Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-24


This question Of Anti-Slavery is as broad as the
land and strikes for the liberty Of every
man, woman and child. Shall they have it's q
question for the North to answer. l have a friend
in the South who, in his letters to me says, 'When
you write to me don't, for heavens sake, say a
word about Slavery. Don't send ne any Of Sena-
tor Stewards liberty speeches. Don't send me the
with letters and speeches from Chase and
GiGdings. Do permit Garrison's Liberator and
Phillips speeches to remain in Boston till | come
back. American Slavery denies to my friend the
right Of free thought, the righ. Ct free speech in
the State of Tennessee and in the city of Nash
vile.
A few years since there was Issued a call for a
Rights Convention. In making the or
for this meeting the question arose as
to where the convention should be held. The
city of Washington was proposed by some as the
most suitable place for holding a convention Of
that character. Lucy Stone remarked that she
was opposed to going to that city because the right
of free speech would be denied her in the city Of
Washington. This speech Of Lucy Stone reveals
the fact that women cannot go to the capital Of
"the land of the free aud the home Of the brave"
and give free utterance to opinions ufon the sub
ject of Women's Rights. American Slavery says,
you cannot 90 it, and there it is. Remember | am
now only speaking Of white people, not Of colored.
Why does not Garrison 20 South and preach his
gospel of anti-slavery theref He certainly has
the constitutional right to do so. Why does not
our friend Henry G. " right and Parker Pillsbury
go there and utter their free thoughts as freely as
they do tJ-day2 1t is because American Slavery
has said--you cannot come-if you do, you come
at the expense Of your lives and liberties. But
Democrats tell us this is all a farce-a false notion
and idea of the character of the people Of the
Southern section of our union. Say they, Doug
las, Pierce and Buchanan go south. and they are
rot molested but arc protected by Southern insti-
tutions. But what is it these men say? Why
just what slavery says they shall say. Buchanan
is only doing what Pierce and Douglas have done
before him-speaking and acting only as the South
dictates. But when these men shall plant them
selves upon the constitution and demand freedom
for the poor white man Of the South, they Will be
told, "you cannot remain here and preach such
doctrines-you must leave u.s., and they will be
obliged to obey.
IT'S not long since your best Northern Senator
was stricken down upon the Senate floor for dar-
ing to give utterance to his own thoughts and
He fell only as American liberty fell in
before the despotism Of American Slavery
Taking a higher position. | demand q release from
for the white people of the North and
South and shall never cease to demand it till /
cease to breathe.
l shall next call your atten ton to a third class
is most deeply interested in this subject of
and that class is the slaves themselves.
You oil understand how he is oppressed, how
be is tortured-how be has nothing he can
call his own. He can do nothing, say no
thing for himself. The slave raises his arm and
says this is my hand-this is my head, this is my
brain and my soul, and the omnipotent God of
heaven is my God. 1t is then that the stakeholder
laughs him to scorn. With the slave, this is all a
figure of speecb-it means nothing when applied
to him. He is oil his master's-body, brain, mus
cies, soul-everything is held as the property o.
another is bought and sold as merchandise ir
the market, heart and brain and soul given in ex
change for gold. Is not this class of all Others
most deeply interested in the overthrow of Amer
lean Slavery? May their signs which come to III
on every southern breeze find o response in ouI
breasts and create a determination on our par
to work more earnestly for their release and fol
the destruction of that system that alike ,rample'
their rights as well as that of the white man, t.
the ground.
The fourth and last class to which l wish to re
fer you as interested in this great question, is thu
free colored people of the North. Their condition
in the State of Ohio l shall use an illustration o
their condition throughout all the free States o
the Union. A deep proslavery sentiment agains
them ~pervades the whole country. You see thu
workings of this sentiment in the Church, in thu
theatre, in the schools and colleges, and even in til,
grayeyards. When a colored man goes to you
church he is invited to take the back pew Even in
time of r~evivals, when he feels as though he woult
draw nigh to God and worship at his throne-whei
you profess to have the love Of God shed abroad
in your hearts, you say to him, Take the bacl
seats you cannot come up with US you must wal
10 be served 60 up or off somewhere where Coz
will hear you after a WHILE"
In the city of New York when that great relig
ious revival was going on q few months ago, a col
ored man and his wife went into the church on
evening and took seats in the body Of the chu-cl
TO listen to the prayers that were offered up at th
throne of Grace. Presently a man came along an
tapping them on the shoulder said, 81 wish t
speak to you you will find seats for colored pee
pile up there in the gallery. Go up there and pres
emily some one will come round and pray for you.
They went, but after remaining there for some tim
and no one coming, they concluded to seek relig
ion at some other place. and left tho church. Thi
simple fact shows how we are treated. Go wber
you will, this prejudice is the same, You find
cropping out in the legislature Ct the State Of Ohio
you see it in the laws recently enacted. You wi
find it in the law which says to the colored moi
"You cannot become an inmate of the poos-house
/ although you are taxed to build and support it,
You see it in the law by which colored men are e,
cluded from sitting as jurors-by which unjust &C
no colored man is ever tried by a jury Of his peer,
You have a law which denies to colored childre
the advantages of your schools. But how is
when you come to tax him. Do you refuse to ia
his property Not SO. The colored people g