Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-29

Ithelr d"'9, 10 throw OIL such government, and pro
vide now guards for their future security"
J, Is this conmon sense ?-practical statesman
ship Or are these declarations mere "g,it,erinr
generaIiues y Tie voice Of the American peo
pic has pronounced them soond maxius. Our
fathers acted on these principles, became rebel,
and traitors, aud laid the foundation Of new
government in the lllod Of revolution Think O
this, yo iiolisers of revolutionary fame, who al,
TO shocked at any resistance to tho slayeboldinl
tyranny in the Barbary States Of this blood CO
mented Union!!
Bot we are met with the plea that our fathers
were eotaally drircn to revolution by tho oppres
tion OF the mother country. Let US see what wer,
some OF their grievances a. set forth in JsfTarsou
immortal declaration. lie declares of Kin,
George, "ue has refused his assent to laws tht
most wholesome and salutary." Very likely; bn
what law as this nation ever passed Tor the pro
lection and well being Of the slave? VIII it b
contendei for moment that the oppression 0
our revoutionary fathers bore any comparison t,
the atrocities committed upon the slave?
Another charge against the King was, lie has
called together legislative bodies at places un
usual uncomfortable aud distant from the rerosi
tory of their public records" Did you ever hear
of the four millions of bondmcn ever being allow.
ed to meet at all for governmental purposes? Here
is an entire race forbidden the privilege of assem-.
bling in any place, however announcement and un-
comfortable" to take counsel as to the best means
of protecting their own fresdes from the assaults
OF the kidnapper. But worshipers Of revolutions
airy heroism see in all this no cause Of complaint
much lesa, reason for resistance.
Again,it is charged upon George third. that
lie semitic this country swarms of officers to
harrass ynr people and eat out their substance" ."
Did it ever occur to our Uuion-oving patriots, that
in the fair southland there are multitudes of
patrolling cicers, who day and night, year in and
year out, dog the steps Of the lone husband or
wife, parent and child, and Mat when the weary
laborer is fatigued by the days toll in tropical
sun, undsf the taskmaster's cruel lash, and denied
every otter opportunity, seeks an interview with
the coTys snion Of his bosom or the child of his
Hove, who Ferchnnce is miles away on another
! plantation; Isay when such an one, under such
circumstances, seeks by weary journeyings in the
"lone starry hours" to renew the memories of
other days, and relight the lamp of love, by whose
genial rays two willing souls were melted and
blended into did it ever occur to our fourth
of July bramlers that, then and there were the
minions Of satanic wrong in quest cf human
prey, and woe to She lockleso victim who falls
within their grasp. Did the oppression Of our
fathers ever compare with this {?
Once more; we are told that Great Britain kent
among the Colonies Standing armies, in times of
peace, without their consent" When was the
pauS nf tlin al ey.oI 1
force Of the nation--whether under the command
OF james Buchanan, or Abraham Lincoln, it is ali
the same-to tread under its iron heel the first
swelling pulse that beats for freedom, and whose
support is drawn in full measure from the unre-
quilted toll of him whose subiection is rendered
complete by such instrumentality Is it any
wonder, then, that thousand curses rise from
every bondman's lips, against this accursed Union
this covenant with Death, and agreement with
Hel?'
Another charge is, that "the trade with the Col.
onies had been cut off with all parts of tho
world" II the wrong had amounted to the denial
of all right of property, that no individual Of
all the three million had been allowed a single
dime that could not at any moment have been
confscated, ard declared the property of the
Crown of England, the complaint might have been
couched in stronger language. Yet such, to-day,
is the condition Of every slave in this nation.
TIE King is accused of imposing taxes on the
American people without their consents but we
are not informed that the burden amounted to the
last cent that could be wrung from unpaid toll;
so that the very raiment they wore, and every
morse of food ihey ate, depended upon the ca price
of him WHO claims sole ownership of every penny
earned In one word when all the grievances of
which our fathers complained, are summed u2
not ole of the sufferers was deemed a chattel
personal to all inOntr, purposes, aud constructions
whatsoever so that he could own nothing do moth
ing, and be nothing, except by the will and cou.
sent Of another. Such is the condition Of four
millions in this boasted land of freedom, in this al-
ternoon of the nineteehth century. No man
among them oil dare say that his time, his body
or aught that pertains to humanity is his own. No
father can claim his child or for one moment,
save it from doom worse than death No hus-
band can defend the purity of the wife of lis
choice, from the unholy lost of brutal, drunken
men. Any female who resists the foul EN- brace of
the most lecherous, loathsome wretch who was
ever suffered to tread Gods footstoO, does so at
the peril Of her lie New born babes are torn
from shreking mothers arms, and consigned to
lifelong serviiude, and no agonizipg love can save
hem from the terrible doom. 1t was this organ
zed Barbarism that John Brown stroyo to resist;
md for this act Of unsefsh deeotion to great
principle of justice and humanity, the most en-
ightened ~ Christian (?) nation on the face of
he globe deemed him worthy the gallows,
The State hangs his body, the Church damns his
oulj both unite in declaring him crazy fanatic
Vbo deserved his fate. To save a blood .cemented !
Union, the most devoted, Solfsacrifcing selffor-
etng man in the country, must be sacrificed to
he fierce Mo!och of oppression and wrong. If
his be civilization, let me take refuge beneath the
hadow of despotic barbarisrn If this be the
hief attainment OF Christianity, God grant us
peody relapse into heathouism Eighteen centur-