Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-02-11
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NO DUTIES.
DAMASCUS, Feb. 3, 1860.

DAMASCUS, Feb. 3, 1860.
DEAR FRiESp For several weeks I baye lee
tured in various places in this region, mainly to
establish three propositions, i.e.
|, That Ladioiduai Shareholders, as such, have
no rights that any man lie bound to respect.
2. That no Slavoholdipg STATE, as such, has any
rights that other States are bound to respect.
3. That Slaves, az such, owe no obedience, no
service, no duties Of any kind, to their e%nslavers.
The deepest interest in every meeting, has been
manifested in the discussion of these propositions,
and Of the conclusions naturally and necessarily
dcducible from them. Every body, Democrats as
well as Republicans, see and confess, that if these
be true, individual Shareholders, as such, ought to
be regarded and treated as individual highway
robbers, midnight assassins and pirates on the
high seas are regarded and treated; and that slave
holding states are to be regarded and treated as
organized bands OF robbers, assassins and pirates
are treated; as mere selfconstituted and self.
incorporated marauders and pirates. All sec and
acknowledge that if the above propositions be true,
it is the right and duty Of the peop pie and states
Of the North to exterminate the slave states, as
such, as they would selfincorporated bands Of
murderers; and that John Brown and his com.
rados did but a simple act Of duty TO God and man
in his efforts to rescue the slaves of Virginia from
their enslavers, and to make that a free State.
Were Virginia to kidnap the children Of Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New York, and seize and sell
them as slaves; who doubts as to what would be
the right and duty of those states and other North
ern Sta'es. Exterminate Virginia as an incorpo.
rate bandit and kidnapper and snatch the spoiled
from the hands of tho spoiler," would 10 the cry
of every man and woman and state Of the North.
But Virginia kidnaps aud enslaves her own chill
dren, born on her own soil. The people and states
of tho North, are bound to treat her in the same
way rs il she kidnapped and enslaved the children
of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. A consti-
tuition, law, government or religion, that recog-
uizes her right to kidhop and enslave her own
children, is as infamous and as null and void as il
i. authorized her to steal and enslave the chill
dren Of Ohio.
Slaves, as such, owe no obedience, no service,
no duties Of any kind, to their masters and ensla-
vers, and the religion and government, the politi-
cal parties, constitutions, compacts and unions
shat enjoin on them obedience or service of any
kind, as slaves, deserve only the scorn and con-
tempt Of all men, as individuals and states. 1t is
tho right and duty to incite slaves to cease to be
slaves, and to become freemen; to incite in them
a desire and fixed purpose to cease to live and la
Dor MS beasts and chastles, and assert and main
tain at all hazards, their right to be regarded and
treated as human beings; to incite them never to
obey another command, nor work another hour as
sla YES.
The one fatal. original mistake Of this nation is,
its horrible admission that Shareholders, as such,
may have have rights, and that slaves, as such,
may Owe duties; they should have acted on The
principle of NO RIGnTS-NO DUTIES that
shareholders as such, can have no rights, whether
as individuals or states. any moro than assassins
and pirates can; and that slaves as such, can owe
no obedience, no service, no duties, to any being
in the universe. Where no rights are recognized,
no duties can be owed. lie: this truth be- recog-
nized and felt, and we should hear no more of our
sister states Of The South-''of the right of sta ties
to admit, or reject slavery" Of each state mana
ging its own affairs "even to the extent Of kidnap-
ping and enslaving human beings; of the''rights of
slave states' and OF "the doctrine of Nom Interfer-
%ence." L, is our right and duty to interfere with
every State that kidnape men and women, and
breeds and sells slaves as it is our duty to inter-
fere with bands of robbers and murderers.
Great excitement hae prevailed at some Of our
meetings. Revolvers ard clubs have been on hand
for use, by the mobocrats if opportunity, offered.
But thus far TO harm has been done, and no
meeting been broken up. The great body Of the
people are determined to maintain freedom of
speech Deep and wide spread is the sympathy
created by the presence and burial of the murder
ed body of young Coppock in this region. His
dastardly, slave-breeding murderers, will get more
than they bargained for.
HENRY G. WRIGHT.