Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-05

the perpetual necessity OF ungraCiOus criticism
upon the sentiments and measures of those who
give evidence, in u portion of their acts, of n sin.
cere desire to befrieud the hapless slave, and adj
vance tho cause of lGurlan Rights. 1t is very
painful to have to utter rebuke of many in the Re-
publican, and some in the Disunion ranks, but it
is a duty which conscience renders unavoidable.
How few are there, it is frequently observed, who
have been able to Withhold from Senator Sumner
the sympathy which belongs of right to those who
are his victims, in common with the rufian and
his compeers who assaulted him! They suffer,
and partly at his hands, a daily and hourly series
of outrages, compared with which the injuries in.
hicted upon him sink into utter nsiguifcance.-
Brutal blows it is true were bestowed upon him.
to these in their persons. are added the various in
describable injuries which slavery %inflicts. The
attempt to strike down in his person freedom of
speech was unsucccssfully made. lie assists to
deprive then, Of all freedom of speech, of which
they have been already robbed for centuries
Charles Sumner knew before he went to Wash
ington, as thoroughly as he knows now, that near
ly four millions of his fellow beings were con-
stantly subjected to a rufianism the vilest the
WORLD has ever witnessed. He knew that no con-
strucdon of the Constitution possible to be obtain
ed from the sovereign masses, or compatible with
its spirit and intentions, would permit the govern.
ment of which he thus became the willing and ac-
tive instrument, to withhold the exertion of all of
its physical power, if necessary, to compel the
submission of this whole dark -colored people to
the perpetual endurance Of a most unequalled des-
potism. lie knew, too, that the perpetrators of
these wrongs upon the negro must necessarily be
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deny themselves the satisfaction of committing vi
olcnce upon his pctson upon sufficient provocation.
Brave he certainly was to place himself within
their power, and then provoke them by dcnuncia-
ton. But with all this knowledge he meets in
Washington with n portion of this bandittl, &C.
knowlelges them by his acts to be his equals, So
cially and politically, swears fealty to the political
arrangements which confer the power they other
wise would not possess to carry on their nefarious
system, and votes accordingly to perpctuatc their
ability to tyrannize over their victims, by all the
appliances the Constitution allows. What sympa.
thy for his wounds and bruises does he merit,
more than the man, who, seeking companionship
at the Five Points, chances TO get his head broken
by a fellow.rufian? lie has merely been overta-
ken by retributive justice and is reaping the in
cvitable consequences of his own acts, in the i'll.
hammered company he has voluntarily sought. He
has been willing to give his own moral, social and
political influence to pcrpetuate that condition of
things by which only it is rendered possible that
millions are subjected to injuries and indignities a
thousand fold greater than those heaped upon him
He has reaped a legitimate reward and an inevita-
BILE one if it be true that ''such as We SOW, such
shall ye reap"
The country is stirred throughout its length and
breadth by appeals for aid for the sufferers in Kan
sas. What is their history? A body of men emf.
grated to that unsettled region and delicekately
!, banded themselves together to exclude, and drive
out every colored person from the whole territory.
They arranged this to be a part Of their primary
law. and thus published their belief in the right
of the strongest to exclude al who were obnox-
ious to them. Another portion of emigrants with,
their confederates adj acent, enacted certain laws
calculated and INTENDED to expel ali those who did
not aim at the extension of slavery. Ehis proved
to be the stronger party, and now the first cry out
against the working of q principle Of .Eelr own
adoption when it comes to be applied to themselves.
Who shall say, CIR at least who can prove, that
these last had not the same right to expel those
SCllC llhlN W lItlI lIlCTGSlS, us the nISL nlu
to exclude the colored man Are they entitled to
the sympathy invoked for them? As suffering in
~dividuals | can feel for them, as for the wounds Of
Sumner, or those of Jones, or any other Border
Rufian, but fer their principles, or the cause for
which they are in arms, not the slightest. Retri-
butiye justice is dealing also with them.
These are the times to test who is the Philan-
~thropist, the truo Reformer, and who the mere
Partisan. The first will possess all the indigna-
ton at is possible for any to feel, for the cowardice
and infamy evinced by the attack upon Sumner,
but he will never forget that free speech was strick
en- down, ans made a nullity in the whole slave
region, before Summer had an existence. And he
will be slow to excite that Indignation against q
mere incident, which should be bestowed upon the
great fact in which this and such innumerabie and
more grierOus outrages throughout the country
have their origin. And so with respect to tho civ
il war in Kansas, however we'll he may be satisfied
that one OF the parties is less stepped in iniquities
than the other, he Will always feel that his efforts
are due to that unfortunate people, who are the
victims in eommon Of both the belligerents. Kan
sas and Sumner will suffer no lack OF ehag pions.
The coward masses of the North dare no attack
upon the substance cut of which come all the
grievances Of the body polite, and SO they are but
too happy when a new shadow is east across their
pathway, in fighting which they can pretend to allthe
zeal and bravery they instincovely feel they ought
to manifest in behalf of impartial liberty.
Yours ever,
a. BROOKE.
MARUsoRe, June 81, 1856.