Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-11

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oppose the wrong of all times and places. This
is the want Of this and of every age. A want that
must be complied with, before society can ever be
raised to an elevated standard of perfection. But
our fellow men about us are Just such men as their
education has made them. Therefore our hope
rests in the rising generation. Here especially is
where liberalism comes in place. If the present
generation is d defective, the next can be permanent.
ly improved only by properly training the young
mind. This training in order to a hoalthful ad-
vancement, must be of a more liberal and compre-
Lcnsive character. The expanding spirit of young
America needs in~ducement, to inspire q keen
sense Of its own manhood. Let the young repub-
lican feel that ne can be q true religionist, politi-
clan or even member of the domestic circle, ms he
preserves pure and unsullied, the principles Of
honor and honesty, which he has inherited as q
man. Teach him that life is q battle, and that to
meet it's conflicts m~anfully, he mrst buckle on his
own armor, and WELD his weapons with resistless
and unerring certainty. Teach him to reverence
truth and respect justice; and, above all to scorn
meanness, or a disposition to estimate interests in
dollars and cents. Only tr.in the young to skill
fully sift truth from error, and then throw open
the doors of your libraries to your sons and
daughters. Spread out before the expanding mind
the biographies of great men, and the works of
powerful writers. They will thus acquire discipline,
strength of judgement, vividness Of conception
and become strong, free and god-like; each a
universe within himself. In this way may man
become most ennobled and god.like but by a diff
ferent training, how pitiable and despicable a spec
tacle he may present. As an illustration we need
but mention Roman Catholicism. Behold the de-
graded s~uppliant kneeling before his fellow man,
to seek the pardon of his sins. And does moi
your soul trob with pity for the young, whose man
hood is thus being effaced, and their souls ruined
But is the Catholic an extreme caseP There are
men of every profession, whose minds are blinded
J only in n less degree. And therefore every true
philantbropist, calls loudly for more liberality in
education, more freedom of expression, more
reverence for truth, right and justice, and less
servile compliance with the naughty dictates of a
fellow man. Religion, though of binding author.
ity, is the twin sister of liberalism. As there is
but one great first cause of oil things, so there is
bu. one true and undefled religion. The true
liberalist recognizes that religion, and that alone.
His religion is a part of his manhood, established
in his inner being, never to be effaced. With him
there is no falling from grace. Trained up on lib.
eral principles he has not been governed as to
what he should believe, regarding creeds and rules
of faith established by others but only directed
in his mighty efforts, of searching out truth,
wherever ii might be found. And thus being free
from the restrictions of hackneyed doctrines, and
a blind fanaticism, he preserves u~nblemishsd the
integrity Of his manhood. Such ore the men for
the day men upon whom rest the preservation Of
our Ehart;oo and Tho Dorp,onap,a ooJ .oroot,;t,
Of our institutions. Liberalism prompts men, t
found the whole future course Of their lives, upor
tried and established principles not upon useless
D efforts of imitation. 1t wages o ceaseless warfar,
I against conventionalism and formalities. Its advo
Gates are men of great souls and largo hearts
y Their characters and manhood arc composed o
a such substantial material, and laid upon such
u free and broad besis, that there is no danger tina
b they will ever fail ID duty, or in the least disar
. point their confdants. They never insult tn
U dignity of Omniscience, by coming between Iir
Il and His creatures. and ~usurping authority belong
ing only to God. They are moved by a mani
philanthropic impulse and may sacrifice thei
hearts blood but will not comply with the Taught
requirements of an earthly tyrant, nor sacrific
s principle for a little Of earth's sordid, ~glitterin
Wttltu. lIeH Wulle the Wlue WOrlu WclIS tOrt
thoughts, contritions and aspirations, let the min
be unt-ammeled and free to receive the teaching
and emanations OF nature. Its exhortation is
all, to be up.and out upon the great arena of e.
istenco, to learn more, be more and do NOR,
Therefore let the mind be unfettered, to expan
and to be developed to its fullest extent. on
q plea is for whole-souled men or no men at al
O men who fear God. but are unawed by the face
man men who worship truth and virtue, b.
r who draw the sword against oppression and tyral
nical d~ictation. We're l commissioned from 0
high. to choose the unconditional execution of or
n single command, throughout the length an
breadth of our land, it would be to liberate man
to free the souls of humanity, from tn, thousan
expressions and restrictions, with which they al
now borne down, by the usurpations of meal
q spirited and tyrannical men. Then would ma
a stand forth, clothed in his own originality, and il
vested with his own God given rights. Then wei
i, l to claim another, it would be to send forth ii
> destroying angel, on the wings of lightning,
= strike at once from the arena of existence, the fir
one who dared to encroach upon the rights
another, blind his mind, or enslave his soul. The
he liberal, in the truest and highest sense of tf
y word, to every one in every place. Let a spirit
: liberty breathe through all your sayings an
, doings, that you may at least DO a little toward
, remodeling society and reinstating man in hi
. original proper position. " this liberality and il
dividuality unpopular and regarded as excessive
Experience answers emphatically yes, inasmuc
as society has not yet arrived at a stage of az
vancement, at which the majority of its member
+ will concur with views SO liberal and compreheI
sive. But a future generation will acknOwlede
the wisdom and foresight Of the strenuous adv,
Gates Of @ true liberalism, and carve their name
in durable marble, as the true reformers of the
v day. j. M. X.
u POLITICAL PREAcHERs.-Some ono lately sci
r the following paragraph to Henry Ward Beechel
"One day, says Luther, as Satan and his inn