Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-01
A. The advent of Schools universities, and the

4. lne ADVENT Oh Scno0ls,I I UnlVerslucsi ana the
Press.
These are very nearly the exact periods in
which political institutions, well rs social i'm
urovements, have ad vanced the most. The histor-
cal facts teach certain great principles which
have the moral and the indication OF results. They
teach two things first that free political institu-
tions can only arise from previous moral and
intellectual improvement in man himself; and sec
ondly, that these improvements and conseduent
institutions make a certain but slow progress
There is great prevailing, immutable principle
at bottom, which is simply this that man
only be free when he is fit to be free. His fitness
is q precedent condition. Cowper expressed
general and sublime truth in these words:
ale is the Freeman whom the Truth makes free
The unftness of France and Italy for freedom
is the real cause of the failure of the revolution of
l84S and all preceding revolutions in Europe.
If Hungary had succeeded, it would not have
been a republic. 1t would have been a COnstitu-
tional Monarchy, and this doubtless is great step
Germany has and always has had the only true ell
ments of freedom but they have been crushed by
the vast armies of Russia, France, and other coun-
tries, which have supported the Austrian House
in its despotic predOminance. But continental
Europe, as Il whole, unfit for freedom, and her
revolutions failed. But in the midst OF these
failures q real and positive progress in the
people, step toward fitness for freedom. We
may anticipate, without any spirit OF prophecy
the near approach of another leap, another period
when freedom shall take another step, because the
people made tit.
The battle of freedom goes on, and goes on with
the certainty of success. If any allies him
self with the cause of des suotism Of aristocracy,
of slavery, or of servitLde in any FORM in church
or Stale, merely because, for an hour, or day, it
is predominant, he wants both sngacity and prin-
| ciple. If any one wavers in fidelity to the
of human freedom, he wants moral courage, with
out which nothing great good is possible.
Tbaro iS; hnt tXro si1as in tbo non.
troversy for freedom-one is for oppression, the
other is for freedom.
There is no getting out of this predicament. A
man might as well attempt to invent some neutral
atmosphere, which is neither light nor dark, as to
try to get into moral position in which he did not
practically side with either freedom or oppression
From this we learn another moral-that no com
promises are at all available in the final result
Compromises may avail for day, to avoid defeat
or win skirmish. But all compromises with evil
are fatal man might as well attempt to com
promise with theft or adultery, as to compromise
with any great principle. The true meaning of
compromise is well expressed bya common phrase:
"he compromised himself" that is, put himself in
doubtful case-whose hostility. for one moment,
in the cause of Virtue, Freedom, or Human Pro-
gress, is already tainted. He breahes the damp
dews of moral death. He is already prepared to
encamp with the hosts of darkness.
TO apply this moral to the minor battles of our
own eouDtry--a country SO happily in advance of
all other nations-the controversy of negro sla-
very will go till slavery is destroyed. That
event isinevtabe, and the only question is wheth
er Che destruction of slavery shall be gradual
and safe operation, whether it shall be delayed
as in Rome, till it involves the disruption of socio
ty. The event. we say, is inevitable. There is
nothing in history-nothing in the moral consti-
tuition of man-nothing in the actual progress of
society, which points to any other result The
great question of our country s, Shall the end of
slavery be made gradual apd safe ?-or shall it be
the mere incident of a great social Revolution?
The Rev. Thornton Stringfellow, D. D., of Rich
mond, Va, has published in that city what he
calls "Scriptural and Statistical Views in favor Of
Slavery" which has met with so much favor in
that latitude to have reached lis fourth edition
In this edition, he undertakes to answer Elder
Galusha's letter to the Rev Richard Fuller of S. O.
and here is a specimen of his logic:
"His second Scripture reference to dsprove the
lawfulness of Slavery in the sight of God is
this: God has said man is better than o sheep
This is a Scripture truth which fully believe
and have no doubt, if we could ascertain what
the Israetes had to pay for those slaves they
bought with their money according to Gods law,
in Levitt XIV, A. that we should find they had to
pay more for them than they paid for sheep, for
the reason assigned by the Savior; that is, that
n servant man is better than sheep for when he |
is done plowing, or feeding cattle, and comes in
from the field, he will, at his masters biddDg
prepare him his meal, and wait upon him till he
eats it, while tho master feels under obligation
even to thank him for it, because he has dcne no
more than his duty. (Luke xvii, I, s, O. This
and other important duties, which the people of
God bought their slaves to perform for chem, by
the permission of their Maker, were duties which
sheep could not perform"
| Certainly Mrs Bsecher Stoves broadest carl
catures-or what were pronounced such--Of cler-
ical pettfogging for Slavery were not so lud!crops
as this.