Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-21
"UP AND AT EN-"

If there ever was or ever will be time when il
were proper for the friends of freedom and human
rights to lacken their excrtion, sleep upon their
posts that time is certainly not now. Never since
the introduction Of Slavery, institution, into
our nation, has there been time when the public
car was ready to listen more kindly and attcntivey
to the voice of Liberty and Philanthrophy. We do
wrong to leave work with the masses till the
excitement, and the myriads of impure and cor
rupting engines Of party power, are brought to
bear upon the public mind during the heat and
struggle Of electiouccring contests. 1t is to the
calm and thoughtful consideration Of the people
our appeal must be made, when evils which
sheltered with time-strongthened preiudices, and
grounded in the selfish interests of thousands are
to be uprooted and destroyed. Hence the lull
which follows the close of the campaign should
be the season of JOr and not of rest with the Anti
Slavery man. When the voice Of the demagogue
is for time silcnced by the chagrn Of defeat, or
choked with the gorgng of the spOils by the fire.
sides and about the home atars Of the country the
truth will reach the heart which before shut by
the appeals of party iavores and reveal itself to
perceptions, before obscured by sophistry and mis-
representation which there was not time or oppor-
tunity to examine.
This is the time for The press TO scatter far and
wide, its silent messengers of thought andTlight-
for Free Democratic papers to increase their circu-
latiOn and gain new readers among the thousands
who have only to be reached by the appeal Of tdcts
and by the low eloquent plcadings OF humanity,
which are unheeded in the uproar aud ioste of the
outside world, but in the quiet Of the tircsidc and
when the heart is softoned by the tender influence
81 home, have power deep than the partisan
shallow reasoning, and as wide as the unperycrted
sympathies of fmankind.
And more than this, now is the time for Hdiridu-
dt oreI1iOR. Every man who claims 70 hold the
good of his fcllow-man ut heart-who believes in
universal freedom and equal rights-who hates
oppression and considers it one of the duties of
his life to oppose it wherever his influence can in
any way reach it-who feels that to rest while the
voice and hand Of every friend Of human liberty is
wanted to aid in the struggle before us, is criminal
-eSery such man should consider those in his inn
mediate neighborhoOd as constituting q public,
more less large, upon trhich he cannot help er-
erting an influence which will grow drowsy from
the contagion of his own inactivity or awaken to
action under the inspiring influence of his energy
How immense would be the impetus impaired
to the cause of human progress, could we all look
upon our responsibility in this light. As the little
drops fill the ocean, do the little words that pass
from lip to heart, among men, contribute to the
measures of the worlds progress, for good or for
evil
Among other means of keeping alive public in
tercss and attention upon the great question: that
of pettionng Congress should not be forgotten.
Much Of the Advancement already achieved in
awakening the country to the importance and true
nature of the Slavery question may be attributed
to this cause i'm this way the voice of the people
has been heard in the halls of Congress, and has
found eloquent tongues and fearless hearts to stand
by and defend it.-W. u. Chronicle