Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-03
THE ANTI L.AVERY BUGLE.

wrcnchinG gold from torn muscle aud rilled soil,
Africanism ruled The uay, liut as the public
conscience awoke, stimulated Ivy the labors OF Ed.
wards, ot Nhitciicld, aud Of Wesley, aud cspoci
ally OF the brave followers of Fox as the com,
mon law indicated It's supremacy ut Westminster
aud rs the attention Of the colonists wns SO of.
.trOctcd TO its free maxims and free methods MS to
force resistance to ministerial absolution, tho
black and bloody code began to be regarded us n
hostile intruder. Tho American Revolution was
but an act in the great drama of English hercdi.
tary resistance to Oppressive laws. 1t but follow.
ed the struggles for the restoration of tho laws of
The Coufcssor, the strifcs Mt liunnymcde, and the
comhats with the Stuarts. IL w0s hut ,he cman,
%cipaiion Of the common law, and placing it under
tho control ut popular sovorcignty-a resumption
by the people Of guardianship Of its maxims and its
methods. The people assumed the mastery, and
rcotganizcd government to protect, not infringe
rights. AfTicanism was frightened at its new
master aud it is no wonder that the Guinea code
He'd from the gaze Of u people burning with n re.
generated love for free aud n Christian civilization.
II only begged for time to SGT its house in order, n
little indulgence to fold its limbs with decency,
before being thrust into its grave. Alas that this
indulgence was given it that this African SER
pcnt was permitted even for Il moment to fix its
basilisk gaze upon the young sovereignty, charm.
ing by Its very hidcousncss
And the struggle now is, not between the North
aud the SOuth-no, indeed the friends of tic
common law in the South are in the closest sym
patty with its friends in the North-but between
systems, between civilizations, 1t is the micfor
tune of the South, that the African code, the Jaw
is fastened upon it deeply do | sympathize will
D ! that misfortune. 1t is the misfortune Of tho Soutl
that tie champions of that code are grinding her
in the dust with what alacrity would aid her t
: shake of the tyrant rule, and leap to the position
, given only bV the law Of justice ! 1t is the misfor
\ tune OF the South that her fame is involved in thC
I frauds aud crimes her tcrritorists commit in he
:, name | would relieve her from tho stain, y,
a suatcling power from these her territories. 1t il
g the misfortune of tho South that she is drunk will
n the cup Of Gree | would not even reproach hel
with the deadly lcthargy but, going backward
n would spread the mantle, while arousing her from
= the charm of the drunken potion. The South i
not alone responsible ioT her condition. Tn,
: North has helped it on. Even while our oh
statesmen were as they supposed, dissolving tn
spell, New England, as the price for a navigation
c monopoly, Gonsented-ay, herself held the cup 70
h II dccIcr dru~Ught-and ever since, the Northern
o slaves nnd Northern huGksters have Wed in til
!, deer lullaby No we have no controversy witt
# the South but tho struggle is between frcsI
d Freedom, llnging off thc manaclos of barbarian
20 ism, both the old and the new, and lctid Force
= long driven from the Tiber and the Thames. CON
r. ing from its refuge in the dark Businesses Of til
IS Niger, to breathe its sitting breath upon the L,
n iomac and the Mississippi.
&Jusiicc smiled when that navigation act wa
destroyed, rs are those hucksters spurncd by I'll
unconsciously avcnging South.