Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-03-04

, Then to whatever extent we do this, are coop
Grating with all the opprcssors Of the human race
the world round, the accomplices Of the liberty
ide Bonaparte, arc perpetuating Italian oppres
sion, are supporting Russian invasion of Turkey
we are giving respectability to the fugitive slave
law, and are seconding Senator Douglas in his Ne
braska scheme, and are helping TO keep the three
million nrgrocs in slavery, though we may be mem
bcrs of an Abolition Society. It is in vain that we
wash our hands like Plate of those enormitie:, the
the slightest Difference to those usurping rulers,
the shadow Of shade Of acknowledges of the
rghfulncss Of their rule, is so much concession to
the mob-demon FOR the crucifxion Of the mystical
Christ within it is crucifying our Lord afrcsh, and
putting him to open shame.
But IT, on the other hand, regarding God as our
only awgiver and king the inspiration of his spirit
his common gft to his children and al-sufhcient
for the well ordering of conduct in every pos
sbe emergency, if our lives are one continued act
Of devotion, if we have come out Of all the sec.
tartan provinces of Egypt, that VIC may be free to
serve the Lord alone if we are giving conscience
no opportunity Of reproaching US, keeping all
peaceful within, we are not living in vain. We
are not blown about by every wind, or whirled by
every eddy. We have anchor and anchorage for
rest, and moro than steam power for motion
Fashionable Jurors cannot move us, when duty bids
us stand and wait. Popular Indifference cannot
hold us, when duty calls to action. Living 10y this
inward light, we shaking as no other power can
the thrones of dcspots, are assailing the founda-
tions of all usurpaion, taking the only consist
ent ground for demanding the emancipation of
slavcs,-are contributing all that goes to the cstab
lishment of human brotherhood, and the alone
authority Of God. Nomattcr how trivial the circum-
stance on which called to exercise conscience
if it is important enough for the recognition of
conscience, it is important enough to effect the con-
dition of the whole human race If VIC are strug-
Cling against temptation in our humblcst spheres.
in our obscurest homes, or in homeless wander
ings, if we are resisting the incentives to evil,
making all things bend to our sense Of duty our
humbest doings are invested with the highest dig
nifty. Nor men angels have higher employ
ment
Have we ever known any happiness like the
happiness Of peaceful conscience2 Have we
ever, indeed, known any happiness but this ?
When we have overcome temptation, when the
right within has triumphed when we have been
enabled to look conscience in tho lace without a
hNut Is NOT " I1c ike
that worth living? Oh, it is this which gives TO
men and women more than the boldness of lions.
enables them to hold up their heads in conscious
dignity, sustains them amid popular corruption,
ander the loss Of friends, substance, liberty and
life. Have we ever known any misery but from the
reproaches Of conscience? Dancing and music,
kind friends, company, business, are not all in vain
if this inward peace is wanting? 1t is this
which makes people morose and unsocial,
n burthen to themselves and others, makos
them flee when none pursue, makes them sneak
through the world conscious intruders, they
step not if they felt the firm earth beneath them
but if apprehensive Of pitfalls and all sorts off
hidden dangers. Peace with conscience, is
the only order, the order which is heavens first
law This neglected, the souls machinery is either
at dead lock, or working to its own destruction
Attend to this and all else goes right no wasted
or misapplied power, but the highest and greatest
possible results.
We sympathize with human suffering we long to
see all forms of oppression banshed from the earth,
By obedience to this Higher Law we have all
reforms in one.
think it will be hardly denied that it would be
the best possible rule whereby to try all those
agencies that are operating on human beings Do
they direct attention to this light Within or divert
attention from it? Are they co-workers with it, or
usurping substitutes for it? We cannot serve
mankind in any other way than by pointing and
leading them to God; that done, all is dore that
can be done or needs to be done. All official SER
vice of humanity is spurious; it assumes that men
have not a sufficient principle of selEgovernment
within them and it seeks to make itself necessary,
and to perpetuate its Office and emoluments, seeks
to keep the people helpless and dependant, and in
yariably dscourages sclfhelpiulness and selfreli-
ance. Places itself between God and the SOUL and
impiously usurps His place.
One of the saddest and most extreme illustrations
of subjcction to outward law is in tho case of
certain class Of idiots Perhaps most of you have
met with cases of the kind to which 1 refer. Every
motion and word tells of the extreme weakness of
the selEgoverning principle, their cautious and
timid step indicates their hesitancy they look back
ward, and forward, and to the right and the left
and if no appears to object to their locomotion
they venture to move. Any mischievous boy by Il
haloo, may, however arrest their progress at
pleasure In these cases the outward law has con-
summated its appropriate work. Another class of
cases illustrating outward law influence, arc more
numerous, but not so bad. Those extremely civil
people who always echo your sentiments, will not
venture an independent opinion lost it should clash
with yours. They are careful to offend nobody
They succeed at any rate in pleasing nobody, You
feel In company with such that you are in contact
with shams, not realities, as smooth as pebbles no
angularity to tako hold of, or on which to fix q
thought. You cannot build upon them nor with
them, they cannot be confded in. Politicians who
shape their course to gain votes, and the occupants
of pupts who preach to please rather than to profit
their audiences, will be found, on examination by
ha h,,t oc A.