Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-10

/ that surrerders man to %rnciple IN the strength
Of which God, with all the power Of His rgh
hand, is immovably cnthroned in his heart, and
for which he is able to endure all counting all
suffering for that principle Joy, all toll case, al
shame, glory and delight
/ Down! Down sc clamorous fears, We spirits
evoked by passions from her deeps ye swarm of
vulgar interests! Take me, q Eternal Truth and
Right! am thine and thine alone, Infinite and
Perfect God
sec around me Kings md Queens. All you
cannot deceive mel l see the resplendent crowns
lowering over each one with the sceptre and
purge; and know that ye are born, each to the
rightful inheritance of a kingdom and throne
fairer, greater, than any Kingdoms and thrones
which ever glittered on the planet. Why do you
not grasp your power? Why are your hands
glued to your sides Why do you let pretenders
usurp the seat of the soul? There,--it is in
reach
/ Alas, had nearly forgotten, Virtue alone can
uAchain the earthly spell, and rouse the noble
King sleeping in each Of u.s. from the depths of
what we giving the awful glimpse Of what we
might be-
know that awful shadow of Doubt, which in
evil times like these comes on many souls which
have been striving for the right. Itis related OF
BRUTUs, that he fell upon his sword Mt the battle
Of Phllipni, he exclaimed 81 have followed thee,
o Virtue, through life, and find thee at last but a
shadow" And on to-day comes that cloud
when the first great essentially moral conflict which
a nation ever saw, has past, and the
battle field, cleared almost veaS the fallen forms
OF heroes. When we think of the seemingly hope
less bondage Of millions, whose oppressOrs are
gutted with power; when think of how our
own fellow beings with their families in Kansas
beneath the heel Of rulIan despotism lay still
awhile, awaiting with full hope the moment when
the heart Of their country might come like the
good Samaritan, 20 bind their wounds, pouring in
oil aud NIne,--thcn seeing that it is the Levite
who 10
side; OF Freedom for which cur fathers toiled, sub
dued and fettered alas, when we think of these
things, the shadow which fell on BRUTUs, falls on
us, and in bitterness We cry, Yes Virtue is q
shadow. Satan is enthroned, not God, if there IS
any God !"
But the reason why the heart iaints is because
its faith has not yet lowered in virtue. Amy one
who has espUused the cause oi Freedom not at tue
voice Of party, nor for any interests of section, nor
for mere expectation of success, but because 1t
was the side of Virtue knows in his heart that he
and his cause cannot be detedted; knows that
Justice and Right are beyond the control of such
petty things as Elections and Presdencies. lie
knows that God is king in this universe lie knows
/ that Gods ways are not as our ways; that the
very word COP, involves a necessity the COM
plete triumph Of all that is good. Why should
our political methods be better than his proyden-
tal ones? If the full sway fol time of Wrong
is its path to death, why shall we murmur? 1e
who sit sadly by the sepulchre of Liberty, seeing
only the seal which men have placed upon 1t, the
stone on the mouth of the sepuichre, the armed
guard which surrounds it, think not that altogether
| can hold that spirit there! Listen close to the
prophecy of Viltue in your hearts, hear there the
voice of an angel which even cries, "lt is not
here, it is risen ~
When my sinking heart asked, "Is then Liberty
indeed dead ?" there came poet with heart a-twin
with the whole world, and he said. Courage my
brother my sister keep on Liberty is to be
be subserved, whatever occurs There is nothing
that is ouelled by one or two failures or by the
Indifference or in rr ,titude of the people, or the
show of the tushes of poyer-solGiers cannon
neuol statutes
What We believe in waits latent for ever through
Asia. Africa Eurons America. Australia. Cuba,
and all the islands and archipelagoes Of the sea-
what we heeve in invites no one Promises nothing
sits in calnuess and lioht is nositiye and com.
posed. knows no acknowledgements waits patiently
/ its time.-a year--n century,-a hundred cen
turies
The hattie races with many loud alarm and
frequent advance and retreat. The infdel
! Itriumphs-or suuposes he triumphs The prison.
scaffoid parrote handouts iron necklace, anklet
and lead balls do their work the named and un-
named heroes pass to other spheres; the great
sueakers and writers are exiled they lie sick in
distant lands the cause is asleeD-the strong
throats are cboked with their own blood the Young
men dron their eye.loshcs toward the GROUND when
,tbav meet Bnt far ali This Tihertv has not rone
a o
possessiop.
When liberty roes ont Of place. it is not tn,
first TO ro. nor the second or third to TO- 1t wait
for all the rest to ro-it is the last
When there are no more memories of the lover.
of the whole of the nations of the world the
lovers names secuted in the public gatherings by
the lips of the orators. boys not chrisened after
them, but chrstened after traitors and murderers
instead; laws for slaves sweet to the taste OF
people; the slaye'hunt acknowledged you or
walking abroad upon !he earth el"ted at the SIGHT
OF slaves no matter who they are ana when an
lie and all the souls OF men ana women are as
charged from any part OF the earth then snail the
instinct of liberty be discharged from that part OF
the earth then shall the lnhdel and the Yrant
come into possession.
There are about hye millions OF voters IN the
United States. On last Tuesday about two in the
five decided practically that the violation, in the
face of the sun, Of every commandment in the
decalogue by open act Of the President of these
States, through his seville instruments, is worthy
/ to be sustained aud encouraged But are we to