Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-20

ruth. The abolitonist does not begin where sla
very commenced; ;-he leaves the cause, of which
ondage is the effect, almost entirely untouched
SO have the abotonists of all ages overlooked the
essential and absolutely indispensable condition Of
liberty. Long ago the philanthropists Of Europe
advocated and secured the emancipation of the
serfs who were bought and sold with the land they
cultivated-having no rights but so work and live.
But what was The actual amount they added 10 the
sum of human freedom2 The common people
have been far worse of now since their liberation
than they before. Previously they were Ger
tain Of a living by moderate labor;-latterly TIE
most crucifying toll of both parents and children
has not saved them from periodically falling vic.
Tins to starvation at the altar of Moloch. Form.
erly, the first claim on the productions Of labor
was that of the serfs for support;-latterly, the
first claim the land and labor Of fieemen, has
been that of the lords for which must be paid
and if enough remain, the laborers live. if not,
they StarUe Freedom has produced in Europe q
vast increase of crime physical deformity, moral
6rutishness, disease and misery. 1t has driven
thousands into the caverns Of the earth where they
never see the light of the sun, and doomed to
walk on all fours" like the beasts, 20 serve the
bloated arstocracY of the world.
What hen2 Is freedom a false condition. Nay,
it is the life, and gh. and glory ofhumanity. But
the freedom to work and sarve IS the most direful
despotism. Liberty without the God given means
of supporting it is q deluson on the one hand and
mockery on the other. No man was ever en-
shaved till he was robbed Of the natural means of
support and thrown upon the alternative Of starva
ton or submission. Hence chains were forged,
and civil government legalized property in man
Those who monopose the bounties of Providence
without which neither liberty can be enjoyed nor
life sustained, may command the Archangel To-
proclaim liberty to the enslaved and until they re.
linquish their monopoly, Freedom will be but an
other name for misery unknown to slavery. Lib
erty under such circumstances is only the license
of the strong intelligent, rich and unscrupulous to
faten OH the yitals of their fellows, and to ruin
themselves, destroy the weak, the ignorant and the
poor.
What next? Why, to labor effectively for the
libe ration of mankind, we must begin where the
wrong commemorative monopoly of what God
has given to one much as another without which
the plundered poor must either starve or submit
to some form of slavery. Instant emancipation is
the duty of the oppressor? So it is; but that
emancipation carries with it the right to share,
without price in whatsoever God has provided that
man finds 1T necessary to use in order to be and
continue free. Without this, there be no free
dom. Three millions and a half of slaves coming
in competition with four millions Of scrvle whites
must necessarily render the existence OF both
classes still more precariuus. The so called free
poor whites will ignorantly ascribe all their op
nra assinn m tho m mol titinn nf frea nd
ill the country with mob violence unless they he
exiled from their native land. Those aristocratic
monopoliss who are now shouting for freedom, will
not attribute the cause of industrial depression to
themselves where it will. as it does now belong
aud the poor whites will cry down the color
ed man. But lberate the South let the oppressed
90 free and be free to occupy Gods earth in limit
ed quantities, and liberty will DO indeed, mag
nifcent Slavery lives in Land Monopoly and
with its abolition only will slavery die. Who dare
take issue ON that proposition?
Because abotionists have not seen it in this
light, some of them are to Gay the greatest op.
Yressors of mankind
Such is my abolitonism. l am more radical on
the great question of Freedom than many of those
who call upon the true hearted to come out of both
the church and the government.
In respect to the present political crisis, have
little to say and no vote to give. Know Nothing
ism is dead, and as Buchanan is the South side
and not Land Reformer | cannot vote for him.
Fremont with his gold mine of seven hundred and
fifty thousand acres, is still more proslavery than
Buchanan. and like him, is nota Land Reformer
he will not get my vote Fillmore is on the South
side aud carries with him prescription of Amer-
icanism (?) and much less can vote for him. AS
to Gerrit Smith, he is Land Reformer in theory
but how is his practice. lie is antisavery but his
monopoly thrusts moro white people into bondage
than enslaved by any one o: the autocrats of
the SOUTH Yours truly
l.. A. HINE.
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