Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-08
JERRY RESCUE CELEBRATION.

We have rs yet seen no account Of this emphati-
cally HiSher iaw" dnRirersdry We only know
that il passed of without the disturbance or molos-
tation which was threatened and which was doubt
less desired by hunkers. Mr.. Smith has forwarded
the following address of the Convention to their
countrymcn. 1t is sublimey grand in its heroic
positions. Only such positions practically applied,
can abolish slavery They strike at the root of tho
evil. They deyeope apractical christianity.
which all can understand, and which none can
successfully reason down. II tconrasts most grand
ly with that timid, tricky political anti-slaycry,
which indirectly hopes to cheat slavery out of
existence. To abolish it incidentally and by in
direct action and to establish liberty by false pre-
tcnces. 1t is revolutionary anti-slavcry, and for
that we like it. We must come to that before We
ever succeed. Everything as it regards slavery is
wrong side up. We must "turn and overturn."
before anything will come right. The address is
grand rebuke to that two-faced anti-savery, which
is very abundant which will hold catch and return
slave a politician, at noon, and sneakingly
hide or help him to Canada at midnight. But here
it is. We will not detan the reader from it longer
than to say again, zee like IL.
To OUR CouSTRYMEN:
We speak not to neighbors only, but to all
our countrymen also. We speak to them all, be-
cause it is the interest of them ALL and the right Of
them all, to know what is our justification for our
startling and reprehended conduct. When the
acknowledged laws of land are deliberately and
concertedy trampled on, all its inhabitants are vi.
tally affected, and justly alarmed by the moment
GUS occurrence; and they are entitled to know us
well us concerned to know, why this assault has
been made upon their Governments. Government
to be blessing to the people, must be sacred to
the people. They must feel, that the wrong which
is done to it, is done to themselves Every insult
to q just Government must be promptly resent
cd by its subjects, il offered to themselves. II
is offered to themselves. Emphatically it is, when
the Government, like our own, is one Of the peo-
ple's choice.
We admit, that we are the rescuers of jerry
All Of us are such. If we did not all use our
hands in rescuing him if we did not all partic-
pate in the counsels, which resulted in his rescue
If we did not all make ourselves legally liable for
it, nevertheless, the fact, that all approve il,
makes us all his morally responsible rescuers:-
and that is to be his reseuers, in the highest
sense.
We admit, that we knew, that they we're minis.
ters OF Government, out Of whose hands we rescued
Jerryi and that they had the great political par
ties, and Acts of Congress- and Opinions of Judg-
es, and, above all, the received interpretations Of
the Federal Constitution, for their countenance
and shelter. We admit, therefore, that we are
guilty of great disrespcct for 'the powers that
bc"-guilty, indeed, of setting ourselves in array
against the Government, and Of taking the attitude
of reyolutionists and rebels.
We admit, that we knew, that the Doctors Of
Divinity, and the great majority of tho Churches.
and the current religion Of the country were ON
the side of these mirhsteps Of GoYernment; and
that our rescue Of Jerry was, therefore, an act of
glaring, defiant nfdelity, in the popular sense Of
infdelity, aC.
We admit, that we knew, that the mon, against
whom we went, were armed apd that NO, therefore,