Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-29
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.


its way. One is disposed to look upon it much
as he would upon a stray Editorial from Borneo,
or the Junglcs of India. Its sentiments are evil
IDENTIFY out of their latitude in these civilized parts
of the world. The fellow seems to have heard of
the Bible, but it is evidently only a mere rumor of
its existence which has reached him. lie regards
it as u code of instructions for stealing and hold
ing the wives and children of bis ncighbors. 1t
is too bad to play off such clerical jokes upon
these poor heather South Carolina Editors. We
hope the Bible Society will send him q copy, and
mark the text which rcads,-"The spirit of the
Lord is upon, to preach good tidings unto the
meek. lie hath sent me to bind up the broken
hearted, to proclaim liberty TO the %captives, and
the opening of the prisons to them that are bound"
OF course, after receiving that, he will urge South
Carolina to burn the Bible as an inccndiary, treas
enable publication. The poor fellow seems to have
made a similar mistake about religion. lie cvi-
IDENTIFY supposes the whole thing to be u piece of
clap-trap, by which Northern men are 60 be in
duced to catch Jerrys, and send them back to the
South. Up here, where the Gospel is preached,
men have learned, long ago, that religion is not
mainly significant as an obligation to return to
bondage those who escape. The rescue of Jerry
was one of the sublimest acts of worship towards
a God of humanity, that has stirred tho peoples
heart in an age. And we desire to comfort and
edi(y" our South Carolina brethren by the assur-
ance, that that type of religion is reviving glori-
ously all over the North. Dough-faces. both in
iOiiSiph fuu IuiihlNoI w OiOMhiiS lnt why "
the anxious seat" and men of the New York
Safety Committee are under "decp conviction, and
ready to ask for Abolition prayers. How wide is
the contrast between a Heather and q Christian
religion Are not our Missionary Boards neglect
ing the city of Columbia, South Carolina, and es-
pecially to the editor of the TimesP
But the editor has mistaken the facts. His ac-
count Of tho rescue is, that somo Northern Judge
let Jerry go free, and tho people now got together
to celebrate the event. Startling as may DO the
announcement to him. we desire to let all the peo-
pie of the Palmetto land know, that it was a High
er Court than that of any single Judge that set
Jerry free. 1t was the PEOPLE. They did not
wait COR Judge or Jury. The masses in the great
Court of Humanity, up here in Central New York,
have p~Teudged the case Of every man who is sought
to be enslaved, and decided that he shall go free.
The case is far better to the cause Of freedom, and
far more aggravating to the growing, fanglcss
despotism of this South Carolina bloodhound,
than he dreamed of. We have q way in getting
up %cxtempore courts, in which to settle all such
cases in this region, which do summary justice to
all kidnappcrs who come this way.
The Times seems utterly oblivious to the differ
ence between helping an innocent fugitive from
piratical bondage, to self-posscssion and freedom,
and theGunpowder plot,or she murderous massacre
of French Protcstants on the eve of st. Bartholo-
NOW. To reason with n mailman, who cannot tell
the difference between numbering thousands in
cold blood, and freeing a poor innocent victim of
inhuman slavery, is u folly into which we shall
not fall. Moral distinctions are impossible with
such a poor fellow. If he would come North, and
lot his moral nature grow for a few years, he might
discover the difference between a liberator of bru-
tally enslayed innocence, and the cold-bloodcd
cd murderer of a British Parliament. But VIC
must wait for the fruits of Missionary work upon
his beniGhted mind. His reference to John A.
Murrell is equally unfortunate. Murrell stole ne
grocs from their man-stealing possessors, end sold
them again to other man-stealers in the South, for
noip lorru -nc ,aunro1 c,oa, yh1 ,,o, tL;oC Gao,
who, like the editor of the Times and all other
South Carolina Shareholders, only had a robbers
right to him, and restored to himself his only prop
er owner. When the editor of the Times grows
to where he can understand the difference between
stealing a man from Il robbcr to sell him to anoth-
or robber, and rescuing him from a robbcr to re-
store him to liberty, he will understand the differ
ence between the deeds of MurreIl and the heroes
who liberated jerry by scattering Court and kid
nappers like chaf before the wind.
But we referred to matters mainly for the pur-
pose of saying a word about that old threat of the
Southern Sircw, to dissolve the Union. 1t can
have no terror for the North, but, looked upon
merely as a question Of political expediency, must
ever be desirable to this portion of the Confedera-
cy. Were the North free from the South to-day,
she would right up and move onward before the
breeze of civil prosperity, like n vessel l~ightened
of her load. Then, while the South was footing
her own bills for Seminole wars and Mexican con-
quests, the North would be filling her Golfers in
peace. To govern the South, and take care of
Southern interests, has cost tho North millions of
dollars, for which she has received only new de,
mands upon her treasures and arms. These poor,
miserable political fre-eaters, who talk of d ssolv
ing the Union, sustain much the sam relation to
the Union as do the people of our Court House
to the County Government. We have met their
postage bills, eTen the cost oil their Florida slave
hunts, and similar fOrays upon freedom. And now
if we will not hunt negroes who escape by hun
dreds, in spite of all the vigilance and wisdom of
their womNn-hunting craftsmanship, why, they
throw off their coats-no, the coats they stole from
The earnings of their unpaid laborers-and roll up
their sleeves, and swear they will dissolve the
Union
The impudent buster Of the thing is unbeara-
BILE, and the vocifcrous brawlers dare not do any
thing of the kind. Why has not some man in
Congress said to these fellows, dissolve away
Who carcsT They are like young Tom Noodle,
who attempts to make his sister Nancy believe,
that if she don't give him q big piece of good
cake, he will pull out his own hair, bite his own
nose, and knock out his own brains. And our
Northern sister Nancy has, by the help of some of
our political granGmothers Of the male gender,
been made to think that the desperate boy might
do something '%orful,' if not pacitied. The South
would beg on her knees to be allowed to remain in
the Union to-day, if she thought the North was
earnestly intent upon dissolution. South Carroll
ma could hardly be kicked out of the Union. Her
threat reminds us of a drunken acquaintance of
ours, who used to scare his wife by n threat to
break her c%rockery. His name was Seth. One
night, Seth paraded on the table all the disher his
wife owned, and swore desperately he would smash
them one by one upon the floor. lie expected re-
monstrance and tears in reply. But his wife,
with true woman's tact, concluded TO humor him
to the top of his bent; and so, stc ping to the
table, Gays Come on, | will help YOU: and
snatching u cracked pitcher, dasher it upon the
floor. Seth was astonisbed and alarmed for the
%crockery. lie begged of his wife to stop, and
carefully restoring the dishes to their shelves, sat
down quietly, and grew sober rapidly. If the
North should show any disposition to take Miss
Carolina at her word, when in her tan r ums she
makes such threats, she would beg to save her
crockery-warc, as tamely as did our friend Seth,
and would turn pale and sober down at the first
appearance of a crack in the Union.
From the Radical Abolitionist.
A DEFINITE STANDARD.
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