Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-02
WHOLE NO. 701.

j. than IN his day. America rs the heir OF all the
ages every battle Of Freedom that has shaken tho
earth. every gain 10 knowledge, comforts, policy
has drfted treasure across the ocean to her but
the experience Of nation in The use ey ~ opporft.
, mites saecanaot inherit that, she hiust learn for
herself Her character is her oAh 10 make OF lose;
and never was there such task set for people as
to shape o true civilization out of our circum'
stances. Invention is both privilege and obli1a-
tion and only in accepting AMI using both is this
great problem to DO solved J11
Whenever man fulflls this obligation and tries
with all his might to become noble being as his
opportunities increase, then Is realized the Law OF
success. Seeking first the kingdom Of God, and
his righteousness, all these things added unto
him.. All inventions, save drudgery, relieve man
Troh the slavery to material things and give hin,
leisure to cultivate his higher nature. Thus,
modern machinery will finally abolish slavery and
ignorant labor. To manage Hrst-class kitchen 10
Beyond the power of Kathleen or Minna, fresh
from the other side they must become educated
women or first claso employ yment is closed against
ihem Sleepy old Jonathan or Knickerbocker,
with his pipe in his mouth, cannot sit on moving
machine; man must be wide awake to keep oas
of the way of its sharp wheels. or to follt% horse
rake planter. or a threshcr. Whoever HASN'T
brains must "stitch stitch, stitch" and leave her
brighter cousin to use the sewing machine. A
fool can DO priest in Italy; but minister in a
Free Protestant Church must be much Of man to
hold the people. 81 do all these inventions abolt
ish drudgery, and demand culture for their use
and in day, successful farmer and his wife
will science in their dairy or their delds5
than most Of our labor-despisng, dilettante young
people carry about at the end of the college or
academical course. Drudgery and the class Of
drudges must gradually disappear, and what has
been regarded menal work will become q fl en-
ployment for the most accomplished people, 90
Thus good deal of time will be saved from the
lower side Of life that may be used on the higher
work Of building q character in the image Of God.
And true man Will use his leisure for that pur-
pose He will recognize in his inventive faculty
the key to let him out Of the dungeon of material
dependence; and when he is in the free air and
light, he will put forth all the sublime and lovely
attributes Of his being. Think of the opportunity
enjoyed by young woman for the best culture to.
day in town, compared with that of her grand.
mother out in she country fifty years ago. The
grandmother had no time for cultivation to cook,
wash, bake and sew for self, husband and children
was the life of slave; travelling was SLOW popu'
lation scattered nature had her under her feet.
If she had become cultivated and noble, it was her
own great merit toing against difficulties. The
grand daughter can have her work chiefly done BY
machinery the water. pipe is in the WALL the light
flashes at the touch of her finger, the furnace and
the range warm her and cook her dinner, the sev.
ing has ceased to be nightmare books, lectures,
schools cultivated society, and time enough to
all are at her hand she can do just what she has
the patience to achieve, and DO what she will
What world of drudgery is saved to this genera
ton; what centuries of time have been res
cued from material uses. that eternity is becom,
ing our Inheritance And he who has this, and
will employ it Alright, may become such man as
will eclipse the heroism Of the past; q sovereign
with "all things under his feet man to whom
we say, in tho glotioas words of Paul: "All
things are yours, whether the world. or life, or
death, things present, or things to come all are
yours" Yes this world can even now be used 60
we'll it may become the ante.court OF Heaven, aud
amid our common opportunities We can realize the
experience of that immortal life which is only the
ascending growth of the soul through wider
spheres of knowledge and power, and beauty aud
love. trr. ma
But now suppose man, instead Of doing this. does
the contrary; accepts The pririiege and repudiates
the obligation Of this condition Of human cir'-
cumstances. lie does not regard every invention
as new opportunity which demands new efforts
after manliness but clutches it fresh occasion
for selfish indulgence. The wonderful improve,
ments in modern labor and commerce he prizes
chiefly as q nitro expeditions mode Of making
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only an excuse for luxurious living. The facility
Of communication but enlarges bis ambition for
wide reputation. lie abuses the freedom of relig.
ous worship by refusing tS couutenance the ins.ii
tutions Of Christianity or porverts the church of
Christ 20 movable platform Of personal advahcsi
ment. Our invaluable privilege of universal male
suffrage he insults by the refusal to vote, or its
prostitution to corrupt partisan ends A free
press means to him tho liberty to food the land
with Donscnse or scandal and dilute his intellect BY
satura,ion in the thin Cruel Of popular literature
And Republicansm in America is to him but d
corceit Of selfish liberty to neglect the cause Of s
fellow man, and push his own whim to its utmost
bound. Can there be any question what will bs
the consequences of such a criminal abandonment
of the new obligations Of an American citizen D.
Ia any sober man so near q fool as to dream that
he can use this splendid array Of opportunities in
the new world for selfish ends and come out safely,
Are we go far goue in national conceit as to he.
lieye that God leves his children in these United
States 90 much better than the rest Of mankind;
that be will permit US to ignore this eternal law,
that phosorer doth not improre his 0pporlaaitiss
shall lose them or find them his cmsef Let tho
ministers Of religion, spite Of the rage Of the dem.
sgogues who live on the dsgeheracy of tho State
reiterate the lesson that il man does not grow in
character in America as he gains in privileges.
his new inventions. will not save him; nay. will
become his special tormentors; and from the abase
Of the very freedom Of which be boasts. will oon0
his moro fearful destruction. 4.sa a..ts
For see how these new iuvsntoue tasa sgaiuss