Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-02

left to the pastor. 1t is true, they sometimes
quote, THUS saith the Lord" but 1t matters little
to them whether it is the Lord Of Sinai or the cell
ebrated DR.. Lord. The latter is just about as
good authority as tho former, with them. ZAP
plause.)
Quite unlike these is another class who are ma!
king the age bright with incessant activity. The
arts and the sciences, manufactures and COM
merce, literature. law, aud divinity, attest their
mental vigor, and the scope Of their powers. But
talk about the unity Of the race the doctrine is as
fabulous. III their eyes, hs the mythology Of the
ancients. Talk about that chain of human broth
erhOod that circles this wofld of ours, binding all
to each and each to all, linking the interest of the
most ~degtaded with that Of the most exalted, and
they regard you as one demented.
1t is thus, through culpable indifference,
through on avowed approval from fancied self-in.
terest, a servile acquiescence, and a want of uns
derstanding Of human brotherhood, that slavery
curses our nation at the present time, and the dos.
pots OF the Old World rejoice in the practical fail.
ure of democracy in the New
felt like saying this much in relation to the
fundamental principles upon which our movement
is based, and the apathy and interested motives
that retard its Advancement. On the present oc-
casion l did not purpo se to make any appeal on
behalf Of the sla yes in the southern portion Of this
confederacy. The few words 1 have to utter, in
continuation will be addressed to the slaves of the
North.
will not ask you, ladies and gentlemen, to
adopt our platform. You may not have faith in
it. You may not be prepared for the sacrifices il
involves. And yet l believe that our cardinal
doctrines are never proclaimed but they reach
that portion Of every human heart which God
keeps sacred to himself: If they be not needed,
the consequence are inevitable.
/ will not ask you to come up to that lower
plane, and make issue with the incidents of the
system. l will not ask you to enter, in any way,
into the wrongs of four millions Of American bond
men. They have been robbed, but l will not ask
you 80 bring to judgment the robber. They
have been beaten, and bruised, and trampled in
the dust; they have been herded together like
swine, marriage taken away, domestic ties scofed
at, learning forbid len; all The injustice and oppres-
sion that can be Inflicted upon a subject people
has been inflicted upon them, but I will not ask
you to take vengeance upon the perpetrators of
these crimes. j will not ask you to rescue from
the auCtion-block young and beautiful women,
who are to be dragged away where the dark cloud
of evil passions spends itself in fearful ruin. l will
not ask you to comfort the sluve mother whose
heart is f~reigLted with agony at the sale and
the eternal loss of her child. l will not ask you to
stay the hand Of any Margaret Garner that is
raised to take the life of her loved ones to save
them from a fate worse than death. 1 will not
ask you to listen to the wall OF despair from the
rice swamps. ] will not ask you even to see the
PROSTATE MILL ms who, with outstretched arms. have
so long ~implored your help. Mol no! l will not
ask you to be humane. ] will not even inquire
whether you have any humanity. You may shut
your eyes, and stop your ears, and harden your
hearts, and totally ignore the slave and all bis
wrongs if you please. Keep him wholly out Of
sight and our of mind, till the day of retribution
shall come. He can bear the yoke. His father
and his fathers father bore it before him. He
can drink of the cup they drank, and receive such
baptism of suffering as overwhelmed them. Let
him alone, forget him, il you wish.
But, in the name of all the patriots and heroes
5 shat have gone before you, in the name Of Liberty,
9 whom you profess to adore, let me warn you not 10
be beguiled into forgstfulness of your own rights.
Let no deceitful dream in relation to freedom
which was bequeathed by our fathers blind you
D to the fact thai you are o conquered people, and
L shat there is far more cause for resistance to ty-
d rants now, in your own case, than there was in
s the case Of the fathers. Don't close your eyes to
x the manacles on your own limbs. Don't shut out
q the fact that slavery firmly controls the press, the
pulpit, the judicial bench, as with the iron hand
of fate, and in its reign Of terror sacrifices to pub
lie resentment and to private malice the property,
10 life, liberty, all the dear ests interest of those who
claim to be free.
Let me remind you Of ali the martyrs to the
cause of freedom, from Elijah P. Lovejoy dOwn to
N the last victim which Virginia sacrificed in her
bloody drama. Let me recall to your memory all
the friends of humanity who have suffered captivi-
ty for practical righteousness, from the time that
Charles Z. Torrey died in a Maryland prison even
to the recent day when the Rev. Daniel Worth,
g. who seems to be Vorth a score of common Rever
e ends (cheers) escaped from a Carolina Jail. Lei
me speak of the tier humiliation of our people in
We suffering a series of ~hOggings which have been
transferred from the backs of slaves to the backs
be of their friends, and which have increased In fire..
quency as the power of slavery increased, until
es they have now become SO numerous that one can
Vs. hardly name them. Call to mind the explosions
of Northern men, since Carolina sent home the
ls official agent Of Massachusetts, and which, within
TX the last six months have coma thick and fast, I'M
1t til Kentucky capped the climax of despOtisn BY
to driving from Berea her own native born citizens
3D. Think Of our boast of a free press, and of laws FOL
the protection of property, and then remember
al how printing Offices have been assailed, from thu
ID, time the first printing press was buried in the Obi
river down to the iawless violence in Kansas anC
DIS Kentucky, and the peril Of Cassius NJ. Clay ant
lat his friends in the latter State.
us But / will not detail these ouirages. Read thu
"New Reign OF Terror" and ponder upon the ia
he nominious treatment our people endure-treat
zee ment to which none but a race of slaves woul'
nd ever submit Shall l be told tina. these are simp
I'm ly the acts of individuals, and Of individual States
1g, which are drunk with the blood Of the bondmau
lps and are clinging with IA deatL- like grasp to tn