Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-13
Gbe Anti- 5Iourrp Buole.
FEEEDOM FOR ALL.

st.z --sf GIIEAD, 2nd mo-, Gath, 1858.
DEAR MAnrvs: thought l would pen few
thoughts for the readers Of the Buge, and perhaps
help to swell freedoms clarion notes, which thank
God and the angels of heaven, are already rising
and swelling in our land.
-s We are boasting OF liberty in a national view
and extending the hand Of invitation to the oppress
ed of all lands and all climes--exceptng poor
Africa--that our country is the ASYLUM of the op
pressed, of all the despotic governments Of the
world. Such is the boast of our free and repub,
licsn iustitutons, democracy. But is it even
90 fct those agonizng tears. thoee shrieks, cries
and bitter groaDs, which are continually ascend
ing from hill top and valley, from ocean and river,
from cotton field, rice swamp and cane brakes, or
sugar plantations Of the otberwise fair and sunny
south, bear witness to our DfJelity to the bright
and glowing principles Of genuine repubicanisn'
and true democracy. .--"
& What is republicanism, and what is democracy
Tits where the people govern themselves.iand each
individual is constituent part of the government
Then ours is not such. More than three millions
Of slaves have voice in governing themselves !;
but on the contrary, three htths of their number
swell the power Of the masters in oppos
stion to their own freedom, and the voice OF
the freedom loving citizens of the ~inry NORTH
How long, . Lord how long shall these things
continue.
Then the female portion Of community bsrc n"
voice, directly, in the halls Ut gi,laiiun but
stand outside. deprived of the elective franchise
though equally cuncerned with their fathers, huS
and 'bro,b,rs in the laws which control them ana
their property. The cuured people OF the Tree
sIales or mOstuf them, aud the poor Indian, where
ia he Murdered and driven from his home and
the graves OF his fathers. Oh hollow pretence -
Oh shame On America Buast aud pratc Of free
dunn abroad and practice Sidrery at home; inviting
the poor aud oppressed Of other nations, and max
ing poor and oppressed ones at home. All Amer
ica !,Amerca! thy fins ase many. And the cup tor
thy retribution is almost full the voice OF thy
children's blood is crying to the Lord from the
ground.
4. And the painting. toiiing fugitive, whose heart
throbs and beats high with the spirit aud fire ui
seveuty-six-freedDm or death, we hurl them back
again into bondage
81 Stretch forth thy hand. thou liberty'lovrg son
or daughter of America and help to stay that
mighty curse which hangs like dark and lowering
cloud. and threatens the extinction Of this repub-
lis' already is the furked liehtning's livid fire
streaming in the south western horizon, and awful
thunders rolling there; call thou upon the destroy
ing angel to stop the work of death and damnauon
Repent, repent. oh sc rulers repent in sack-cloth
and ashes, perad, enture We may be spared the i'm
pending ruin. Stretch forth your hands, oh ye
people, in the ability which is and will be given
you,to carry those blessed priucp of univer-
sal freedom. that nation may be in fact what 1t
professes. and. that the sun which is now rolling
in the heavens, and thuse bright stars which are
shining there may henceforth shine no more on
land of slaves. Let whips chains, letters thumb
screws and all other i'm plements for :orturing and
Furnishing the poor slaves, be melted and burned TO
cinders, by the all conquering power of heaveAly
love- And that song Of peace, sung by the angel
ie hosts Of heaven the advent of Jesus may it in
its all powerful grasp, and holy influence take the
red man of the forest and the war-like Christian
make them blend in love and harmony, and smoke
the pipe of peace. burying foyever the bloody inn
plements of deuth; and henceforth live in peace,
love and harmony with each other.
Let the voice of truth resound over hill and dale
mountain and glen, in steamboat and racar, for
the carrying out these republican principles, We
have but just emerged from the despotisms of the
old world; and just entered the Threshold of po-
litical and religious freedom. Strike, strike for
now is the favorable time now is the auspicious
day.snd advocate the rights of all classes of people,
Rememoer. o. remember the crude Indian Of the
forest, :hs brutazed and toing slaves, the color
ed people Of the free states, who are bound in
ehsins Of prejudice mOst grevious to be borne. Re-
member the oppressed females Of our own race.
Lst us take high, noble and exalted position