Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-10
COURAGE.

The name Of Capt. john Brown Is, md must IN
coming time be held as Synonymous with courage
No other man in the world, perhaps, could have
equs,ed him in the moral bravery and dignity
which he has displayed from the beginning in bis
chef d'Guure Of his life. 1t has been truly sub
lime. But many there are who do not thus appre
ciete it. Southern men, Northern men, 2ro-sla'
very priests and democratic politicians, will see
no significance at all in the I~Iarper's Ferry occur.
renee, except that il is a stunning blow to aboli.
siouism, an ultimate quietus to agitation, and a
great strengthener to the institution Of slavery.
Such dough,faces we meet everywhere. Still, II
is no less the fact, that every heart that is a heart,
having any feeling for the slave, must have been
quickened in its impulses, and inspired with live.
lier hopes in regard to the coming day of Freedom.
Some may inquire how it is that we who believe
only in the use Of moral forces, should so exalt John
Brown 7 1t cannot be supposed that tits for the
blood he has shed-for the victory he has won az
snartial hero; for 10 this aspect of the case his
attempt proved an entire failure. No slave was
freed. and he who would have freed them has beer
strangled upon the gallows by the awful majesty
Of Virginia law. OF course it is not for this thai
70 rejoice. But there is a moral side to the mat
Ger which is Of more value to the slave than il The
blood Of thousands had been spilled in battle.
The moral significance Of Browns effort 10, thai
though he accom- plished nothing but his own de
strucion-that nothing has shaken the domain o.
slavery from centre to circumference; and now VIZ
behold the day-dawn of Freedom to the million'
in chains, whose hopes have been continually de
ferred. The American people are made TO SEE
ha,v eaaG I. ~ hoostad ,orar bofosa rrb;ob IN
lers and priests have bowed and truckled. Th'
boldness Of this one man, like the words writer
upon the wall, have filed this mighty Belshazza
with fear and trembling. and his knees now smit
together.
We can now perceive, that had our people no
boon a nation Of moral towards, slavery nigh
have been exterminated ere this not by blood,
violence. but by the force Of moral courage cour
age TO speak the truth, and courage to act consis,
emily with the truth. A few, with that kind Q
bravery, would have led all the rest. 1t may pei
haps be a safe calculation to say, that, had onl
one man in every thousand taken q bold true, an
active position against q corrupt and besotte
public sentiment, that public sentiment would no,
be on the side of Freedom.
Slavery can't look a true man in the face. Sc
Nlissourl, TOT example. one maze q DuIIy Oiuste
for q time in the Kansas struggle. But sine
Freedom has dared to look her squarely in tn
eye, she winces and retreats. Both STAKEHOLDER
aud slaves are now aware that this must soon b
a free State. So, many who have large inves
ments in human flesh are making the best dispc
sal of it they can; while some of that kind of proI
erty prefers to dispose of itself, aud go North il
stead Of South.
Now, let shat which is driving slavery frol
Missouri drive it from every other State. 1t wi
dc it. Only let us have men who have the cou
age to be- men. S.
ST.. Louis, Mo.
ANEW Observation-Disclosures Ferry personate