Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-23
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and over every living thing that moveth upon the
Garth;
that right VIC hold
hy His donation ; but man over man
lie made not lord; such title to himself
Reserving, human lsf. from human free,
Slavery tyranuically assumes a power which
Heaven denied, willis under it's barbarous uecrom.
Ancy, borrowed from the source OF evil, u man is
changed into n chattel-O person is withered into
n ,hing-a soul is shrunk into merchandise. Say
Sir, in your madness, that you own the sun, the
stars, the moon but do not say that you own a
man, endowed with q soul that shull 1.-Two immor-
tai, when sun, Lnd m)ou, aud stars have passed
away.
Secondly Slavery paints itsolf again in its com
plete absogation of marriage, recognized as q sac
rament By the church, and recognized rs n con-
tract wherever civilization prevails. Under the
law Of Slavery no such sacramen is respected. and
no such contract can exist. Tho ties that may be
formed between slaves are all subject to the selfish
interests or more selfish lust of the master, whose
license knows no check. Natural affections which
have come together, are rudely torn ssundcr, nor
is this all. Stripped Of every defense. the chastity
Of a whole race is exposed to violence, while the
result is recorded in the ~tell-tale faces of children,
glowing with their masters lood, but doomed for
their mothers skin to slavery through all descend.
ing generations. The Senator from Missippi(Mr.
Brown, is CALLED by the comparison between slave
~ and polygamy, and winces. | hail this sensi
bl;ty as the sign Of virtue. Let him reflect, and
he wiki confess that there are many disgusting ele-
,nents in slavery which are not present in polyga.
nv, while the single disgusting elcmento Of 2olyg'
amy is moro than present in slavery. By the IL
eense Of p~Olygamy one man may have many wives,
all bound to him by the marriage tie, and in 9TH
err respects protected by law. BY the license OF
slavery, a whole race is delivered over to pr%ostitu-
ton and concubinage, without the protection Of
any law. Sir, is not slavery barbarousH
Thirdly Slavery paints itself again in lis com
plete abrogation Of the parental relation, which
God in bis benevolence has provided for the nur'
ture and education of the human family, and
which constitutes on essential part of civilization
itself. Aud yet, by the law of slavery-happi.
ly beginning 10 be modified in some places-this
relation is set at naugh:, and IN its place is sub
stituted the arbitrary control of the master, q
whose mere command little children, such as thu
Savior called unto him, though clasped by q moth
er's arms, may be swept under the hammer of tn
auctioneer. / do not dwell on this exhibition
Sir, is not slavery barbarous:
FourtUy, Slavery paints itselfasain in closin
the gates of knowledge, which are also the shiuin
gates of civilization. Under its plain, unequivocG
law, the bondman may, at the unrestrained wi
Of his master, be shut out from all instruction
while in many places, Incredible to relate, tn
law itself, by cumulative provisions, positi7el
lorhids that he shall be taught to read. OF cours
the slave cannot be allowed 20 read, for his sot
would then expand in large air. while he saw tn
glory Of the North Star, and also the helping trut
tina. God, who made iron. never made a slave, 70
he would then become familiar with the scrir
lures. with the Decalogue still speaking in tn
thunders of Sinai with that ancient text, "H
that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if be b
found in his hands he shall surely be put to death.
with that other text, Masters give unto your serv
ants that which is just and equal ; with tina
great story Of redemption, when the Lord raise
the slave-born Moses to deliver his chosen peopl
from the house Of bondage; and with that sublim
er story, where the Savior died a cruel death, tina
all men, without distinction Of race, might b
saved, leaving to mankind commandments which
even without his examples, make slavery impose
BILE. Thus, in order to fasten your manecles upo
The slave, you fasten other manacles upon b
soul. Sir, ia not slavery barbarous?
Filthy, Slavery paints itself again in the appr
p~riation of all the toll of its victims, excludir
them from that property in their own earnini
which the law Of nature allows and civilization 6
=, cures. The painful injustice Of this pretension
lost in it's mesnuess. Il is robbery and petty la
ceny under the gar6 Of law and even its mea
mesa is lost in the absurdity of its associate p,
tension that the African. thus ~despoiled of all h
earnings. is saved from poverty, and that for b
own good he must work for his master. and not t
himself. Alas by such n fallacy is a whole IA
pauperized. And yet this transaction is not wit
out illustrative example. A solemn poet, who
verse has found wide favor, pictures a creatu
who
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