Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-20

I'VE this week give al Address-or The greater
part OF (which Was delivered on the evening Of
December end, 1859, the day of the murder of
John Brown. Many Of our friends desired its
publication then, but circumstance beyond our
control prevented it. We give it nov, feeling tina;
the facts and thoughts it presents srs as Important.
to-day. as they were then; and we shall be more
than satisfied if it is thus able to do double duty in
behalf Of the IIero-nartyr of 1859, aud The cause
for which be go bravely lived, and SO nobly died |
2 led. Bag,e.
! COMMUNICATION ADDRESS.
There was $ man sent from God, whose name
was JouN.' This fact, which was placed upon rec
ord by the inspired historian nearly two thousand
years ago, has, in this sgo and in this land been
most emphstically re-a6irmed and rewritten in
the events which have transpired within the last
+ few weeks. Those Of US who have ears to hear,
ard hearts to believe, and iutellects to comprehend
cannot fail to recognize the great truth, that in
our age and generation, and to the people of our
own guilty land. There was a man sent from God
whose name was JonN.' And though We may not
recognize in him The fullness of that divinity
which dweit in Jesus, we behold in HE works the
credentials of bis mission. and acoep. him as
One crying in the wilderness; make strait. the way
of ihe Lord
There was a man sent from God We should
be grateful to an All Wise Providence who, in the
ordering of events will sometimes permit a man
30 appear among the pigmies Of humanity, that
the world may in some measure realize wha. the
race lie capable o. becoming il true to the instincts
OF is better nature, true to the promptings of the
Divinity within. And il the oft-quoted sentiment
OF the poet be not altogether false,
An honest mans the noblest work of Cod
then may the world behold in 0sawatomie Brown
a specimen Of Gods noblest handiwork, for friend
and foe alike bear testimony to the stern integrity,
and the unyielding honesty ofshc hero Of Hsrper's
Ferry. Governor Wise and the South, President
s Buchanan and the North, have found what Dioge-
. mes in the days Of ancient Greece was not able to
$ discover by the aid Of his lantern at noon day
AN HONEST MAN And be was not found in the
- Cabine. Of the President, nor in high official sta
ton either in Church or ia State. but was discov-
|. cred in the person of a persecuted and outlawed
= man, who had thrown himself against the buckler
Of the government in practically responding to the
a query, Who will 70 up to the help Of The Lord
If against the mighty ? believing that with God Oh
il his side, one was q majority.
HIS INSANITY.
!, To many, perhaps to most Of the friends OF The
+ slave, the blow struck for Freedom at Harpor's
!, Ferry, was as unexpected as it was to the fright
n ened ehivalry of the Old Dominion. 1t spoke as
with the thunder-tones of Gods voice echoing and
re-echoing through the vaulted heavens, it flashed
through the clouds of d~espotism like The lightning
:, glance of the Almighty's eye. There was a moral
,bl;-;.r 49, horo;o daro,;o, in that old M ,nd
his handful of followers, dashing themselves
, against the government as q testimony in behalf of
Gods truth. The people were as unable to COM
prehend the motive of the actors and the princi-
pies by which they were governed. as was of old
the multitude to understand the doctrines and the
mission of Paul, and many have given to the ac-
tions OF Osawatomie Brown the solution by which
Fsstus explained shose Of the APOSTLE.
8 To such as cannot approve, but are unwilling to
: condemn the attemp t at Harper's Ferry, the plea
ofinsanity perhaps seems The most charitable they
i can urge, though certainly it is not the most just.
In the name of his deep-rooted conviction of the
sinfulness of slavery, running back for at least a
score and a half Of years; in the name OF his long
and consistent advocacy of the cause of Freedom
sealed by the death Of his sons in Kansas and the
. death Of his sons in Virginia; in the name of thu
text which was written upon his hands and upor
his heart-'Romember those in bonds as bound
T, with them;' in the name Of his heroic suffering il
captivity; in the name of that wonderful calmnes,
with which he looked death in the face, and vel
coined for the Truths sake a martyrs place upor
the gallows; in the name OF all that his heart hslc
dear, / protest against such a cold-bloJded sacrifc,
of his intellect. II is the people Of thi, nation ,eh,
are insdne-not John Brown.
4 member of the Iowa Legislature, actuaied
doubtless by good motives. and desiring to pu
John Brown in what he regarded as a better posi-
ton before the community than that in which tn
Virginia Courts had placed him traitor and
murdsrer-sent a communication to an Eastern pa
;" per. in which, to provo the OLD mans insanity, b
" quotes declarations that he heard him make, whic
to me seem strong evidences of the soundness @
{ his reason, the correctness Of his principles, an
. the earnestness OF his purpose. To show thei
character, l will give one OF two extracts; and 20
y will see how much truth an earnest worker wi
" sometimes compress into a few words.
Providence has made me an actor, and SLAYER
ne an outlaw. A price is on my head, and what i
70 life to moi An old man should have more care t
OF end life well than to live long. Duty is the voic
O' OF God; and a man is neither worthy of a goo
home here or a Heaven, that is not willing to b
in peril for a good cause! The loss of my family
and the troubles in Kansas have shattered m
- constitution, aud l an nothing to the world but t
defend the right and that, BY Gods help, / hav
done and will do
sh There is more christianity in that extract, be
'r ter diges.ed and more comprehensive view c
or mans duty to his fellows. than you will fnd in fv
0, hundred ordinary sermons. 1t contains truth
is Shich she people of :bis land cannot comprehend
In and therefore put down as the rawlings OF insanity
is Providence has made me an actor, said job
b. Brown. How few Of mankind believe that Pro,
id idence did any such thing for them! And yet actio
re is their mission, as much as it was that of job
a Brown. But they are content to exist. not to liv
10 vegetAle, NOT to act. They take the world q