Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27


N is doomed. Let the North raise the cry of nc
sldrery or no Union. Tho South has raised the
cry OF Disunion to frighten Northern towards Let
C the po itca parties reecho the cry like to see
e both parties ul anti.slavery men at work Some
d say the Constitution is an antslavery instrument.
e Then take it from the hands Of the Shareholders,
: AS far as my power would go l would it for
the establishment Of human freedom. / have
stood cut for all kinds Of frecdom-for freedom of
the mird. have gone against church-craft-agains.
king-ciaft against God-craft;and were the Gods be-
| fore mel would demonstrate with the Gods as with
the kings and the priests get all the rights you can
and then demand the rest. 60. for the rights Of
womer---for the rights of white women and. BLACK
women. There is no ground sacred as that on
which man stands. There is no question so So
cred as man. Why not investigate then all ques-
tions concerning him. All slavery comes directly
from the enslavement of the mind. We must at
tach mental slavery and attacking that we attack
all slavery You must attack the bulwark Of all
slavery superstition, Set the mind free and the
freedom of man is achieved. Slaves will eease to
t be. We have from time immemorial point
ed men to the future and have forgotten him here
in the present 1t is my full and firm conviction
that ttis has been most pernicious. 1t makes
moral towards of us all. Every one who feels in
his hert that he is friend OF the slave, let hin
r go against this system. Mrs. Rose thought we
all supported the Government Mr.. Foster did
when lie paid his taxes and used the post-ofice
, though he retrained from voting under the Gov.
ernment. We are called upon to be living mar
tyrs. To stand up among our fellow beings in
llnfa, Ac G,ao H.. l. IL
a constant cashing with the opinions, prejudices
and imagined interests Of those around us,--is a
martyrdom far excelng that of those who lay
down their heads upon the block This said Mrs
Rose, Undressing Mr. Foster, you have done you
} need covet no higher martyrdom. hoye, she
added, all will labor for freedom, you will thus
secure he highest reward, your own just appro-
baton, and bring man back to himself
Mr.. Foster explained that there was nm impor-
tont distinction between being voluntarily of the
f government in its administration and submitting
to its rover in the payment of taxes, and that he
deemed it right to employ even bad government
to do good and useful act as the transportation Of
letters
Adjourned till 2 o'clock p. NJ.
i AFTERNOON
t Meeting convened according to adjournment
. Presid mt in the chair. The Secretary then read
, the following letter from VIM. Lloyd Gutrson
RI which was ordered to be published with the pro-
ceodings.
i BosToy, Oct. 2, 1855.
ESTEEMED FRIEND: have been hoping that cir
cumstances might warrant my being presented at
your annual meeting in Battle Greek but, disap.
pointed in this, the only thing that can do is TO
send you all a cheering word, and to invoke upon
your gathering the benediction of freedomoving
God.
As for the cause in which VIC are engaged, none
can be more humane, more just, more holy. 1t
embraces the interests of all men, for time and
for eternity. Its immediate object is, indeed, the
emancipation of every bondman at the South but
in its mighty scope, it concerns the freedom and
equality of the entire human race. As the light
of the sun or the air of heaven is for ALL SO is
freedom for all. lie who denies this is either u
tory in spirit, a fool in understanding; because
it IS "a self evident truth"
| To turn man into marketable commodity is
not only crime, but the consumation of all
crimes, for which no kind treatment can make
even partial atonement. Toward God it is mani
festy the most daring affront. Whoever is guilty
of it, whoever sanctions it, may be both patriot
and Christian, according to the law of the land;
but. according to the law of eternal justice, he
is fundamentally wrong; for God is no respecter
of persons"
These truisms and yet they need to be re-
peaed and enforced almost rs much as though
they were recent moral discoveries but only in
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nation admit their validity in regard to all other
people, except Africans and their descendants
and we except these only because we have en-
save1 no Others
What, as abolitioniss,we demand for "our fellow
eountrymen in chains" is precisely what we claim
for ourselves personal liberty the right of loco.
motion, mental and moral culture, equal protection
under the laws, voluntary and remunerated labor,
freedom Of conscience and of speech. Or which
of these rights may they be innocently deprived
Which, among them ALL would we consent to sur.
render, in our own case at any price?
OF what folly and madness they guilty who
counsel us to cease this agitation"-to let slavery
alone to be disposed of according to the best Judge
ment Of the slaveholders-to believe that the South
is competent to manage her own affairs, without
any foreign interference! what! are snpers not
to be called to repentance? Without an outward
pressure will tyrants voluntarily let the oppressed
60 free? Is it best to leave idolatary in the care
and keepingof idolatorsS Is highway Iobbery to be
looked after and and suppressed by highwaymen?
Is prostitution to be kept down by the licentous?
Is il best not to exasperate pickpockets by calling
them by their right names? Is this the philoso-
ply of worldwide reformation? Was Jesus an
intermeddler, in that he came to seek and to save
those who were lost? And will Shareholders cor
fess their vlliany and bring forth fruits meet for
repentance, provided they are permitted to 60 un-
rebukedf Is it no longer duty to 'cry aloud,
and spare not" in case of all such as are appoin-
to destructon? Absurd reasoning! The pure
must strive to save the impure-the good to re-
claim the bad-the free to break the chains Of the
! 1 - 49, q. .G.