Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-08
A NORTHERN REPUBLIC.

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tor Of The O,accU Academical Institute, Oct. PAN,
1856, by +. J. REEVE.
The great object and design Of manis progress
ion. We are but Gods journeymen to improve,
beautify and perfect. We are but the wheels on
which mast ride the mighty car of progression, Of
renovation, md Of perfe ction. And when VIC,
refuse to act, when we refuse to bear our part in,
the great work, we then cease to do that for which
we were created. We cease to be of use in the
world and stand up before an all-righteous God.
and say, IL will not do the work you have sent
me to do | will not fill The Office you intended
me to ILL.," Hence | say it is the duty of every
man and woman on setting out on the broad sea.
OF life, 70 make. it a point to be Of every possible
service in the great cause Of truth, of justice, of
liberty and of progression. And it should be the
object of governments to protect us in our rights,
thai we may the better fulfill our obligations. The
only service government Badinstitutions can pos
sibly be. is to see to it that the people are all pro-
teced in their rights. The question is not whether
the person be rich or poor, male or female, white.
or black, strong oil weak, bat is be a humer.
being. IF we have rights, the government
should protect them, but not by oppression, it
is not TO protect the strong in expressing the
weak-not to protect the rich in depressing the
OOI-nOb u protect tDB WDltc IN depressing the
black-but to protect the black from encroaclI-
ments of the whitos-to protect the poor from
encroachments of the rich-the weak from en-
croaehments Of the strong-the oppressed from
the Entertainments of the oppressor. And when
q government ceases to do this, when it ceases to
P%rotect the rights of those who need protection,
it then becomes the duty OF the people to throw it
off, and erect one which will protect the m. And
when it not only ceases to protect them, but
actually becomes an instrument in the hands of
the oppressor which enables him more efFectually
to strike down his victim and reck his vengeance
upon the poor and down. trodden with still moro
power and authority, then | say it becomes
doubly the duty of the people to throw it off. But
we are met here with q kind of holy reverence and
told that it never will do to overturn the govern
ment our fathers have erected. That it never will
do to Jeopardize the rights of fve.sixths of the
people to secure it to one-sixth. But let us SEQ
whether we propose to overtu IN the government
or Jeopardizc the liberties of the tw e~nty.fve mill
ions. Or whether the government is now being
overturned. and the liberties of the whole necessa-
riiy jeopardised by the enslavement Of the four
m illions. Think you It is the principles of liberty
which now threaten cur country with civil war.
anarchy and confusion, or the strong hold which
the slave power has in our nation Think YOU
that because our fathers declared in l776 That all
men were created free aud equal" that their chill
dren are now suffering, bleeding and dying ON tho
plains of Kansas Think you that because our
fathers held freedom of speech inviolable. that
their chillren are now stricken down in the balls
of Legislation p? Aye, think you that because our
fathers declared that Governments were insti-
tuted among men to protect the liberties OF the
people," that our rights are now tram pled on and
disregarded d? Or is it not from the equ ally stern
fact that they permitted the demon Slavery to exist
among them, and in spite of all the efsrts to
extirpate him, he has grown and thrived until be
has become the ruling power of our whole nation ?
Can 1t be possible for our government to exist any
considerable length Of time with the curse of
Slavery upon it? Can you unite Liberty and
Slavery in ono common Lonl !? Can you amalga-
mate right and wrong Sir, ! tell yon as certain
as our government is not purged Of the sin Of
Slavery. so certain it will be numbered among the
things that wore. The proof of this is bcrno to
us on. every breeze. We hear il, we see it, we feel
it. And do you ask for more ? Go pore over
your old musty histories and mark the nations
which have become strong and powerful, and see
them crumble before truth and justice, Iadiated
from the stern look of an all-righteous God as tho
snow crambles before the gaze Of 9 mondays
sun. And DO yon think that our nation is 20 be
t an exception? If not, then the question properly
recurs, what shall we do Shall we follow the
: plan Of the Democrats, which is to go on with the
system of oppression until civil war, anarchy and
confusion cnvelop us and we too are numbered
among the by-gone a.? Shall we follow the ad rice
ipH the Rnpubli1nns utinb - = n rrota,t tlo Lo,r;J
f system, nourish, foster and sustain it where it now
exists, but endeavor to keep it from extending any
further? viii you thus tam per with the monster?
! Think ou,you can hedge in Slavery where it now
isl Will you attempt to quel the raging billow,
or drive the lightning back? Think you, you can
stay the demon of He'll? I tell you so long rs
you nourish The root, so long the branches will
grow in spite of you. Have you not tried this
long enough ? Has it not ever been the principle
of the Political Abolitionists to "give the pound
Of flesh 2" And is it not as stern a fact that, the
flesh has been taken, and the blood has flowed, and
you then quelled down and said, ''the deed is done
I and resistance useless ?" 1t strikes me that this
. is your true history, and shat you propose nothing
. moro now. But on the other hand utterly disown
J all attempts to resist the taking of the pound of
flesh. 1t appears to me then that our only true
{ course is to come ought from the evil. Wash our
j hands of the blood of the sla We and form a North
ern Republic,in which we may enjoy the blessings
of liberty to the fullest extent, and say to the
. Stakeholder, 'f you must go down, please don't
\ drag us with you. We will stand upon the ever
lasting rock erected by our fathers though you
come to ~naught."
= a Coon SENTMENr.-John Whipple, q distin-
b, guished lawyer of Rhode Island, writes in u let
: ter published in the Tribune:
81 had rather see a separation of.the States than
f to submit to fasten another chain upon another son
O of man."