Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-10
WHOLE NO. 5S7.


3 those men of New England They looked on
with faces ghastly and haggard, as if BYRoS's
vision Of the endless Night had suddenly become
n dread reality: yes. | myself saw strong men
| With tears streaming their cheeks BOYS run
| ing along without laughter but in wild dis nay;
/ men OF influence and wealth hanging their heads
sitting perhaps on street boxes or steps, with
| faces pressed down into their hands All this
thought |, 10: one slave chained in their Streets
when there i've millions where he came from
and most Of them far worse off than he Then
4 it flashed upon how the slave power had always
found it's right hand in the North. To these men,
that man choDt they chained, was the only
slave earth They could not have believed il.
! but here really Man, made in the image of
Cod chained! and there was no power to rescue
that man Terrific factl Slavery then actually
exists, and there are men who can actually come
up to another man and put chains on him, and
possess him, ,as they possess n horse. And ErRNs
is but one of five millions Well, it was not
then depravity, but ignorance, which had made
/ the mass OF these very men perhaps vote for him
under whose administration the rendition occured
and 1t is estimated tnat Fifty Thou sand anti
slavery men were born amid the pangs of that
! day. Even the lawyer who defended the slave
catchers claim, like Judas when he saw the result
! OF his treachery Christ in chains, repeuted, and
has been vigorously canyassing for Liberty during
this contest. Then, alter all, these men are not
devils, and therefore we cannot for an instant
admit that Liberty has suffered more than an APP
parent deloat.
Let us learn too, that it is the very grandeur Of
our cause, which has made its triumph remote
and difficult. You know that calves and dogs and
sheep and all lower animals come to their full
growth and strength in month or a year or two
or three years but MAN, the nobler animal the
elimination of nature, takes long time to reach
maturity and full growth be needs more than a
- score of years, so is it with ideas or projects;
those which are low reach their strength early;
not so the high human idea, tie party of Liberty,
standing amidst other ideas and parties, as Man
amongst lower orders. The triumph of the cause
OF African Freedom is not be cassed with the
triumph OF the cause of Temperance or Missionary
Societies. anything of the kind. 1t presup-
poses and involves large perception of the
awful and majestic nature Of man, the. inaexible
justice of the universe in which never yet went sin
unpunished aye, it implies full tide beating from
| human hearts toward the celestial shores which
wher they shall come shall be jubilant morning
stars, heralding in their song the Perfect Day of
/ God, even then flaming up in the East, streak on
streak. and unsealing every eye to the new crea-
ton. All, yes, brothers, those who have low aims
soonest reach them.
But the highest lesson of defeat is yet to be re.
ceived 1t is not evil in the world which is our
trouble,-that is Gods affair,-but it is evil in
mems hearts. The slavery of five millions of Af-
ricans, in itself we could easily view, as we do the
destruction of life By choera,-b,a ii is the dread
fill lack Of ryte IN the country tcAich alone IS the
corne-stOAe Of ,Sar@y
| We have said how it appears with the mass Of
men to be ignorant, which is also criminal, but
who are those who deceive the people? What shall
be said of the talsehood which sugars over the
crimes of which this nation stands convicted BY
the moral sense Of the world, with the name Of
Democracy and gives them to the people? That
was a terrible saying Of Montesquieu, "that i.
would not do to admit that the negroes were men,
lest it should appear that the whites were not"
We must remember then that the evil is NOT
so much in the suffering of the African, the
tnGt tlro
umph over the evil would not be so much in being
rid Of it. in being rid of completely with it, that
is, in finding men willing to do their best against it.
1t therefore has become test Of virtue throughout
our land. Every man is made to feel that God did
not put. him here to abolish Slavery but to DO
right by Slavery and every other evil. And it is
because this evil stands behind such strong en-
ltrenchments, with interests, laws, powers, talent,
aud wealth it's side, with all devils, such as
sefshncss, ambition, meanness, on its side, that
it is great a of virtue The evil stands
only to be assailed other reason for the exis-
tepce of an evil in Gods universe, be imagin-
ed it stands, that souls may grow strong in
wrestling with it.
friend read me the other day, sentence from
Il letter written by the venerable Charming,
which said, Il find that have been all my life
; trying to find virtue by some other means than
} virtue ITSELF So we all do. Virtue is manhood
moral strength seeking it in things
which yield no moral strength, in mere social re-
spoctability churchgoing, in not doing harm,
careless whether we are doing good. We devote
ourselves to what it is easy to devote ourselves to
We pitch feathers TO generate muscular force. We
seek the JOY Of victory in fields where there is no
enemy, Not thus, Oh man. shalt thou receive
\ strength and sing ppans Good things
hard said Plato, twenty-five hundred years ago,
and the law has not changed III that time. Thou
canst not gather pearls on the wave tops, nor pick
u diamonds like leaves Thou canst not attain the
divine rewards Of virtue without the perils, cares.
IL. h,gn tl, thn
of our cause and its grandeur attests too, its
power to generate virtue within us. And We
might thank God for permitting Slavery, ii it gen.
crates virtue in men and women for the earth ex-
lists not to be free from evils but to produce noble
human souls, as an applei tree exists to produce
apples. And heaven knows we need something
to yield virtue. This life of ours seems poor
enough, mean enough and nearly the only good
thing about ii, is that we know that it is poor and
mean. perpetual round Of getting, eating
drinking, sleeping-that's - fit life for an mmor-
tai and divine being Are we to go on thus,
er piercng,to the heart OF any deep spiritual vein
whence we may mine heavenly treasures which
shall remain when the poor eating. sleeping ami
nal which dogs us over the world, shall have
turned 10 dust?
! Brothers | stand before you stranger an
exile from my church, robbed by Slavery of that
/ first and dearest association robbed by Slavery
1 of my own home; my parents forced to 80 to
I distant city to see me,-you will allow me some
reason for hating Slavery. But let us see that 1t
does not rob you and me of something more than
: home or friends see that it does not rob us Of
Virtue does not cause manhood TO swervo
from its task or spirits to cease striving for tho
right all the more in its defeat and Weakness
! Let Us Join then this day, as the shadow passes
= over to pledge our hearts and hands again and
forever for God and the Right so shall undreamed
energies and new hopes be born within u.s. and
Faith and Virtue together strike forth. us pinions,
to bear US on TO the God whom the true Spirit Of
Man ever seeks, as fire the sun
A vain man S motto is "Win gold and wear it,"
a generous mans, "Win gold aud share it," mi
sers, Win gold and spare III" profit gates" win
gold and spend it," q broker's, Win gold and