Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-19

purpose, and will receive the plaudit Of every
manly and generous heart.
The braggart buffoon who appropriately holds
the Governors chair ia the slave-breedng State
of Virginia. said, in bis Richmond speech, that
Brown made great mistake in supposing that the
slaves 'oshed to escape and thereupon he pro-
ceeded to offer a reward Of $1,000 for the appre-
hension of one of Browns associates who had es-
capped, to send multitudes of armed men securing
the mountains in pursuit of him, and to urge the
importance Of the organization of military through
out the State and the exercise of great vigilance
against sinilar movements hereafter !! u
AT the North, if person should come sseal,hi-
ly from abroad to whisper 20 our working men
that they could find better wages and pleasant
er situation elsewhere, and they should reject has
proposition saying that they Dere perfectly satisfied
here. we should not think it necessary to offer a
thousand dollars for his head or to proceed to the
organization of additional bodies of military, or to
recommend great vigilance to guard against the
repetition of such suggestions
Sapient Wise ! The cause of the Shareholders
is so desperate, that neither truth nor moderately
probable lies will answer its necessities. But will
it help the matter for the Governor Of the Ancient
Dominion to tell lies so preposterously absurd
that their falseness is stamped upor their face ?
1t appears that John Browns motive and pur-
pose were the highest and the nobest. What is
to be said of his method
Brown is regarded by those who knew him best
as person Of great prudence, caution and good
judgment, as we'll as great boldness. These quail
tiles do not appear in the transactions at Harper's
Ferry. lie effected there not only no good com
mensurste with :be greatness Of the preparations,
but no good whatever. The negroes who were
associated with him were either killed, or fell into
the hands of their oppressors. How many
he had helped to secure escape before, how ma
ny he had reasonable hope Of delivering. if his
plan of operations had succeeded, we have no
means Of judging, because we do not know what
that plan was. 1t is cOnjecturcd that some acci-
dent or some treachery brought on this outbreak
before his plans were matured, even so far as to
be intelligi5ly made known by his failure. We
are, therefore, unable to say precisely ho,c far he
was imprudent in this undertaking. One feature,
however, of his method of operations appears too
plainly TO be mistaken, namely, the collection of
large quantities Of arms, and the expectation, in
emergencies more or less probable, of bloody
conflict. The American Anti-Slavery Society, and
its organ the Ant- Sauery Standard, and its ally,
the Lfberator. have always earnestly endeavored
to dssuade the slaves and their helpers from this
method Of indicating their rights. All bloody
and violent methods of opposition to slavery have
been uniformly discouraged by the Abolitionsts.
in general, on the ground Of policy, prudence, and
probabilities of success, and, by those of thei.
number who are non-resistants, on the ground Of
- i'll. t. h;aA e. I,o.l al.
ons most heartily and fully concur.
First, as to the lower ground. that of prudence
and good judgment it absurd to fight when
the party in question s SO small or so i'll provided
that it will certainly'lose what it fights for. The
slaves of this country (though their cause for
lighting is as good, and ten times more urgent,
than that of our Revolutionary fathers) are des-
tltute of money. arms, stores, leaders, knowledge
of various indispensable kinds, and opportunities
of concert and combination. that no individual in
surrectionary movement offers the slightest prob
ability of success, even to those engaged in it,
while the condition of the slaves around them is
rendered far worse by their movement, whether
Tor themselves it be a success or failure. The
sons Of Zeruiah are yet too hard for them" The
one single advantage which insurrectionary move
ments contribute towards the grand object of the
overthrow of savery-namely, the renewed dem
onstrations which they give Of the insecurity Of
tyrants, making every shareholders life succcs-
sion of alarms, suspicious and panic terrors-is
not sufficient to coun:erbalance their many evils.
think that no intelligent friend Of the slave, even
if he be fighting man, can advise them TO fight,
with the expectation that they will thus retain
their lives and regain their liberty.
But there is higher and nobler ground than
this, which urges yet more forcibly to the same
conclusion. As the Anti-Slavery movement is a
great religious enterprise, seeking Christian
end by Christian means-as it proposes in no case
to render evil for evil, but always to seek to over
come evil with good-so it's advocates desire and
counsel that the slaves use only Christian means
by which to work out their deliverance. The
word Christian has been SO misused and perverted
by pro-slavery clergy, that when Abolitionists
use it in this connection, it is necessary to explain
and de6ue l therefore premise that repudate
with indignation the idea that Christianity re-
qures any human being patiently to acquesce in
enslavement. Thelbcrty with which Christ makes
free includes no such stupidity as the duty of
consenting to be chained, and beaten, and treated
as beast of burden. The glorious liberty of the
children of God authorises its possesssor to cas-,
off Legree's or Netherlands chain not less than
Sa:an's chain. Every slave, Christian or not, has
a right. In virtue of his human body and soul. to
declare his freedom. and 10 take his freedom. Blu.
this right does not include extend to, the kill
ing of his tyrant. were he as bad as Netherland
hmself and the Christian system expressly for
bids US to use such means, even for good an
end. According to that system, evil is to be over
come toiM good never with corresponding evil.
Wound for wound, stripe for stripe. life for life.
are provisions belonging to the barbarious and OBJ
solete Jewish system the Christian code says
Render not evil for evil. And this l hold to be
the true. the just and the obligatory law. holding
Jurisdiction alike over slave and freeman.
Judging, feeling obliged by my allegiance to
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