Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-02-25
THE DIFFERENCE.

There is an anti-slavery Of Feeling, and an
anti-slavery of Principle. The former ia modified
by circumstances. Its activity or inactivity de.
ponds not upon the needs of others, but upon the
presence and character of particular cases, and
their power to appeal to the sympatbies. 1t Is
unreliable. When most needed it is not unfre.
quently absent. 1t possesses but little discrimins-
ton, often pouring itself out upon those who
stand least in need Of it's aid, and passing u~nnotio-
ed those who are far more worthy its attention.
The anti-slavery Of Principle, is on the contrary,
the same to-day. yesterday, and forever. Like
God, from whom it emanatos, it rises superior to
all circumstances, and ia ever reliable, It's &C.
tion is graduated by the need Of it's presence, aud
its power; and it is never absent from the Geld Of
labor. 1t possesses eminent discrimination, iudr.
ing every case by its own merit, and ignorino
alike all selfish considerations, and all appeals
which would limit the extent Of its influences, or
absorb for one that which belongs to all.
The antfslavery of Feeling pours out lite money
for the redemption Of beautiful slave girls. and
goes into ,pasms Of benevolence when an Octoroon
presents herself in a northern church and asks for
aid. The anti-slavery Of Principle does more than
this lit remembers the enslavement of TWO millions
OF women in this land, not all beautiful, not all
Ootoloons, not all capable of coming north and
personally presenting their claims, some of them
old, and ugly, and black, and repulsiye, and II
spends it money that it may so rectify public sem
timent, that all shall alike be made free.
The anti-slavery of Feeling denounced the out.
rageous assault of Bully Brooks upon Senator
Sumner. 1t called meetings to condemn the act.
aud poured out the walls of It's indignation upon
the perpetrator of the deed. The autislsyerv Of
Principle did all this, and more. While coudem.
ing the outrage of Bully Brooks in the Senate
Chamber, it remembered what the anti-slayery Of
Feeling had forgotten, and condemned IS infinite.
~ more atrocious the outrage which he psyps-
trased through his entire life upon the slaves on
his South Carolina plantation.
The anti-slavery of Feeling become indignant
at the subversion of northern rights to drive q
Connecticut pedlar out of Virginia, or a Nas.s.
chusetts school master from Carolina, to tar and
feather a book agent from Hartford, or to threaten
to lynch a drummer for a New York house, OK.
cites it almost to frenzy. The anti-slavery Of
Principle sees and feels, and condemns all this, and
II does more. IL goes to the cause of these effects,
and when it finds -four millions Of American cii-
gems not driven back to their homes, but denied all
claim to a home. as well as all claim to humanity,
It's indignation is ~deepsned and intensified, and
ii seeks a Death grapplewith slavery and demands
the enfranChisement of it's victims.
The anti-slavery Of Feeling weeps over The woes
of the Frse-Stats men in Kansas, buys them pow.
der and sends them riaes, and bids them stand 10
defence of their rights. The snti-slavery of Priu.
cipls docs this, and more. II remembers the inR-
nitely greater sufsripgs Of the slaves Of Arkansas