Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-12
THE ROWING EDITOR"

We have just received a work with the above ii.
read more than the dedication" and the authors
Greed" both Of which are so original and SO alive
we cannot resist copying them.
DEDICATION.
To Captain John Brotcn, Senior, of KdnSaS:
To you, Old Hero. 1 dedicate this record of my
Talks with the slaves in the Southern States.
To you is due our homage for first showing how,
and how alone, the gigantic crime of our age and
nation can be effectually blotted out from our soil
forever. You have proven that the SLAYER has q
soul as ~cowardly as his own domestic %inst!tu'
tion )" you have shown how contemplate he is as
a foe before the rife of the earnest freeman. With
your sword Of the Lord and of Gideon you met him
face to face with q few ill.clad and i'll armed foot
men, you routed his we'll mounted and we'll armed
hosts.
| admire you for your dauntless bravery on the
field but more for your religious integrity of
character and resolute energy of anti slavery zeal.
Rife in hand, you put the brave young men Of
Kansas to shame truth in heart, you rendered in
significant the puerile programmes of anti. slavery
politicians.
You have no confidence in any man, plan or par
ty that ignores moral principle as the soul of its
action. You well know that an Organized Iniqui.
ty can never be destroyed by any programme OF
action which overlooks the fact that i. is a crime,
and is therefore to be eradicated without compro.
misc, commiseration or delay. This, also. is m =
belief. Hence do l doubt the ultimate efficacy Of
any political anti-slavery action which is founded
on Expedicncy-the morals of the counting room
and hence, also, ] do not hesitate to urge the
friends of the slave to incite Instructions, and
encourage, in the North, a spirit which shall ulti.
mate in civil and servile wars. / think it unfair
that the American bondman should have no gener.
erous Lafayette. What France was to us in our
hour Of trial, let the North be to the slave to.day
The expressions of which the men of '76 COM
planned through the muzzles Of their guns and
the points of their bayonets, were trifing-unwor
thy Of O moments discussion--as compared with
the cruel and innumerable wrongs which The ne
groes Of the South now endure. If the fathers
were justified in their rebellion, how much NOR,
, will the slaves be justifable in their instruction
You, Old Hero! believe that the slave should b,
aided and urged to Instruction, and hence do
lay this tribute at your feet.
You are unwilling to ignore the rights of thu
slave for any reason-any constitutional guaran
tees"-any plea of vested rights-any argument o
inferiority Of ace-any sophistry of Providcntia
overrulings, or pitiable appeals for party success
You are willing TO recognize the negro as a broth
err, however inferior in intellectual endo wmeuts
as having rights, which, to take away, or withhold
is q crime that should be punished without mere,
-Surely-promptly-by law, if we can do it
orer it, if more speedy by such action PEACEFUL.
if we can but ~fOrcibly and by bloodshed if W
must. So am |.
You went to Kansas, when the troubles brok
out there-not to settle" or 'speculate"-or iron
idle curiosity but for one stern. solitary purpos
to haze a shot at the South. So did /.
To you, therefore, my senior in years as in ser
vices to the slave, l dedicate this work.
JAMES REDPATH.
MAIDEN, Massachusetts.