Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-26
WHOLE NO. 7O2.

! pOrtant tenchlngs Of the event were in what sue
ceeded. So profound was the alarm excited by
this feeble and i'll conceived rising the rext year
the Legislature Of Virginia became engaged in an
earnest discussion Of the steps proper to be taken 10
prevent lbo calamities in futute and tho party of
emancipation was defeated by q very tnshgrc ma.
jorty Who oan compute the atiouht Of influence
iu accot plishiug this defeat the bsvslHvery party
obtained, by referring to this pledge Of the power
Of the whole Union in their aid, in such emergen,
ces, and to tho fact that it had just been success.
fully employed And who can fail to perceive id
this, and similar facts, the evidence that the re.
sponsibiliy for the continuance Of slavery, the
guilt and the crimei rests upon the whole Of those
who support the government Ur who can doubt
that each onewil bo held responsible for the whole
of the sin, which cannot be divided in shares ae.
oordng to numbers nyoled2
Those who have aspirations for universal liberty
who feel that the present condition of American
Society is so degrading. so sinful, go prolific in
suffering and in wckedness, as to devolye upon
every the duty of laboring for its regeneration
may well pause ind consider carefully all phases
Of this question in this important crisis 1t s oh.
viously impossible for our social arrangements to
be continued much longer unchanged. Either
peaceful measures mus: be DEVISED to bring about
the emancipation OF the slaves or theft liberties
will be achieved through a bloody contest, such az
the world perhaps has never witnessed. Even
now the air is filed with omens Of the coming
strife, which the thoughtful may not permit to
pass unheeded. The bloody scenes which have
transpired in Kansas are but the prelude, the
few faint drops wh,h presage the coming dsluge.
Already has the an,slavery host forsaken its 20.
sition of defense and assumed the aggressive.
Old joan Brown of 0ssawottamie, mistaken
though he may be in the philosophy which guides
him, but glorious 10 the stern, faithful and cour
ageous devotion with which he perils his life for
what he esteems the right has stricken the first
blow by Anglo Saxon upon the slave soil.
The daring acts of marching upon Missouri, and
forcibly liberating number of slaves has touch.
ed sympathetic chord in the heart Of every chiy-
arous lover of freedom in America 1t has thrill.
ed alike the slave in his thraldom-gilding with
new lustre the altar Of hope which lures him on,
ward towards deadly struggle for freedom, and
the more enlightened lover Of liberty who feels
that its blessings must be for all others before
he can enjoy his own. 1t is idle. ii is criminaIv
negectful the Of the past and the portents
ofthe present to imagine the friends fireedom will
any longer be satisfied in occupying merely dc.
fensive position. With millions of enemies TO thu
existing order of things ready made to their hands
ardent and impulsive spirits already NAV bs
found, and their numbers must continually iui
crease by agitation, who will glory in emuatne
on the fields of the South, the heroism and chiy.
airy OF Lafayette, of Kosousko and others in the
last century. The work is more than half accom-,
pshed for them. With party having every,
Thing to lose, and the other everything to gain.
hey will Deed only to marshal and arm and dis,
,iple them, 60 lead their forces to certain victory
IS soon as they can entertain reasonable hone OF
assistance from the FREQ States. The hopes of the
Insurgents excited by knowledge that the sym,
oathies of large numbers at the North ore with
hem, with white intelligence to guide, and com.
,anonshp to encourage them, the next Southamn.
on instruction may chance to prove moro formida.
'le than its predecessor and lead to Consequences
'oyond the power ofhuman ken to predict. Calcu.
ating New England is the first to perceive that
We have arrived at the beginning of the end The
Igtators within her borders grow bolder in utter,
Ince as the popular mind advances to a higher
position. All America must soon be
be to perceive the opportunity is rapidly passing
way to do peacefully, that which cannot be done
10 successfully, or so we'll, by any other method.
For the people Of a few Of the free States no,o
o withdraw them from the confederaey, and rely
or their government upon their state sovereign.
les, until new compacts could be formed and new
Jnions be cemented, would be almost 10 ensure a
peaceful settlement of the question. No power inex.
stence dare attempt to Ohio into the support
{ slavery, by return to the confederacy, if with
noble repard fnr the bp m, r;obte on5 . 1;..:.
,eftting the character which her citizens ought to
md might sustain she should upon the principle
f refusing any longer to sustain slavery, withdraw
erself from this partnership of States. or this,
however, the popular indications are not at present
uspicous if we may take for their index the legis.
ative action. Both parties unite in protesting
salty to the constitution, and the slave holding and
lave catching laws made in accordance with it,
hey alledge as q reason for their action a hypo.
rtical reverence for the pact OF Union which
hey woll know, is not and never has been fulfill.
d in many of its provisions, by the parties 10 il.
rho demand their support of slavery, and that
therefore, it has neither moral nor political eff.
acy in binding us. they are really inHueno.
d by the hope of sharing in the power, and the
undred millions of dollars of annual patronage.
dispenses TO corrupt all its recipients. The
eading men Of both parties are by such means
nted in keeping the people in their present
wicked aud degrading position. If they shall
ucceed in keeping Ohio bound to do the slave
wnsrs bidding until TOO late to effect peaceful
Emancipation, wO to the doceiving leaders and
70 to the deuded people "AA
Another form of antislavery effort, soliciting
our adoption. is the attempt to make slave hold.
,g. as distinguished from slaveowniug. disci.
linary offence in oil the churches. The sugees.
on may be though. premature where 90 mapy of
le churches in the flee states are not prepared
discipline their members for the latter sin. Ia
little wonder that go small progress has bssn
ads enthusiastically. in cleansing the psighbors
ye, by those who have SO huge beam in their