Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-20
Ube Antt- 5lourrp Buolc.
For the Bugls.

FOR the Bugle
Ms. EDrroR Permit me to tell little story and
append few remarks.
Quite recently it was my lot to pass long eve
ming in an interesting company, mostly females
The Autobiography of a female slave, published
BY Redheld was on hand and was read by severa
af tbecompsnyln turns. A fixed attention was Civ
On to the narrative, even versatile pugnacious boy
eould not direct attention with his maltese pet cat
All WAS dead silence in the audience except when
tho most mpulsive one clupped his appreciation,
yociterated hear hear good good % or evinced
&hs antagonistic mood by "Gve me my knife
Hea. the poker !" &c. The reading was finished
at l2 o'clock. The company retired without com
rnent on the work.
The question proper for us to ask ourselves 49,
what have we gained by the perusal of that well
written faithful deliniation OF chattellsm, both
theoretically and practically. No doubt we fel.
rightly at many turns in the story, our commiser-
alton and indignation were excited in fit places
We sympa,hised duly with the oppressed, and
felt as those who deprecatc injustice must feel, to-
ward the oppressor. Bible reasons, logical enact
msnts sxpediency, the preservation 't the on'on
the carly training and life long habits OF the slave
holder, singly or jointly constituted no apology
for him. Our intuitons are emitted to have le
ultimate operations and made us at peace with ev'
sry thing but coong We saw and felt that man
il human independant irrespective of his in
oidents.
PITY il is that positive enormous wrong like sla
ysry should need recias Of cruelty, or an auction
sale to waken us up to the perception OF an enor-
mi,y of which has no redeeming feature. The dltf
oultv il this when we think of the sub ect at ali
We contem plate it's special crueics those called
II. abuse. Tbose whose mental and moral vision
arc unblesred by silly sophiSms, and wicked po-
litical axioms we'll know that nostrums, whether
noli,ics! or eccesiastica though they may seem to
alleviate can never eradicate the evil Inc
virus has diffused itself through the entire
system and nothing short of radical heroic
treatment can expel it. Mild remedies
dies Of the emvlient sedative character may m"diy
tho symptoms, while the disease is gaining on the
systen, - manifest itself under new and uhantici-
pated aspects. A palterng, compromising, Palia'
sing policy has been the course for hall century
and what has it done Tor humanity! just TINS
thar it has partially opened some eyes to see that
w may lift right and lit left alternately without
forward progress.
We must take astep higher, get ourselves on more
sle, a,ed plain ere we nationally hope to work
eficientl, for the bondman, Calhoun was right
You guarantee the right to choose wha. we VIII
make property. We have chosen ana we claim
the right to take the property thus made where we
please. This right deny lon what grounds
On the ground that it is wicked to hold man as
property anywhere as wicked in South Carolina.
as iu Kansas, and we will do nothing directly or
Wa
knowledge your equal right in the territories We
do not concede your right to take your slaves
thsro simply and only because We deny your right
10 them any where. When majority OF the peo-
pie take this high position conscien'iously and ad'
here to it inaexibly chatcl slovery will soon be
history.