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

DO needed. First we had to create in the minds
Of the people. the idea Of the equality Of the
black man and the white, and then, like the
lecturer l spoke Of having the idea, we
had te engender the sentiment, and bring their
feelings right, and it is only after the idea is re-
ceivod, and the sentiment formed that people be
gin to square their conduct with their feelings
The Whig party of fifteen years ago. stood where
the Republican party stands to-day. Then the
Liberty party Occupied, apparently, almost the
highest anti-slavery position. Now they as Re.
publicans, ready to send the fugitive slave
back to bondage, and to do as much as any others
to sustain slavery where it is How is it that
large mum 5ers of excellent men and women have
gone backward from anti-slavery, and settle down
to the position we find them in to-day2 Once they
were on an anti:slavery platform, and regarding
tho constitution Of The United States to be in favor
Of liberty, they entered politics; but soon they
were pledged TO the support of candidates for off
lce who did not regard the constitution as anti
slavery, and who pledged themselves and all who
sustained them, to slaveholding. l ask why this
ba kward step? 1t is because they were moved by
sentiment. not by principle, and therefore could
not be trusted. After that, no matter what heir
feelings, or how much they might labor against
some single feature of slavery, they were commit.
ted to the sin of sins the greatest iniquity man
can commit And no man is to be trusted who dis
regards and violates the great principles Of truth
and justice. Hence though the oldWhigs professed
opposition to slavery they proved faithless in their
action; though in lS48 the Free Soil party made
high preteusiOns to freedom, and many of our
friends Joined tbem l bad no faith in their pro.
fessions. / remember, l was taken to task for int
peaching the antslavery character oS Salmon P
Chase and others, in Ohio. But was determined
to know nothing but Christ and him cruciied in
the person of the Slave, by that party. Our
friends knew the Wing andDemocratic parties, were
crucifying him, but they did not know the Free
Soil party was engaged in the same wickedness; so
aimed my blows at that party, mainly. And now
we see where those who joined them in AS have
been led. Then the party was pledged against
the admission of new slave states, against the
inter state slave trade, against the return of fug.
two slaves, and promised much in opposition to
slavery. But they had no ant.slavery principle,
it was but sentiment, and produced no action.
Sentiment must ripen into principle, and it will
but it takes, not ten years, twenty-five years,
but generation for this consumation
When Francis jackson was asked how soon he
looked for emancipation to take place, he replied
i do not know, and will not attem pt to guess but
know what my duty is; must work to save nv
own soul. Bnt do not look for emancipation in
less that generation. We have been born and
reared in the poisoned atmosphere of slavery, we
have breathed it, and are corrupted, aud q new
generation must be born before the moral atmos
piers can be made pure enough to sustain a race
of real freemen. Look back, and you will see
that great change has never taken place in ma
ton in a short time; nobody is ready for the work.
Ministers and leaders of the people are not pre-
pared to teach the truth, the old teachers and lea.
ders must pass away and better class take their
place. then the work may be done.
In the beginning of our work. all circumstances
and influences were against All the feeling
and intellect of the nation we're enlisted on the
side of oppression. All the political parties were
arrayed against principles, and the church vas
under the same condemnation. So of ell the So
cial arrangements. Thus the work to be done ex-
ceeded all my xpectations-beggars all descrip-
tion and comprehension and l marvel, in view of
it, at the progress our cause has already made
Forty thousand professed ministers of the Gospel
baptising slavery in the name Of Christ, to say
nothing of the Professors of colleges and Thcolog-
ical seminarcs, the ten times forty thousand poll .
ticans, and the numbcrless, and almost rresist
BILE influences of social life, all Of which were
against es. We were but as one against ten thou.
sand; yet the legions of oppression feel our power
and ready to fee. 1t is to be expected always,
in such a conflict, that the enemy will make ter.
rible and furious defence. And in view of this .
violence many not understanding the matter, have
told us that slavery is growing stronger aud stron-
ger, its advocates worse and worse. Once, they
tell US, there was nobody to defend slavery. No
one defended it twenty-five years ago, as morally
right. Now. there are thousands who do So
True, thank God we have created the necessity
for this. We said ten years ago that the Whig
party tb, did more to sustain slavery than it did
twenty years ago-more in appearance, but not
more in fact. For its principles were the same
wenty years ago and from its corrupt principles
,ame its corrupt action. So of the Free Soil par
y. 1t cherished the same false and corrupt prin
ple at first, that the Republican party acts upon i
o-day. It agreed then, to sustain slavery. 1t ;,
lad at first the plague.spOt on it. aud now it is .
cen by all to be but q loathsome mass of =
orruption.
So also Of the churches, once here and thero a :,
Residing Elder Doctor of Divinity. a minister, h
'ere with US, and they said their general confer. +
ncO, or general assembly, or association would =
BON take gronnd against slavery. Some Of US did
OF believe it for they had no anti-slavery priuci-
le but others did, and are astonished and discour- il
gcd now, to find the church arrayed SO bitterly /,
opposition to freedom. o
A =
ter Mr. Pillsbury had been reading extracts from il
e speeches of Free Soi speakers. made teu years v
90 and comparing them with the speeches made il
Gently by the same men, Republican leaders, p
loving an apparent ,ing backward, j wonder
u do not shut up shop; why work yourselves to d
ath 10 no effect. Notwithstanding all your la. t.
RS Mr.. Pilsbury says we are growing worse g
ID worse; II we're you, would give up the B