such like, and
this makes me able to synpathise with the
poor, and the bound everywhere. 1t is not
| to the rich that we are TO look but TO the
poor, TO the Iiurdhandcd working men of the
country, these are tie men who are to come
| to the rescue of the slave. tell you my
friends and fellow citizens, there is room
enough for us all, there is niche in the
temple of Reform for every body. Aboli-
lionism has made me n great man, (heg par
don for the cgotism,) but it delivered me
from the bondage of sectnlianstn and priest
craft, from the bondage Of my color even
and false notions of human brotherhood
aud has opened the wide world Of humanity
and taught me that though my heart is small
yet there every man under the wide canopy
of heaven can find room. Why what has il
not done for me, for us nll' 1t las taught
us that we have a heart aud conscience, that
we are part Of the great whole of human
ity. Let us up then and he doing, and learI
to labor and TO wait. What matters il if you
are few in numbers, lie, me tell you friends
that even if Il mnn be alone and be right, he
Is majority in the universe. il he does no
represent the present state of things, ht
represents The future. Ii not what men are
what they ought TO be. BE true then Il
your convictions, aud will try and be trut
TO mine, and so far ms we can, let us uniI'
for the common cause. | did not CONT
here TO snbserye the interests or ends o
any party but TO subserve the interests o
the cause, and shall go back checred on'
strengthened by what have seen and heard
Let us devote ourselves heart and hand Il
,, the work, and go on rejoicing in the procla
l nation of truth.
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