Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-04

the right Of the slave is twofod, and
yet really but one 1t is question which respects
the rights of God in the first place, and the rights
of man in the second place. The great moral
arch cannot be invaded in one of it's parts without
marring and destroying the whole.
The early settlers of this country were heirs to
the great principles of liberty, civil and religious.
In the early history Of the colonies when met to-
gether n solemn assembly, they considered the
documents prepared by the great Westminster As,
semby, and declared that, with very few excep-
tons, they endorsed and adopted them /; and that
without any exception, they endorsed and adopted
the solemn League and Covenant of England,
Scotland and Ireland. Hence we fnd in their
Declaration of Independence, the great principle
stated at the outset that man derives his rights
frop, God, and we fnd the coonists when engaged
in their struggle for Independence, placing their
reliance upon the God of battles in the mainten-
ance OF their liberties. The character, however,
of this nation very early underwent change.
That people who had hurled down the gauntlet Of
defiance at the feet of the tyrants of the world
that people who had called upon their colored
brethren to aid them in their struggle for liberty,
with the promise that they should be sharcrs in
debtedness to God and their Indebtedness to those
who had shed their blood freely they had
shed theirs in defence of the liberties of the
try and only twelve years later, they changed
very materially their government, which had been
established in dependence upon God, and ascrib-
ing honor to His Lame. That was the age when
infdelity prevalent in France, and from
France had found it's way to this country, which
had been aided by France in achieving its liber-
tics. The nation had attained name and posi-
ton among the people of the earth they began
to dream of great and powerful government
that should gather in all the nations of the earth
and, in order that they might make platform on
which the Mahommedan, the Pagan, the Jew,
the stakeholder, and all, Of whatever character,
might stand, they entered into compact, they
framed an instrument from which not Only is the
name of God and the name of the Son of God
omitted, but the law of God was dshonored and
degraded from its high place as the supreme rule
of mans conduct, and another code substituted in
its place, which is in direct conflict with that eter
nal law of the Eternal Lawgiver. The rights o
God are respected and the rights of man guaran
teed in the Declaration of Independence lh,
rights Of man, and the rights of God, in the Con
stitution, are equally withheld. And hence, while
we are carrying on this battle, whlc we are wag
ing this upon the strong ghold of the enemy, il
becomes US to remember all the points of assault
and, in an especial manner, all the help upon
which we may properly expect to lean and
while we are calling upon man to rouse himself
and exert the faculties which God has given him
and to defend the privileges which God has guar.
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to the of His own prerogatlves and the res
cue of his own subjects.
The Word of God is sword. 1t is weapon
that has been mighty, through God, tc the pulling
down of the strong holds of sin and Satan, but
that weapon, like all the weapons of the Chris
tian's warfare, is mighty peculiarly through God
and as the apostle directs, should be used with all
prayer and supplication. The Word of God is a
power, but that power is only felt in all its poten-
cy when it is applied by the Spirit which indicted
the Scriptures and hence it becomes us, when
engaged in this conflict, to take up our arms in
Gods name, to fight the battles of the Lord while
we are fighting the battles of the people, and de-
pend upon Him who alone can give success and
effect to the cause in which we engaged.
That there was a revolution in the sentiments o
this nation, that that revolution manifested
and clearly displayed in that instrument which il
the bond of nations compact, is evident from
the fact that, from the adoption of that instrumcn
the course of the country has been material,
changed. Up to that day, slavery in many of tn
States was dying out from that day, slavery La
increased in strength, until it has become a powe
in the government, and by that power it has gon
forward with giant strd IS, aiming at and vigor
ously aspiring to universal supremacy in tn
land. In that Constitution, there Is compact be
tween the several States, by which they are NO
only bound together in general terms mutually t
aid and sustain each other, in which they not onl
, guarantee to each other certain rights and priv
Ileges, but compact in which there is q distinc
stipulation giving to the STAKEHOLDER political pow
er in proportion to the number of human being
q which be holds in bondage. In it there is gual
I anee given by every State of the Union that the
f will return to his servtude the flying fugftiv
4 from bondage that they will suppress domsstl
instructions that they will resist foreign invf
sions and that they will protect from domesti
4 violence those who stand With their feet upon tn
v necks of their bondmen. In this compact ther
there is, distinctly and manifesty, pledge of a
! the States in this great Union to hold the slave i
a bondage, so long as his master chooses to clair
y the guarantee given to him by that compact. L
i this compact, every officer of the government mus
n bind his soul in a solemn vow ere he can enter VI
i on his office to this compact, every foreigner mus
declare his allegiance before he can be admitted
v citizenship and to this compact, every natiy
a born citizen must lend his influence, and, throug
v his representative, gives his oath-bound pledg
/ ere he can enjoy the God-given right of the Gle
|; tive franchise thus securing to the Shareholder
not only the pledge of the States, not only Il
# pledge of the officers of government, Federal ar
State, but the pledge Of every citizen who choose
It TO avail himself of the rights of citizenship. ar
a take part in the formation of the laws und
which he is to live, and so every citizen is, by tn
IS iniquitous scheme, bound to the support OF u
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