Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-31
him in the loss of his terminating that guilty re.

Connected with this objection that we are bril-
ing the stakeholder is the objection that our offo
of money TO him Will be construed into our recog
milton of his right OF property in man. For one
deny all right of property in intoxicating liquors
when they are for sale a beverage. (IIere le
=, me say that my zeal for temperance carries me a
far as my zeal for Freedom and let me add, tha
believe the cause of temperance will continue /
drag until its friends take tho ground of no prol
erty in alcoholic liquors WheR ttey are mt 10 III
, Satanic ,corh Of making paupers and mad0,en).
was saying that | denied all right of property il
such case. But surely do not involve myself il
Inconsistency if l tell the rumseer that provide,
he will throw away his rum.I will help support hi
family Surely. in telling him SO, do not staml
upon his rumlilled casks the sacredness of proper
ty. No more do make Slavery rightful, ,when'I tel
the STAKEHOLDER that if he will throw it away, viii
help him get an honest living. But, however this
offer of money to the STAKEHOLDER may be in appear
ance in effect certain it is thatwe do not in end'tt
recognize therein the rghtfulness of slaveholding
We make the offer because we believe fraternity
and honesty require us TO make it-fraternity and
honesty both to stakeholder and slave. We deny
all right of property in man. We believe the i'm
] age OF God no more than God himself is to be
counted merchandise. We believe that immortali
| ty is never to be contounded with commodity.
| Whence comes it that we charged with ad-
hitting property in man? 1t comes from a cOnfus
ion of ideas in those who charge it, Oar ack
nowled cement that the STAKEHOLDER would in liber
ating his slaves be entitled money, is reckoned
by them to be all one with our acknowledgement OF
his right TO hold his slaves. | admit his right to
our money-yes, his moral Tight. For it, in the
circumstances of the case we are under moral
obligation 10 give the money land it is indspensa-
BILE to the of our undertaking to feel that
are then does it follow that he has moral right
notwithstanding the opposition which my use OF
these words yesterday encountered. But in ad-
mitting the emancipating. and Necause emancipa-
ting impoverished shareholders right to our help,
more sanction slaveholding than we sanction
drunkenness by helping him who had been n drunk
ard. sanction rumsellng by helping him who
had been arumseler. We would help these,
aud why not hm2 Let us hasten to cast away the
foolish and wicked prejudice which stands in the
way OF our helping the stakeholder also
Both Mr.. Pryne and Mr.. Watkins say, "lf the
stakeholder has the rightto sell. be has the right
to buy. That is a true proposition. But we do
not acknowledge his right to SELL We do not
mean to buy from him. Even, however, if we did
buy from him, we should not therein acknowledge
his right to sell, If buy my friend out from un-
der the upli!ted dagger of the murderer, | do not
therein acknowledge the mu:derers right to strike
the blow. l said that we do not mean to buy tho
slaves. All that we mean lat least SO far as | am
concerned), is that when they shall have been
emancpated, shall share in the loss of the emnn
cpators, and help them i'll their reduced circum
stances. Did we mean tU buy the slaves and sane
ton the selling of them, should propose that
Tue sIdFeuUIueTS receive the WnOe, lDStedu VI
half their market value. I.iberally as will.
ing to share the lossof the saveholder,we neverthe-
less mean that the greater part of it shall fall upon
himself. This is bat right. As he will be. in
oral point of view, the principal gamer from
emanci patton, be well afford to be the prin-
cipal pecuniary loser from it. Let me here say
thatIam not one of those who would by an extrava-
CANT offer Of money tempt the STAKEHOLDER to eman-
cipate. Our offer must be reasonable-suCh an Of
fer as wise and practical men would make-such
as the North would approve and sustain. We
must not, in our eagerness to commend our plan
to the South forget shat there is a North, and that
the plan will come to nothing, unless its chief fea-
lures such shall gain the cordial assent Of
the North.
Another objection to our movemen. is that the
shareholders will be richer after than they were be-
fore emancipation. The emancpatng States
admit will be, But the slav ehoders, IN their new
and strange circumstances wi,at least for season
be comparatively helpless, unless they are aided by
the State or nation, or BOTH
1t is also objected that such n sum the slave
holders would accept would be much larger than
the North would consent to share in paying. But
theNorth could well afford to pay very large sum
for the sake of delivering the slave from the most
miserable and the Shareholder from the most guilty
of all relations-especially since it is for the life
of the nation that Slavery shall be ended speedily
and peacefully
On the other hand is the objection that any sum
the North might offer would be so small in the es
teen of the South as to call out her indignant + e.
lection, and breed st'l worse temper than now ex-
lists between them. But her actual rejection of it,
however indignant would not prove it to be too
small and as our anticipated rejection Of it could
not cancel our obligation to make the Offer 50 II
hould MT be allowed to deter us from making it.
1t is said too that the South will regard as medde
some and offensive any action we may take On this
subject, and even our entertainment of the subject.
A part of the South, doubtless viii. But even if
l. - L Al
% be wrong. AT any rate, we must respect and
respond to the claims of honesty and fraternity in
1ur own consciences however false the judgement
hat may be put upon us. We must be faithful to |
our national relations, and show ourselves ready to
assist our cOuntfymen, however IN turn we may be
or maligned. / do not deny my
fears that the South will repel us, and every
scheme and every idea of emancipation. Mighty
,re the habits OF self indulgence aud despotism
,ngendered by Slavery. When has it been found
possible to- break those habits? When have any
people been known to surrender tbem2 Few are
ess hopeful than myself of the peaceful abolition
If American Slavery.
Another objection to our movement is that it will
end to supersede the means which are now em-
'loyed to accomplish the overthrow of Slavery
prayer, preaching, lecturing, voting, &c. Oh no
will not have this tendency On the contrai v,
will concur with these means, and, as hope
i've effect to them None the less will these
means be welded, after we shall have added to
hem this new one. On tho contrary, they will
hen he welded all the more earnestly and perse
erein ly, because all the more hopefully.
Mr.. Watkins referred to my own labors in the
ause of Freedom, and in terms quite too comrl
nentary for me to repeat. lie predicts that they
will be counteraced by this new movement. But
appy, heaven, blessed and greatly successful will
egard these poor labors, if they shall be found
o be at all instrumental in preparing the public
mind for this movement, and in recnncilinu the