Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-25

pacts, laws, decisions of Courts, majorities
public opinion, however expressed, weigh grea
deal. They determine how far they may feel call
ed upon to go in their anti-savery, and where they
must stop they define. Incorporating anti
slavery, on the other hand, is superior at once &c
all constitutions made by man--to all decrees and
decisions Of Courts made by man--to all mnjority y
decisions of men. Ii does not ask what public
opinion is, what the majority will sanction, nor
what the law is; but it asks, "Does this wrong ex-
list ?" Is one human being, who has as good a
right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
as any other, deprived Of them all 2 The answer
is, Yes. Are hundreds Yes. Arc thousendY
Yes. Are u million? Yes. Are two, three. four
millions, peradvepture men, women and children?
Yes. In what part of the world2 The United
States of America land protesting to be q Re
publican land--a land protesting to bask in the
light Of tie nineteenth century. 1t is here, in this
country, in this land, that this great abominatior
this four mil lion fold abomnation-is perpetrated
What is to be said and done aboutit? Is auythingi
Those who take the ground Of uncompromising,
moral. principle abolition have other position 20
take than that of deadly hostility to slavery ex-
istng in this country, and under these crcumstan'
ces, or wherever it may exist They cannot be in
fuenced to take any other ground. They cannot
treat slaveholdiug or mau-hOdng as small crime
they must treat it as gross, capital crimei COM
mitteu against great light in the midst of n nation
protesting to be the most devoted to the rights of
man. We have assembled to do honor to these
prOIeSSl0nS maze more tnan elBnty years hg0--tO
the self-evident truth, that the Creator of all has
created all with an inaenable right 20 iie liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. We step forward
and staud upon this platform. When talk
earnestly when raise our voices against Church
and State, or against any party,-end raise it, per
haps, with our own roughness, in oar owu manner
there is felt to be wrong done, injustice done
and especially is there ielt to be injustice done
when men say to themselves-I, too, anti
slavery; ] am rs much engaged in this wo-k rs you
are and yet you stand there in Righteousness
to condemn me- Nov, let examine this sab
ject for a moment calmly.
What do we ask that ought not be done? If we
look up to the United States Government, or to the
nation, and ask tho nation at once to break every
yoke, and let these four millions of oppressed E)
free, do we ask anything more than ought to be
granted? Do we ask anything that is not right
DO we ask anything but what 1t would be an ever
lasting honor to this nation co grant? Do we ask
anything but what would be the nobles action
that could be recorded of this Government upon
the pages of history2 No; every man, woman
and child knows we do not. In what we ask of
the people of this country, we ask them to do the
greatest work possible-to do the greatest act OF
Justice, and yet but simple act of ustice,to more
people in their own country, than existed here
when they made the solemn Declaration OF lnde@
pendeuce. Why, then, are we such enormous
traitors-such fiagitous characters-such turner's
of the world upside 6ownT Why is it, since the
it would reflect the greatest possible honor upon
the Goyernment Of this nation
We will proceed suppose We turn our atten
tion to the Democratic party. Now, / will ask
what if the Democratic party should be persuad
ed, tomorrow, to emblazon it upon their banner
4 that they would never cease their efforts unit
they had uut II total end to the evil of slavery
that they would all their efforts to blot cut thi
/ evil from their country-would 1T be anything
more than right-anything ignobe-anything t
shame and disgrace that party to everlasting in
fanny? No; it would retrieve its character witt
mankind. 1t would place it heaven-high in tn
estimation of all who look up to any party witt
love at all. 1t would be a simple act of justice
yet great and glorious act of justice; it would
be doing right for righteousness sake, and in tina
would be involved the good of all parties-tht
bound made free, and the free made more free.
If we should turn to the Republican party,
which undoubtedly eels aggrieved many times by
the reproaches that cast upon it, and should at
once call upon that party to toe the line, and say
all as one,-'Our object is to abolish that abomi-
nation wherever it exists, for it is the greatest
crime that ever man can commit upon man-the
greatest, most Infamous one that any government
can tolerate, and will rest, by night day.
until we abolish it, if it be in power, would
we ask the Republican party to do mean or dis
honorable thing-anythng which could reflect
disgrace upon them in the pages of history-any-
thing which wou.d not make their bosoms swell, if
they actuated by anything like noble prin
cipie, or have a free thought We all say, No.
We oil desire that they may get rapidly to
that ground, and we would not hold them back
from it.
Suppos, we direct our eyes to the Church--the
Church which has received many thumps, us 1t
is said, from this platform. Suppose we should
call upon every minister of the gospel in the
United States to step forward, and say, by my
reverence for the Sermon on the Mount-ior the
second groat commandment-for the Golden Rule
for Jesus Christi am compelled to say that
there is no greater sin in this land than the en-
slavement Of four millions of human beings, and
must speak of it and regard it the greatest
crime Do we ask him to do anything more than
his duty-anything more than wcula be to his
everlasting honor If not IN the immediate opinion
of his pews yet in the regard OF posterity and in
the decision of his own conscience Would 1T be
disgraceful in him-WOuld it be wrong in him
would it be vile in him Every one feels that it
would be noble Indeed we ought to feel that
any man, with that Golden Rule and second Com
mandment before him, should be ashamed to say
less than this. To some this appeal has been
made-not without its effect. was once--ior
claim not to be of the original apostles--l was
once in the ranks Of the ministry, and that appeal
was made to me, and felt that should be false
to all my professions, unlesssI took my position
unequvocally on that ground.
Well, suppose we should say to every church in
the land -'Slaveholding is the greatest and most
heinous crime that man can commit against man.
Speak Of it such. Disci pline your members
on this ground. Insist, i'll your pulpit mlnistra-
tions, upon this idea. Would 1t destroy the
Church2 Would it disgrace the Church, Would
it be wrong done to the Church? Would 1t dis
embowel itf Would it overthrow it2 My friends.
we have all to regret that every church in the land
is not pure enough, at this moment,to take stand
so clearly and incontestably right as that. Indeed,
no man ought to be so bad in the Church as not
to be ready and willing to say that an atheist
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