Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-27

States. or this we have au impressive illustration
in the experience of DR.. Cheever, in the city OIL
New York, the capital Of Free State This sym
pathy must be of great strength aud breadth whet
1t e4eried such power in one Of the most elt
Christian congregations in that city The denun
citation OF the evils of slavery by this popular min
lister excited such storm of passion in the breas,
of large number of its members, as threatened
and barely failed} to issue in the breaking up o
the congregation, and the dismissal of the pastor
This, no doubt, shows that they had not been &C
customed to such fathfulness. When a crisis haC
arrived such that the pastor fel. Compelled to tes
tify without reserve against the evils Of slavery
the call to this was not felt by large portion o
his audience. This demonstrates the vast dinen
sions aud colossal strength to which the system o.
slavery with all its ubominatons has grown il
the United States. II shows, als, the intense
bold which it has taken, and the degree of nha
ence which itexerts cser the mirds of an enlight
ened people. The ascendaucy which it has OBJ
ained, and the measure in which is affects the ad
miuistraton of that great Republic, is such as rem.
ders the Anniversary commemoration of the vind
cation Of their freedom from the British yoke lit
q greater numbera far greater number-of hid
man beings held in bondage by the United States
than all the colonists OF America over whom Brit
ain ruled, previous TO the revolt from her domin.
ION, in l776; uut the treatment which Britain
gave her North American coonists, is so far from
having any similarity, that it is a striking con
trast to that which is now measured ous to the
four millions Of African descent who are under
the dominion of the North American States Tru.
ly if the parent state chastised her rising colony
with whips, the daughter now chastises her Afri-
can coonists with scorpions and her little finger
in tho yoke which she wIeaths around the necks
of four millions of slaves is thicker than the loin6
of the mother who only exacted certain taxes
from those who had no representatives in the Brit
ish Legislature. The degree of unrighteousness
in the administration of Britain to her colony, in
demanding taxes on certain commod,ie6 from
those who had no representatives in her Parla-
ment is but as the small dust in the balance com
pared with the crimes committed and the concen
tration of wickedness embodied in the administra.
ton Of the slave system in the United States. MOI
is it possible, with the slightest regard justice
to deny that the fotr millions of Amstican slaves
have a far higher, broader, and moro urgent claim
to instant freedom from the yoke, under the gall
ing and bitter pressure Of which they groan, and
also to vindicate this by force b>d they the power
than ever she colonists had t, ancipation from
the British yoke, whish they glory in eiccting, by
bathing their unshesthed swords in the blood Of
those who sought to prevent their escape from
what they esteemed an unrighteous usurpation
and oppression.
But is slavery indeed SO very bad 7 The boldest
attempts are now being made by American slave
holders to whitc-wash and commend this vile sys-
tenn. The attempt is utterly vain. Is theft a
crime held in universal detestation, at least in all
civilized countries Is ono who is habit and re-
pute thief held to be utterly unworthy Of being a
member of any Church, or Of mixing with respect
able soceiy Is the resetter Of theft held to be in
volved as art and part in the guilt Of him who
steals! Surely of oil kinds of theft msn-stealing
is unspeakably the most criminal. And the re;
setter of such theft, who instigates the mansteaI
or to commit the heinous SIM and without whose
nstigation the trtta had not been perpetrated, is
so far from being guiltessj that he is; in res;
pects tho greatest criminal of the two. Is robbery
unreservedy reprobated as one Of the worst class
of felonies with which a man can be chargeable,
because in this the thirst for gain is often 80 pow
erful that, rather than miss his spoil, the rotber
becomes murderer Is the robber not only un-
ft to occupy place in the Church, but an outlaw
from society," And can the instisator to robbery
he who gives the robber all possible encourage
ment to waylay, and, if essential to the success of
NIL bod nd diahn IN ka 4 tba
life of travellers,-bs gulsless3 No verify.
Let not the American stakeholder try to soothe
his guilty conscience by saying that he only purs
chases and holds in bonds those who had formerly
been betsit of liberty, and had nothing thus left
of which they could be robbed. As well might be
who hired the assassin to commit murder persuade
himself tha, he is guiltless, because he cid not
actually inhct the murderous stroke with his own
hand, though his gold was the sole motive that in.
duenced the degraded assaSsin. Who does not see
that the hirer Of the murderer especially if he be
The most enlightened, is 80 Tar from being free
hat the guilt of innocent blood lies chiefly at his
1oor.
Assuredly al the door Of Shareholders and
lies the hesveSt part of the guilt
IF the Wholesale murders perpetrated Oh The Afri-
Jan continent, in the wars which are waGed by the
more powerful tribes, with their Chiefs on their
Inofending but weaker neighbors. The principal,
{ not the sole ebjeGs Of these wars is to obtain
,aptves to be sold into slavery, that their Feasu-
les may be teplehished by the money which they
eceive for the captives from the slsVo-dealsrs. |
Those slave-dealers are the parties who furnish
he American slaVe-ships with the cargoes, which |
hey now busily engaged in transporting, |
ither indirectly through Cuba, directly, to sell
0 United States shareholders; and there is evil
euce that this hOrrd traffic is cOnnived at by the
resen. Democratic government, and its underlings
D various States, Free as we'll as Slave. Were
here no market for these illteot,en goods. such
'srs would cease to be waged. On their heads.
lao, lies the chief part Of the gull, of the count
,ss indirect murders committed on the Kidnapped