Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-08

OF France ; you can name no Sne who was 90 des-
pissed as the nsme Of Jesus al that time. To such
IN extent were the prosecutions carried against
the Christians Of that day. that the gardens Of the
tyrunt Nero were literally lighted up with the
burning bodies Of their victims. Spaces were
wanted for crosses, so numerous we're they who
were put to death in that manner. Well might
the apostle exolaim, 1--WE are made q spectacle to
the world, to angels, aud to men,. 1--WE are be-
come the slth and oascoaring Of all things to those
Of thus day." So jealous were they in their per-
s~ecutions. that it was decreed that oil who named
the name of Christ should suffer dea.h-becausc
Christ had come with a new idea and a new faith.
And then in the midst Of all that wrath and rage
with the crosses on every hand on which were sus-
pended the bleeding victims, with the gardens all
lighted up and the midnight dark ness d~ispel!ed
by the boiling, broiliug bodies Of the follow ers Of
Jesus, their shrieks and agonies on every hand
in the midst of sucA a scenery as this did the
brave old apostle write II determined to know
nothing among you but Christ and him crucifed."
Now our priests 20 into their pulpi:s and BIAS
phemo that holy text by taking it upon their uu-
holy lips. They blaspheme the holy position Of
the truly christian ministry.
During the French Revolution, a large number
of children we're lost from their home s, and their
fate was never known. But it was reported that
one of the Mobiles Of Paris had dried up oil the
proper avenues to life by his long continued and
ceaselcss debaucheries, and that at last his phys
icians had recommended warm baths in childrens'
blood Then, when children were lost from their
mothers and their homes, it was probably known
what had become of them, and their fated end.
But such a fate, though horrible beyond descrip-
ton, is far better than to be born to drink the bit.
ter cup Of American Slavery, and to be sacrificed
upon it's bloody and unholy altar. But there are
mothers among US who have MT this choice and
we have come up here to-day to see what we can
do about it.
is this, then, a proper time for festivity and So
cial entertainment If we ielt for those in bonds
as bound with them, how different would our
feelings be to-day. We should then consider that
it is my child and your child Kidnapped in the city
of Now York, that il was our brother who perish-
ed by starvation on board the Neptune on his way
from Carolina. On my way to this meeting, l pas
sd over the place where the late accident occur
red upon the rail road, by which twenty individu-
ais lost their lives outright and a large number of
others were seriously injured. Twas an awful
placc-s horrid spectacle. But what is this com.
pared to tho destruction of human life by the
system OF American slavery. When Captain
Graham brough. off Costa from the government OF
the house Of Hapsburg, our government honored
him and men shouted his praises, and the press
heralded his fame from one end Of the land to the
other. But what is the feeling towards the cap
tain Of the Neptuue' No one honors him, nc
one asks anything about it all are in hopes he
knew nothing about the slave secreting himself
on hoard his vessel. The reason is. we do not feel
for those in bonds as bound with them. We are
not in earnest in our efforts to liberate the slave.
Our Anti.Slavery is a fine flowing drapery with
rich and glowing colors to become fashionable. II
was remarked by a speaker at our meeting las,
evening that we must make our movement more
popular. Such men do not understand our move
ment. But 1 will close by saying. we have a
whole temple of idols to demolish before slavery
will be abolished. No other band of idolators has
N ore to sacrifice than the Abolitionisss. You may
not live to see the day, but you may remember
that on this day some one said that the martyr ag,
would be literally returned upon US ere the shack
les were stricken from the slave and, be stands Il!
a free man.