Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-04-28

'pirits in prison; and think never apprOKimN-
mated 50 nearly to him as 10 this regard, while
making proclamation Of the holy evangel Of God
sinners in this House. | tell you Of the Slave
States that you Aust emancipate your slaves. IL
belongs 20 you and not to US. You must trans
form them from slaves into serfs, and give them
homes, and protect and guard the s%anctiiy Of the
family. We shall not push you. II you say that
you want a quarter Of o century, you can have IT.
if you want half a century, you can have it. But
| insist that this system must ultimately be extin'
guished. There is no question about IL. You
who advocate the perpetuity of Slavery are like a
set Of madeaps, who should place themselves on
the Top Of an iceberg which bad disengaged itself
from the frozen regions Of the north, and begun
to float downward, ond downward, through the
warm climates. The sun shines and melts it the
water ripples round it and melts it; and then
these wild visionaries, who fancied they could sail
an iceberg through the tropics, start up, and bias
pbeme sunshine and rain and sephyr and mouth
ing tue heavens, tell Jehovah that unless be stops
the shining Of the sun, and the blowing Of the
winds, aud the falling Of the rain, they will crum-
BILE his universe from turret to foundation stone.
[Great laughter Do you not think God would
feel bad ; and would not The areh-angels tremble
at the chivalryi Renewed laughter You may
call this extravagant, but you can no more perpet'
nate Slavery, and viii no more dissolve this
Union, in order to perpetuate it, than you can stop
the shining Of the sun, or the ripple of the sea,
the descent Of rain, or the blowing Of the wind;
ay, no more than you can subdue the ocean, when
it lashes itself into fury and dashes it's crested
mountain pillows against the rocks. Iii as pre-.
pOsterous to think of taking Slavery Town through
the civilization Of the ages, as it is to think Of
floating on iceberg through the tropics. 1t is the
order of things. l am willing to concede that you
can do anything that any equal number of men
can achieve. did mean to taunt you about Har
2er's Ferry, but | believe l will not. / am willing
to coDcede that you are as brave az other men;
although | do not think you show il by this abus.
i've language; because brave men are always calm
and s~elf-posse sed. God feels no anger, for be
knows no fear. | say, you car do anything that
other men can do. You can preserve and perpet-
uate this system, if any equal number of men
could do it; but the stars in their courses are fight
ing against you; God, in his providsrce, is fighting
against you. The universe was established upon
the great principle Of Justice and truth. 1t may
be jostled out of its place for a little while, but
it will sooner or later, fall back to its grooves
You must sacrifice Slavery for the good Of your
country. D. this, and you will have the sympa.
thy, the prayers, and the cooperation Of the en-,
tire nation. Refuse or neglect this refuse &c
proclaim liberty through all the land, to all the
inhabitants thereof, and til, exodus OF the slave
will be through the Red Sea. 1t is a well known
physiological as VOL as psychological fact, that
ancestral characteristics reappear after a long in
%terval of years, and even of generations. as
streams disappear and gush out at a distant point
It is also we'll known that the Saxon blood is be,
ing iu6ltroted into the blood OF the enslaved. By
and by some Marion will he found calling hi
guerrilla troops from the swamps and everglades
Of South Carolina; and Patrick Henry Till reap
pear in the Old Dominion. shouting, as of old
Give US liberty or give US death! Then viii
t~ranspire those scenes which troubled the pro
phetic vision Of Jefferson, when he remembers
t that God wac just and that his justice would no
! sleep forever, and that every divine attribute
D wonld be arrayed upon the eide of the struggling
bondmen. And he justified the uprising, by say
( ing the little finger of American Slavery wa
{ tDlCker ludn the IONS VI Drlten ue5pOtlsm. OIL
a Virginia cannot afford. the country cannot afford
to continue a practice fraught with so much Q
peril. 1t is better to remove the magazine, thar
u to be kept evermore in dread of a lighted match
: The future glory and usefulness of this natio
e cannot be sacrificed TO this system of crime. Tn
d nations of the earth are taught by our example
The American Republic must repOse Quee
Q among the nations of The earth. Slavery mus
e die. Cdfhdrgo est deleRda. The philosophy
. therefore, and the lesson which the Slave State
IS ought to have learned from John Brown, and froI
n al! these events, are not these expressions Of rag
y and vengeance. Instead Of being stimulated
o revenge, Virginia ought to have learned the lei
Il son of peDitence. Instead of a%rraying herself i
sleeps gray, uhe ought to have put on sackclot
b and ashes. Instead of imbibing the distillatiou {
corn, mixed with the products IF the poultry-yarG
she ought to have drunk the waters Of bitterness,
o in view Of her sin of slavchOlding.
Mr.. Martin, (Dem. Va : And If you com
u among us, we will do with you as we did wi,
I" John Brown-bang you up as high as Hsman,
say that as a Virginian.
u Mr.. Lovejoy l have no doubt Of il.
Here the hammer FELL