Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-27


proofs OF its advance against slavery, which are
visible since Mrs. Erskiues voice FIRST reached our
post Of danger and difficulty, surrounded by the
| lmisapprchensiOu of ignorance and enmity with its
| full measure Of ridiculous contempt. Without
censibg to be dangerous and difficult that spot has
now become the post Of honor. Statesmen and
leading journalists Mt home and travellers abroad
are trying painfully to prove that they have nj
ways occupied it, while proving, at the same time
how unjust and unsafe it would be to grant their
claim by the pertinacity with which they ignore
the Aboliuniss, the better to set aside the claims
Of the slave, when pecunary or political tinterest
demands. Yet they cannot choose but float with
the tide our principles have raised for the great
holders of Northern stocks cry out to us,
INWhy did you not, long ago, instead Of warning
us of the sin of slavery, tell that it for our
interest to roll its lido backward p But they were
! building their hoIes upon Alabama land specu-
latiun and the like devices of slavery all depend
ent upon its strong, quiet How, disturbed only by
oar denunciations. Had they Men given US large
means of impautng anti slavery feelings and
principle in the North the flood Of migration to
| Kansas and elsewhere bad feen of a corresponding
ch lracter, new lands and territories OF hundred
! fold value, aud the American Government preserv.
ed from being in 1858, disgrace to modern civil
izatun. Ii had been better for Northern mems
fortunes then to have paid hundreds of thousands
to Anti-Slaycry Societies. than to have concerned
themse,eS with cotton. 1t were better for their
future fortunes noto TO pay to the AntSlavery So
ciety, than either to the Emigration Society or to
the buttumess pit Of political combination of
which the nature is to make its candidates and its
field Of labor than it finds them. A word is
all the wise need 1t is not too late, it they are
not too sluggish and selfish AS iu business, so
| in Church and State, the CAUSE is seen to DC the
one great interest. In Massachusetts,, all politics
| have turned on turning selfish, unteeliug man
ont of an honorable Office, from the hour he strove
to serve slavery in base one And Massachusetts
does but indicate the road the other States caun0t
choose bat follow. The slaveholding church is
now understood. The withdrawal of body Of
men and women like the Abnltihnsts has left her
the laughing stock of even the secular newspapers
aud without II shadow Of claim TO be the church
Of Christ. The colonization that occupies the pub
lie mind is no longer the colonization of the negro
MQt delusion fed before Garrison and Jay. The
prU slavery parties present but series OF dissolv
ing views. The demon who directs them is engag-
ed in the hopeless task Of making ropes out of
sand. Shareholders can no longer stir up their
mercenaries at the North against the AbOlitOnists
by an outcry Of nfdelity, of which every body
had tathomed the purpose. Ministers, in prOpor'
tion TO their fidelity to our prnciplcs become
brethren in the cause, Women, in the same meas
ure asmen. are now.welcon,ed by tho world to com
tlete this work.whieb it mobbed them for at The
heginng No teaching like the teaching of example
We have spent very few wards on womeu's rights.
Ii needed but to exerciss them to rouse up host
of ELOQUENT advocates. w ait till you zee your
neighbours prodgal lavshing or legislatng
away the portion Of your dnughter'-is all we
have ever needed to say to check the scofing men
of millions who feared land JUSTLY that in such
State as this, where only one word in the Constr
tuition stands between the fruit OF womens action
in the Anti Slavery Society would be woruan's par
ticipa,ion in the government. 1t is easier tol
change many things than one said the profound
observant Bacon and we had always taken care
to widen the public mind by the assurance that
slavery will not fall alone. A thousand other
wrongs and abuses will fall with il,
'The Christian life is a battle.' say the great
forefathers of our spirit through Purtansm and
reformation, back to Jewry. BY Mat token, the
Christian life of our times is the life of the Abr
liionists. Let them count their successes by the
confusion in the enemy's camp-by the nOtched
and broken arms, by the hopes and fortunes ard
lives thrown joyfuliy down to bri !ge the sacred
way for coming generations
Thus only shall they find all the elements made
to work together. Thus only shall a great moral
party be constituted to mould the material ,nnd Yo-
litcal interest aright,a party which shall consti
tute in reality what the pro-slavery Church and
its parasite institutions mistaken for, before
the guilty se.Iet Of their enslaving masonry was
dvulged. With such party preparing the way,
our political principle OF No Union with Slave
holders will soon be firmly Implanted, and round
that men may gather, without berg as now sub.
ected to the shameful alternative of perjury or
lcrueltv-treachery to human institutions or to the
human brotherhood, mental reservation and dis
graceful shutiling, or risk of assassination.
0! terrible is this reign of cowardly seit-inter-
est in our Atlantic cities. which leaves them des.
tituto of political leadership. More terrible this
degradation of the public mind, which makes
such IL reign possible for an hour. But II change
is at hand favored alike by the American financial
crisis and the Asiat'c military convulsion. The
East NAV not always he devoted to opium, nor
the West to cotton. Let US. as those on the firm.
ness of whose thought and purpose now depend
~. = IL. a A,,,,
of our country, through many u coming crisis, IN
the fate Of our millions of enslaved producers OF
cotton, never yield hairs breadth OF our de-
mand for the immediate abolition or slavery. The
producer Of cotton is fit and ready it is the own
er of the field who needs preparatlon,- the very
preparation of heart supplied by our continual
demand. What ao example is set US among the
leading minds of Great Britain Those great and
tender hearts, whom our religious and political
trafhckers in human nature tell us hold the pro-
ducers of coal in worse than negro slavery
Let these unhappy shareholders, and their most
unhappy Northern subalterns, as well as our
friends in Europe, take note of tho difference
between the ties that bind the nOblo to his neigh
bors, under the laws OF England. and the chain
that links the American STAKEHOLDER to his slave,
under the laws Of tine United States. TO furnish
both with the means of comparison. we send 10
one side of the Atlantic supply Of Stroud's Di.
gest OF the Slave Laws, and refer the other to the
relations of the Marchioness af Londonderry with
the industry of the County OF Durham, where
her strength is united with that of the free pro-
ducers of coal, for education, for humanity, for
safety.-for every form of that great charity
which 'seeketh not her own We have caused
the report Of her proceedings at Leaham TO be-
reprinted for the benefit Of that class Of our
Americans who mistake slavehOlding for nobility.
The reading of Lady LOndonderry's speech,
with that OF Mr.. Nicholson, one OF the comIany)
after the dinner at which she sat, at her own
table for communion of heart with three thOns'