Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16

ished with less?
But if it | c a fact that the color of a man, that
his having been born in a certain geographical po-
sition, gives another man the right to enslave him,
| would say, as | often say when advocating the
equality of the sexes, why not reverse the order,
and let the tobite man know what it ia to be subject
to eternal %bondage2 Let not this bondage remain
only with the black man.
] have named here none of the evils Of slavery.
1t were vain tor me to attempt to do so. You can
all understand it as VOL rs | can, as l have never
been in the position of a slave. 1t not only de-
prives a human being of his own identity, Of his
own person, but it subjects him eternally to the
bitter degradation Of bondage. | need not tell
You of the rangs and misery caused by slavery,
arising from the fact that the nearest and dearest
bonds are severed and broken asunder. | need
not depict before your eyes the fact that paren,S,
and children are placed alternately on the auction
block, and they are bid off and knocked down like
merchandise, and then separated never again to
behold each other. | will not repeat these things,
for you know them too well.
As | said before, the curse of slavery is not con-
fined to the poor black victim alone but, my
friends, tho whole country is cursed by slavery
The Southern white population are cursed by it;
and so much is my mind of a universal tendency,
that while | deprecate slavery and slaveholding,
while all my sympathies gush forth for the poor
slave, | cannot withhold some pity aud commisora-
ton for the stakeholder too for it is an eternal prin-
ciple Of right, that the evil door shall be punished
by the evil he inficts upon others and terribly
cursed and punished is the South by the evil they
infict upon the poor slave, by n violation OF all
human rights, by n violation of the dear,s princi-
pies Of humanity.
| will not enter into an explanation hero of the
various ways in which the South is cui sed through
slavery. The very soil shows it hence the neces-
sity for a constant endeavor to obtain the accession
of new soil; for without it, they cannot live. Their
industry shows it, for whenever slavery exists, in
dustry is looked upon with contempt. Whenever
slavery exists, labor is degraded. Whenever sla-
very exists, the mind, not only of the slave; but of
the tyrant slayeholder, is Frustrated and degraded.
And this influence affects not only the South, not
only the stakeholder and the slave, butt extends
to the North. The evil of slavery has shown it
self Of late yet more distinctly than ever before. l
heard Mr.. Foster say this morning, that he was
glad when the Fugitive Slave Bill was passed, and
be seemed to rejoice that the influence of slavery
was beginning to be better understood than form
erly. ], too, rejoice in it. Whenever there is q
disease in IN system, it is always better to have it
thrown to the surface, than to have it confined
internally, for two reasons:-one is, it shows the
strength Of nature to throw it eff; and the other
is, to give the skilIul physician a better knowledge
how to attack the cause of the disease.
Slavery has shown itself distinctly within the
last five years. Until that time, it was more con-
fined to the South at any rate, we did not so dis
tiEctly perceive it here at the North. AT the time
when She Fugitive Slave Bill was enacted, it COM
menced showing itself out on the surface. | was
one Of those who, at that time, did not understand
its bearings. l deeply deplore that the disease
existed here at all. ] deeply deplore the fact that
slavery cursed tnG lanu; out / ?alu NJ tne r,nt', l.
am sI"a may vac uisease Is comlne u Ii sui'aeoi
more upon the North. 1t seems to be the fact,
that q man can never appreciate q thing so well
Sntl II - oiousni hoine " nth'seli' =" -
TlaNe Dil prousht inc su"JeCt noehe " tene u
tnousahuS IN inc iaseiy sC-caleo ltee o'h.es: !
say J0'Sety Soc"'eo' lor IL tney "eie uuiy nIo'
'hele C"uIc nave ho union U I co"'u'unlon VIZ s",
very lor freedom ana slavery can no more eAis'
toeennct nun truth uhu l1lsenoou' y w III
! OF all lalSe III free OF all slave us We I'e NY vi
} rec we are al slaves, ana we are an iu1 eno.uvis
10 souie eAte.t' at any Fa'e' III "'u!hs NV oIun
unless we raise our voice against IT, ana use III.
c utmost enorty III our power ~ ulsuhi'e' " Dl:"h
'hat unnolY Ihloh-lor II 1t hot ilSh'eues on'ot
t "a Union Oh W!cheuncsS' Vi crime' VI sin' IL
VI sn"me' "a 'l,on u ieeuom uhu siaNeiy o"nno
e eAiSt, any more tnah IRE ana water; .
e W = u sum tooh re secG"u e'eas strp =
: ei'iorCu "Po" tHe +'oslli l n"iteU u . '"C nm
= nef ol lreeuoIi' that was the NeorasHa nl'
q W mate'er tuc thiG" mIsnt nave psch peiore ,h!!
Diii was passed. the siehoef lhreaa Which helu !
d tosetHeg l nGW shuPpeu "sunuetI"IH ~ u,
t uohe ~ biu thc Apoliuonis's, 'ne D'euhi'u!eI
d snap 'hu' threau asuhuer' nv III slenuer mn
Snlch once hela the onion' me iniamy,In IL
o fanny tnele Is 10 DC Nttacneu 10 u uissoiuuUn ?
y 'hiS Hnion' win Se "t,aoheu " II SUN ~ !
was tne oouli' I 9oulnern si1Ntty, nav 'nappe,
'ho lnh' anu 'hc sh"PP.i"g, y! tn"s lnA 70 II eul
est iqFerahheT OF 'Me u.ssoiutloh Oh 'hat ialse' COZ
II rupt Union, where there is no liberty and no hu
IN manly: lAPPiausel ~
IN MY irlcnas' was not always oil TINS opinion
ne Not more th"ha year ago last March l was !
=" asnlhGt1h' ana WINE there' l spoke on the ne
I'd prasKa biil When l went TO the lecture room' l ma
e. no iIea Ihat l was a DiSuhlohisI; i never khe'
IS. II; inHVer suspected u; put WINE mere ID spear
lis ing Oh lhe Ne1raska bili' enueaVored 10 mo som
IS, REASONS | SNOW why the ohioh neea not ge uF
lg Solveu' anu YET slavery oe apo tsheamicr l nav
Of ocen adu-eiasery al my Ile-tlhe' WINE l thu
as ehuea'Creu 10 ma Tue reason ana suggest IN
At means for abolishing slavery, without dissolvin
as me ohion' l convinced myself Oh me impoSsipiiit
at ol ~, ahI 1 salu so AZ the time ior' IKE u uu
mt Suaker' ! Always uepGhu upon the moving OF III
it HEPlrH ior the Iime peihg' ana Whatever come
re ln'o my mint give utetahc9 uoit; anu Wheh
he went home from that lecture, said to a friend
mine, III L have not succeeded IN convincing an
one else, | have succeeded,-and l am yer