Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-02-18
CLOSE ACTION.

II 10 related that when the feet Of Nelson was
bearing Town upon the enemy at the mouth of the
Nile, his lordship asked the signal maker, What
signal have you fyingf" ''Close Action, my lord"
was the reply, Keep it SO to the last" said Mel
son.
Close action is the only safe and efficient action.
II is the only action which really deyelopes a
mans principles. and commits him Enthusiastically
to the one side or the other. Henry Ward Beech
or has spoken many great and noble words in be-
half Of liberty, aud thelIndependent the paper
With which he is connected-had come TO be re.
garded by some as an aati-siavery journal, furn-
ishing all the food that is really needed by a hater
of slavery. And yet, year sfler year has the
Western Anti Slavery Society felt constrained TO
utter it's condemnation of such men as Henry
Ward Beecher. and such papers as tho N. Y. hide
pendent, protesting against either the press or the
preacher being received as an exponent OF anti-
slavery, regarding them rather as hindrances than
helps in the great contest between slavery and
freedom. And whyf Because neither dared to
come to close action with the monster, dared
to grapple it by the throat, and fight to the end for
victory or death. We believe that the great mass
Of those who claim to be abolitionists, and who
seem to fight slavery at o distance, would ii
brought into close action, 60 over to the enemy as
did Horny Ward Beecher in the Plymouth church
controversy, for their opposition to slavery is not
based upon principle, but is merely a sentimental
feeling that readily yields to the pressure of Sect
or Party.
As Henry Ward Beecher was disposed to de-
fond and sustain the American Board-one of the
r,n.L ;nQnoo,;ol proslayory nr1.niz ,ftnna that has
ever cursed the land-we are glad that an oppor-
tunity has been offered him for the expression OF
his sentiments, even although while the signal fol-
close action was flying. he poured his shot, not in
to the disguised ~piratical craft with the mission
flag flying at her mast head, but into the aDti-sla'
very gun boats which had come up to cripple her
Such o manifestation of pro-slavery feeling and
action as that recently developed in Mr.. Beecher,
will. We trust. open the eyes of some who have
looked to him recently, if not as the god of their
idolatry, yet as the High Priest of their ~anti-sla'
very religion. We hope that such exhibitions will
teach them to trustthe anti-slavery Of no man who
has not proved himself in close action, to be a pract'
ical abolitionist-one in principle, and not merely in
sentimeDtality, one from heartfelt conviction. and
not from temporary and s~pasmodic influences.
"Some of The Southern papers are reporting q
touching story about a neglected daughter of Mrs
Lydia Maria Child. The story is bogus, as Mrs
Child never had a daughter or son. She wrote
the Mothers Book but never was q mother il
the author of The Family Nurse but never had
. family"
The Snowman who exhibited the identical horse
which King Richard wished for, and offered his
kingdom in exchange, had better add the meg
lected daughter" to his collection Of curiosities.
II is stated that Gov. Dennison Of Ohio refused
to surrender John Brown, who has Been demanded
- Q witre ss before the Senate Investigating Com
mite. H.tF Fredr.cf Dougtdss' fdper.
Seeing that Gov. Dennison has no authority to
surrender other than 'fugitives from justice" he
did not refuse to surrender John Brown jr. as a
witness, for no demand hiss been made. 4.
STATE TEMPERANCE CoNvEETIoN.-A general
Temperance Convention for the State Of Ohio, wiz
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