Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-02-26

curlOhs 10 Know what party, III ION Opili-
ion, have won My Lord Derby aud his
friends seem to think Democracy las made
and is making dangerous heaJway. II the
men who, by popular agitation, outside Of
Parliament, wrung from powerful oligar-
chy Parliamentary Reform, aud the Abolition
of the Test Acts, of high Post Rates, OF
Catholic Disability, of Negro Slavery and
the Corn Laws, did 'not win any tlIng,' II
would he hard TO say what winning is. II
the men who without the ballot, made Peel
their tool and conquered the Duke of Wei
lington, are considered unsuccessful, pray
what kind of thing would success hep
Those who now, at the head of that snme
middle cnss, demand the separation of
Church aud State aud the Extension of the
Ballot, mny well guess, from the fluttering
of the Wing aud Fory dovecOies, that soon
they will win that snne nothing' lleav-
Ell grant they may eujoy he same III success
with their predecessors On our own side
| OF the ocean, too, we ought deeply 10 SYM
| pathise with the leaders of the Temperance
movement IN their entire want of success. !.
/ II Ions mistakes about the nnti-slavery
cause lay MS much on the surface ms those |
have just noticed il would he hardly worth
/ while to reply TO him; for as TO these, he
certainly exhibits only the extent and yari-
ely of his mis.inioruation.'
His remarks upon the nnii.slnvcry move
ment are, however, equally inaccurate.
claim, before you who know tile true state
of the case, claim for the nnti-slnvery
movement with which this Society is iden
titled, that, looking back over its whole
course, aud considering the ncn connected
! with it IN the niuss, it has been marked 10y
/ the souGdrst judgment, the most uncrring
/ foresight, the most sagacious adaptation of
means TO ends, the slrictest self discipline,
/ the most thorough research, aud an amount
OF patient aud nanly Argument addressed
To the conscience aud intellect of the nation,
such rs no other cause OF The kind, in Eng
land Or this country, hus ever offered. ]
claim, also, that its course has bceu marked
| hy cheerful surrender of all individual
claims tu merit or leadership-the most cor
dial welcoming OF the slightest effort, of
every honest alIcinpt To tighten or to break
the Chain of the slave. need not waste
lime by repeating the supcriluous confession
that we are men, aud therefore do not claim
20 I've perfect. Neither would ! he under
stood as denying that we use denuucialion,
aud ridcule, and every other weapon that
the human mind knows. We must plead
| guilty, il guilt il he, not to be able to scpa-
rate the sin from the sinner. With all ihe
tonduess for distractions attributed TO us,
we are not yet capable of that. We are
! fighting n nonIelItuus battle at desperate
odds-one against a thousand. Every wea-
pom that ability or ignorance, vii, wealth,
| prejudice or fashion can command, is point
ed against us. The guns are shotcd TO
their lips. The arrows are poisoned. We
cannot afford TO conlino ourselves to any
one weapon. The cause is not ours, so that
we might, rightiuly, postpone Or put in
| peril tue victory by mOderaiiug our demands,
slitling our convictions, or filing down our
rcbukes, 10 crafty any sickly taste of our
own, or to spare the delicate nerve of our
neighbor. Our clients are three million Of
slaves, standing dumb suppliants at the
llIrcshllold OF the Christian world. They
have no voice but ours to utter their CON-
plants, or demand justice. The press, the
pulpit, the wealth, The literature, the prcju.
diceS, the political arrangements, the present
selt-lnicrest Of the country, are all against
us. God has gwen us no weapon hut the
ruth, isitlhully uttered, and addressed, with
tie old prophets directuess, to the cou-
science OF the individual siuner. The ele-
Inents which control public opinion, aud
mould the masses, are against lIs. We can
but pick off here aud there man from the
triumphant minority. We have facts for
! those who think arguments for those who
reason hut he who cannot bc reasoned out
OF his prejudices, must he laughed out of
them; he who cannot Ire argued out OF his
seltislness, must he sliained out of by the
mirror of his hateful self held up relent-
lessly before Ills eyes. We live in land
where every mau makes broad his phylncte-
ry, inscrihlug thereon, 'All men are created
| 4
tie nations OF men,. II seems to us that in
such II land there must lie, on this question
OF slavery, sluggards To be awakened us
we'll Ms douhters TO he convinced. Many
more, we verify believe, Of the first, than of
the last. There are far more dead hearts to
be quickeued than confused inIelects TO he
cleared up--nlore dumb dogs TO he made TO
speak, than doubling cOnSciences to be en-
lighened. Loud cheers.) We have use,
then, sometimes, for something beside argu-
mcnt.
What is the dennnriation with which we
are charged9 II is endeavoring, in our ihl-
tering human speech, to declare the enor-
nlly of the sin of making merchandise OF
men-of separating husband aud wife
taking The infant from its mother, aud selling
tile daughter TO prostituIion-of professed-
IS Christian nation denying, 10y statute, the
Bible 10 every SIKH man aud woman of its
population, aud making il illegal for 'two
or three To meet together, except white
man br present! What is this harsh crii-
cism OF motives with which we are charged? ?
1t is simply holding The intelligent aud de-
llherate actor responsible for The character
and consequence OF his acts. Is there any
Illing inherently wrong in such deuuncialion
Or such crilicism3 This we may claim
we huve never judged man hut out OF his
own mouth. We have seldom, if ever held
him TO account, except for acts of which he
aud his own friends were proud. All that
we ask the world aud thoughtful men to
mole ARE the principles aud deeds on which
the American pulpit and American public
men plume themselves. We always allow
our opponents TO paint their own pictures.