Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-07-02
Differences Of Anil.Sluvery Men.

fortune, and not sin, for men TO be stultified
by prejudice. IL il be criminal for those who
are enrncst, selfsacrificing seekers and doers
of the true and right, to become SO confident
that they have found the absolute truth, and
so welded to an organization that federation
is all they con concede to those who, agree
ing with them in fundamentals, dissent from
them in details, and either stop short, or go
beyond them in carrying out their common
principles. II this he criminal, who is inno-
cent? So long us human beings begin ex-
istence with diverse natures, and are SO
surrounded that their natures will be the
subjects of every variety Of training and OPP
portunities of developement, 80 long will the
necessity of arriving ut different conclusions
be obvious and unavoidable.
Who doubts the honesty of Horace Mann
or Wendell Phillips, when they declare their
adherence of slavery? Who doubts that
they are both talented and learned? Who
doubts that each has adopted the views which
to his perception, huve best adaptation TO the
end which they nre mutually desirous to ut
tain Has not each chosen the stand point
from whence to put forth what he conscien-
tiously believes will be the most available
efforts for the total eradication and final ex-
termination of the greatest curse that ever
blighted this fair earth If they use differ
ent instrunentnlites, what then ? Wendell
Phillips would be very tame political obo-
an,,II M,nn .Iatnnnn
himself accep.nbly as n disunionist, unless
their convictions were changed.
Ii would be desirable for some one to show
il he can, why the indomi,abe spirit of pro-
gression which has curtniled the power of
political tyranny everywhere, and prostrnted
il, ut least in one community, should be ar
rested until tyranny ceases to exist, not only
in name but in fact. Let not him who un-
dertakes to show that this can be done and
best done, (perchance only done) by appeals
TO Reason aud Conscience-let him not forget
that though those appeals have been nude
in III, past up to the present hour, that they
have always been made in conjunction with
some kind OF political action. When he has
shown that moral suasion unnided, is onnips
otent for the abolition of earth's evils, if
leisure aud inclination favor it, he is requested
TO show how and where the reforming sun-
sionist is to subsist, or exist, while engaged
in his labor of love. This request is not
made to create n difficulty, but to open the
wny for the removal of an existing one.-
Horace Mann admits what every one knows
is true, namely, that military demands and
taxation nre solely the work of the govern
ment, Ia power without us,l and and they are
coerced; not so with duties not so with
title deeds, nhertances or any other thing
which is direct guarantee of government,
or for which we make voluntary payment
into its treasury. In all such cases, we par
ticipate in the acts Of the power set over us,
from voltion-we give implied approval.
The writer of this article has entertained
disunion opinions much longer thun this life
time of dis,Inionism, but not without sense
of negntiveness in his position; and in read
ing some paragraphs of Horace Mann's letter
of May Goth, he could adopt the language of
Henry Ward Beecher in relation to Wendell
Phillips arguments, that " it is easier to dis
sent than to answer" 1t is puerile to try to
disguise or blink it, there are reasons sufiici-
emily clear, and motives sufficiently impress
sive to induce enlightened minds whose
integrity is unqucstionobe, to take opposite
sides in this matter; at the same time others
of equal claim TO respect, are undecided.
| Truth is intuitve and inherent in every
question; it should be sought after in the
love of it. Horace Mann has taken positions
and has argued them in his own way. We
cannot fail to see his positions, and if his
arguments do not sustain them, expose the ir
iaIlacy not by general sweeping assertion
that they are sophstical and inconclusive, "
but because they do not accord with the
eternal laws of Right-the nature and fitness
of things. Very few in these days require
evil to be done that good may come; though
which embody evil and this after all is the
question at issue. Horace Mann will hardly
deny that the constitutional provision for the
protection of the African trade was an evil
and yet he uses the Constitution. The same
document provides for imposts on foreign
articles, transmission of intelligence through
the mails, &c, with which disunonists com
ply, or of which they avail themselves. II
Mann places them in the same category with
himself If they cannot show the difference
must they not share the censure they apply
to him? Are they really different things
Or, is it the less and the more of the same
ihing9 Who that is clear headed, indepen