Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-16
NO. 30.
Lei Us Hope On.
HAMPSTEAD, n. H., Sunday,
April 3rd, 1858.

important, OF even interesting 10 DC SURE,
there is every thing to be done, and none too
much time in which to do it, Qhere Is enougb,)
but this, instead Of being good reason for ex-
horting people, is tho very reason why they
ought not to need to be exhorted. And besides
every thing is already persuading to duty in
our great cause. and why then should one
humble individual undertake to add words of
encouragement And even if he were to,
would not his feeble tones be lost in the mighty
bvg.e blast echoed from oil things else-would
aot these words be drowned in the ocean voice
of admonition and entreaty, rcsounding from
every handi
Yes, for each and all are on our side even
now, the throbbing hcart-pulso of the universe
beats in favor Of emancipation the heaven,
and heaven Of hcavcns-sun, moon, and "stars
that in their courses roll'-declare for univer-
ssl liberty. Earth, kind mother of the race,
psoclaims with ten thousand tongues, that her
holy children were not made to wear fotters.--
Mercy, love, justce-cven tho commonest in
siincts of our one humanity-cry out that man
should every where be free. Tho heart, pleads
for its fellow heart-ts other suffering SELF
Angels acknowledge the slave their brothcr.-
Even slave-owners and slave. holders in the
other land (they ,oerc such y repent their for
mer misdeeds, and reach forth tho hand to de-
liver the victims, they scourged while here
millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both while we wake, ard while we
Sleep
To compass the destruction Of the mis- conccv-
ed. and ill-bcgottcn slave system. And those
still living who contend for it, yet do so with
less than their old confidence, and with daily
growing desperation, for they read oil all their
walls, "MESE TEKEL, urnAnsrN." Even they
themselves are unconseously for us, for their
own hearts love liberty, and detest bondage
Those true brother hearts will yet speak out,
and publish ukase for freedom Ard tho
slave, too, IS helping, for more and more he
grows into the knowledge of himself, and feels
that he is an equal, and a man. And thus arc
all things for us, and the victory comcth The
whole pest, from the day our peaceful and
bloodlcss (it ought to be,) crusade commenced,
has forcshadowed that victory. All our sue
eesses hitherto, have been but presagcs, curnosts
Of this, our final, our crowning success. And
thousand things beside, foretcll it, Plymouth
Rock, there in its glorious resting place by
"the sounding sea- forever bright with the
sunshine of heaven, and wet with the oceans
spray-Bunkcr Hill Monument, lifting its lofty
summit to the overhangng blue, and looking
down on the "Old Cradle" where the first
echoes Of liberty rang-thc plains Of Lexington
and Concord, of Yorktown and Monmouth, and
Saratoga, and many another red battle field,
whose noble but erring men sinned and died,
but sinncd and died both for libcrty-the great
names of the early aboltionists, Jay and Frank
lin, ClArlson and Wilberforcc, Granville Sharpe
and Elizabeth Heyrick, aud greater names of
our own Garrison. Thompson, and Smith, of
our heroic martyr WOMEN, and martyr Heroes
all-the self-ennobled manhood of race which
has given us the illustrious examples of Touis-
SAINT, Nat Turner, Madison Washington. and
Douglass--all, all arc but so many prophecies,
that this will one day, not be land OF slavery!
What mighty conceptions, and how they
make the heart beat high Past, present and
before-how tho blood tingcs in our veins as
we grasp them in one o heaven may be
there in that future to sec that shout of un-
earthly triumph, rising on the four winds, rend-
ing the very skies, and mingling with the songs
of paradise, till it is lost amid the choirngs of
the ScIaphims. o Power that fates the uni
verse, may it nc mine to join in that shout -
The heart will break, and the eyes stream tears,
..L & ,ts All ho hlisa Nyhi,h tlOQn
shall then know who have aided to bring that
day, who have toiled and agonized to confer
the boon Of freedom, who have not counted
their lives dear, but have spent and been spent,
Of whom it may literally be said, that they have
"done what they could'-may it be ours that
which relentless Time, that will not be bought
nor bribed, and all-avongng History, shall fail.
lessly stamp the names of those who have hated
oppression, and loathed instead of loved "the
wages of unrighteousncss," and made no cove
nant with wrong, but in the midst Of shame
and persecution, have borne aloft the banner of
Justice and brotherhood-a humble need of
that glory be ours
.Only the actions Of the Just,
Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust !
%! who would not belong to our noble band !;
No wonder Garrison wrote-"I AN AN ADoLI-
rIoEIsr!" Who would not be onei And
who that is one, would ever turn back, or fall
from this grace of lifei Surely we who have
enlisted soldiers for the war, whatever may
befall,' must onward and upward ever in our
work, not tagging idly behind, but keeping
abreast Of the great truth, that
MAN is more than Constitutions
Yes, or Institutions
Let US go forth to "preach deliverance to the
captives, and the opening of the prison doors
60 than, that aya hounh as wall as IN gladdeu