Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-26
SALEM coLUMD1ANA COUNTY ONO, SATURDAY. MAY 2e, 1885,

And Now, Sir, present to you the Anti-Slavery
Enterprise vindicatud in Necessity, PracticabtN.
and Dignity, against all objections. II there l.,
any objection which have not answered, it is BE-
cause AN not aware of it's exstuncu. 1t renaiu
that should give practical conclusion to thi
whole matter, by showing, through in glimps
only your Special Duties Us Freemen If Tie N0,1n
And, thank God at Inst there is North.
MIR. President it is not uneuInnuu hear per-
sons among us ut the No,th confess the wrong ol
Slavery, and then, folding their hands in absolute
listlcssnesS "cjaculae, What can we do about it?'
Such men we encounter daily; You all know them.
Among them nro men in every department of h,i-
man actiyity-wh0 perpeiually buy. build and
plan-who shrink from no labDur-who are daun-
ted by no peril ol commercial ad, venture by nu
hardihood of industrial entcrprsc--who reaching
in their understanding across ocean ard continents
would undertake VITO put girde about the earth
in forty seconds; ana yet, disheartened, they chi
join in effort against Slavery. Others there are,
especially among the youthful and enthusiastic,
who vainly sigh because they were not born in the
age of chvalry, or ut least in the days of the rev
oution, thinking that it this Enterprise, there
is an opportunity of loftier endeavOur such as n
Paladin of chivalry chief of the revolution en-
ljOyed. Others there are, who freely bestuw their
means and time upon the distant inaccessible hea-
then of another hemisphere in the islands of the
sea; and yet they can do nothing ~ mitigate our
greater heathenism here at hume. While confess
ing that 1t ought to disappear from the earth, they
fUIegO, renOunce and abandon all exertion against
/ it. Others there still (such i human incon-
sistency!). who plant the tree in whose full-growr
shade they can never expect to sit-who hopefully
drop the acorn in the earth, trusting that the oak
which it sends upward to the skies will shelter
their children beneath its shade, but they will do
nothing To- plant or nurture the great tree of ber
ty. that it may cover With its arms unborn genera
| tious Of men.
Others still there are particularly in the large
al
ributions to the redemption OF a slave. To thi,
object they give nut Of ample riches and thus
seek to silence the monitinnS of conscience. Now
| would not discountenalce any form Of activity
| by which Human Freedom, even in a single case
may lie secured. But desire to say. that sucl
AZ act--too often accompanied hy II phal isaiCa
pretensnn, in strange contrast with the petty per
| Tor ornance--cannut lie considered an essential aid
Ia the Anti Slavery Enterprise Not IN this way
can any impression he made on an evil vast as
Slavery you will clearly see by all illustration
which shall give. The god Thor, of Scandina
| Wan mythology. whose strength was mure than
that of Hercules WI once challenged to drain II
simple cup dry He applied it To his lips, and
| with sulerhuman capacity drank but he water
I did not recede even from the rim. and ut last the
god abandoned he effort The failure Of even his
extraordinary strength explained when h'
learned that the simple cup had communicated, u,
III Invisible connection, with the whole vast ocea
.,ehind, ont Of which it was perpetuAS supplied
md which remained absolutely unaffected 10y thu
effort. And just will these occasions of chnrit
though encountered by the largest private means
ne constantly renewed, for they communicate will
Jhe whole vast Black Sea of Slavery "ehind, nu
i which they are perpetually supplied, and whicl
remains absolutely Unaffected Jay the effort. Sir
"rirate mcr Is may cope with individual necessltle
nt they are powere>s t" reiresS the evil OF !
wicked institution. Charity is limited and lucal
he evils Of Slavery are infinite and everywhere -
Rn n ind 1l la "
hn he removed only through Il change of the law
Not. then, hy an uccaS Onal contribution to th
'anSnm of u slave can your duty be d me in thi'
sreat canse; hut only by earnest, constant, valiam
f'rts against the inst :utiUn-against the law
vh oh makes slaves.
| am not insensible Of the difficulties Of tli
v"rk. Fall well know the pnwer of Slavery
Full well know all it's various intrenchmcntS il
the church, the politi's and the preiudices of tn
ruuniry. Full well know the sensitive interest
i property. nmountir to many hundred million
IF dollars, which are sad to be at stake. But thes
things can furnish no motive apology for indii
:, erenre or furanv folding of the hands. Surel,
the wrong is not less wrong because it is giGlniic
the evil is not less evil because it is imneaSuralle
nor can the duty of perpetual warfare with wrni
ar evil lie in this instance suspended. Nay, 10,
! cause slavery is p"wertul-becau>e the Enterpris
is diflicul-therefure is the duty "f all more ex
gent. The well-tempered soul does not yield /
difficulties. hut presses onra'd jmeter with increa
ell resolution.
r And here the question occurs. which is so oftc
pressed in argument in taunt, What hare zee Il
T. tie North To do WM NarerY? In answer, migl
+ content myself by saying that, MS members Of tn
r human family. bound together by the cords of
$ common ma,houd, there is no human wrong
which we can justly be inSensLle, nor is there an
' human SORROW which we should not seek to helie,,
but prefer to say, nn this occasion, that lis cit
c zcns of the United States. anxious fur the go"
tlt.., tI.n II.
pubic-that il may he blessing and not n ours
| tu mankind-there is nothing among all its diver
Il sifed interests, under the National Constitution
! with which, at this moment, we have so much /
= do; nor is there any thing with regard to which "u
e duties irresiStibly clear. do not dwell +"
$ the scandal of Slavery in the national capital
d Slavery in the national territories-of the coas
h wise slave trade ON the high seas beneath the M
i ti0nal fag-ail of which outside of State lin
o its and within the exclusive jurisdiction Of Co
c greSs. where you and l. Sir, and every freeman
It the North, compelled to share the respnnsihl
o ty and help to bind the c.ain. To dslodge SLAYER
,; from these usurped tooholdS under the CnnStit,
n tiun, and thus ut once to relieve ourselves from
3, srevOus responsibility, and to legin the gre
4 work of enamel patton, were an Object worthy
e an exalted ambition. But before even this can
r commenced, there is great work. more than an
e other important and urgent, which must he 20
n summated in the domain of national politics. ~
Is also here at home in the Free States. The Nat1
al Government itself must lie emancipated, Sn hi
NJ it shall no longer the yoke of servltude an
# Slavery in all it's pretensions must he dlsl"dg'
j. from its usurped footh"d in the Free States theI
"a selves thus relieving ourselves from gr,evous r
l. spnnsibilty at our own doors, and emlnc pntlr
e. the North. Emancipation, even within the naiin
,F al Jurisdictions can he achieved only through Il
IT emancipation of the Free States, accompanied
A, the complete emancipation of the National u"
/ ernment. Ay Sir, emancipation at the Sonth e,
IN he reached only through the emancipation "f Il
,r North. Aud this ismy answer to the interrog
ts tory, what have We at the North to do with 81
NJ very?
le But the answer mly he made yet more irress
" lle, while with mingled sorrow and shame. p'
n tray tine tyrannieal power. which holds ms
to thialdom. Notwithstanding all its excess Of nu
ID hers. wealth and in,eliige ce. the North Is II,
Or the vassal of an OLIGARCIIY. whose single
Of spiration comes from Slavery. According tot