Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-24

ehha "tNh phNh VhhhphN o1N
ofusiis have they used this power as not only 10
ravis6 and murder a. their pleasure through this
whole period, but to adjust the laws of the State,
with devilish ingenuity, to the accomplishment OF
. perfect legal %impuoity for these crimes, rhen
committed by their party In Virginia, law per-
mits, aud custom sanctions, the r~avishing Of any
black woman by any white man. II that woman
lifts her hand in self-defence, the rnvisher, By
Virginia law, may kill her on the spot If the
black brother, or father, or husband Of that wo-
man shall lit his hand in her defence, tho ravish.
or. by Virginia law, may kill him on the spot. II
the ravisher be a member (or a minister) Of the
same Baptist, or Methodist, or Episcopal, or
Presbyterian Church Of which hii victim lie a mem
Dor, she is equally powcrless there; for The Church
rSflses 10 hear he complaints against him. If DR..
Pomroy had been a Southern member, instead Of
aNor,hern officer, Of the American Board of Com
missioners for Foreign Missions, no hush money
could have been cxtorted from him; the stories Of
any number of black women whom he outraged
might have been told on the house-tcp without af-
feeling either his purse, or his credit or bis cleric
oil serenity. lie himself might have asked them,
with that portly dignity which las the Rev. John
Wadding.on of Southwark, London, remarked ct
the late annual meeting Of the Board in Philadel-
phia) so pel represented the Board in his late Wis.
IL to Eug)and-he himself might have asked, Have
y5u any white witnesses 4? OF course he would
previously have taken care that there should be
no white Witnesses And whatever white man in
Virginia does take such care can commit either
rape or murder upon any black person with impu-
nifty. under the Virginia laws! And it the muir
I.r. = losa froouant than tho rapes in TINT State
IL 10 because the perpetrators Of these crimes have
tse arseuals, the weapons, the civil and military
power, the courts, and the Churches, all in their
own hands. and a long experience Of the useless
nose Of resisting has taught the sufferers to Sob
init without resistance.
Such has been the wretched condition Of oi
black Southern brethren" with these barbarious
freebooters ..let loose" upon them, for the last
hslf-century. Edward Everett knew it, but rails.
"a not q feger for their relief. Matters were grow
ing worse and worse. Even some Of our North
ern brethren, passing through, or temporarily re-
siding in, that region Of violence, were insulted,
assaulted, l%ynohed, for merely a verbal expression
of sympathy with the sufferers. Still, Edward
Everett sat quietly in hisluzurious Northern home
making not the slightest movement towards the
EcuCluptiOu VI 10 ehe :PubAN NNe~
What then happened
John Brown did the thing that Edward Everett
merely promised to do! John Brown buckled on
his kna psack and sbouldered his musket and,
with such help as he could raise, went to the re-
lief of his Southern brethren. The force which he
carried was insufficient, either to accom- plish their
relief or to cope with the numbers and power OF
the fresbooters. They overpowered John Brown,
hacked him with sabres after he had yielded, in
suited him with the pretence Of a legal trial, un-
der an indictment which would not have stood for
. moment in any Northern court may, would not
have stood for a moment in any Southern court if
brought in tho interests Of q black man against a
white one), and, finally, deliberately killed him.
And then (matchless impudence DEdward Everett
stands up in Faneuil Hall in Boston-the place
which was formerly called the Cradle of Liber-
:y"-and denounces John Brown as having pur
posed to introduce into Virginia that reign Of ter,
ror and outrage which he wen, there to remove!
John Brown has been murdered But Virgin
10 cannot sleep 10 peace, cannot distand her mill
tary force, canno, keep her body corporate from
~shivering and shaking, cannot even resume her
customary occupation Of s!avebreeding, until his
brave associates, the men who went with him to
do wba. Edward Everett merely promised to do.
are also murdered. Copeland and Green. Cooke
and Coppock must 5e killed next Friday! And
when llazlet and Stephens shall have had their
pretence of q trial. and shall have been killed in
their turn, when that ''order" which formerly
reigned in Warsaw shall have been re.established
in Virginia. and when the monopoly Of r~avishing
and numbering shall again have been secured 20
our White brethren in the South, tben-perhaps
Virginia thinks--she may sleep and wake, domin-
eer, and bluster, rob, murder and ravish, in peace.
She deceive herself The time is forever pas.
when slavehol ling, slave-breeding and slave trad
ing csn be carried on in peace! The blood Of
John Brown cries from the ground, to US as well
- 10 God. This cry is not Tor revenge upon the
wrong doers-Brown always disclaimed this and
akwsyssvoided 1t, though the lying lips Of slave
holders and their apologists have sought to black
on him BY this. as we'll as by other slanders-bu.
fOe the prevention Of further wrong-doing. This
cry which appeals to God and to US, and which
will soon be d~eepened by the slaughter Of Cope
land and Green, Of Cook and Coppic, urges a
mors active, more uuremitting, moro energetically
aggressive resistance to the Slave Power than even
scehaye ever yet prnrtised. Be it the care of each
one of us. by day and by night, by speech and
action, by our individual power and our social in
dausncs, to do. even unto the uttermost, all tina,
can Sc done for the perfect freedom and welfare
sol even the least of those despised and oppressed
dittle ones, to whom Jesus points us as his repre-.
sentstives; Of whom he assures ne, that services
done to them shall be accepted as unto him.
Anti Slavery Standard.
CONGRESSIONAL EXPLANATION.
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