Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-18
dbe Anti s5Iaper0 DusIe,
spcEHH OF MR. GARRISON.

ou VI Hte.a lofe IMAM 0Ait Oh NY tilc tt't3 1cVu
deyoted to the Anti Slavery enterprise. Whatov-
sf fksn1Ainsio Of that life will by she help Of God
ho. consoorAted to thesame glorious cause. Mover.
ne$4r. peyer will relax one jotcr title YER
shall cea2e % tossik against Slavery 50 long as
<here relnains IL this guilty land one single slaye
20 curse tho soil or stain national cscutcheon.
llwAs ssked not 4 great while since by an, Anti
Slavery vospan II l did not grow weary y. our
cause; whether I,was not tired out aud desired
reposo, Ny answer was, and is, and will be to
tho end; am tired Of rascaty, AMI villainy. and
corruption; an, tired OF doughfaces timeservers
and tr.mners am weary of blood ! grow sick
at heart in Wow of the oppression which is perpe'
tratcd upon millions of our countrymen at the
South, but never grow weary in denouncing all
these and with every fresh encounter with the
Slave Power only derive everywhere the more
strength and the more determination never to give
up until our jubilee shall come (applause.) Alas
were are not here to celebrate an American jubilee.
There is nothing for us to talk about of American
character except that which is enough to sufuse
over our cheek the blush of shame and to make all
the blood in our veins chill. This celebration to-
day is not American it is foreign. England, from
which our fathers seeded in times that tried mems
souls has taken the lead in the great and godlike
work of human enfranchsement, and we as ma
ton are still dabbing in human blood still forging
fetters and manufacturing yokes. We are here to
commemorate tho consumaton OF the wishes and
hopes of men ana women who, through good re-
port and evil report, year after year, were stead
fast in their devotion to the cause in which they
had embarked, and contcnded against the mighty
power of the slave holding interest, the Pro-Sla-
very spirit Of the mother country the few against
the many the poor and unknown and influential
rising up and undertaking to overthrow the system
which had been gray for centuries. They had to
grapple with the aristocracy the mercantile inter
est thS Established Church. and oven he throne It
and with othes enality in their hands
than the truth of the Everlasting God, which never
vet was vanquishcd in any conflict with tho Devil
Our gratitude is due to the memories of Wilber-
force, Sharp, Buxton Clarkson, and their glorious
compoers, and 10 the less noted men and women
throughout England Scotland, Ireland and Wales,
who gave to this cause in the hours of its extrem
cst danger and peril all that could bo given by
hearts of love to God and love to man. Where
now are the West India planters who fanced that
the Aboiitionists of England could never put down
their system? They no longer hold slaves in their
handsfor tho bondman is no more. They who were
onoo slaves to-day mingling their voices of re-
joicing with us to-day. The emancipation of the
British West Indies is the work of God not of man.
The opposition encountered by the English Aboli-
tiansts was not 30 great as we enco"nter Those
who opposed emancipation were not Pro-Slayery
in the American sense of the word. They knew
nothing of Slavery in consequence of its remote
position. They had heard of it as existing in the
West India Colonies but they had never been cor
rupted by it's presence, nor intimidated by the
power ami threats of Shareholders by being in close
juxtapostion with Slavery as the American pco-
plc are now. But If we examine the arguments
used there ny inst emancipation, then VIC have but
the reflection of the arguments used now by Pro
Slavery advocates The West India planters said,
in the first place, to the Aboitionists, "Mind your
Town business" Aye, said the Abolitonists, our
business is to cry aloud and spare not against OPP
pression-our business is to donounce every tyrAnt
on the face of the earth in this or any other coun
try The planters then said the slaves are better
of in slavery than in freedom-botter off to have
no rights than all rights--better Oft to have no
compensation than to be we'll paid for their labor
better off to know nothing of reading and writing
than to be educated, This is the logic Of Slavery,
and it is more insane than tho insanity of Bedam.
There has never yet been sane argument in favor
of Slavery. There various kinds of insanity and
idiocy, and If man attempts an argument IN favor
of ono man owing another, it is tho argument OF
idiocy lie needs no argument. but he needs brains
Another argument was that the slaves were entirely
unfit for freedom, as if God ever made q human
man being not prepared for freedom. No man can
be made fit for slavery until you have crushed Out
his spirit blotted out Of his humanity, and brought
him to the condition as near as possible to that o
the beast. They said too that the slaves wero ar
inferior race. and that being inferior they should
be governed by the superior and the Shareholders
being superior they were entitled to hold them in
bondage. Inferior! When haye they had q
chance TO show that they were equal! When has
an experiment ever been made under equal circum
stances that the result aas not been exceedingly
honorable 10 tho colorel man in competition with
the white man? They had their. religious argu
ment too They quoted scripture in support o.
their IDEAS and having adverted to Onesimrs
therefore. the New Testament proves the divine
authority of Slavery, and West India Slavery il
of God. Another objection was that the slaves
being an overwhelming majority, the very moment
they wele emancpated they would commence the
work of exterminating the masters. To this the
Aboltionist replied This is a haliucination o
4. Ir do do no xuha un
rob them Of their labor--when you polluto their
wives aud daughters before their eyes, laceratc
and stain them, will they do it when you give
them their freedom Will they destroy you when
; you have thrown the brandngiron away and have
ceased to sell their chidrenY The sequel shows
how utterly groundless wero all these anticpatons
The planters said, too that tho negroes would moi
work when free, and they being deeply concerned
in seeing men go straight, felt that it was theil
.perogatiye to make men work who do not work
,On this assumption they held it to be their right K
keep utasis slaves in bondage. The reply was; /
is for the dawes to say whether they will do worl
or not and il is not for you to determine for them
and if your arsu1s ent he good for anything--tha
the slaves should be left in bondage IN order u
make them work, inssmvch as you planters 90 no
work, white men are the LATEST people unde
Heaven. and if men who in freedom will not worl
should be made slaves, then you ought at once b.
reduced TO slavery. They said that the Engisl
Abolitonists we're fanatics, inhdels, incendiaries
and Wilberforce was denounced on the toor oi th
Parliament a hoary-keaded traitor because
his Godke efforts in behalf of West India eman
Aipaton. Aud because We hage made ourseive
one with millions in our land, the same bulls ar
showered down upon ns. Had Wilbert0re or hi
compears ventared to visit the West Indies befor
she emancipation took place. they would have bee
put to death. Now everywhere in the West Indie
are the busts OF Whberferee and Clarkson 70 b
found in the houses. 1t was feared that if emaI
cipaton took place il would bo followed Up b