Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-01
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"'AB1LITI0NfST."

80.
: TAis, Is tho torti &c roproach applied to all Anti
Ssl,sy men Internationally, and applied often
ty.tau un,liuking without a due appreciation of
It's meaning TO those who labor to secure the
Rights OF Man. By many this term is regarded MS
The nc pias uttrtt Of odiun and shame. We pro-
pose to consider its meaning. We look into Web
elef, apl .iud that he defines "Abolitionist' thus
"0ne. wh4 dysiros To abolish anything"
!. Judged by THE dofuition, all men are Ia some
sohse 'Aboiitionists, for all men desire to abolish
something which they believe to be wrong. The
Name law man believes the traffic IN SrdeHt spirit,
10 be wrong, and he l,bors u abolish it; the teach
Ell "endeayors TO abolish ignorance; the philau
tltro1rst labors to abolish tho wrongs which lesser
lutahnh happiness the christian desires to abolish
sin an error from his heart and from his life The
l~g'IGciGn endeavors to abolish what he believes
~ bo wrong in governmental policy; the friend o
,eace strives to abolish the war spirit, aud re
nlaco.it with love and. good will to KAN the Iriout
Uf Liberty desires to abolish the evils Of Slavery,
while the dcspots and their allies labor to abolish
Freedom and free institutions. This last is what
has provoked tho rufiln attacks of the Missouri
LOb upon. the rights of tue settlers in Kansas, auo
it is a Sympathetic feeling with Despotism which
leai5 TIE pioreo Administration to uphold the des
perate, Efforts Of these outlaws to abolish Freedom
anl plant Slavery TN free territory.
History records the chief actions of the TIVE
more prominent classes of abuliiionists who have
hss,red in the world, VIC mean the one class whicl
at!qmptel to abolish Liberty and the other which
aimed to emancipate it from thraldom. Tho first
hre universally condemned, while The Latter are
lied in grateful and enduring remembrance. The
g!eat heart of humanity every where cxecrates th'
tyyant. Gessler. who attempted to abolish Free
d6n in Switzerland, while it holds in everlastin,
homer the memory OF William Tell, who dared t.
withstand and oppose the tyranny Of his age. IL
modern times the world will not willingly lie
die the names OF Washington. Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson, and the men who held tht
truths Of the Declaration of independence to b,
self evident, and in support of which they pledged
their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor
it was reserved to the abOlitioniets Of Freedom il
cur own times to Ierijc that Declaration. (ride
Juhn Pettits speech in the Senate Of the CniteC
States. in which he declared that tho Declaration
Of Independence was "a srlfevilent lie. y and tbs
+. Pierce's the Douglass, tho Atchinson's, thu
StringfollOws, and the M ID Of ruff ms who labor
to extend Slavery in the name Of Democracy, ac
npon Ar. Pettit's suggestion that the truth is q
lie In opposition to this view are arraycd tn,
Republican hosts, who have resolved to stay tn,
march of Slavery, and inaugurate Lii erty us TIT
guiding star, the controlling influence in tho Gov
ernmcnt.
As then there are various kinds Of abolitionists
who will be so lost to all the teachings Of the faith
ers Of the Republic as to join the Slavery propa
gandists in their efforts to extend tho peculiar in
stitution,' when the natural consequence Of thei
efforts IL the abolition OF Freedom, which GU
fathers spent their blood and treasure To establish
who. so lost to every feeling Of patriotism as to la
hor 70 abolish Freedom in these United States
The Republicans are the conservators Of Freedom
their opponents IRE the Aboiitionists. Their ct1rt
tend to abolish Liberty.