Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-18

was good for putting tho Shareholders in bondage.
But the Divine penalty for idleness is, If a man
will not work neither shall he eat and wo need need
not concern ourselves about the matter. He who
will not work will find Jordan Is hard road to
travel. Laughter md cheers.9 Slaves, too,
! do not work we'll if were q slave Iwould work
as badly as could. tits an old story, the bunch
of beets before the donkey's nose If "a man
could only make his horse understand, he would
only have TO promise him an extra peck Of oats at
his Journey end aud he would have no need Of a
lash. So man only wanted to know wLether he
was to be paid no matter if he had the concentra.
ted blackdess Of sixteen midnights, Marvellous is
tho manner in which the slaves received their Tree
dom. If thcre.be any one who has not read the
accounts hope they will all take the first oppor.
tunity to inform themselves upon the subject.
(NIr Garrison here read several extracts to show
that there was no violence manifested by the slaves
on being liberated He considered that the manner
in which the Fourth of July was celebrated in the
West Indies-rejocings and thanksgivings-was
much more credtabe than by firing powder and
firing cannon as we were accustomed to celebrate
the Fourth of July. Tie result of emancipation
had been glorious to Freedom. lie read also from
documentary evidence to prove that the assertions
now made that property was deteriorating in the
West Indies on account of emancipation to DO
false and to show also that long as Slavery cx-
listed the plantations were largely nvol, ed, and
very many bankruptcy Now my friends (said the
speaker) [ come to speak OF our own country for
a few moments. The guilt of this nation goes to
heaven AMI it reaches down to hell We may be
| Tong before the powers Of the ear'h. We may
talk Of army and navy and of our power of con-
quest. 1t is all in vain There is one who sit!oth
on His throne in the Heavens who has infinite
power and take all this nation and dash It into
pieces potters vessel is broken. If we refuse
to repent the cup will one day be put to our own
lips we deserve to drink blood. Is there no hope
for this nation? / confess to you my heart Is as
heavy MS lead within eyet do not despair the ri-
umph of truth. The slaves of our country are to
be set free. This is as certain as there is God.
Slavery is doomed whatever this nation may do, If
not by man by God dashng our nation into pieces
as he has the nations of the Old World. l know
that the means of the Anti-Slavery Society has
been wonderful, with nothing but the simple truth
against all that is mighty and powerful combined
against it. But there is such thing as nation
sitting away its day of grace until it is too late to
recover its time and be saved. A remnant may be
saved though the nation be lost. There has never
yet been made any issue at all that is worthy of a
thought by the North against Slavery. We have
lost our right of speoch-the liberty OF the Press
editors put to death, If we are to get rid OF
Slavery it must be cut root trunk and branch, and
be burned and its ashes scattered. l thank God
for any kind of opposition to Slavery, and am
thankful that men take even side issues. But the
true issue TO be taken is this. That the Almighty
has made it impossible that Liberty and Slavery
can commingle together that GodiAlmighty will
tween the oppressed and the oppressor This
Union is an i'm posture, covenant with death an
agreement with hell The question is not of parch-
ment or of Interpretation. 1t is n question OF
moral application and moral duty But we have
shown our weak spot. We have said that we will
hold the American Union to be paramount to every
thing else and we will sacrifice to it scifrespect,
manhood. liberty and God. This is accepted by
Slavery as q carte blanche and whatever they de-
mand we give. Charles Sumner and Henry Viii.
son are for Union, and whatever form the Anti
Slavery sentiment of the people generally takes
the feeling is entertained that tho Union must and
shall be preserved. There ia no Union. Union is
eouality-Union is reciprocity: but there is no
Union about. We have no rights even ms white
men. WHY continue these experiments2 1t is all
,rben Il zoos Slororv will 90 ,r;t II ond ,bo slave,
v i'll rise up and believe. as Judge Culver told
us. that the South would be soon coming hack at
the point of the bayonet held by tho slaves.
want the slaves to be set free, and whatever may
stand in the wav of their freedom I am for its
overthrow. If il is the Church thon announcing
the Church TO be of Satan and not of Christ, | am
for its overthrow. if the clergy then am for pro.
nouncing them to be wolves in Sleeps clothing, and
putting the brand deep on their foreheads wherever
there is any countenance given to Slavery. Our
business here is with ourselves We hold in our
hands the KEY whereby the dungeons may be un-
locked and the slaves set free do not speak to
the Shareholders ;.they are insane men, incapable
of hearing or of making an argument But those
who are tho pillars of tho system, the people OF
the North, educated and refined, the people who
constitute this American Republic-my appeal is
10 them In the name of God and Liberty. And
saw 10 than let us Give to The Winds Tho ralvinp
cry "No Union WITH Slayeboldersn Tn with tbe
aog of disnnion that we NAV have a free md
gl1rous rennbjic of opr own and when thar bonr
shal come tLe bour wi have arrival that shall wit
ness the overthrow of Slavery. and God will have
aae - posIoe ,of US 10 % Ihe PeTGie from the
" sI .hn Tho rho vs. AZ a. liz Lis
ooe"n We sua n,sngu ~ ~
" haAe no T.sn :, .'e'i
aoeesors' anu mus we sIaii hate ,ng paessss "
snose VINO are reauy 70 9elisn ana 'no peheo.;e,o
Oh Almighty uou lhouu ana con'inueu cheer'ng'I
wrxnr,, pu,,,,ps At DARruouru-A corres
Thuons Oh eno az Mn ph;ns Oddra s9s hfors ts
.SiioMns Ion a0Iouas %, Snoata s nartno,b Gn
iano la1 oH'''N -'''''"'y ''''''' - WV