Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-03
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ave but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor This even-handcd justice
Commcnds the ingredients Of our poisoned chalics
To our own lips"
HCaptain Brown intended. as YOU say, to com.
nis treason, robbery, aud murder. l think l have
shown that he could End ample authority for such
proceedings in the public declarations Of Gov.
Wise. And II, as he himself declares, he merely
intended to free the oppressed, where could he
read q more forcible lesson than is furnished by
the State Seal Of Virginia 7 l looked at it thought
fully before l opened your letter and though it
had always appeared to me very suggestive, it
never seemed to ne so much SO as it now did in
conn ectiou with Captain John Brown. A liberty
loving hero stands with his foo. upon a PROSTATE
dsspot; under his strong arm. manacles and chains
lie broken and the motto is "Sic Semper Tyyan-
ms" Thus be it eve, done to Tyrants." And
this 10 the blazon of a State whose most profitable
eesseess is the internal Slave-T-ade In whose
highways coolies of human ~chattles, chained and
nanscled, are frequently seen ! Aad tho Seal
and the Coolies are both looked upon ty other chat
ties, constantly exposed to the same fate What
II some Vesey. or Nat Turner, should be growing
up among those apparently quie, spectators? 1t
10 in no spirit Of taunt or Of exultation, that |
ask this question. l never think Of il but with
anxiety, sadness, and sympathy. l know that a
slaveholding community necessarily lives in the
midst OF gunpowder and, in this age, sparks of
free thought are flying in every direction. You
oansot quench tho fires Of free thought and bu-
man sympathy BY any process ofcunning or force;
lot there is q method BY which you can eAectual-
y wet the gunpowder. England has already
trsed it, with safety and success. Would that
you could be persuaded to set aside the preiudices
OF education. and candidly'examine tho working
OF that experiment Virginia is so richly cndow-
Cd ey nat1cs that Free Institutions alone are want
ing to render her the most prosperous and power
ful Of the States.
In your letter, you suggest that such a scheme
- Captain Browns is the natural result of the
with which l sympathize. Even if |
thought this to be a correct statement. tbopob
| should deeply regret it, 1 could not draw the
conclusion that humanity ought 10 be stiAed. and
truth struck dumb, for fear that long-successfui
d~espotism might be endangered by their utterance.
But the TACT Isl you mistake the source of that
o9tsreak- No abolition arguments or de-
nunciations, however earnestly. loudly, or harshly
proclaimed, would have produced that result. III
was the Legitimate consequence of the continual
mud constantly increasing Impressions of che
The Slave States, in their desper-
ate efforts to sustain a bad and dangerous %institu-
ton, have encroached more and more upon the
Of the Free States. Our inherent love of
law and order, and cur superstitious attachment
"a the Union, you have mistaken for cowardice
and rarely have you let slip any opportunity to
add insult to aggression.
The manifested opposition to Slavery began
with the lectures and pamphlets of a few disin-
teressed men and women, who based their move
ments upon purely moral and religious grounds;
but their expostulation were me, with a storm of
rage, with tar and feathers, brickbats, demolished
h-sssssalssA other spp,isssioos Of Lynch law
whsns ths dust Of the conflict began to yubsids
%splitils, shsif numbers were found 70 be greatly
iDerssssd byths e9orss 70 extAfmina.e them. Fhey
had become an influence in tie State too impor-
tant to be overlooked by shrewd calculators. Po-
itical economists began to look at the subject from
a1ower point of view. They used their abilities
to demonstrate that Slavery was a wastefui system,
and that the Free States we're taxed, to an enor-
NOUS exteut, to sustain an institution which, at
heart. two-shirds of them abhorred. The forty
millions, or more, of dollars, expended in hunt
ing Fugitive Slaves in Florida. under the name Of
the Seminole War, were adlu,el as one item in
proof, to which many more were added. AT las.
politicians were compelled to take some action on
the subject. 1t soon became known to all the
people that the Slave States had always managed
20 hold in their hands the political power of the
Union, and that while they constituted only one
third OF the white population of these States, they
held more than two-thirds of all the lucrative, and
once honorable Offices; an i~ndignity to which
meme but a su5jugated people had ever before
Submitted. The knowledge also became generally
difused, that while the Southern States opned
their Democracy at home, and voted for them,
they also systematically JriJed the nominally
Democratic party at the North, with the Offices
a1roitly kept at their disposal.
Through these, and other nstrumeptalities the
sentiments Of the original Garrisonian Abolition
ISIS became very widely extended in forms more
or less diluted. But by far the most efficient CO.
laborers we have ever had have been the Slave
States themselves. By denying Us the sacred
Right of Petition, they reused the free spirit of
the North, as is never could have been reused by
the loud trumpet of Garrison. or the soul-anima.
ting bugle of Phillips. They bought our great
slave, Daniel, and, according to their established
usage. paid him no wages for his labor. By mis-
cooperation, they forced the Fugitive Slave Law
upon us, in violation Of all our humaae instincts
and all our principles of justice. And what did
they procure for the AbOlitiOnists by tina: iespotic
process?
A deeper and wider detes!atiou of Slavery
throughout the Free States, and the publication
OF Uncle Toms Cabin, an eloquent outburst of
moral indignation, whose echoes wakened the
world to look upon their shame.
BY fllibustering and fraud, they dismsmbered
M.x'co. and having thus obtained The soil ofTexas,
they tried to introduce it as a Slave State into the
Union. Failing to effect their purpose by consti-
tuiional means, they accomplished it By a most