Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-27

drea0iul cross OF slavery, wOuld you give h-E
You have read in Millions Paradise Lost Of the
horrors and woes Of perdition you know some
thing Of these descriptions, and can conceive OF,
something which might be suffered there; but I,
know not whether there be mother in this audi.
ence. who would purchase residence in Heaven,
or deliverance from He'll, at such a price a.
that. -.r g. ,e;ifb
All the agony, aud all the suffering, and oil the
loss and ruin, desolation and woe, that must be-
your daughters in such condition all that wac
the condition of every daughter among Gil the en-
shaved multitude through successive generations. 81
Now, if you can suppose that you would Be
hardly willing to purchase crown in Heaven
that should never fade at such price, you will be-
prepared to conceive somewhat what was the cons
dition OF those eight hundred thousand tefore the
1st Of August 1854.
Somebody has called slavery the sum Of all
vanies;' but, then, that does not amount to
much. We are so accustomed to viliany and vio<
lence, that they have become household words
commonplace talk. Common viliany and common
crminalityl Why, they are the commoness
things we have among US! Indeed, they have be-,
come go common that it is uncommon villiany thst
exctes any kind Of emotion in our bosom. Some-
body said it took uncommon liars to tell uncom;
mon les Common liars are the every day poput,
lation of the country and world. The sweet singH
er of Israel said one time, I said in my haste, all
men are lars If he had lived in our day, he
would no. have been in any haste about it (augb-
teri Slavery is the sum OF all tillany; that ID to
say, there is no crime in the calender Of orimes
which Slavery does not commit! There is no wos
Al .oI ~ fnft
There is no degradation possible into which Slave
ry does not plunge its every victim There is NO
crime, no curse. no woe, there is no agony or ana
guish, which Slavery does not constantly perpetu-
ate No, there is woe, weeping no wailing
no gnashng of teeth, no blasphemy, no cursings
no shreking, mo damnaton In the deeps OF deg
pair, in the caverns of hell, which Slavery does
not sublimate and pour in uncommon wrath upon
the heads of its devoted sufferers. But then 80
said there is no language to describe slavery. COM
there IL none to describe the condition
of those eight hundred thousand, whose deliver
ence from such doom we come here to commem-
crate. Now then, think that the deliverance Of
one such sufferer would be cause for nations
gratitude. If the angels rejoice over one sinner
that -epents, what Joy and rejoicing ought not TO
thrill our souls at the restoration of millions from
such fate! And At the deliverance of the eight
hundred thousand, have no doubt but that new
anthem was made composed in Heaven, and that
a grand angelic Oratorio made all the arches ring
throughout the galleries Of the golden city-of the
new Jerusalem. While on the other hand, as We
walk along the streets. men ask, What is this lst
of August about2 Ia the Almanac there are re-
markable days put down on the calender page. but
there is no remarkable event put down agains. the
let of August. Why is it? I have my answer
why. If those persons were living men. it would
not be thus but, being dead themselves, they did
not hear the angel voice that reused those hun
dreds of thousands from their sumbers in slsvery.
The trumpet was loud enough to call those milli-
ons to resurrection life, but it not loud
enough to wake up the priesthood, and. conse-
quently, it did not the people. What doee
this 1st Of August meanf Mr.. Chairman, il ar.
CUES state of darkness and oblviousness perfect
ly appalling We shall never be able TO celebrate
properly this day, because we have never tasted
ourselves the sacrament of savery--never been
baptised in it's bloody baptism. One nightI
dreamed was a slave. think could not have
lived long, for when moved. was in the deep.
est agony; and from that time, though had been
an abotionist, in the common acceptance Of the
term, renewed my covenant will! them. My 6rss
thought then was this: What is the condition Of
the millions in our country, whose dreams OF sla-
very knows no waking whose nightmare slum-
I'd n it's awful woe, is only relieved when the
friendly hand Of death snatches the spirit shrivsl-
led, from the shrunken body, and bears it away 10
the bosom of God.
We will rejoice to-day that the redemption has
come, and that though ,he government is one Of
soyereigns and not of presidents in our estimation
is despotic still 1t is freer far than is the govern
ment of our own country. So much freer that
our fugitves from bondage are glad to take refuge
beneath the paw of the British Lon,' rather than
be torn in pieces by the bloody beak and terrible
talons of the American Eagle
Not only is great Britain fresr than our country.
but even Austria. who has recently been visited
with all the terrible woes of bloody butchery. and
whose successes have heen failures, in answer "
the prayers of Christendom. I.t
In 1924, by an imperial decree, the governmsnt
of Austria. proclaimed liberty to every csptiss
who should set foot on Austrian soil. or on
deck of an Austrian vessel. Ii has stood ever
since in a sublimer position than does the Com.
monwealth at the present hour. Though they
were entreated last year to enact q law thar
should make the soil Of Massachusetts, a.
free as the soil of Austria, your legis-
lature did not dare to do it. And though
at this moment they are crowding to Plymouth, 70
lay the cornerstone Of monument, and to-mor-
row will witness gathering there from tbs
North and South East and West. to lay i.s foun-
dation,t the topstone Of which they would fain make
one Of the fixed stars yet that rock at Pymopth
s no such hallowed ground as the dreariest dsssrs
under Austrian despo.ism to the painting fugitive
from American bondage. And We will rejoice that
Freedom has a resting plaos--that there 10 city
of refuge. and an asylum for the oppressed. We
send our fugitivss in triumph to Canada. We
boast Of our underground railroad. have ofssp
said, and believeit that 10 the coming tine, ~