Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-18

to the law, which he continued to practice till his
great success NJ a writer indicated to him an OK.
elusive devotion TO the study Of tho higher law
which prepares the way for civil enactments and
he turned his face toward tue future as one hav,
ing the great advantage Of knowledge Of the
past.
There is no need here to recapitulate the titles
OF his work ; they are in every readers hands,
and every one Of them is also his title to popular
gratitude. They circulate among Epglishmen,
Americans, Swedes, Frenchmen and Germans.
by the hundred thousand, under his own name
ana how vast a circulation has been given to the
IDEAS, there are no means Of knowing. While
the American public is mourning his loss, self
constituted colporteurs are traversine the land,
selling sheets OF illustrated aud educational hints
made W from his writings-roughly explaining
them IN every dwelling with a precision which yet
makes the contents Of every nine penny sheet as
sure to terminate in the general mind of the coun-
try as seeds borne by the chance wind ensure
the march OF Atlantic vegetation towards the
West.
"HOw many have you sold-you alone-of these
sheets Of illustrated text made up from Combe p"
we ask OF a colporteur who (providentially, as
New England Puritanism loves to say) enters
while we write.
Zone hundred and eighty thousand % is the re-
ply. Hot. brown, dusty, quick of adaptation
and rapid Of uttcrauce, he rushes from door to
door, ringing n few changes upon the words-''of
greatest Importance to parents"-"will put q stop
to mortality among cbildren"-"evcrything de.
ponds on health"-"Phrenology is at the bottom
of everything; and every parent buys the pic
tured sheet. and wishes the colporteur may sell a
hundred and eighty thousand more.
The present is the time and place, while pas.
sing in review this active, useful life, to call once
more to public mind the testimony against slavery
which Mr., Combe registered in 1916, with the mag
nanimity Of good feeling, and the tact Of good
sense adding to it The weight of q whole move.
| mani hv YnoLipp tho raol Aholtiopista HE nr1op
of communication with the world to which he
/, spoke. 1t may be found in one of the anti'slave-
ry publications, the Liberty Bell" for lS47,
p. SO.
I'm all my wanderings in foreign countries, |
have found intelli gent men eager to inquire into
the condition and prospects Of the United States
OF North America, when they heard that l had
visited them and the description which | gave
cheered the hopes of the philanthropists, and ami
! mated the efforts of political reforms. But there
was one dark stain on the fair face of tho mighty
confederacy which it was impossible for me either
to hide or p~alliate-Slavery again and again was
the question put to me, in sorrow and not in an-
b ger, Bat hoo is i possible for n people so moral,
: religious, enlightened and free to defend and prac-
tice slavery p What could | answer? The con
D tradiction between every principle which lice al
the foundation of the American institution and OF
. the Christian religion, and Slaver7, was so com
d plete that an angel in heaven must have stood
2 ashamed and dumb before every %virtuous mar
!, who asked him for an answer to this question.
" explained to my iuquiring friends that the odiou'
7 system was begun under the British government
long before America was free but why does /
y continue? p was the instant rejoinder to this state
ment. If there is q living being in the Unitec
4 States who does not lament and shrdder at thi
o scourge Of humanity, be is dead not only to thu
d voice of conscience and of patriotism, but to thu
sense of shame aud honor of his country. TIT
e grand moral lesson which the United States il
c reading to the world is neutralizcd, nay, convert
ed into a bitter mockery Of reason, by slavery
g and in every part of Europe where l have travelled
q is this deplorable truth known and lamented by
t the good, but hailed with pleasure and pointed
s to with triumph by the oppressor and his tools
q That the great and good God, who certainly
= rules this world on the principles Of justice ant
y reason, may prosper your efforts to root out tn
evil Of slavery, is the constant desire of
Yours, very faithfully,
IL GEORGE CoMBE.
d "45 Melville street. Edinburg, the 22d Noven
a Der, 1886"
Again, in 1916. Mr.. Combe took pains to pre-
cure testimony respecting the happy effects G
Is emancipation in Barbadoes, from his friend, Dl
Davy, then in official and professional employ j
that island. United in all these ar ti-slavery ez
70 pressions, in communication with the America
Abolitionists, the searcber of anti slavery anna
=, will always find the name Of his admirable wife
the daughter of the renowned Mrs. Siddons.
a. <h'ibuuJ NV iOhA lho SoAhO nv NlNoo uhhh
: are not unfrequently searched in hope and fear b
survivors, in the desire to establish a characte
for the departed above the little meannesses an
vulgar terrors of their times. Already the SUI
vivors ct them that passed their lives in reproact
ing for harsh language the persons that have pass
ed their lives in laboring against the human aut
tion'block, with its means of supply at home an
abroad, aud its meahs Of support-the lash, tn
N chain, the branding-iron. the stake, The Church
tie bloodhound, the Judiciary and the whole in
etrnmentality of destructive politics and false re
li.ion which s~anctifes and legalizes the Who'll
daily existence that is a perpetual outrage agains
the world here in the United States-already sue
survivors begin to try to bury with anti'slaver
honors such dead. The lines are changing an
this is the convincing proof of it to those who pom
d. der the past in their hearts-thnt, in ~preparin
le for the funeral services, the obituary records an
the biographical portraits of those that descend t
y, the grave, Northern men now begin to seek carr
le estly for the evidence that their departed one
m were in unity of heart and labors with the ABB
is litionists for the extinction of slavery. In tt
st spirit of Ebenezer Elliot, the statesman poet
OF England, they sadly searched the past on beha
IN of their dead
$ Where their recorded erecrations poured
to On blood. stained tyrants and the seIvile hord ~
N too often to find no filter epitaph than this
re that
a When earth wept blood that wolves might la
and swill,
O And bleeding mercy was a rampled worm,
Basely they ~pandersd to tho %slayer's will"
At a moment like the present, when the dest
o' MES of Freedom seem to tremble in the balanc
s it is worth while. when recording Of famous ma
that he died in her faith, to warn the living Of Il
everlasting infamy that rests on them that die II
- as the righteous.
!" SIGNIFICANT, VERY-C0L. F0RNE
~ 'DARES" THE ADMINISTRATION.
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