Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-08
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From lecture by Henry D. Thoreau.
When think of him, and his six sons, and ht
son-in-law-not TO enumerate the Others,-eulist
ed for this fight, proceeding coolly, reveronly hu
namely to work, for months, if not years, sleeping
and waking upon it, summering and wintering tn,
thought, without expecting any reward but goot
Censciepce, while almost all America stood ranked
on the other side. say again. that it effects me a
sublime spectacle. If he had had any journa
advocating his cause" any organ, as the phras,
is,mon noonously and wearisomely playing the same
ED tune, and then passing round the hat, it woul>
have been fatal to his efficiency. If he had acted
in any way go as to be let alone By the government
he might have been suspected. II was the fac
that the tyrant must give place t. him, he to the
tyrant, that distinguished him from all the reform
ers of the day that know.
1t was his peculiar doctrine that man has q
perfect right to interfere by force with the slave
holder, in order to the slave. l agree with
him. They who are continually shocked by slave
ry have some right to be shocked by the violent
death of the stakeholder but no Others Such will
be more shocked by his life than by his death.
shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his
method who quickest succeeds to li5erate the
slave | speak for the slave when l say, that
prefer the philanthropy Of Captain Brown to that
philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liber-
ates me- At any rate, do not think it is quite
sane for one to spend his whole life in talking or
writing about this matter unless he is contnu-
ously inspired, aud have not done SO. man
may have other affairs to attend to. l do not wish
to kill or to be killed, but can foresee crcum-
stances in which both these things would be by
me unavoidable. We preserve the so-callod peace
of our community by deeds of petty violence
every day. Look at the polceman's billy and
handouts Look at the Jail Look at the gai-
lows Look at tho chaplain of the regimentl We
are hoping only TO live safely on the outskirts of
his provisional army. So we defend ourselves and
our hen-roosts, and maintain slavery. know that
the mass of my countrymen think that the only
righteous use that can be made Of Sharpe's rifles
and reVolVers is to fight duels with them, when
We are insuted by other nations, or to Eunt In-
diaps, or shoot fugitive slaves with them, or the
Ike. think that for once the Sharpe's rifles and
reVolYers were employed in righteous cause
The tools were in the hands of one who could use
them.
The same indignation that is said to have clear
ed the temple once will clear it again. The ques-
which you use it, No man has appeared in Amer
lea, as yet, who loved HE fellow-man SO we'll, aud
treated him SO tenderly. lie lived for him. lie
took up his life and he laid it down for him. What
sort of violence is that which is encouraged, not
by soldiers but by peaceable citizens, not SO much
by laymen as by ministers Of the gospel, not go
much by the fighting sects as by the Quakers, and
not SO much by Quaker men as by Quaker women
This event adVertises me that there is such
fact as death-tho possibility OF mans dying 1t
saems as if no man had ever died in America be-
fore, tor in order to die you must first have lived
dont believe in the hearses and pals, and fu-
nerals that they have had. There was no death
IN the case, because there had been no life; they
merely rotted or sloughed of, pretty much as they
had rotted or sloughed along. No temples vail |
was rent, only hole dug somewhere. Let the
dead bury their dead. The best of them fairly
ran down like clock. Franklin-W Washington
they were let off without dying; they were merely
missing one day. | hear good many pretend
that they are going to die; or that they have died
for aught that / know. Nonsense I'll defy |
them to do it. They haven't got life enough in
them. They'll deliquesce like fungi, and keep
hundred eulogSts mopping the spot where they lefs
off. Ouly half dozen OF so have died since the
world began. Do you think that you are going
TO die, sir No there's no hope of you. You
haven't got your Lesson yet. You've got to stay
after school. We make needless ado about cap.
itai punisbment-takin lives, when there is no
life to take. AeNea'o moril We don't under /