Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-23

our strength, though utter humiliation might stare
us in the face, yet our duty remains the snmo-to
guard with answering fidelity the citadel Of hu.
man rights. Though our fortunes may at times
appear desperate, yet relief will come. Not relief to
us, pcrhapB,-we may die at our post, and no rec.
ord remain 90 earth that one throb in favor of uni'
versal freedom ever warmed our bosoms, for il is
only a distinguished few that posterity ever hears
Of, but relief will come to the race. 1t is not
merely Tor four millions of chattels that we labor
though that is the specific object for which we are
associated, but our principles cover a broader field
they apply to universal man. If we break a
link in the chain Of tyranny in our midst, we
weaken the power Of tyrants everywhere. A con.
quest IN favor of justice, may be pointed back to
by generations yet unborn, as a solrce of incalcu
liable blessing. If we would trace out the origin Of
our own political and religious freedom, we may
look far back to the Barons at Runymede, we may
refer to the political principles of Ham pden and
Sydney, and a h,st of others who have checked
the power Of the throne we may bring up the la.
0ors,o of WickliffJ, of Huss and of Luther. These al
achieved something for themselves and their con
temporaries, much more did they gain for us who
have succeeded them, and those who shall live in
time to come may rejoice in a much fuller acknow
Judgement of human rights.
So if we remain true to the priI cipIes we have
espoused, if we trample compromises in the DUST
and show to the world that we value liberty more
than the favor of man, more than personal aggrand
izement, more than political power or church digni
ties we may weaken the chains of the subject race
} in our midst and shall advance the interests Of
human freedom in the world. We may not like
Wilhe rforca ~ N mn tn inIucnont with a million nj
broken letters in our hands; but we may go there
with the sustaining consciousness that we have
done whe: we could. Though our society is small
and our operations limited, yet "a candles:ick set
in a low place gives light as faithfully to those who
need it as that set upon a hill'.
There never was more need for the bold enunci.
alton Of uncomprCmising antl'savery than at the
| present time. Were the muttered controversy and
iettered action of those sects which claim to be
anti slavery in character or tendency the most
faithful opponents of the slaves wrongs, his cause
would SINK into oblivion. Were the selfish efforts
Of politicians to secure freedom for themselves the
only visible measure of human rights, we should
l soon all stand in the mire OF despotism together.
There was never So much need Of the Aati
&acery Bugie as now, and never has it been st
! difficult to sustain it. First, because the people
! have at last learned what @lcriices are involved in
the adoption Of its principles. 1t cuts off sources
Of wealth, closes avenues of honor and distinction
often makes a mans foes those Of his own house
hold, ostracises him in social life, and brands him
, with the odious name Of fanatic. The people are
. not prepared for any such sacrifices or such obi
ums hence they reject u paper to carry out whose
| doctrine might bring upon them such dreaded re
4 suits. The spirit of martyrdom is never ditfused
through a community. There are but few who on
+ any given occasion will suffer for the maintain,
ance OF q principle. Much smaller is the number
who will attempt to live out through reproach and
persecution, any truth, however sacred, or bene
fetal to the world.
And again, it is difficult to sustain the Bugle be
cause the radical anti,sluvery of the last twenty
years has so leGvened the press that it meets the
conscious wants of the people. 1t has broughI
up many Of the leading organs to a decided
ly anti-slavery tendency, and has even shamed TIE
pa pers of the low Democracy into an occasional
show Of decency on the subject of human rights.
The people want no more. But what would be
the result if the leaven should cease to work p
How fares it with an army when the advance guard
is swept away? The Bugle then should be cher
ished as the only exponent of radical anti slavery
in the West. But the question again recurs, how
shall it be sustained? That is for you, as "a soci.
ETY., to say. We know not, unless it be by more
extensive patronage, more liberal contributions,
more zeal and more sacrifices in the cause.
In relation to the manifestations Of the foe
against which we contend, nothing very unusual
has occurred during the last year. No develop
ments have been made either in parties or in sects
that we might not naturally have looked for. Pu.
litical parties are not apt to be purer in their
growth. or at maturity than at their birth, and the
so-called party of freedom is by TO means an ex'
ception to this rule. Every year of its existence
witnesses an increase of f lse conservatism pre-,
vailing in it's councils, every succeeding effort i.
marked by a greater detection in principle. Ohio
: which has occupied as good a position in both
! Houses of Congress as has any other State, has re
Gently been disgraced by the action of her Repub
lican PARTY, which has taken the Oldest, the most
! faithful, and the most useful of all the Country's
( representatives from his place at Washington and
permitted him to retire to private life. The veter,
an who has done as much for the slave as any poll
itician can do. who has long been dreaded more
than any other man in Congress, and whose abb
sence from the Legislative Hall will be a cause Of
more rejoicing to the South than would that of any
other, has been notified that his public labOrs can
now be dispensed with. When there wa none to
stand by him he stood alone and battled the insult
ing and oppressive South. With plain common
sense and an eloquence born of sympathy, he pre-,
scented an array of facts which could be neither
controvertcd nor explained, until the shareholders
gnashed their teeth with rage and cried out against
him who tormented them before their time. And
now, when the greenness.of the laurel wreath is
mingled with his whitened hair, his sturdy form
which was ever in the van of the fight, has been
ordered to the rear by his Republican friends !
What language shall express the indignation which
such an outrage merits
The same party also ia the same State, which