Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-17
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galy and liberty doing nothing at oil exactly ac-
cordng to law. We have seen the Missouri run
ians break into the United States artnoty 10 tho
State of Missouri, take possession OF tho
United States arms. carry them 70 hatisas
and bathe them in the blood OF honest
men, and the United States government has yet TO
utter its first word of criticism. Sworn testimony
spread out on the pages Of Congressional tutuI
ment shows it; and yet the go7erntieht IS SILENT.
JohnBrown takes possession OF the United states
armory in Virginia and never touches gun nor
dollar. The world says he is madman. guilty
Of treason, and the United States government 10
about to try him that is, to try him i'd tie per-
son Of his confederate. They ought to have tried
him at Grst, bit you recolbct in The wofds oi the
Dred Scott decision, the United States sovsrhifisnt
has no rights which Virginia is bound to RESPECT.
The consequence is that Virginia, after trying tho
men, has left the United States goverrreht to try
the question. Now, John Brown takes ttiefs t*d
principles. lie says by the whole rule Of ethics
in civil society that jusiifes it. Justice is but
sham in the government; l)ok up at the United
States government, and / see that it has ruie
that suits its party purposes. not justice. IL 10
not permanent, it is not impartial, it is not dnt-
ycrsal Well such man as our friend Brown
who, at least, recognizes justice as moro than law.
and right as his polar star, determines that he Will
do what 10 him lice to establish Justice. Men say Z
that the result is not worth the sacrifice. Weib
now, suppose l could carry you back to Boston
streets on The evening aferBunkerliill 6ght. will
carry you intoIutchinson's house;l will carry you
into the par,ors Of any Of the old colonial fami-
lies. You will hear them saying, What pity.
Warren's dead; Hancock and Adams have fed
there is n warrant out against ihem those delu;
ded soldiers, Mayhem, and Warren, and Sam Ad-
oms how can these men answer 1t to the xid-
ows and child.en wta, fools, few fathers to
fling themselves against the embattled phaldh* OF
the British government Well it looked SO 10
men who were accustomed to look up to Engand;
doubtless the tories strengthened themselves; and
many patriot heart sank. But 1t was the pe-
ginning of the end. Was Warren's life worth
siyirgt Whet did he establish? He established
the example of resistance lie bade the colonies
! try their strength lie showed them that blood
was equal to blood and that right was right the
world over. Luther faced the Princes Of Ger
monv. and he went home and the Princes Hid
him, and the Catholics said, there is y6ut btasS
man that dare not show himself in the streets;
} what boaster he is-a ruined man. The worid
ALWAYS attacks US on the eve OF one OF those os.
feats which is victory. But this lie Browns po'
sition Dr. Claiming said in one OF his last es'
says,' we have glued our swords to our sides ; We
have pledged the physical force of theStae against
the black man. aud in favor of oppression; We arc
all the more bound by every Christian and hs-
name consideration to let no opportunity slip fof
giving our moral Influence in behalf of the slave.
That is tho way i, lay in Channing's mind We
have given the sword to tho white man now give
our tongues to the black John Brown reasoned
differently he Calvinist of the old stamp.
The faith is said to be at some discount now; but
sitter John Brown | think we may pardon dof-
ed New York O6SerrerS He said for sixty years
we have given the sword to the white man, tho
time has come to give it to the black. What right
had we to give it to oppression? You say 1t 10
the governments; you say it is the law; you say
there is parchment oath hid back there in 1877.
Well he said to himself, l wonder if, when 90
up to God, when, according to Hndoo phrase@
Alone vast thou born, alone sbalE thou die, ana
alone shalt taou 60 up to Judgment when GOO
asks me what did you do for ihose that ore I'd
bonds, when l ordered you to have heart rs
bound with them, can l hide myself under the
cobweb Constitution Of 1887? And he safc 10
himself, 10, it that hour when shall stand alone
before the Judgment seat eternal, as an American
with the guilt of two generations Of forgetiulHess
on my heart will carry up tho gratitude Of the
black race in my right hand. If my fathers sin
ned by promising to support the tyfant in his
tyranny, will not put off repentance to my chill.
dren. but will give the best have. my life and
my right hand, for the service of those whom my
fathers forgot. In 1887 Massachusetts said, 'Lst
me go home and make money; let me 60 homo
and fill my harbors with commerce let me hear
the noise Of the shuttle let me see luxuricusness
climb up the sides of my hills, and l swear to
forget the bond men aye, in the Language of one
of the sons that is to be born to me, will be
ready to buckle on my knapsack to put down the
slave nsurrection if it should occur.'" And for
sixty years she has stood with her foot on the
heart of tho black man. When tho slave IN his
Carolina hovel was calculating his chances OF sst
care, he brought into the scale against his hopSs
the marshalled ranks of the white men that he
was to pass through before he was to reach the for
egh soil. Ile saw ts standing pledged to put
him down. No protest thal We could otter could
reach him. Our white faces under the Cons,itu-
ton of 1887 were conclusive demonstrations
against US that he had nothing to hope from Us.
John Brown has taught him at Harper's Ferry,
that there is hope for Kim amid the millions Of the
North. lie has sent the glean Of hopeful sun
into the novels of Carolina he has taught the
heart Of the bondman to leap up and thank God
for the Mayaower.
II he has not taught the slave insurrectibh, and
do not think he has he has sent him this mss-
sage "There Sre friends for you working
abide your time and help u.s." think therefore.
he has taught us great lesson. lie has exempli-
fed great moral he has taught US to pierce
down to the essence Of things. One Of these ss-
sences is this Can you look at that old man, on
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