Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-11-28
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

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The admission Of new slave States into the con-
federacy, the Florida and Mexican wars, the pur.
chasing Of more territory for slavery, the Fugitive
Slave Bill, and tho repeal Of the Missouri Com.
promise, vera I'll acts that humbled and debased
the people Of the nominally free states.
Sir, l have no controversy with my friend Wat
kins, who thinks the constitution Of the United
States is an snti-slayery document l think it pro.
slavery, but whether anti. slavsryo or pro. slavery, i
believe duty to ourselves and the oppressed de-
mands that we should sever cur connection with
the South. 1t is enough for me to know that four
millions of people are held in bondage by this ma
ton, and, that discussing constitutional questions
will never liberate q single human being. We
call upon the people to come out of prc-slavery
churches and to bear their testimony against them,
we call upon them to do the same with regard to
the government.
1t has bocn said on this platform that separation
from the South would hot free the slave. Mr.Pres.
ident,Go did not send you or me into the world to
free the slave, but to do our duty. Now l con-
ceive it to be our duty to wash our hands of all
connection with these assassins, adulterers and
murderers, and not stop to consider whether or no
it will be a benefit to a certain class in tbes COM
munity. 1t is wrong to be in a Union with such
men, it is right to ome out. But | believe it
would free the slave, and the shareholders believe
so themselves. Hear the testimony Of an in6uea-
tial journal Of the South. Says the editor 1--WE Of
the South are emphatically surrounded by a dan
gerous class of beings, degraded stupid savages,
who. if they could but once entertain the idea
that immediate and unconditional death would
not be their portion, would react the ST. Domingo
tragedy. But the consciousness, on their part
with all their stupidity, that a ten fold force, supe'
rior in discipline, if not in barbarity. would gather
from the four corners Of the United States and
slaughter them, keeps them in subsection. But to
the non.slaveholding states particularly are we I'M
debted for a permanent safe. guard against insur-
rection for without ihe aid of the North. we would
lie too weak to quiet that innate desire for free
dom, which is ever ready to act itself out with every
rational creature" There sir, we hear ore who
is With the slaves and knows whereof be affirms.
Look at the Southampton insurrection of 1881.
There a handful of poor ignorant men and wo
men whose backs were lacerated with the negro
whip, and whose hearts were bleeding for dear
ones sold and taken away to be worked up upon
tue cottOn nelus OF tee lar OOutn, frightened Dul
Of the people Of the South out of their wits. Yes
sir, the brave and chivalrous Virginians we're com
PEELED to acknowledge their weakness by calling il
the United States troops to put down the outbreak
Yes sir, and these United States soldiers were
most of them men from Ohio. and other free
states. We demand the dissolution of the Union
so that you may not be compelled by your sompro
Z mise with the south, to shoot down the slave fol
doing the very thing which our fathers did eighty
years ago,-free themselves by their own RICH
! arms. In behalf of the millions of our enslavec
couutrymen, we beseech you to stand aside ant
give the bondman an opportunity to rid hinisel
n of his CALLING and hateful chains; in the name O
God and humanity we demand justice for the or
pressed. The revolution commenced By you
d fathers eighty years ago, has never been comple'
ed and if you are unwilling to contribute you
q share towards bringing about the desired objcc
q and making the coantry free, We ask you for tn
q sake of millions yet unborn, not to stand in tn
IS way and keep others from doing that which 20
Il have not the humanity and the bravery to do.
When we speak of disunion, st. Domingo
n often referred to. to frighten the North out Of tn
idea. And then we are TOLD by others that Go
II uIuuc INC liC " u eiu'ci " pO Jul v ous
o init so quietly to be oppressed and dehumanize
a by his inhuman master. Sir, the people {
l this country well understand the art of BLOWN
e hot and cold with the same breath. l would
God, Mr.. President that the people Of the Nori
y only had the determination to oe free, that tn
rs colored people of St. Domingo had when Napoleo
sent an army to reduce the Island again to SLAYER.
When the commander of the invading fleet sun
t. mcned the negro general to surrender the city
Portau-Prince, Christophe replied, "go tie
le your general that the French shall march her
ut only over ashes, and that the ground shall bul
beneath their feet" At another time be said
Id the French commander, 'the decision Of arm
G. can admit you into a city only in ashes, and ey'
c. on these ashes will l fight still"
e. 1t seems to me that the people Of the Nor
to were intended by our Creator to submit to the d
We mands of the South. They demand and y
a yield. This is part of the history of the countr
When Pisistratus had succeeded in ~prostratil
ed the people of Athens, and was trampling tn,
's' liberties in the dust, a oDmitte of the mt
lie, influential citizens called upon Scion and ask
IT, his assistance in Kidding the land of the tyral
ST. the old statesman said to the delegation
he warned you Of this years since, but you would 4
ne listen to me. Then the tyrant was young a
of weak, now he is old and strong, you might ha
nipped this oppression in the germ, but it b
re- grown to be a great tree and you must pluck it
Ia BY the roots" Now we must pluck up slavery
his the roots. for it is the very Upas tree of the mo
he world, beneath whose ~blighting shade MI INTEL
languishes and all virtue dies. We must educ
i'd the people Of the North out of the idea tina.
Constitution should not be touched or the I'm
nd disturbed. We mus. infuse into the public min
in moral courage that will place the liberty of n
,0n far higher and holier than this blood stained q
We, guilty Union.
his When Gesler. the tyrant Of Switzerland CT
.so. PEELED William Tell to shoot the apple from
sons head. Tell put an extra arrow under
frock. After the thrilling feat was perform
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