Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-29

rants oi tue plhntAuOn entitled 10 an eincient III
gatiye slave bill; who is opposed to negro suffrage
who would not allow colured man to cit upor
jures, or testify in courts against white man
thus endorsing the worst feature of the Drcd Sect
decision. And this is political consisteucy-th
best thing the highest political party has to offer
in this year Of grace 1860,
History informs US thai while Rome was on
sheet Of liquid fame Nero fldled. So, when thc
rights of humanity are sacrificed, that hungry
politicians may be fed at public expense, what il
more natural than that those who win the loave!
and fishes should hold grand saturuulia over tht
success that emptea the Augeian stables Of thi
government Of its quadrenial occupants, and in
yite another horde, equally voracioue, to sa;ia,t
their iaPacity at the same crib, always remember
ing to forget those who have fallen among thieves
and like the prieet and leyite pass by on the othei
side.
Not such was the logic cf the hero whose mai
tyrdom we this day commemorate. He started
with different premises and worked cut the prob
lem Of human slavery and mems responsibility
by far different rule. The difference between
John Brown and the politician is this; the former
believed in truth justice, and humanity. The lat
ty John Brown had faith in God aud the eternal
right; the politician believes in Chicago platforms
and party ma Orities, he can conceive of nothing
better. John Brown saw and felt the fearful out
RACES slavery commits upon lis brother man, and
he heard the voice of the Eternal truly as did
Moses in Egypt, saying, deliver these my people
out of the hands of the spoler." True to the voice
within, he prepared to obey its mandate. He had
faith IN GOD, and believed it safe to do right
No wonder the American Church, ever trucking
to miserable e4pedieney, openly and unblushing-
ly advocating the atheistc idea that it is ustifabe
to practice litto evil, if, thereby, we may hope
to accomplish great amount of good,-no won
der that such Organization thought John Brown
insane. So soo the politician, who knows no God
but the triumph of his party, will be very likely
to denounee the liberalor of slaves as fanatic anG
a traitor, worthy the gallows Bot it is sad com
mentGry on the wisdom OF a nation, that she hangs
her most patriotic citizen lit is mournful evidence
of the depraVity of church when she gibbets her
truest follower of Christi
But, John Brown was guilty of trea SON. and
suffered the righteous penalty of his Fanaticsm
and crime" Thus says the politician hungering
for place and power. "Ju't y Hung!P says Senato.
Seward, when he makes bis bid for the Presidency! I!
Was that the honest conviction of the great states
mans heart? No sane mind believes it, No,
Governor Seward, tho gttering bauble of the
Presidency, so turned thy head and added thy
brain, that to satisfy an unholy ambition thou
showed thyself willing to consign to infamy the
memory Of just end noble man. In charity,
friends, let believe it was the weakness Of DC or
human nature, and pass the !raity by, while we
with gladness the many noble senii-
ments MIR. Seward has uttered in behalf Of free
dom and universal justice. And that his
last chance for a nomination to presidential hon
ors has gone by we may hope for still higher enun
Citations of the great principles Of liberty and pro-
gress from him who should be champion of hu-
man rights the world over
John Brown q traitor! why, the very corner stone
of this republic was laid in treason. Washington,
Jefferson Henry, Sam. Adams Oils, Hancock,
and all the worthless Of the American Revolution
were traitors, else we were to-day colony of Great
Britain. If the Hero Of Harper's Ferry deserved
bis fate, then is our government a seiteridem lie,
and we have no business to be electing Presidents,
and Members of Congress,and Sheriffs and Judges,
aud carrying on all the machinery Of a free gov.
ernment. Why, what is the Fundamental idea of
Republicansm? The right of selEgovernment isn't
it The right of every man to say what laws
and Institutions he will be governed by, and
how they shall oe administered. George the third
assumed the prerosative of institutug laws for
the thirteen colonies west of the Atlantic. Our
fathers buried him ia the dust and reared mon
ument of enduring granite over the grave of the
discarded principle, that there might be no resur.
rection of the idea that one man can frame laws
for another, so long as the gray shaft on Bunkers
Hill shall point its finger to the sky.
| said the right of revolution was the fundamen-
tai idea Of this government. King George asked
a duty on stamped paper, and sent his emssares
to New England to collect the tax. The Yankees
sent them home without the money, but gave them
advice. Then said the King, 'I'll tax
your tea" The Bosonians made tea for the ma
tion in Boston harbor-a whole cargo at time
but the mother country got no duty thereon. The
King grew sury and pronounced such behavior
Bristling bayonets and leaden bull
lets, were the only argument he received in reply.
Things began to assume o serious aspect, and the
United Colonies sen: their pfofoundest Statesmen
md sngest counselors to Philadelphia, to consider
what should be done. After mature deliberation
hey put forth this manifesto in vndcation Of
heir course. "We hold these truths to bo self .
vident, that all men are created equal that they
re endowed by their Creator with certain inalien-
bile rights among which are life, liberty, and the
ursut of happiness. That 10 secure these riqhts
governments are Instituted among men, deriving
heir just powsrs from the consent of Ire gorerasH
What consent, would ask has the slave ever
igen to the government that plumbers him of ere
y TigH, even the right to his wife and children ?
Whenever any government becomes destructive Of
lese ends, ii is the right of the people to alter or
Jo'ish it, and to institute government, lay L
lg its foundations such principles, and organ
ing its powers in such form, as to them shall G
'em most likely to effect their safety and happ- S