Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-17

out rs uOds word bds you, il you fOrbear to d
lver them that are drawn unto this death, 20
are not only pro slavery, but God sets you dow
as such lie that is not for mo is against me.
refusing to rebuke the oppressor for this sin, go
taKe part against the oppressed, you confirm hi
bondage, you help rivet his chains, you make hi
, deliverance more hopeless you are n partaker
the quit OF all the crueltics enacted against tn
enslayed. BY tho word Of God, by tho commo
law OF the land, by oil the principles of commo
sense and evidence, standing in tho presence G
TINS ehormlty, and not rcbuking it, you give cour
tenance to it, and, so doing, you are proslavery
i ou see this vast wickedness spreading thrOng
the iand ITS altars in every high place, its priest
In every city, its horrid form garing from bo ri
bunals OF justice, Tie seats of judgment IN th
} gate possessed by it, its pledged and sworn com
miss'onors and marshals sitting on your .uries
} your merchants striking hands with it, its bribe
; insulting you, and its snares entangling you Il
every step.
You sec millions Of your fellow beings trample
under 1t, prescribed by it, aud even when not en-
siaVeu, Tree only to be by the whole communit,
degraded and insulted, under tho Supreme justice
oil the United States, which proclams them tn
proper subjects Of such insult and fore doom
them to 1t; denied their citizenship, their right
OF representation, of propretorship, and of com
mon manhood, by land and sea. You see them il
the Character and attitude of hopeless strangers
refused that benevoence and hospitality whcl
God has commanded, under penalty of His wratl
to be exercised towards beings in such q position
and set apart for the exercise, in its extremes
orueify, OF that oppression which God has forbid
den; declared to be strangers and foreigners, o
another race and blood than yours. just for th
purpose Of excluding them from the protection ans
rights OF native citizenship, and yet citizens so a
as to make them amenable to your laws, franco
tor the purpose of condemning and degrading
them strangers, yet beaten, chained and hanged
as citizen criminals; natives, yet accused, judged
punished and maltreated as strangers, invaders
and enemies of American blood, yet for the AZ
rlcan cross, and for being guilty of q skin thai
Americans have bleached declared to have no rgh
that white men are bound to respect; your owr
brethren, for whom Christ has died, yet common
humanity forbidden to them, their children stoler
from them and branded as Chattels from the birtl
their affections brutazed, their very ostracis
ed and morally assassiuated, to be mere property
from generation to generation and branded q,
eternal merchandise.
You see all this, and with most pious and con
servatlve restraint or incnpacty Of every feeling
becoming man and Christian you keep silence
or pour out your invoctives only against thost
who denOunce this wickedness as sin. You have
nothing to say against slavery, but much agains
the faPaticsm and imprudence of those who pro
nounc9 slavery to be nothing but sin against Goo
and man. You have behed all these I'M juries anC
cruelt3s, knowing the judgement of God agains
those rho commit such crimes; you have watched
the rSAstition, the rapid accumulation of outrages
heav v,tifefying and infernal yet you lift no voic
of Nc fg none of reprobation or rebuke. Yo'
ar. .,s Xibry to the vllainy. If you intend t
srtSvT .ou could hardly, in your position, d
mol:e sy not testifying against it, you are hel
to in III it, as truly as Frank Kapp intended mur
der, en- he stood in the street and watched
whileSick Crowinshield perpetrated the midnigh
crime
A Christian gentleman recently sojournn
| toll hot IN tbo n
some of the Southside Paradsaical views Of slave
ry. they were driven by IA coach man SO whit
that they never dreamed of his being
slave till he spoke to them CT th
nobleuess of one of his horses, when h
said if he were free man and the animal shou
die, he would bury him in n coffin, he thought s
much of him. But what? Are you slave
'Ah; yes but was made free once, many year
ago, by my old MASTER but the legatces broke tn
will, and promised me that if | would earn s
much year, by extra work, and so pay for IN
freedom, then | should be free. Well, | earne
Sl25 n year for seventeen years. and then the
took the money and sold me to my present master.
| This is one Of tho Southside views Of slavery
essential to full knowledge Of its just Christian
and evangelical glory and blessedness.
But have you any wife ?" inquired the gentl
man. The slaves countenance lighted with til
first gleam OF satisfaction, Us he said "No', hi
wife was delivered from bondage by death AN
nave you any children 7! mo, none, thank uol
they are all dead tool"
This is that institution ; that is the sum of a
Ivilanies, which our Tract Societies and Mission
ary Societies, and Churches, and Ministers, an
Executive Committees, and Prudential Committee
combine to shield from the reprobaton of God
Word and the just anger Of the people The al
ologist for such system are partaker OF Its CIV
deeds. There is no possible just way Of treatiD
| it, and can be none, but as rank and deadly 81
against God and man, and they who attempt
baptze it with the Christian name are themselvC
doubly responsible for the guilt Of its abomin
tons.
There is combination among all classes
society, our judges, lawyers merchants, politician
government officials, with many of our churche
and benevolent institutions, to shield this sin,
The whole power of the government is active iC
its protection there are merchants III OF
own cities, in New York and Boston who mail
tain the slave-rade itself for gain. 1t is an inan
ously profitable business, and our gUvernmen
cven,now, is contriving additional securities for
under the sacred, inviOlable, unassaable, an
even unquestionable sanction OF the America
Flag. Any pirate may run up that nag, al
whereas the crime of being slave'ship, the atroC
! ity of carryingi on this piracy, is an iniquIty,
violation of our laws, and Of Gods law, OF whlc
the government takes almost no coGnlZance, th
act of questioning the American hag Is an insn
aud crime, for the chastisement OF which th
whole naval force of the United States must
summoned into conflict.
Lord Maple. has shown with what perfect impr
nifty sordid merchants in our own cities can pul
sue this traffic under shelter of the American hag
Look at his list of vessels engaged IN the slaV
trade, fitted out in our cities, owned by our firms
carrying on this diabocal work without fear. pei
suaded that even if taken in the very act, the
can be shielded from any possibility OF convlctlo
and punishment by the omnipotence OF the siav!
holding power at the head of our government.
poor man, even by mistake, gives shelter Tor
night to poor fugitive flying for his Freedom th
whole power ofthe government is pledged to brin
him into chains, and the whole penalty Tor sncn
crime shall be sure. But il a merchant, by dc
mestc and foreign agencies, kidnaps, chains, an
imprisons on board SLAYER, under the hag ot III
Uuited States, fve hundred of his fellow creature
and then sells them into slavery, the whole powe
of the government is suddenly paralyzed, or Sc
cretly exerted in completely, to shield the crime
that the very attempt to discover it shall be II
probated as an insult against the national sove
eighty, Talk Of the conviction and pnnlshmel
Of SLAYER, and the government suddenly become
a great cIcumlocution Office, not 10 do u. Cr'ni
goes free hut henoy olence is punished "a CRIME