Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-10

Batylunian val, 60 dutjful a watch.Gog as James
Buchanan. But yet with all this assurance Of safe.
~ tho ic'e Of otr Lios is iuet az distinctly mark.
ed upon ~, catalogue Of coming events as was the
Gall OF Bllshizzar. Tha hogor Of God has writ
ten in doop end in3o,i5lo characters tho fate orour
king aud our country. When Gods Book Of Ac-
counts is presented for settlement with this nn.
ton our King falls in despair, for the thought
rushcs like magic home to his heart that a refusal
to settle will be all vain, No lodging 10 escaping,
resistance useless, al he can do is to behold and
tremble aud witness tho fires Of Hell burning
within his bosom. Every boneand sincw Of the poor
African that the American people hovo cast from
their slave SHIPS into the bosom Of tho briny deep,
every drop Of blood. and every tear that anguished
hearts have driven from the heavy eyelids of Az,
ric's bereavcd fathers, mothers, sons and daurh
ters, will stand erected in one mighty mulitudinous
Lenp lcforo this nation, calling upon retribution to
leave its retirement and execute its bold and God
directed work upon Tie oppressor.
If Slavery is a sin what ] have said of it is true
4 not lay it to o false Imagination; bu, if the
reader feels doubtful of the sinfulness of slavery
let him 80 with me through n part of its sad his.
tory. Let us view it in natures brilliant light and
decide il pnrtially. We need investigate but one
single attribute of the human soul in order to blot
forever from the mind all doubts as to the sinful
ness of humnn chattelism. Ask the mother i she
loves her child and what is her answer. How did
} Margaret Garner respond to this question? How
did Mrs. Shinn respond to it yesterday iu the
town half in Marlboro. She responded to it with
m effort to give vent to her feelings but the thought
of six children in slavery echoed back to her heart
a chill Of horror that no power on earth can des
cribe. All here is the grand test by which slavery
must be tried. Who is it, that has Weakened this
affection within the human heart. No one will
doubt the existence OF n mothers affection for her
child. That affection God has incorporated
az q part Of her being. This high aud holy attri'
butte Of the human soul forms an important part OF
that great moral ligament that binds men in
close alliance with God. How Heaven dar'
ing then for man to wound that afec.
ton. Here is where the sin lies. God proclaims
in his infinite wisdom that sin lies at the door OF
all who violate his law and if it is Gods law that
the mother shall enjoy the affection for her
child whoever so pros'rates her hopes and lays
waste her own flesh and blood, brings himself in.
to certain condemnation before God. Yet in the
face Of all this we hear divines denying that slav.
ery is u sin. What, no sin to rob Il mother of hel
child We would think that slavery would be
satisfied with plundering the mother of oil her per
sonal rights and exposing her to the beating storms
and desoiatins Influences outside Of that God 'giver
right she has to her child. When robbed Of al
access to the great fountain of human happiness
except the sacred one that feeds her hungry sou
with the thought that her child is yet her own, h(
would think that even fends from hell would spar
the poor desponding mother the child upon whom
the last vestige Of hope was conferred. But slave
ry braves the greatest storms of moral power Will
%hendish grin, and eztingui8bing the last pickering
ray OF joyous hope from the severed soul, ~
though it were noble TO hurl defiance mt God nUC
sink humanity into oblivion. Not satisfied tC
Chain the body it chains the soul and thus pro
vents it's highest aspirations from Ascending to TIL
highest points cf human nlagnaninity, 1t watches
the soul with an eagles eye and holds rs cliochin;
claws in readiness to grasp it as it makes its iIigh
to God, and II, perchHncc it reaches above tht
sphere thnt man has marked il readers him useless
as a slave. lie has then caught q glinmer Of free
lom's light, nod like the lion that tasted blood, hi
roanls the forests seeking for more.
Although our country may be cursed with a fu
gitive slayo law aud bred Scott decision; although
every effort may be put forth by tho dospots of tn
Union to make the coloreQ man a ohattel the grea
souls Of William Brown, Frederick Douglass, Re
nond aud many others, rise up with great author
ity and proclaim it q lie. The right OF man t
{ himself is not to be looked for among tho transfer
and foolish cnactmenjs of human folly but if W,
wish to fad it traced back to its grand origiua
t starting point We must leave all human enactment
y out Of sight and scar away into the c.lerial region
Of ininity where God bin,solI sits and marks GU
. and defines the rights and duties of man.
Here We find the only true record of human
: riGhts. 1t was written ~ the finger oC God il
-, the morning Ct creation when the morning STAR
sang together and the cherubims Of delight frs
thronTcd about the throne.
1t is utterly useless TO attempt to define wha
the duties Of man are in relation to this gran,
theme. The simple glaring fact that four million
of our own citizens are chatelized like beasts, i
enough to dictate to every sober. candid mind villa
we should do rs men and women in order to sus
tain the true relation that exists between man an
H.. man, and man and his God. Itisimpossible for us tt
, sustain those relations and be any thing other thar
= good aboiitionists and it is just as impossible t.
D be good oSolitionists without sustaining those rela
lions. We may carry tho name of abolitiunis
T.. whilst cur hearts are cold and our moral nature
dwiudles into nothingness, but Inconsistency stare
G us in the face and points us out as hypocrites. 4
warm and sympathising heart stereotypes its feel
ings in living characters on the field Of action
true to itself and the God that made it.
JAS. D. JOHNSON.
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