Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-06

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We have proved il true, as was said by BENJAMIN
franklin, that "a nation may lose its liberty in n
day and be a century in finding it out" When
the people of this country consented to a
union with slaveholdeIs--when they consented to
strike out, at the bidding of South Carolina, from
the original draft of the declaration of indepen-
pendence, the clause c%ondemning the King of
Great Britain for bringing Africans into this land,
and booming them to slavery-at that moment
they sold their own liberties. If there was ever
any doubt of this, we can doubt it no longer, now
that the rights of the white man, as we'll as the
black, are so ruthlessly striker down.
do not mean to assert, at present, that the
constitution of the United States is not susceptible
of an anti slavery Interpretation. / believe If l
was a Supreme judge, and there was in the coun-
try a public sentiment that would sustain me in
it, l would find no difficulty in constituting that in.
strument in favor Of the freedom of all men. But
that is not now the question. You have decided
upon the character Of the constitution, and | must
accept your own Interpretation and with that
rendering, l repudiate the instrument, and the
government and the institutions, which it is made
to sustain. l will not stand connected with a gov
eminent that steals away the black mans liber.
ties, has corrupted our best political leaders,
by leading them to the support of the greatest
crimes, the vilest Of all institutions. Even Will.
liam II. Seward has lately declared, that this is to
be the white mans government. Ten years ago
he would have been thought incapable of such a
declaration; but such is the influence of slavery.
Hence the necessity of attacking the System now,
in a deadly warfare otherwise, our people will
be,-if they are not now,-wholly and hopelessly
lost.
Yes! we must do as John Brown did,-not ne
cessarily in the Uay he did it, but we must labor
with the sure determination to effect, in some way,
the complete overthrow Of slavery. l am not an
advocate for insuTrection l believe the world
must be educated into something better and higher
than this, before we can have perfect freedom,
either for the black man or the white. In the
present moral condition of the people, no true lib
erty can be established, either by fighting slavery
down, or by voting it down. Hence our object is
not to put anybody into Office, as q means of abol.
ishing slavery, or to keep anybody out. care not
for the success or defeat Of any party, so far ae the
interests OF freedom are concerned. The failure
or success of any of the present political parties
can neither injure nor aid US. Our business must
be to educate the people to the the high sentiment
that shall make them recognize the white man,
the black man, the red man,-dU men, to all the
rights of manhood. There is not to be, as your
noblest statesman seems to imagine.-a govern
ment for the White man alone: What merit is there
in your boasted liberty or the christianity you pro.
TESS to adopt, unless they recognize the brother.
hood Of all men, in all time ? Till we have pro-
;ected the rights of all, we have secured the lib
critics Of none, that government is no govern.
ment which fails to protect the freedom Of its
meanest subject. ] will put the rights of the
meanest slave againt the greatest government Of
the world, TO liberty is more than any institu.
ton, or any government.
But the idea that man is superior 20 Institutions
finds no favor in this country, The principles oil
justice are forgotten. The question is not what is
right; but, rather, show shall we accomplish our
selfish ends p" And oil parties make success q
~foregOue conclusion. Under no circumstance
must the government be endangered, to give the
black man his rights yet. let me tell you, my lib
erty is more to me, and more in fact, than all The
glory of your government. l have it from God
and you have no more right to compromise my
freedom for the sake of the success of your party
than you have to take my life. For what is my
life with to me, when you take away all tina
makes it worth the living?
As l said l am no advocate for revolution.
would only resort to it, after all other means hav,
failed. l believe in the right of self defence; i
was given US at the creation. ] believe it a duty
as we'll as a right, and no man has a right to be
come a slave Tor q single hour, il by defending
him self ha n q nrauppIi IL IL uOu am toIa oua
the freedom of one man, you strike at the liberty o
all. The same means required TO prepare the whit
man for e~nslaving the black, prepares the blacl
man to enslave the white; and the master and tn
slave are alike in chains. Man never fasteus
chain upon the limbs of o slave, but God. in hi
divine justice, fastens the other end around hi
own neck
So in this country we have four political parties
all talking of liberty, yet all in chains Stephel
A. Douglas said, yesterday, at Cleveland, that h
would stop this slavery agitation; he would pu
the slave question outside of Congress. They ha,
nothing to do with it, and be did not care whethe
slavery was voted up or voted down. He did no
NOW, when he thus sneered at liberty that be wa
imself a slave! So of W. Ii. Seward; when b.
AXIS of a government of white men, be may thinl
ne lie free, but he is not, and cannot be, An,
when Abraham Lincoln opposes the rights of tn
free colored people, even in his own state-wheI
he shuts them out from the courts of %justice, h
does not know shat he makes himself a slave
When you have made me a slave. 20 white man i
free. Strike down my liberty, if you will, Blu
when you do it, you can no longer enjoy you
Nwn.
Hence this struggle interests not one class alone
ut all classes of the people. While tue cOlOre
people are bowed down by slavery, they can al
,complish nothing great or noble nor can Yor
while you Cypress them. They are men ns 20
are, demoralized by slavery. Often they oppos
anti-slavery lecturers, just as you do. l find mt
ny of them in New York and New England oppoI
ing anti slavery. All classes are alike degraded
and if any thing is done for freedom, we mul
make this question of slavery, not a colored quel
ton, but a white question as we'll. Thus you Sc