Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-10
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

Jones, who was sent out as a lccturing agent by
y your Committee and labor In such parts of Ohio as
! circumstances seemed to indicate. They spent the
3 most of their time in Culum biana, Harrison and
$ Belmont Counties, the latter leaving the last Of
February to take charge of the Bugle, and the for
mer continuing his work until sometime in April.
During a portion Of the time they we're assisted
by John Holmes Of Harrison County, wLo did
good service in advertising and making arrange
ments for meetings, and collecting funds.
In this connection it would DO well to express
our appreciation of the services of volunteer lee
turers, quite a number of whom have been engaged
for a longer or n shorter time, generally in their
own noighborhoods. If many more could Go this
kind Of work-and many are capaLle-it would
greatly change The rome atmosphere by creating
a higher standard of moral duty, and affect to no
small extent the general cause of human rights.
For the last two or three months, Marius r.
ROBINSON, having become q lecturing agent Of the
American Society, has been holding meetings on
the Western Reserve which have been well attend
ed, and we're generally satisfactory.
If your ommitt were required to name the
converts whom these several agents have made
during the last year if they were asked to point
W 0Su euut urn tHehT ITluUlpuhi progress,
they could not do it. The warfare in which we are
engaged does not mark its achievements by the
number of it's converts, nor its successes by deeds
OF which history takes note. Labor is the fulfill
ment OF its mission waiting is O triumph of which
it boasts. 1t takes the world rs it is, and on the
stony soil, and by the ~wayside, and on land Ger.
run with luxuriant weeds, it drops tie indestruct-
IDLE seeds of eternal truth, knowing that though a
Paul may plant and an Apollos water, it is God
alone that giyeth the increase. While we know
that our principles have made progress, and that
the little leaven of anti-slavery is gradually leov
ening the entire sentiment of community, yet, if
we had done no more than maintain our own post
no more than firmly and consistently stood by
our own principles, we should have done much
For in a community where the advocates of true
anti-slavery are in a very small minority,
where church and state are alike prosiavery
to the core, where social and commercial in
fuenccs are enlisted on the siie of wrong,
and the very literature of the country is subsil-
lied in the support Of sin, it requires 70 small
amount Of frmness, no little Of the spirit of mar
tyrdom to maintain in its integrity the Christian
doctrine of equal brotherhood. And if we have
done this much, we have done we'll.
1t is not to ecclesiastical organizations, or to po-
litical parties that the slave is to look for redemp-
ton. Churches that recognize man-stealers as the
true opponents Of Christianity political parties
that regard despots as the fit conservators of bu-
man rights will never break the chain Of the op-
pressed. Whenever its links are sundered, when
man shall he clothed with his manhood, and his
rights as a human being, it will be through the
agency of such principles as we have adopted
No matter whether they are manifested in the
storm, the fire or the sword, whether they write
themselves out in human blood or gently disin-
feet by their silent influence the putrescent body
polite, supplanting despotism with democracy, and
vice with virtue, the agency will be the same.
1t will be a success of the principle that oil men,
everywhere. have q right to be free-that no con-
siderations, religious, political, social or commercial
will justify Us in compromising the rights of one
human being. Thus will the slave be redeemed.
Hence we cherish these principles, we advocate
them through good and through evil report, and
account ourselves most fortunate to endure re-
proach for so righteous a cause.
While the church ought to be foremost in the
advocacy of freedom, and if it were the church of
Christ would be, the people with common consent
turn away from il, and seek a higher standard Of
moral excellence in corrupt political parties than
they find in sectarian organizations thus ore they
brought into the absurd position of regulating
men politically whom they fellowship ecclesiastic-
ally. And when We consider how very Vow is this
political standard, we are able to appreciate the de-
plorable darkness and crime that the church en-
braces.
W. n horI1r avNont NOVA 6 no1;kt,o1 49,
than we realize. Their siarting-point is a COM
promise of principle. Though one party may con-
graduate itself upon being in advance of the 9TH
er, that fact in itself is small cause for rejoicing,
when the entire government is corrupt. The
germ of compromise planted in the Constitution is
developing itself, and giving assurances that it
will continue to flourish in rank luxuriance, until
in the course of nature it brings forth its full crop
of bitter fruit.
The Constitution framed by The Democrats of
Oregon excludes the colored man from the territory
of the State while the Constitution framed by the
Republicans of Kansas deny him the elective fran
chize, and lay him under disabilities greater than
chose our fathers resisted wish the sword. We do
neither party injustice in affirming that in these
two incidents, may be seen how inappreciably
rmul . IL duOuut U rtVeTcuC3 IN elIler lot tue
doctrine Of mans equality, ard how utterly disre-
gardless of human rights when such rights stand
in the way of party success. To expect from eth
err party voluntary legislation to protec. from ar
rest the fugitive slave who seeks freedom upon
the soil of a so-called free state, is to expect far
more than will be granted nor need we look in
any State for an efficient personal liberty bill, un-
i'll the State authorities are first prepared to pro-
tect their own citizens against the aggressicns of
the slave power.
The utter humiliation which Ohio has expert
encei within the past year, shows how strong are
the bonds that unite her to the South-how hone.
less is redress while the Union endures. Had the
abolitionists themselves manufactured a case by
which to demonstrate the power of slavery over
this State and the citizens Thereof, they would have
presented just such n case as is to be found in that