Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-05-14
From the Anglo-African Magazine.
OUR GREATEST WANT.
BY FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS.

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al lire-f the thought b. good, the receivers ar,
benefited, and helped onward to the truer life
if it is not, the reception of the idea 10 detri
ment. few earnest thinkers and workers in
fuse into the mind of Great Britain, n sentiment
of human brotherhood. The hue and cry of oppo.
stion is raised against it, AvQrce and cupidity
oppose it, but the great heart of the people throbs
for it. healthy public opinion dashes and sur,
gos against tho British throne, the idea gains
ground aud progresses till hundreds of thousands
OF men, women and children arise, redeemed from
bondage, and freed from chains. and the nation
gains moral po@et by the act. Visions of domin.
ion, proud dreams of conquest ill the soul of Ma
poleon Bonaparte and he inruses them into the
mind of France, and the peace of Europe is in
vaded. His bloodSained armies da2zled and mis-,
led, fcllow " him throtgh carnage and blood, to
shake earth's proudeSt kingdoms to their baso and
march of true progression is stayed by a river
of blood. In America, where public opinion ex-
erts such sway, leading is success The poli'
tcian who chooses for his candidate rot tha best
man but the most available ono--The money get
ter who virtually says let me make mCney, though
coin it from blood and extract it from tears
The minister, who stoops from his high position to
the slave power, and in word all who barter prin.
ciple for expcdency, the true and right for the
available and convenient are worshipcrs at the
shrine of success. And we, or at least some of
us, upon VII ,se facutieo tie rust OF CENTURIES has
lain, are beginning to awake and worship at the
same altar, and bow to the idols. The idea, if |
understand it Alright, that is Intervening itself
with our thoughts is that the greatest need of our
people at present is money, and that money is
symbol Of power, the possession Of it will gain
for us the rights which power and prejudice now
deny US. And it may be true that the richer We
the nearer we are to social and political equal
i:y but somehow, and may not fully compre
hend the idea, )it does not seem to me that money
as little as we possess of it, is greatest want
Neither do think that the possession of intel
gence and talent is our greatest want. If l mn
derstand our greatest wants Alright they strike
deeper than any want that gold or knowledge ccr
supply. We want more soul, higher cultiva ior
of all our spiritual faculties. We need more use
frness, earncstness and integrity Our creates
need is not gold or silver, talent or genius, bu
true men and true women. We have millions o
our race in the prison house of slavery, but have
we yet single Moses in freedom. Andnf we had
who among us would be led by him?
like the character of Moses, lie is the FRS
disunionist we read Of in the Jewish Scriptures
The magnifcence of Pharoh's throne loomed uI
before his vision, its oriental splendors gttered
before his eyes but he turned from them all and
chose rather t1 suffer with the enslaved, than re-
joice with the free. lie would have no UNION with
the slave power Of Egypt. When we have race
of men whom tliis blood stained government cam
not tempt or alttor, who would sernly refuse eve
ry Office in the nations gift, from president down
to q tide.waiter, untl she shook her hands from
copplicity in the guilt of cradle plundering and
man stealing then for us the foundations of an
historic character will have been laid. We need
men and women whose hearts are the homes OF q
high and lofty enthusiasm, and noble devotion
70 the cause Of emancipation, who are ready and