Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-29

mics, and whose eloquent and earnest words COM
mand attention wherever she goes, has been la
boring in this State most Of the summer, having
teen commissioned by the Hovey Committee. The
State of our Treasury has not permitted as to
send out any lecturing agents during the entire
year. Our operations have been rs extensive as
our limited means and opportunities would allow.
The financial pressure, with the scarcity of crops,
and the small amount of donations and pledges, at
our last Anniversary, has crippled all our efforts.
Indeed, had it not been for our Macedonian cry
for help, to which our Eastern friends generously
responded, we should have been compelled, before
this, to suspend the organ Of the Society, and we
should have met here to day with scarcely moro
than a name to Tive. Our thanks are specially due
to the uovey Fund Committee, for a donation of
six hundred dollars which has enabled us thus far
to struggle against the adverse circumstances that
threatened our existence. If S%ocioty's Treasury
is habitually empty, if it cease Ete work, AID stop
its mouthpieoe, it bad better disband. A man is
h;ssed from the stage who shows himself inoapa-
BILE of playing his part. So with a society. 1t
not only ceases to be useful, but commands no re-
spect when It recedes from the contest, and lays
down its weapons, the evil it was organized to OPP
pose remaining the same. But in this case we
will hope for renewed zeal, and for such devotion
and liberality as will express themselves in the
most energetic and aggressive warfare in thefuture.
We ought to be as ignorant Of retreat as was the
trumpeter Of q French corps who was taken by
the Russians. His youthfulness and musical pro-
6ciency soon caused him to be reported at head
quarters, and the Commander in Chief mmoned
him to his presence. Wishing to test his skill, he
ordered him to sound the Call to Arms, which
he did. Now, a Charge said the General. This
was Immediately done. "A Rally no continued,
and it pealed forth with a power prophetic Ct con-
quest. Now sound q Retreat said the general
ISire,' replied the lad, Il have never learned one.
J we ought to be as invincible, and as faithful,
as the Old Guard of Napolean at Waterloo. Ont
of their immense columns was swept down likt
grain BY a storm of hail. Battalion after battal
ion disappeared they had pressed up to the very
muzzle of the guns, they had received volley ate
:, volley in their face, till one broad sheet Of fam,
r rolled over their bosoms, but the survivors woult
c not yield. And when they ceased to struggle 70
victory, when hope all died out, there they stoo,
e for o long time, and let the cannon balls pas
through their ranks, diedaining to turn their back
II on the foe. To every command of The enemy I
k surrender, the stern reply was given, The Guar
1t dies, but never eurrendere.'
And now, m~ingling in a contest infinitely groa
er than that of Waterloo, with a commando
against whose strength the power of man is but Q
a splintered straw, what a disgrace to show an
a symptoms Of w~avering or disaffection? No matte
a how heavy the artillery that opens upon us n
is matter how many allies the enemy may enlist,
y is ours to prove faithful to our trust, to cAeris
II. thc uaaltorable resolution to conquer or die. An
il we NAV labor too, with the certainty that the hol
a of such extremity will never come to our caus
or 1t cannot fail. AS surely as the race exists, al
&c, God lives, it paI succeed.
a Fifteen years ago you started the Anti SLAYER
of Buglc, with the motto No Union with Slavehol
sh ers,' which it has faithfully maintained to the pre-
,u- ent time. This paper should be continued so lol
is, as the union of the protested friends of freedo
to with The oppressors Of man gives strength and
tali.y to that system which brutalizes humans
no curses both master and slave, aud writes its big
ary ing record not only upon the present life, but up
ia the life hereafter. Your Committee feel deel
DO the necessity of sustaining q press that ~testifes
iur- the whole truth in relation to slavery. The pOliti
.ers dilutions Of some of the leading journals, with
ing religious hash Of others, is not the meat which
cry needed for the soul in this contest. Those v
dis feed upon it become enervated, and fall easy victi
in to the first political epidemic that crosses tn
path, or the frst religious frenzy that sweeps II
eth their borders. Having had no agents in the fit
or and the scarcity of money, with the adoption
and the prepayment system, the subscription LIST
ex- the Bugle has been much diminished. We how
err, are we'll satisfied to adhere to prepaymC
though we regret, most deeply, that any Of
ned true friends of the paper, those who have long
a en-, and expect to continue it, should, through Il
on neglect, necessitate US, by adherence to our r
the to cut off their names. These have embarras
-ged US, when they really have it in their hearts to
der. tain and help US place their organ on a better
sim sis. Prompt payment is a necessity; to igr
sncy this is highly unjust.
dual The year OF the Presidential election has alW
pen. been found an unfavorable time for anti-sla'
5 OBJ. labor, and yet, ii would be unwise to cease
treat efforts because of the political intoxication of
fects people, for a lew are sober enough to be sa
MIA The principle which men have, is often lost s
getic of wholly in the scramble for success. The
icers dicum of anti-slavery that has from time to
t I'M manifested itself IN party Issues, within the
IL be score of years, Ieginning with James G. BIZ
loses and the Liberty party, down to Abraham Lin
sons anG the Republican party has become less
this less, until many of the old Liberty Guard, as
mos. called themselves in 1910, and still delight to
alton themselves in 1860, receive as their Presidel
d in nominee q man who is opposed to giving the
cred man equal political and legal rights, advOc
Win an efficient fugitive slave law, opposes the Ut
I'D in dtional abolition Of slavery in the District Of
bo,o lumbia, and Of the interstate slave trade,
r,be, verifying by fact the prophecy that was ma,
noo, the Generalization attendant upon the poll
/, ara course they were pursuing, and to wbioh the
,h;.h piled like one of old, is thy servant a dog thu
vh;oh should do this thing2 p And the reason give
a,son the prophecy of olden time, is the anne in
a caSe' "Ou a sno"n' W "S '""' 'nou Oh"
his king over Syria
labor The workings OF the governmental mach