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

cs the collection sent from Edinburgh by dear
friends of the Wigham family. 1t is u crimson
fower-wrought cushion, with the following in
scripton:
WORKED BIT
THE HONORABLE MRS. ERKSINE OF MAR
In her Serenity. Fourth Year.
A THANK KOFFERING FOR THE BLESSING
OF SlGllr:-
Three Of tie Mar Family haring been Blind.
| 1t was Mrs Erskine's voice tina. ehecrcd US on
wards from warinhrarted Scotland. when in 1855
We had just learned by Its loss the value OF the
liberty which the nation had compromised away
when it allowed slavery in the new republic, Call
ed into beiug by the word of Freedom, ,-conGeivng
of Christianity and Liberty one, the nation yet
felt bound 10 return into slavery the lugives whom
ought to have made free, to suppress every revolt
against slavery spriuging from its own example
approved by its own feelings, aud sanctioned 10y
it's principles; and to maintain and perpetu-
ate in the new republic "a series Of arrang gements
for converting it into Ugarchy of Shareholders.
Ashamed Of what they had reluctantly done, men
kept and enlulned silence and when our genera
ton came upon the field, who have in the second
quarter of the nineteenth century fought the good
antslate cry battle they found not only millions Ul
slaves, but land benumbed by bondage. Presi-
dents and Governors. Senators and Judges chiefs
Of parties and heads OF colleges were all dying III
the seit-impOsed degradation of their quiet under
the wrongs Ut i insults Of slavery The savehold'
ers strong enough in the silence Of those pur-
chased lips tU,make and unmake Presidents Tor The
distribution to their creatures Uf the patronage OF
slavery through every town and village Of the land
The Slave Power thus become strong enough to
make congresses and legislatures paying their
Northern members for enucting slave laws, by
commercial and Corporate privileges that would
speedily enrich them. 1t siehced the pulpit
= = IL
the tutdued community. dictated thiOGgh it's
means the downward course Of schools aud colleg.
es.
Things were at this pass in 1880. when he who
is called in other lands great cOubtryman,
Garrson,' took the initiative in that new order of
thngs' which had been merely shadowed forth
when they des ised the national seal by the found.
ers of the Republic lie published The Liberator
ut his own cost and peril, (and heavy with his
whole tes fortunes they were, )--instituted the
American Anti Slavery So,iety,--gatL cred round
it the best aud brayest Ill his and foreign lands
and, strong in resoue aud lisacriicing integrity
led them openly and boldly to the assault ot the
great wrong TO which their contemporaries were
lowing down. with determination to right it, ut
whatever cost Of fortune friends, or life.
1t was ut this moment that we felt bound by 10y.
ality TO native land, by our religion. and by
our self.respect. to give ourselves to what we at
Unce recognized the great battle of our Gener-
alton. We saw that now. as in every true struggle
with evil days, each true word must impoverish
them that spoke it, and,we accordingly bent pro-
portion of exertions to the financial point, that
types, paper and sustenhnce might not iail those
who bad shoEn themselves possessed Of moral
puwer to give the great word Freedom Il fitting
utterance We saw that, but Tor slavery our people
would be united and happy,ali ther families enrich
ed by industry, and all their children blessed with
ducntion, aud our nation be an example to with
the world and the glory of posterty: and ever since
that hour in 1854, when the first OF this Of
annual anti-savery opportunities offered at 46
Washington strecT, Buston, producing $3.50 to the
cause, We have found our idea growing stronger
and stronger in the heartsUf our cuuntrvmen
What would you have foolish wOmcnf' they at
first said, with insult and violence as they strove
to mob down tie rising spirit of humanity. 'The
immediate abolition Of slavery! was reply
And the word learned Of Garrison sunk into the
public heart like spell,
How are YOU to do it? was the ieer-
ing question OF those who had iorcibly driven
us from our own dwellings, for that word. 1T is
Won who are going to do it, when you shall have
felt the sin and dshunOr of slavery as we feel
them The words were prophetic. These same
men soon engaged in the struggle ON tie right side.
The influence Of conservatism for good which flow
ell down from the beginning through successive
generations to remodel ut need the forms Of hu-
man society, and which reaches these times
through the American Anti. Slavery Society as IT'S
fitting instrument. is now d 1ing mighty work in
every State in this strange Union. Wounded and
mappled by its divided life, our nation is attempt
inp like the fabed Zohak uf oriental story to stran-
ole the serpeuts growing from its shoulders to de.
your it's heart and brain. The intellect and the
benevolence of Europe streng hening that of
America we gain perceptihly upon this monstrous
and unnatural growth. We shall strange the
sernents aud save the State whose life they drain
and deyour. We have aroused the people to IL
sense of the desperation Of their danger. They
nnw hepin to see as we did FIVE and twenty years
ago the serpent stretching alter new territories,
enfolding the judicial tribunals, ravaging among
the statesmen paralyzing the clergy and they
will rise more strongly to the contest, I'LL the whole
world is engaged Well is the need, when one of
chr widest ecclesiastical influences. the American
Tract Society he's begun the work of pairing down
Bhle history to accommodate Southern men. by
nublisbing the story of Juseph without any men
ton of his being sold into slavery. What will our
frends Europe think Of this they who make Mrs.
Stoves .TwoAlrars' her sketch of the contrast be-
rween free America of l775, and slaveholding
America of the present time) one of their religious
tract pubieations2 We hail our friends ia Great
Britain with double JOY as they come to our ard,
for their every anti'savery word and deed are an
antidute to the poison Of the American snake which
would devour their freedom and virtue, as we'll as
that of the land out of which springs, To France
too in view of the late imperial and commercial
sin nve.trade which our countrys condition suggests
and makes practicable, we cry, III "a de ~ re :
Tia ground has changed under our feet. When
we begun we said, Help us for the slaves sake S
Now we say. Help us for your own. IL is no iGng
er his or our cause alone. 1t is the whole wofia
progress and safety that hang on the issue:
Let the whole world, then, cheer on, and sustain
its vanguard of American A5olitonists, as Mrs.
Erskine and the ladies Of Edinburg have done,
from the date of the folluwiug extract, written IN
their behalf in 1885, till the present hour oi her
thank-offering TO the cause, for she GIT oi ciear
sight during her life and times:
with all our hearts and minds, we wish you
God speed We cheer you onwards by D'uulng
Of humanity, of justice. os religion, Of God. We
have resolved to continue our labors
to keep alive in this country the interest ieit Tor
yours, o that as nations We could mutually act as
monitors to each other" sq.-s -ru-1 NJ go.