Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-10

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the porters cap and stood in the gate and laughed
! to see his ministers deceived and bowing down be-
| fore the porter. But the porter said, ''who is
that fellow laughing at me in the gate? off with
his head" They decaptated the Raah, and the
porter reigned in his stead. daughter and ap-
plauses.)
What happens after periods of extraordinary
prosperity has happened now. Men could not see
beyond their eyes. The cause being out of sight,
is out of mind, They sec meat and wine, steam
and machinery in the career of wealth.
Wherever we look we shall see the same skepti
cism, the same ebb of mind. l should find it in
the science. should find it in the philosophy of
France should find it in the philosophy Of Eng.
land, and everywhere-a want of faith in laws,
and q worship of success. | saw man in a calico
printing mill who fancied there was no reason why
this pattern should please, and that not-they
were all jumbles Of color, of which one had the
luck to take, and that was all. | asked him if he
had the blue jelly, called his eye, by chance? But
overything rests on foundations. The calico print
pleases because the arrangement of coors and
forms agrees with the imperative arrangements of
the human eye
Is the reputation of tbs Parthenon, or Elgin
marbles, of the Apollo, and the Torso a caprice
Greek architecture made by men of correcter
eyes than others, who obey the necessities of their
lworks-the use of the building, the
ry support, the best aspect, entrance and Light; ;
and having satisfied these conditions, pared away
all that could be spared for strength, and behold
beauty! Is the reputation Of these an accident?
or is the arch of the rainbow, is the beauty Of
stars or of sunshine, is the JOY of love caprice
an opinion? Or does any man suppose the repu-
tation of Jesus accidental-the saint who in differ
ent forms and opinions, but with uRanmity of
venerationsas 10 character, the whole race of man
worships? Or is the reputation of any of the
greatlawgivers Socrates, the Stoics, Luther, Wash
ington, an accident and caprice? There are peri
ods of occultation when the light of mind seems to
be partially Withdrawn from nations as well as
from individuals. That devastation reached its
crisis in the acquesence in slavery in this country
lin the cruel political seryitude Of Europe during
the same age.
And there are moments of greatest darkness and
total eclipse In the French Revolution there was
a day when the people took strumpot from the
street, seated ner in chariot and led herin pro-
cessOn, saying this is the goddess of Reason
And in 1850, men in Republican America passed
a statute which made Justice and Mercy subect to
fine and imprisonment and multitudes were found
to declare that there existed no higher law in the
universe than their constitution and this proper stat
ute which uprooted the foundations of recttude.-
Loud applause)
The idea of abstract right exists in the human
mind, aud lays itself out in the equilibrium of ma
ture in the equalities and periods of the system,
in the level of seas, in the action and reaction of
forces thus nothing is allowed to exceed or alb
sorb the rest If it do, it is diseased and is quick
i ly destroyed. Among men that limitation Of my
Ipatible with liberty to all protecting and seeking
my benefit as long as it does not interfere with
your beneft-this justice which satisfies everybody
was early discovery of the human mind. It
was benelicent rule. See how all things worked
4 for it.
1t is impossible to tilt the beam. All the tyrants
and landowners, and monopolists of the world in
vain set their shoulders to heave the bar which
settles for overmore the ponderous Equator to its
line; and man and mote, and star and sun, must
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fathers, in July, 1885, consented to adopt pOpua-
ton as the basis of representation, and to count
only threeifths of the slaves, and to copcede the
reclamation Of fugitive slaves, for the consideration
that there should be no slavery in the northwest
territory. They made this fatal blunder in agree
ing to this false basis ofrepresenaton, and to this
criminal simplicity Of restoring fugitive slaves.
The splendor of the bribe, namely the magnificent
prosperity Of America from 1887 downward is the
excuse pleaded for their crime
4 They ought never to have passed the ordinance;
they should have refused it at the risk of making
no Union. Many ways could have been taken. If
:, the southern section has made desperate alliance
with England, or gone back to colonies, the slave
would have been emancipated at the same time rs
those in the West Indies and then the colonies
would have been annexed to us. The bribe, if
they foresaw the prosperity we have seen, was to
to dazzle common men, and | don't wonder men
excuse and uphold it. But always, so much crime
so much ruin. If the South thinks it is enriched
by slavery, read the valuation tables, or weigh the
men. think it impoverished. Young men are
now born in that country, | suppose, of as much
ability elsewhere; but know not what blight
rest upon their education; perhaps | know too
well, and that blight in their reputation is there
only when loving to make good the reputation Of
the past.
Now what is the effect, therefore in the balance
of the universe, of this evil government? Why,
of course, to discredit the government. When the
public fails of its duty private men take its place
/ When the British ministryar weak, the Times ed
itor rules the realm. When the American govern
ment are false to their trust men disobey and resist
government,p put it in the and the government
is forced into minor, false and ridiculous attitude
Men of reason, of truth, private men, have great
hearts. This is the compensation of mad govern
ments-the theatre they afford to illustrious men,
AMI we have all Of US great hdbt to the brave
and conscientious men, who, in the very heur and
place of the evil acts made their protest for them
selves and countrymen, by word and by deed.--
They are justified, and the law is condemned.
. Loud applause) But it is not to societies that
the great secrets of nature are revealed, but to
private persons-to each man in his organization,
experience. A serious man looks for his oppor-
tun:ty. think he only works truly when acting
upon his own private observation. All forcible
men will admit that books, learned societies, and
learned cities, will not supply what their own good
sense told them, 1t is common to say that the in
yention of gunpowder has equalized the strong
and the weak. Never believe it. 1t has never
made any deep difference, and Lord Wellington's S
weighing the soldiers proves it. Audacity and
good sense have had the same superiority, what
ever weapons yield. There are no true sinews of
war but the snewy arms of valiant men.
Montesquieu said, countries are not cultivated
in proportion to their population, but in proportion
to their freedom" Most unfortunately this uni
yersaliy accepted duty has been antagonized . by
the calamity of American slavery; and in its ner-
petual encroachment, this has had the heart
through the stronger personality shall l say, of
the Southern people, and through their systematic
devotion to politcs-so to league itself with the
government as to check and invest the hateful SEN
timent of the people, by their respect to law and
statute and this country now exhibits the atheism
of which speak, in its abject regard to forms,