Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-23

you have adopted is the most sacred Of all causes
II is the Christianity of to-day, Remember hat
the system which you have been adiured by all the
ties, fraternities, memories, courtesies, which ever
did or did not exist to tolerate and submit to, is
one whose routs are III the lowest basement Of mans
nature whose trunk has been ignorance and deg.
radiation TO white and black, causing the statistics
of Virginia to show sixty thousand white adults
today who cannot read or write whose blossoms
have been slave auctions, slave burnings, Nebrns
ka bills, Missouri Rufianism, Congressional Ruff
ianism, fugitive slave hunts. These arc its bios.
SONS what the fruit shall be, God alone knows
1t is this system which you men OF the Free States
have continually invited to triumph and riot, and
thought that it would treat you more tenderly than
it did negro mothers and their babes. Then the
power where by you are at present an almost sub
jugated people is your own FOLLY.
Dear fpxes,' you have said with feeling. eve
wish our geese to wander in your rich thickets,
that they may grow fat. Do not, we pray you,
annoy them. We send them out with entire conf.
den"e that you will not molest, but will even pro-
teot them" Let them come, "say the foxes they
shall be welcome to our rich thickets.' Then
going carelessly on a week after, you find every
bramble covered with white feathers, and slowly
on your amazed perceutiOn dnwns the truth that,
since the foundations of the earth were laid, the
eternal laws of the universe, ethical and physical,
have arranged that foxes shall Stay and eat geese.
Slavery is no abstraction it is a great black fact,
to tell the fearful tendencies of which no tongue
has yet been formed from the dust. You can ex-
pcct nothing Of il, and remember, it is not the
foxes who arc blameworthy, but those who COM
mitted their geese to their tender mercios.
And let one thing be remembcred-it is n sad
thing to say-nobody can he trusted on this sub
ject. II it were only a man that God made, he
might be voted for in the faith that he would do
right. But for every man ia this country, Slavery
has a bride at every pore. and n lash over all who
will not obey its behests. 1t is even in our church
and whipped that thin skinned Con vention of time
c 81 Ehipau IA int enrvilitv drourinu Tnitnri-
spis., baptised in freedom into their maudlin fears.
I feel the presence OF Its Internal power in this
house to-dav-,there lurking among you whisper
ing-"DOn't stand such preaching as this if you
do, your friends will turn away from you, and you
will be called an Abolitionist." 1t is up here whis-
pering to me-"If you do not stop this preaching
against Slavery it will have its cudgel over your
head--your friends will be fewer even than they
are now" Get thee behind me, cunning Devil /!
1 will tell on thee. | will say to Northern men,
Trust none bat those who are distinctly commit
ted to the right side in every way possIble-com
mitted IN white and black, by temperament, by
their whole lives, by all the associations and pur
suits of their lives, so that even selishness necossi-
tates the right side"
Oh thou slhve-king! thy days are nearly number
ed. Weighed art thou in balances and found want.
ing. Thanks to the dear God, every free soul in
this land has heard on the west wind the burden
of the olden prophecy arise, for this matter be-
longeth unto thee be of good courage and do it"
Let the full fact burst upon us, that $50, 900 men,
the entire number of shareholders, are keeping
thirty millions in deadly cOmmotion and feud fast
leading to civil war that one more inch of United
States territory given to Slavery implies that every
man woman and child in the North is a slave that
the Pro Slavery representation of Kansas, which
is larger than all NewEngiand. would, should it be
admitted, checkmate all the Anti Slavery power in
Congress for five centuries, and make the Union
absolutely intolerable. Let each man feel that
his personal manhood is involved, and that crawl
ing In the dust is not living. Whatever he our
occupation, let us strike the task and join to save
The State. Let the artist see that he cannot be so
good an artist nor find SO much patronage as if
this was settled. Let the farmer see that labor is
degraded and agriculture clogged. Let the man
of letters sec that the special faculty is mixed and
MANNED by these inlaid spirits Of duty whose
clamor browns all other spirits, Let the moral
list see that this is the foundation of public and pri-
vate corruption that in it the Olden prophecy is
fulfilled Because iniquity doth abound, the love
OF many shall wax cold" Thus each man, APP
preaching the fact from his own Office, by his own
door, shall find that, as the form of man cannot
be found on the same geologic plain with the vast
extinct monsters which needed primeval marshes
for their element, so the highest spiritual manhood
cannot coexist with this dragon. poisoning the air.
Thus has the Infinite Father of African and Cau-
casian made it one cause with them. If the North
should consent to Slavery extension, it would now
forfeit not only all nobility, which many could
yield because they have none, but all their inter
ests which they cannot yield. Every spirit which
can be reused against it is now reused. Nature is
now in labor with millions of human hearts which
shall be sent on earth to cry to this guilt, Ana
thema Maranatha We all live in a different
country of that Of six weeks ago. | trust we have
all undergone the birth adapted to the new condi-
TORS s. What is the praise or blame when it is I'M
folded all we are born to be or to do?
One thing is now for ever settled, that the sub
Ject is to be definitely dealt with. 1t is up now,
and cannot be put down by any power, or postpon
ed. HencefOrih no freeman is ever going to be
quiet. 1t is idle to think Of it. Go to Mary where
she sits beneath the Cross wherein her only Son
hangs, with five CHASTITY wounds, and bid her calm
her grief. Never, till she sees him arise from
the tomb, shall she be Gained. So we, sitting
under The very shadow Of the Cross where Free
dom hangs crucifed, with those five bleeding
wounds which the last ten years have given, in
each of which is a tongue of fre-how shall we
he quieted2 1t cannot be! Not until the iesur-
rection morn of Freedom rises on our land shall
we cease to weep and pray and work and watch by
the sepultur. Already, oh my brothers | hear the
futter of angels wings as he comes to roll away
the stone and break the seal of the Slave Power.
Let us all be ready, standing, awaiting the victory
of God. The mountain is indeed nigh and strong;
our strength is small our might weakness. But
II each one renders himself this day and hence
forth to be the passive instrument of the best in
stinct striving in him, his acts will cease to be the
work OF a mere man and rise to the grandeur
and influence of direct acts of God. Each one can
he now a workman for God, his visible finger en-
tering and molding the affairs of men. | beseech
you. o Christians, yield yourselves thus. Lend a
hand TO the great cause of God and man and
know that success is certain. The tongue of God
hath spoken it. Not by might, nor by power,
but by my spirit, saith the Lord Of hosts. Who art
thou, o great mountain, before Zerubbabel thou
shalt pccome a plain"
TIE ARKANSAS TRAyELLER.-SPEcIMENs OF THE
Poor WnITE PEOPLE DOWN SoUTm.-Yesterday
between IL and | O'Clock, there halted at the cor
ner of Fourth and Main Streets a travelling party
from Arkansas. which, from its singular appear