Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-06

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DEAR BuoLE; Some thoughts stray through my
mind. l am tempted to give them to your read
ers.
Reform how comprehensive it is how few re-
formers, even, grasp its mighty rami6cations, and
endless bearings. What a relationship may be
traced in all real reforms; they cannot be separated;
they are lone and inseparable. now and forever.
We are dbolitioniSts we seek to eufranchise
men and women now d~espoiled Of their natural
rights they are pr~operty-they must be men,
They now have no will but the will Of another
now.-they shall be ~sorrvigns.
SovERErscs how glcriously sounds that word.
To the really free soul it is music-it is maggie
God made mt a mana woman-placed me on my
feet and said, "Stdnd' Look out on the great
world of Mature and more, took u,hin; hear the
strong voice of thine own nature pleading ever for
the right" o, the free soul-no creed TO cont ult,
no priest politician to enquire of sis this the way;
how the divine life and light ellis his whole being
lie it is who lives ION the Mount and we'll may
be say 1t is good to be here".
And he only who has attained to this freedom is
q good-a coESiaent slolitionist. Let the slave
get bis freedom under the administration of such
abolitionists, and he is "free indeed. He will not
have to sit in the "Jim Grow" slip, nor eat at the
second table, l assure you. Gle is n man and o
brother" q Sovereign" and hence his RIGHTS
enough for one to know; what care | then for your
wicked custom that ostracises q mana woman!
Reader, | doubt if it were well that the slave
have his freedom IA change of bonds) among the
abolitiohists of to-day! Perhaps in his besotted
ignorance he does not sense his position but hav-
ing the name freedom and some of its enlighten'
ment-and yet really denied its right, how must
he sense the smart.
And then we are slaves ourselves-borrible!-
Slaves yes, and prosecutors, too-oppreSsors =
Look, dear ones, if it is not so. Does reason, does
that divine enlightenment Of which we spake sane
ton the fashions of the day-the customs of the
times? And yet we bow as subsequently as the
meanest chattel of the South
No, in those secluded moments, when reason is
enthroned, and above all when the divine" fills
the soul, we exclaim "it is a sham-wearc slaves!
How uncomforta BILE we make ourselves in our
persons and finances at the dictum of the Tyrant
fashion-custom
Aud, acknowledging in our heart of hearts that
we are slaves-suffering, abject slaves, let one
break out from the tyrant rule, and in all the hnb-
its of life consult only the. Dirine, the True, and
we will prosecute such an one! Yes, it is sol
When then we are both slave and master, how
comparatively inefficient must be our efforts
against chattel slavery.
How fearfully applicable to US is the scripture
Cast out the beam from thine own eye".
Whilst we consent to do that which God and
reason do not sanction, we are not abolitionists-
whilst we turn the cold shoulder to one who is cur
inferior in dress or fortune, and sbove all when
We shirk from taking by the hand and bidding
God speed" one who stands for the right in def,
ance Of custom, we are not abolitionists.
OFREEDoM! how few yet comprehend thy mighty
significance
o thou DIVINE make US free, that we may be
"free indeed"
In love, dear reader.
E.. F.. G.
HARTFORD, Oct. 22d, 1858.