Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-16
A BRILLIANT SUCCESS.

Slavery thoy be said, by the progress of public
opinion in our age, to have been put on trial, if
not for life, at least for reputation.
Time was when to hold ones fellow beings in
bondage was tolerated by the world as q thing in.
def0usible Oh moral grounds, into which men were
entrained by various lower powerful motives,
whose force the lax morality of the world admitted
Us a sufficient justification.
But in our day the spirit of Christianity, urged
on by the ~kindling breath Of an Unseen but ever
living Power, is constantly forcing the reluctant
masses of society to the logical results of its pre-
cepts and principles. So the Richmond Enquirer
says. This subject of slavery must com at last to
the great test question, "Is it right or is it ,crOng?"
The Southern Church has been pushed, by the
force OF conscience and the epirit of the age, back
on the ground of an attempted conscientious de-
fence of what all her books of discipline in the OIL
den time condemned as the sum of villainies and
~jniquity.
The great argument on which they rely is that
the African race are naturally inferior, incapable
of the education and progress of the white races,
and only capable of subsisting in q servile and de.
pendent position.
Hence it is that every coiored person who
achieves anything noticeable in the Intellectual
world, by that very deed assaults the main fort
which defends the castle Of slavery.
A colorcd artist like Ira Aldridge, whose acting
has become famous in all the courts of Europe-a
colored orator like Frederick Douglass-ney, eve.
~ g~entlemanly, we'll educated colored man, in his
sphere, is an argument in the face of pro-slavery
politicians and reiigionists greater than any or
all Ahnlitinpista upSuoportod Inv th;u p ohla IN
produce.
No race so absurd, maltreated and enslaved.
could have developed faster than the African du'
ring the last fifty years. Although the world has
been in arms against them, and all that they have
undel taken or achieved has been under crushing
odds, yet there is now no manner of doubt that the
race is rising, and destined to be q living pow
or and have a living history yet In the world.
Recent papers bring us intelligence CT o most
signal triumsh which has been achieved in this re-
gard, on the most conspicuous theatre of modern
Europe.
Three young Haytiens have just carried off the
three first prizes in Greek, Latin and Rhetoric, in
the old university of the Sorbonne in Paris. We
have Lefore us the congratulatory address of M
Auds:n thimself a ~IIaytien) delivered in a banquet
held in honor of his compatriots, and bearing the
motto, "Marche o mon pays!" and we augur well
not only from the even. itself. but from tho seriou:
and manly tone in which it has been recognized
Far from fulsome adulations and s~ophomorical fe
licitations, we find the grave and earnest tone o
men determined on the highest things.
Addressing the %victors, he says:
"One of you, Faubert, has held honorable ranl
ID in this great competition in Paris, and has com
out Of the field the first among aH-tbe Grst-marl
that--the first in Paris, where intelligence is n
rare thing, and where intense study ia not, as
understand, considered as a marvel. Delya ha
born away the first prize 10 Greek composition
and Dupuy, your youngest comrade has gained tn
highest honor in the Latin.
"Such a result is brilliant, my friends, and eacl
of you has a right to rejoice in il, and even to b
proud of it for in having to strive with so man,
capable and determined rivals, you could hav
borne away tho palm only by the force and peIse
yerence Of your application. Note we'll, | beg o
you, l have not said by your talent. \ n n
prize highly native intelligence-that preciou
gif.; | appreciate the just happiness of those VIII
enjoy it. = = q But l cannot and would nc
accord praise to a man simply on the ground Q
natural talent, because it is a gift which we brin
a Win us INTO the WUTiu-un advantage DetOnRlD
to our nature Independent Of any effort Of our owr
and of which consequently we cannot pride oui
selves. But application labor !-ah, let US prid
ourselves more on labor. There only is true meri
for there alone does man reveal himself acting, bC
come a living force, and make felt The power {
d his will-the will in which is found the true It'll
of manhood.
s1 ssh y y \ = - y
- Work on then, my young eountrymen-work
work without trusting to your natural genius
" without stopping to consider the measure Of you
abilities. Be very sure that ardent and well-di
. rected tabor can never cease to be fruitful, anc vii
always end in triumph. = i n Go on, there
fore, without cessation, without encouragement
toward progresS-ceas not to feed your soul--th
absenep ef aliment kills the brain, makes it die o
hamilton. Zig sway with f~ervor, for a certain fir