Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-17

should enact that all who have emigrated from
the Free States to her soil, shall be slaves and
suppose, that, among those, who fly back to the
Free States before the terrors of this new enact
nent, children of these Judges s-woud these
Judges hold it lawful and obligatory to return
them? If they would, they would prove them,
selves monsters and if they would not they would
prove themselves Observation-Disclosures in sparing
their own children whilst giving up other mems
children to oppression But proceed to apply.
still, closer test Not only has Georgia, coniessedly
as much constitutional right to make slaves Of her
whites, as of her blacks; but Wisconsin has, con- |
fessedly much right, in this respect Georgia.
Now, suppose q pro-savery Legislature of Wis
consn shall punish these her antslayery Judges,
by declaring them and their prosterty to be
slaves. Would these Judges honor the statute
and bow their necks to the yoke of slavery? Not
they. They would sooner resist unto death. l
admit, that this bravery would, on the one hand
be to their credit But, on the other, it would
prove the dishonesty, of which they gutyin ac-
knuwledgihg the obligations Of the slave code,when
Others and not themselves, to suffer from these
codes. Men may lack honesty, without SO much
suspecting, that they lack it. Every one lacks
it, who admits slavery to be law for every one
would refuse to make such admission, IN the case
OF himself were he claimed for its victim. Indeed;
this whole question, whether slavery can he law
ful, resolves itself into question of honesty, An
honest man. having his eyes open to the claims
and scope of honesty, and especially 20 the duty
of doing unto others as you would have others do
unto him, cannot fail to deny, that slavery is law
full / add, that no code, which cannot be honestly
administered, can be law and that hence no slave
code can be law.
Would the Wisconsin Judes admit that murder
can be transmitted into law? How dare they,
then, admit, that slavery can be? Would they
not rather their children mutHered than en-
slayed2
| admitted that the a5ollionists have shown
themselves deficient in the spirit of selfsacrifce
1t is true, that they have expended millions OF
dollars in the anti-slavery cause. They have en-
ployed thousands of lecturers, and flooded the
whole North with their publications. His zeal for
the delverance of the slave has cost this abolition
ist Eve thousand dollars, and that aboltonist sew
eral times as much and another aboltionist ten,
ay, twenty times as much And, what is still
more there are thousands of poor abolitionists,
who, in their devotion to this cause, have aI-
preached the standard of the woman, who "cast
in all, that she bad-even all her living" The
pro-savery newspapers often say, that an abolition
lists is too mean to pay anything towards purchas-
ing the liberty OF slave 1t is true that there are
abolitionists-- very worthy boltionsts-whose
principles will not permit them to join in such a
purchase. But multitudes of abolionists contr-
tribute much, in this wise One has put thou
sand dollars, and another FIVE thousand dollars,
and another ten thousand dollars into the pockets
of Shareholders: and small share of the abo-
litionists have taxed themselves more or less,
to buy their fellow men from under the yoke of
slavery.
ron.;t,,,t,,e bos,r.r nc have besn tbs bpcun;-
saor;eoas of oboI;tinn;sts in tbeir c,,,se tbev
fail far short of the merits of that precious cause
Then again, it is but small portion of them.
who refuse to purchase the cotton, and sugar,
and rice, that are wet with the tears, and sweat,
and blood of the slave. And hwhen VIE count up
those, who have sealed with their bood their
,onsecration to the anti.slavery cause, we find
} the whole number to be scarcely half dozen.
IN mono of rho on,,t;es IF tbe hest stvle of men
nd ,at ;s tho St,io of mo, noeded r. efectnote
utII iil. 10 .ns .;so.;n Of an,or;oon i.yor
.ae pIiieSo ho,;,sa;a.s et,r ,ha,nsoIras nore do
i"eo ,,i0 ,o ~ ,'a@nnnn,tv cnmfdenca cbortv
TI'n,. hoa , ;drI 5a;thn tho slnveboldars nor
o.,or Juaroeiu s,,sabolders arc indeed
80 l,sa S c boid not bes;,otc to saw so
si..s 800, %mG m0 bU.oro rhon a 40 So
"a"uys .t. oro o ;thomt sin TIe
E, .uaS af robiS;n, ,;ro nory sirs nf which We
ON W so SO W. ;i.s' ;Ii ttr;hrtod % !, r,I.o
"ie % ths %v;o;s nf tbis false eduration
-. hn ';to %a .' nnh comnossonoted os con.
: demned, dreot as should ever be my abhorrencc
e 4Lo of SI,"ohoid;nr' IN, olwovs ~ tenn.
VI ''o %: :3,,t " ~ ~ in~obojJor With tb,
, y ea niy o,,ro ;s M bottar than his and
y thot 7bod omr circnmstonces been EXCHANGED he
r ,nrid nrohorlv boye heen tbe abolitionist and |
,o II s nor to he wondered at that
,, .ne s''r n,,DIiou bnt TttIo and son,e nf
OSu ,ho AZ at sI"vehodn~ Is sr rbe South
.nn H., !. - nnt e;m and the North dnes like
t ~ ~''o NH Th ~ ,i 10 ,s 10 North os toll "a of
M VS. 81 ond 40 oiaras nf tbe North as we'll n,
.to I 1ousn' Sn,,.,,i hit toiis i te,,, -
l. Vi tn0 Iou'i'' t','' -,
slavery abolitionists are slow to tolerate differ
a a ence Of opinion. For instance, some of them be-
lieye, that the Federal Constitution isProsavefy
J. aia o.nelS, .'a' nn'nd' onah for tbe;,
/ sa zinc the hordest tbino of eaub other, have
IS Cf may be pardoned an allusion to myself been
maze 'he Vie d oi 'ats so Sho nnicoT
3 li'h' n n"u ,o''S noI, ,ood to o5d should
S tberofore be made n mart of our nation. So il
a thereiore y. I'au. DO ~ Soor of ro,aross
o wus wv, 'na1 su ~. .' =; .I nhoiit;o ~ M,
l. ror ua',s uareo ouorSoar1 TI;s was NV fate
y 'n.y 'liie" G ho,d ,bat ,ho orns,ot;on
Sc oecGusc ',e 1J a.ro,bon si,rnry In vain wa
lie - - IL. / Lr,a H. oont,ory Nv doon was