Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-26
IMMEDIATEIsM.

But Sir, what means this senseless fear of i'm
mediate emancipation? What does emancipation
meanp Not liberation from the control of right
eous law Who ever asked for that? William
Lloyd Garrison, the glorious champion of this
cause In our country, never dreamed of it, nor die
any other man who was n friend of the slave ever
ask for it. We do not ask that those who have
been ensaved shall be emancipated from al re-
straint, all control, all righteous law, any more
than that we ourselves should be 50 emancpated.
What, then, does immediate emancipation mean
What but the immediate recognition of the rights
OF humanity in those to whom God has given those
rlghts-the immediate recognition of man as man
and not rs brute-the immediate recognition of
his right to be treated, and our duty to treat
him, rs a fellow man. Analyze all that goes to
constitute slavery; bring one after another of the
enormitics that cluster under that most accursed
name under inspection, and who is there, that
makes any pretcnson to the least sympathy for
an enynved iollow-being, who would say that ii
should be retained for q moment? Would you
have !ellow-bcing held moment longer liable
to be sold to pay debts? o no, you would say.
Would you have u man liable to be sold and
separated forever from his wife and children2 o.
no. Would you have fellow being who has the
ieeiings and sympathics of a man liable to be sub
jccted to chastiacmcnt such as even brutes ought
not to suffer? Ono. Would you allow n fellow
being to be held in that condition where he may
see his wife or his daughter treated with inaignity
and outrage without daring to demonstrate? o
no. Would you withhold from these fellOw-b beings
moment longer the privilege to which all 20
whom God has given minds and hearts have an
nalicnabe right-the privilege of learning what
soever God may vouchsaic to teach mankind,
either in that Word which he has spoken by the
holy men Of old who have been moved by His
spirit, or by the great and good men of our own
times who have uttered or are now uttcring noble
words of truth and righteousness? Would you
withhold from them moment longer the privilege
OF learning to read and of unfolding their facul-
ties? y no. And so we may go on and take up
one by ono the elements of slavery and us fast rs
each ono is presented to the minds and hearts Of
intelligent men, they will ut say that it should
OF aboishing slavery, they start up in alarm ~ if
we were about to take Il most important and dan
gerous step. Immediate emancipation. the doe
trine first published hy that noble woman, Eliza
beth lleyrick, Of Leccstershire, England--a wo-
man though iniirm in body, yet strong in mind
stronger and clearer, pei haps this subject than
any other mind in Great Britain--this is the
doctrine which alone work redemption to the
ensayed; for it is the doctrine which, pressed upon
the consciences of men, alone can arouse them to
the efforts necessary for the redemption of those
who are in bonds. Immediate emancipation, that
doctrine first announced in this country by VIM
Lloyd Garrison, is the doctrine which alone can
guide us to the consumatan of that glorious
Object which each and every of US, / know
have deeply ut heart, and for the attainment of
which, when we contemplate to day what has been
done by the power of that doctrine in another
country, and under other circumstances, our hearts
throb all the more profoundly, hoping to see it
accomplished in this country and in our own day
Samuel J. Nay.