Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-29
NEW ENGLAND CORRESPONDENCE.

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DEAR FRIEND ROBINSON No Gifts or Graces
are moro needed in our conflict, than Faith and
Patience. With them, we may be invincible-
without them, we are nothing. To abolish Sla-
very, may net be our work. For aught we know,
that may be reserved for our children's children.
Still, our past in the grand result, may be just as
indispensable as though its fulflment were TO-
morrow.
Ten thousand conditions must be fulfilled to pro-
duce a Rose-ten thousand times ten thousand,
perhaps, to achieve a Revolution. And every one
important, nay, Indispensable. OF these last,
perhaps are we. Our individual contribution and
cooperation, are just as needful to abolish slavery
in the next century, as though it were to be next
year. But to labor perseveringly and to suffer
patiently for such an end, without the remotest
prospect that either we or our children will wit
ness the triumph, demands a kind and degree Of
confidence in God and his laws, which few proba-
bly, ever reach.
The faith and fortitude Of our Revolutionary
Fathers, was very unlike that of those who now
erect their statues and rear their monuments
Much Of our Patriotism would have been Toryism
in those times. And yet, had the expressions Of
the BritishKing andParliament been half as unjust
and unrighteous as we new suffer at the hand of
our southern taskmasters and tyrants, probably
there would have been no Tories, and Arnold
himself might have had q statue as well as War
rem and Washington.
1t is easy now to glorify the deeds of those days.
The revolution is popular, and costs nothing
Dancing girls can bring the last stones to complete
Bunker hill monument, when all other means are
exhausted. The Dulcet Eloquence of Everett can
be p~etrifed into a colossal Pillar to the memory of
Washington. That same Everett was once Cover
nor OF .palfrey. Its. Then he declared his read
mess to buckie'olaf Jamaloscl and march to the
rescue of the Shareholders, shoulu their slaves i'm
itate Washington, and strike a blow for liberty
and Life. That is the same Everett too, who sug-
gested to the Legislature, that Antislavery meet
ings should be decreed u~nlautal assemblies q! Had
he lived in Revolutionary times, is there any
doubt where he would have stood Had it been
in his power, would not the tyrants then as now
have been successful even had it cost the necks of
every Adams and Otis who ever made the walls
of Faneuil Hall to quake with their Flo
quence !!
Give any Cause the applause and approval of
the multitude, and its triumph is speedy us we'll as
sure. And when its success is achieved and ac-
knowledged, there will be no want of his torians
and panegyrists, to blazon the heroism and the
honors of its once ~despised champions. And to
have descended from Garrison. or even from his
E ~humblest supporters, will one day be counted a
higher distinction than to have signed the Decla'
ration of independence, or led the Forlorn Hope
in the conflict of seventeen hundred seventy-six.
But now is our trial hour. Now is our hour Of
darkness. "No Cross, no Crown" was the motto
of VIM. Penn-"No Cross, no Crown" has beer
e the experience of every brave follower Of hin
. who hung on Calvary. And it is ".tor the leaS
l. IF all his brethren,' yea, the very least, that w
now seek to secure the right to Life and Liberty
the gift and glory of Immortality.
Never before. was mortal man hated, as is thu
slave in this country. Ages ago it was said
e whom we most injure those we most nate" New
f er was man injured, as our slave has been nor SO
much hated. We hate him because We have in
jured him. We hate him that he is a slave. We
hate him for the color of his skin. We hate hin
for the crisp of his hair. We hate him for thu
0 form of his features, wo hate him for the odol
from his body. We hate him that he is ignorant
when we have made him so we hate him that hi
s 10 ueSTdueu, WHtu we keep hin 30. Our supreme
Court declares she has no rights that the white
manis bound to respect;''ou church sets its "Negrt
Pew" in the sanctuary it sets it at the Sacramen
/ al Table it sets in the Grave yard and why not il
! the kingdom of heaven !! Well might our slave
cry, in the words of the Lamenting prophet, wa
ever sorrow like unto my sorrow !"
: Such are those for whose deliverance, elevation
: and salvation we now labor and pray. They are no
r Greece, Poland, Hungary nor Italy. Those, on
e whole country could bless, has blessed, at leas
= with its sympathy sometimes with more innate
u rial aid" Even the scattered fragments Of ou
Indian Tribes share deeply in the popular regard
q The Government has it's Indian Bureau, with it
e numerous corps of Commission ers and agents.
The Church has her Missions to the "Red men,
o and counts her schools and her converts anon
t them, like the drops of the Morning. But not s
6 the slave. "No man cared for my soul, I" mourne
9 the Judean Minstrel no man cares for ours, ech
oes back the bondmau.
Here then, is the work of the abOlitionists. =
And in its faithful performance alone, must b
!. their only present reward. "IIere is the Patienc
of the Saints. Let him that readeth understand.
For Just in proportion as the Slave is hated, jus
in that proportion will his faithful friends be hat
ed, for his sake until they shall learn the might
# meaning of tho words, remember them tina
y are in bonds. as bound with them" "If y
love them that love you, what reward have We
If ye salute your brethren only, what do ye NOR
than others ?" The publicans do this, and it cost
o nothing. Neither Greece nor Poland, neithe
9 Kossuth nor Mazzini, neither starving Ireland, no
!, the fast dissolying Indian Tribes. can test the yr
8 tue or religion of our country and times. Inas
s much as ye did it not to the slave, the hunted hat
$ ed slave, the black, imbruted slave, ye did it no
to the least of my brethren And SO "ye did
not TO me-"
3 Thus is revealed to us the Faith and fortitude
Y the Patience and Perseverance which those mus
attain, who 60 into our conflict and endure unit