Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-08

But be sure you do die, nevertheless. Do you
work, and finish il If you know how to begin
you will know when to end.
These men, in teaching us how to die, have a
the same time taught US how to live. Ifthis man.
acts and words do not create revival, it will bt
the severest possible satire on the acts and words
that do. 1tis tho best news that America ha,
ever heard. 1t has already quickened the feeble
pulse OF the North and infused more aud more
generous blood ia her veins and heart, than any
political prosperity could. How many a man whl
was lately contemplating suicide has now some
thing to live for
One writer says that Browns peculiar monoma-
MIA made him to be dreaded by the Missouriuns
as supernatural being" Sure enough hero
in ,he midst OF US towards is always 80 dreaded.
He is just that thing lie shows himself superior
to nature. lie has spark of divinity in him.
"Unless above himself he doth erect himself
How poor a thing is mal :"
Newspaper editors argue also that it is n proof
of his insanity that he thought he was appointed
to do this work which he did-that he did not sus
pect himself for homent! They talk as if /;
were impossible that man could be divinsly ap-
pointed" in these days to do any work whatever;
as if vows and religion were out of date as con-
neced with any mans daily work, as if the agent
to abolish Slavery could only be somebody appoin-
ted by the President, or by some political party.
They talk as if mans death were failure and
his continued life, be i. Of whatever character,
were a success
When l reflect to what cause this man devo-
ted himself, and how religiOusly, and then reflect
to what cause his judges and oil who condemn
him so angry and duently devote themselves,
see that they as far apart as the heavens and
earth are asunder.
The amount of it ia, our 'Fcdding men" are
harmless kind Of folk, and they know 1cei enough
that they were not diVnely appointed, but elected
by the votes of their party.
Who is it whose safety requires that Captain
Brown be hung2 Is it Indispensable to any Nor
thern man Is there no resource but to cast these
men also to the Minotaur? If you do not wish it,
say 80 distinctly. While these things are beng
done, beauty stands veiled and music is a screech-
ing lie. Think of him--of his rare qualities !
such man as it takes ages to make, and Hges to
understand; no mock hero, nor the representative
Of any party. A man such the may not
rise upon again in this benightei land To whose
making went the costliest material, the finest ada
mant; sent to be the redeemer of those in captvi-
ty; and the only use to which yor can put him is
to hang him at the end of rope You who pre-
tend to care for Christ crucifed, consider what
you are about to 60 to him who offered himself to
be the savior Of four millions Of men.
Any man knows when he is justified, and all the
wits in the world cannot enlghten him on that
point. The murderer always knows that he is
Justly punished; but when government takes the
life of a man without the consent of his con-.
science, it is an audacious government and is tax
ing a step towards its own dissolution. Is it not
possible that an individual may be right and
government wrong? Are laws to be enforced
simply because they were made or declared by
my number Of men to be good, if they are not
good Is there any necessity ioF mans being
| tool to perform deed of which his better nature
lisapproves? Is it the intention of lawmakers
hat good men shall be hung ever? Are judges
% interpret the law according to the letter, and
lOt the spirit2 What right have yoa to enter into
compact with yourself that you trU do thus or
10, against the light within you? Is it for sou
o make up your mind--to form any resolution
not accept the convictions that are
orced upon you, and which ever pass your un-
lersanding l do not believe in lawyers, in that
node of attacking defending man, because
,ou descend to meet the judge on his own ground,
md, r cases of the highest importance it is of no
whether q man breaks human law
r not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases. Bus-
less meu may arrange that among themselves. If
hey were the interpreters of the everlasting laws
ghich rightfully bind man, that would be another
hing A counterfeiting law-factory, standing
alf in slave land and half in free What
ind Of laws for free men you expect from
hatH
l am here to plead his cause with you. 1 plead
ot for his life, but for his character-hs immor-
a life; and go it becomes your cause wholly, and
not his in the least SoWe eighteen hundred
ears ago Christ was crucifed; this morning, per-
hance, Captain Brown was hung. These are the
wo ends of a chain which is not without its links.
Ie is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel
( light.
/ see now that it was necessary that the bravest
nd humanest man in all the country should be
ung. Perhaps he saw it himself. l almost fear
lat may yet hear of his deliVerance, doubling
prolonged life, if any life, can do as much good
his death.
Misguided" "GarrulOus |" 'Insane :" Vim
ctvew So ye write in your easy chairs, and
lus he wounded responds from the floor Of the
rmory, clear as clOudless sky, true as the voice
nature is "No man sent me here; it was my I
Hn prompting and that OF my Maker. acknowl- Z
lge no master in human FORM" a
And in what sweet and noble strain he pro- a
A. IA bo nd
| think. my friends, you are guilty Of grea, il
rong against God and humanity, and it would be d
srfeetly right for any to interfere with you C
far as to free those you wilfully and wickedly i
olA in bondage" IL
And referring to his movements ."It is, in my c
,inion, the creates, service Il can render TO {
oJ."