Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-24

and Grier and kano and Curtis shall be tyrant.
over you--lor5idding ell freedom Of speech o,
whether right and Justice, the Christian Religion
the natural service of the Infinite God shall bles.
our wide land with the numbcrless Leatitules o.
humanity. Should you command me to be fnct
and 50 to Jail, should take it very eheerfuly
counting II more honor to be inside Of Jail in th
austero silence Of my dungeon, rather than out
side of 1t, with fnithless jury, guilty of sucl
treason to their country and their God. But for
give me you cannot commit such crime agains
humanity. Pardon the monstrous figure of m,
speech--it is only conceivable, not also possible
These Judges could do it-their speeches. thei
actions, their charge this indictment proves al
that--but you cannot hot you. You are th,
representatives, OF the people, the country not id
iotic in conscience and the affections.
Gentlemen, ] am u minister of Religion. It i.
my function to teach what is absolutely true ant
absolutely tight am servant Of no sea --how
old soeyer, venerable and widely spread. | claim
the same religious rights with Luther and Calvin
with Budhn and Mohammed yet, with Nose.
and Jesus.--the unalienable right to serve the
God of nature in my own way. | preach the reli
gon which belongs TO human nature, as | under
stand it which the Infinite God imperishaJly
writes thereon, natural piety, love of the infn
ly perfect God. Natural morality, the keeping o
every law lie las written the body and in the
soul of man. espc jially by loving and serving hi,
creatures Many wrongs doubtless do, for which
you suppose | keep the fugitive slave bill, obey
these Judges. and kidnNp my own Pensioners
1t is no part of my "christianity," to ''sond the
mother that bore me into eternal bondage Dc
you think ] can suffer Commissioner Curtis and
Commissioner Loring to steal my friends,--out OF
my meeting houscP Gentlemen, when God bids
me do right and this court bids me do wrong,
shall not pretend to "o5ey both" | am willing
enough to suffer all that you will ever lay on me
but Will not do such a wrong, allow such
wickedness to be done-so help me God How
could teach Truth Justice, Piety if | stole men ;
II allowed Saunders, Jefreys, Scroggs, or Shark
KY, Grier, Kane, or in one word, Curtis, to steal
them? ! love my country, my kindred of human
ity; love my God Father and Mother of the white
man and the black and am to suffer the liberty
of America, to be trod under the hoof of slave
holders, slave-drivcrs; yes, of the judicial slaves
OF shareholders slave-drivers? | was neither iorn
nor bred FOR that i drew my first breath ia q
little town not far off, poor little town where
tie farmers and mechanics first unsheathcd that
reYolutlonry sword which, after eight years Of
hewing, Glove assunder The Gordan knot that
bound America to the British yoke. One raw
morning in sprng-it will be eighty years the
18th Of this month-Hancock and Albums, the
Moses and Aaron Of that Great Deliverance, were
both at Lexington; they also, had 'obstructed an
officer with brave words. British soldiers q thou
sand strong, came to sci ize them and carry them
over sea for trial. and so nip the bud of freedom
auspiciously opening in that early spring. The
town militia came together before daylight FOR
training" great, tall man, with large head,
and high, wide brow, their captain,-one who
had seen service. ."-marshalled them into line
numbering but seventy, and bade "every man
load his piece with powder and ball" II will
order the first man shot that runs away" said he
when some one fnltered. Don't fire unless fired
upon, but if they want to have = war--lot it be-
gin here" Gentlemen, you know what followed: :
those farmers and mechanics fired the shot heard
round the world. little monument covers the
bones Of such as before had pledged their fortune
and their sacred honor to the Freedom of Amer
lea, and that day gave it also their lives. | was
born in that little town, and bred up amid the
memories Of that day. When a boy, my mother
lifted me up one Sunday, in her religious, patriotic
arms, and held me while | read the first monu-
mental line | ever saw
SACRED TO LIBERTY AND THE RIGHTS OF MANKIND
Since then, ! have studied the memorial marbles
of Greece and Rome in many an ancient town :
nay, on Egyptian OOelisks have read what was
written before the Eternal reused up Moses to
lead Israel out Of Egypt, but no chisseled stone
has Stirred me to such emotions as those rus
tic names of men who fell
IN THE SACRED CAUSE OF GOD, AND THEIR COUNTRY
Gentlemen the spirit of liberty, the love Of
justice, was early famed into flame in my boyish
heart That monument covers the bones of my
kinslolk 1t was their blood which REDEEMED the
long, green grass at Lexington. 1t is my own
name which stands chiseed on that stone; the
tall Captain who marshalled his fellow farmers and
mechanics into stern array and spoke such brave
and dangerous words opened the War of Anne
rican independence last to leave the feld,-
was my fathers father. / learned to read out of
his Bible, and with musket he that day captured
from the foe learned also another religio US les
son, that
"REBELLIoN TO TYRANTs Is OBEDIENCE TO GOD"
kept them both, Sacred to Liberty and the
Rights of Mankind" to use them both Sin the
Sacred Cause of God and my Country.
Gentlemen of the Jury, and you my fellow.coun-
trymen of the North, leave the matter with you.
Saw Guilty (" You cannot DO it. mot Guilty"
| know you will, for you remember there is an.
other Court, not of fugitive slave bill law, where
we shall all be tried by the justice of the infinite
God. Hearken to the last verdict, "INAsMUcH AS
We HAVE DONE 1T UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE
NY BRETHREN YE HAVE DONE 1T UNTO Me-"