Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-23
sLAvERY-wHEN SHALL 1T CEASE

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Twenty years ago, we were sanguinc Of a speedy
victory for freedom; and by this time at least We
expected TO have celebrated tho tenth anniversary
of our national jubilee. But ALAS we can as yet
only celebrate the anniversaries Of our attempted
but unconsummatod purposes. But yet we are
not without indications that tho end may come and
come speedily. That it will come peacefully and
as the immediate effect Of moral influence, we long
since ceased to hope, and yet this moral influence
is the indispensable means to the end as it has ev.
err been, and by no means should be relaxed.
The Practical Christian has some facts and spccu-
lations on this point, which our readers may be
interested to see, whether they agree with the lat
ter or no.
And what further? Why will Slavery go down.
Because it is getting dead ripe. Like all other
moral monstrosities, it has had its day. Evil con-
tains the seeds of its own destruction. Every buS-
BILE of folly and %iniquity must burst. Tyranny
and wickedness never rest till their own ambition,
straining after impossible achievements, impels
them to the last fatal leap and a plunge into per-
dition. Slavery is the grossest embodiment of
tyranny and wickedness ever permitted on earth.
Our United States Slavery has been growing more
and more rampant for many years. 1t has become
drunken with its own success and selfindulgence
1t is becoming outrageously insoleni and brutal
1t is ut this moment all but stark mad. Its own
supple confederates are at their wits end to know
how to manage it. 1t willhave its own outrageous
way in spite of all its doctors, keepers and nurses.
Meantime there has been great moral progress in
our time and country. Garrison and his fellow
witnesses were raised up years ago, with mighty
agitating voices, to cry in the wilderness of their
%country's ignorance, selfshness and inbumanity.
lie said, II piH be heard" and he has been. ALI
the witnesses re-echoed that declaration, and have
been heard. The Church was disturbed in her
soporifc dalliance with Slavery, and now groans
with agitation. The Republic has been shaken
from center to circumference. The people are
aroused, and now no mau can let Slavery alone,
even if he will. Politics have became inoculated
with Abolitionism. Legislatures pass c%nactments
for liberty which make the Union itself second
best to justice and human rights. The moral
Observation-Disclosures put the ball of Anti-Slavery
in motion, and the politicians will never let it stop.
Gideon and his three hundred lap ,oater invincibles
have now little to do but to follow up the political
hosts with shouts, and to administer timely re-
Dukes to the hindcrmOst twaddlers. Thus the ar
mics of Liberty and of Slavery are mastering for
their deadly conflict. Slavery cannot stop swag-
gering and aggressing. Liberty cannot stop vino
ing and resisting. Every day brings the belliger-
ents nearer and nearer the great issue. At the
same time neutrality becomes more and more i'm
possible. The heralds of both parties cry vehe-
mently, "He that is not for us is against us !"-
This is the present posture of affairs in this war.
Whether we contemplate Liberty or Slavery as
thus arrayed, we see that peace is impossible, that
even a truce must be of short duration, that exter-
mination is the natural watchword of both parties,
and that as certainly as God reigns Slavery must
ut last go down.
Who then are to do the hardest of the fighting
against Slavery? Not the Garrisonians. Their
work is nearly done. Not the Free Sellers. They
will help on the war up to a certain point. Not
the great Republican party that is brewing. They
will 60 their length towards rendering the final
battle inevitable. But the hitherto pro-slavery
Hunkers and Fogies will at length be so kicked
and goaded by tho ch:valrous Slavocracy, as to
turn round upon them in downright, revenge and
crush them in pieces. They will make a virtue of
this necessity, and then, amid the roar of univer-
sal applause, will exclaim, with triumphant self
comrlacence, 'See what zoe have done! We have
exterminated the monster. We told you so. We
knew that it must come to this. We only waited
our time to save the country. That handful of
spouting agitators could do nothing. You politi-
cal abolitionists could never have carried the thing
through. But when We came to the rescue, the
battle was fought and won !" Of course their con-
clusion will be, that the government of the regen.
Grated nation belongs rightfully to them. But
justice and Judgment will take their course. and
honor will be awarded to whom honor is DUE
Only Slavery will be abolished.
And what then? There will still, methinks, be
work for the good and true to do. That grossest
and most aohorrent abomination being removed,
thousands will see that only o rough beginning
has been made towards preparing for the grand
era of universal righteousness and peace. But
sufficient unto the day is the evil and also the good
thereof. Reader, watch the course of events, and
see if the foregoing prospectus of what is coming
turns out essentially untrue.-A. b.
"Lar-water abolitionists," nor any others should
suffer themselves to stand idle or feel that they
have little or nothing to do, when the battle is ra-
ging in its fury. If circumstances indicate that
the ever applicable principles of truth they advo-
cate require q new application, let them make it
with all due diligence and fidelity.
THE RESULTS OF OUR POLITICAL ANTI.